How do you like your beef in the morning? I like mine pretty rare.

During the summer I had to research some stuff a lot for a big essay, and after I had photocopied what I needed (not quite the whole book, although it would have been cheaper than buying it) I sat in a local baguette shop typing/writing it up. The shop - Crumbs... - is what Subway pretends to be: they have a range of ingredients, and you can choose whatever combination you want.

One ingredient is beef - rare. I tried this the first time out of curiosity, and was hooked. It is so much better than well-done beef! Its bright pink and actually has taste! So now, whenever I go (which is not often enough, I must admit, this shop being entirely local) I have rare beef and blue cheese in my baguette.

The blue cheese naturally overpowers the beef most of the time, but the beef gives an essential under-taste that the bagguette would be lost without. And when I get bits of beef on its own...it's like some familiar piece of music that still manages to surprise you everytime with little nuances and twists.

The whole...well I hesitate to use the word cafe, as there is only room for ~15 people...is nice too. Everytime I've been in there I've been served by the same man - does he own the place? - who is very nice. I always take my plates back at the end (although I do that in any cafe, out of politeness) and he seems to be pleased.

"Have a good day!"

I always imagine I'm going to be swept off my feet by some stranger there - it is an intimate place and I can easily imagine in-depth and heartfelt conversation between two people, who will never see each other again, happening. That hasn't happened yet, but I still hold out hope.

I can't decide whether you should live or die...

I've had this song in my head for the past few days.

I can't decide
Whether you should live or die
Oh, you'll probably go to heaven
Please don't hang your head and cry
No wonder why
My heart feels dead inside
It's cold and hard and petrified
Lock the doors and close the blinds
We're going for a ride...

Recently I've found that I like Scissor Sisters (or at least their Ta-dah! album).
Their songs have a happy, upbeat feel about them - rhythm-wise anyway. Each song begins with a different rhythm to how it will have, which, for the first time listener (or someone who hasn't heard it for a while), gives it a slight unpredictability.
Their lyrics, on the other hand, have a sarcastic, slightly crazy feel to them while simultaneously being catchy.

It's great!

If you just want to listen to make yourself happy, then you just ignore the lyrics (mostly) and listen to the rhythm; but then you listen to this lyrics, and you could do anything you wanted because you don't care what any thinks anymore. It seems the perfect album for a slightly shady Roaring Twenties -themed party.

There are also more touching songs, like I Might Tell You Tonight:

And I just might say it tonight
I just might say it tonight
I just might tell you tonight
That I love you
And you should stay all my life...

This song is like a couple waltzing on their roof in the middle of the city, so engrossed in each other that they fail to notice everyone else, moonlight and roses, pianos and sparrows.



There are a couple of song that I don't like on this album: Lights, Transistor, Land of A Thousand Words. They just don't have the same...clarity or panache as the other songs, and Lights is just the teeniest bit dreary.


I think I would give this album a 4/5 (or 8/10, if you'd prefer).
If these were the bad guys in a movie, you'd be rooting for them!