Here it comes, the breeze/That'll blow away/All your reason and your sin

Observed Simian on their album 'We are Your Friends', in opening track 'La Breeze'. You'd know it if you heard it, I promise.

But in very much the same vein, something feels breezy in my life. Either something has changed or it is about to. I can't figure out which it is, but there is a definite sense of something being or becoming different. Perhaps it's the time of year; dangerously close to next year, so close that we're almost falling off the edge, into pits of ultimately miserable resolutions, and a feeling that next year will eventually show itself to be exactly the same as this one.

Christmas presents. A minefield; I could spend plenty of time and money on perfect individual presents, but can I afford it? I'm not a bad person, I swear, but sometimes I think it would be easier to buy everyone a Toblerone and have done with it.

On the other hand, it's time to make my Christmas list.

So far:
'Look Who It Is' by Alan Carr
'Irons in the Fire' by Russell Brand
American Apparel vouchers (to avoid guilt when I buy anything in there)
'My Aim Is True' by Elvis Costello, on CD
'Flashbacks of A Fool' on DVD
Quantum of Solace game for PS2
'The Graduate' by Charles Webb

and there's a fortune spent on stuff I don't really need, already.
Happy days, maties. Happy days.

Sq.

Cliched Blog Post.

5 albums you couldn't live without.

1) A Certain Trigger, Maximo Park
2) The Warning, Hot Chip
3) Get Happy!, Elvis Costello and the Attractions
4) Country Life, Roxy Music
5) A Weekend in the City, Bloc Party

and there are a million more... Welcome to the Pleasuredome by Frankie Goes To Hollywood... other Roxy albums... Silent Alarm (it was close) and of course, the pioneering 'Franz Ferdinand'. But those 5 are my 5.

What are yours?