Fractionals

Both the Killers' "Mr. Brightside" (sixth best single of 2004) and Jens Lekman's "Black Cab" (you can download it at the link, and you should) are rather shockingly appropriate for how I felt at various points during my first two years at university. And of course there's something universal about both those emotions that I'm sure I'll feel again (especially the latter; we've all had parties where we've just brought the room down), so it's not like I like either less. But part of me wishes I'd had these songs back then - of course, one didn't exist and I don't think the other did (and I wouldn't have heard it then anyway).

Part of me, though, thinks it for the best; how much more insufferable would I have been with musical reinforcement?