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Tuesday, December 07, 2004 

Test drive

So I just went grocery shopping and took the MP3 player (I'm just going to call it the Lyra from now on). Good fun. A few observations:

- Standing in the rain waiting for the bus is made positively cinematic by "Unworthy".

- Those cellos in "The Town Halo" really do make any bus ride more propulsive and thus more fun by an order of magnitude.

- I've discovered that what I love most about "Heartbeats" is that cheery little trill that plays under the lines during the chorus. They put me in mind of a steel drum, and make the whole song seem much happier at the same time as it's being sad.

- I'm pretty sure those two homophobes on the bus back home were checking me out during "Eurodisco" and "The Show".



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