Morrisseeeeey+ Simple pleasures.

No no no... well okay, fine, I'll say it once and once for all now, fine I said! I really appreciate Morrissey. See, i don't LOVE him, I am not a raving fan... but he just cracks me up so much. If someone asks me what British Humour is, I'd clulessly answer, 'Morrissey'. He seems to have the ability to say the most hyesterical things with great nonchalance, like he just doesn't give a flying fuck about the enormity and ridiculousness of his lyrics. Either that or the man is unconsciously out there and will never be able to return to reason.

I think some would say it is very 'pince-sans-rire'?

" In America, The land of the free, they said / And of opportunity, In a just and a truthful way / But where the president, is never black, female or gay /and until that day, you've got nothing to say to me, to help me believe. In America, it brought you the hamburger / Well America you know where, you can shove your hamburger."

Haha....whaaaa? I love him just for this: he sings it like it's the most natural thing to say, ever.

Hey Bryan, if you read this: Did you read the Guardian Douglas Coupland/Morrissey interview? It's hilarious. (Also, I did not know there was a movie based on Girlfriend in a coma!)

Playlist for Sunday - which was randomly selected by I-tunes amongst the songs I downloaded yesteday night, and which I will listen to during my 3 hours train ride just because I trust Chance.

( 1 star = Awesomely suicidally bad, 5 stars = Suicidally fantastically good)

My Chemical Romance - To the end *
Morrissey - Friday Mourning ***
Patrick Wolf - Tristan ****
Rufus Wainwright - La complainte de la Butte ***
Jeff Buckley - Vancouver ****
The Knife - One hit ***
Wu Tang Clan - Maria **
Andrew W K - I love NYC *
Billy Connolly - Evil Scotsman *
Jay Tees - A prayer to Jah **
Lou Reed - Men of good fortune ***
Nickelback - Too bad *
Bilal - Make me over **
Patrick Wolf - The Gypsy King *****
Gnarls Barkley - Smiley faces ***
YT - Wicked Act ***

Come to think of it, maybe my rating system is the other way around.

Mark - Yesterday I happened to read an old piece of your writing that i hadn't seen before. The entry titled 'songs about songwriting' ?It made me smile from ear to ear while I tried not to scream out loud something ressembling to 'A-fucking-Men, yo!'. This is why:

An amazingly uplifting thread on Ask Metafilter recently asked readers about their favourite simple pleasures in life. Anything like a sunset, silence in the house during nightime, playing with your dog, eating chocolate, etc.

I did not comment, but one of the first thing that came to my mind was this: Having your Ipod playing random songs, or listenning to the radio while being absorbed by another activity, and having to stop and listen more carefully because a certain track just caught your attention in the most surprising way. You smike, you don't move, you urge everyone around to STFU, and feel some kind of weird adrenaline rush while you think:

"Jesus! What is THAT track!"

Next thing you know, you're obssessed with finding out who's responsible for making you feel happy and excited, if only for a few minutes.

Others 'simple pleasures' that would make my list:

- Whenever smartasses during concerts yell something really funny out loud, and everyone burst out laughing. There's fraternity in those moment.
- When a singer/band gets so good on stage that you can feel a general consensus spreading through the venue. The excitement is almost physically palpable. You're so happy you are teary-eyed because it is that good.
- When you try to explain something very difficult (either because it's complex or emotionally hard for you) and the person in front of you get it without too much hassle.
- Winning a good, heavy, heated argument. Especially with Boris.
- While reading a book, being stopped by the way words sound in your head. Because the melody, the agencement, the global effect is clever, moving, or powerful.
- Seriously? Eating chocolate. Anytime, anywhere.
- Huge, crazy, fantastic, unbelieveable coincidences. I live for them.
- When your I-pod randomly plays the song you really felt like hearing.
- Marching and/or protesting and feeling reassured by the fact that yes, many people are still angry, and determined to fight for what they consider to be the right thing.

Yours?