Girls Who Read George Bataille

Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? is not only the best titled album of who knows how long. It's also one of my favourites. And with lyrics like:

I fell in love with the first cute girl I met
Who could appreciate Georges Bataille
Standing at a Swedish festival discussing Story of the Eye

And this gem:

The past is a grotesque animal and in it's eyes you see
How completely wrong you can be

How can you resist.

He Reads the Economist So He Can Get the Gist

A friend of mine - one who is, no doubt, conversant in the entire oeuvre of Deleuze and Guttari - called me pretentious because I said I'd buy something from the Big Issue seller if he was flogging something like The Nation, The New Yorker, The Monthly, Mother Jones or even Wired. Or The Economist. Then on the venerable newspaper's podcast the other day I heard this outstanding tune.

Girl You Make Me Want to Feel Things I've Never Felt Before

I've really been digging Angus and Julia Stone's "Just a Boy" of late. If you want to check it out you can listen here.