So last year I wrote about this day. I remember trekking to class to go to a seminar. A year later I am in Paris the city of love. I’m still living in a hotel and finding it hard to find a place to stay. My classes are too long and too boring to really hold any sort of interest for longer than 15 minutes. The city is lovely but already internally I will find it hard staying here without making any good friends. Ladies and gentlemen they only long term people in hotels are lonely old men (hopefully not a premonition) and hookers. I am living in the ghetto so I don’t even get hot hookers. Surprisingly the room that I am in has some sort of weird added on bathroom thing. 5 hotels in 3 weeks in beginning to kill me. What the fuck can you expect? Tomorrow I am off to look for some more places. Anyway I digress; I have to mention some sort of song that I want to dedicate to lovers. Last year it was poppy bird by bromhead jackets. This year I will choose a song from the latest hot chip album. The song is touch too much. Whilst last years song was about lust these years is about taking it too far. Whether it is taking that last step or doing too much too soon. We shall never know. I have been harsh about the new album and now after some more time I am beginning to feel it more and more. Even in this melancholy mood which leaves me unable to laugh as much as I want to. I make a couple of jokes today and I felt good. Something which I haven’t been able to do for about 6 days.

I lift my head and it falls again
I take a step and I fall
I never ask for much

I watch my hand in shake in love
And it is always thus
I never ask for much

These verses are fantastic; the build up of emotion and solemn retreat is something that I can always relate to. The writing on this album is simply sublime. The current trend of simplistic writing is beginning to get on my nerves but those two verses deal with so much emotion in such a small sense that I have to marvel at how it is. Ultimately as i grow up and begin to differentiate between love and lust, i realise all i ever need to make me truly happy is in front of me. not in some sappy disneyland type bullshit but seriously there in front of me. Enjoy the day.