Oh, Franz Ferdinand, yes! and Wuthering Heights too! I think I'm of a similar mind. Those first few lines of Matinee (and the image of Alex K in a school blazer, and the whole thing looking exactly like my school era) *are* just killing.
I can cope with light fluffy lyrics too but my favourite writers are those who fit the bill as serious poets - Leonard Cohen/Nick Cave, as when Lenny references Constantine Cavafy's poem 'The god abandons Antony' in Alexandra Leaving.
*And* you're reading Salinger?! I did my dissertation on pilgrimage in the Glass family. Just the name is making me nostalgic for Buddy and Seymour and Franny/Zooey.
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Date: 2004-11-09 07:28 am (UTC)I can cope with light fluffy lyrics too but my favourite writers are those who fit the bill as serious poets - Leonard Cohen/Nick Cave, as when Lenny references Constantine Cavafy's poem 'The god abandons Antony' in Alexandra Leaving.
*And* you're reading Salinger?! I did my dissertation on pilgrimage in the Glass family. Just the name is making me nostalgic for Buddy and Seymour and Franny/Zooey.