Soundscape #29: Just You And Me And $5

Ahhh friends... what will we do without them? It's true that you can't choose your family but how do you tell a "friend" that you no longer want to be friends? Simple. You just don't. It's not a relationship that requires a "we need to talk" session. There's no official breakup that can be initiated, no secret code to be invoked. Slowly but surely, you just drift apart. You don't really quarrel with a friend either. The last time I had one was er... a long time ago. Not that I'm the nicest person around or anything, but between friends, a quarrel means you just exchange a few "wtfs" and you laugh about it, maybe it takes a while, but you move on. Even if the quarrel gets real bad, all you have to do is... drift apart. There will be no late-night sessions on the phone sobbing about the "bastard" to your (other) friend.

Friends are people you bounce your ideas on. They are your tethers to earth when you get too excited about something, and even when you are so excited that you can't contain yourself, they don't judge you at all, not out loud anyway (even if they do, it just leads to a quarrel and that results in... read the preceding paragraph). Friends are people you ask random questions of (see comic). But the best friend that you will ever have is the person who goes to the supermarket with you to buy a couple of rows of sushi and Coke Lights and just sit at the staircase landing somewhere, sharing the food and you won't even need to say a word.

Talk about serendipity! I just came across a Friendship Intelligence Quiz. I've got 72, what about you?



Playlist:
1. (0:00) Rosie Thomas - Say Hello (Buy These Friends Of Mine)*
2. (2:19) The White Stripes - We Are Going To Be Friends (Buy White Blood Cells)
3. (4:40) Spoon - The Way We Get By (Buy Kill The Moonlight)
4. (7:21) Belle & Sebastian - We Are Sleepyheads (Buy The Life Pursuit)
5. (10:52) Luna - Friendly Advice (Buy Bewitched)
6. (17:27) Camera Obscura - I Need All The Friends I Can Get (Buy Let's Get Out Of This Country)
7. (20:44) Bright Eyes - I'll Be Your Friend (Buy One Jug Of Wine, Two Vessels)
8. (24:53) The National - Friend Of Mine (Buy Alligator)
9. (28:19) Jason Collett - Hangover Days (Buy Idols Of Exile)
10. (32:42) Morrissey - There's A Place In Hell For Me And My Friends
11. (35:04) The Hold Steady - Your Little Hoodrat Friend (Buy Separation Sunday)

*Guess who the male vocal is.. go on!