I like songs.

Song of the day: Belle and Sebastian's "Sukie in the Graveyard" from their latest album, The Life Pursuit.

I bought the new Belle and Sebastian about a week ago [double album on glorious 180g vinyl], and after two complete listens, Sukie is the song that has stuck with me so far. I can't say it's the best song on the record, but the song's relentless pace--propelled by its overdriven bass guitar groove--and quirky organ riff keep playing over in my mind. The lyrics? It's a song about this young, attractive, artistically gifted, goth chick [she liked to hang out in the graveyard, anyway] who ran away from home and took shelter in the basement of an art school in which she couldn't afford to enroll [but she was more talented than the "arseholes" who were enrolled]. She aspired to become, perhaps, a famous photographic artist [her "life pursuit"?]; but as time passed and seasons changed, she began to see the foolishness of her childish dream. Strapped for cash, she ends up posing for life drawing students at the school in order to make ends meet. But that's not really all that important. The bass line is on a continuous loop in my brain along with the lyrics, "Sukie was a kid. She liked to hang out in the graveyard."