Adanowsky - "J'aime tes genoux". This is a song about loving a girl's knees. Which, as a sentiment, is fair enough. I've certainly seen some nice knees, over the years. Although originally written by Henri Salvador, this cover by Adanowsky, the son of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, is offered in much the same spirit. Which prompts me to wonder: Do Salvador and Adanowsky love the same kind of knees? Knees come in different varieties. Some are sturdier than others, or more flexible. Some are wide and some narrow, some smooth and others pronounced. This song feels so indiscriminate in its affections, full of groove, strum, honk, but Jodorowsky and Salvador are very precise. I don't give a fuck about the rest of you, they sing. Your knees, they sing, to one woman in particular, J'aime, j'aime, j'aime.. They are harder to please than others, more judgmental. They are not carefree lovers; they are fascists. And they are catchy as they do it. [buy]

Find the Others - "In Time". In 2002, two years before he knew better, he fell in love with a girl who could fit into the palm of his hand. She was made of sugar dust and gleams. She would speak to him of distant forests, faraway valleys, places where they could roam among the flowers for days. She spoke to him of the honey-cake she would bake one day. She had perfect teeth and danced like a breeze. She didn't know how to drive. He described their relationship as you would describe a miniature ship, perfect, tucked inside a bottle. This was in 2002, two years before he knew better, when he thought that the only precious things were things you couldn't drop. [website/buy]

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