i have fallen completely head over heels in love with 'strange and beautiful' by aqualung. like, crazy in love with it. and the line "i'll put a spell on you" is a falling-in line like "for you i'll bleed myself dry" or "but I'll settle for love". or.. a number of other things.

and, to interject in this discussion of my new favourite song, i'm having a conversation with bernasty about cannibalism and ducks (york university, uktrippers do you now understand?) and how the fact that i'm vegetarian might be a slight hindrance to me eating ducks or fellow human beings, but she says that if they're hidden among the cheese in lasagne i might eat it anyway and i concur that she might be right, and then we remember the vegetable lasagne at warwick castle on the day that my leg was being a pain in the .. well, leg. anyway, that was vegetarian and it was good. but then i remember stealing her beef lasagne at bath, because the vegetarian stuff was gross. and then i remember when i was served, i asked what the vegetarian thing was (hoping in vain that the lasagne might be veg) and she telling me, quorn casserole. and i could've sworn that she said "porn casserole". but my logical mind said that she probably said prawn, and i was all gleeful that since prawn ain't veg, there might be something else less gross to eat. but i asked, and this time bernasty etc thought i asked if it was porn casserole, and anyway it was quorn which is that gross thing made by bacteria or something which we learnt in bio last year. and the casserole was gross and i stole the cheesy parts of the bernices' lasagne. never have YHA dinners. they suck. and yeah i'm majorly fussy about food. like at obs everyone else thought that the vegetarian food was good, but i hated it with all my heart. and i think they might've gotten pissed off a bit cos your diva dearest did some whining about the food. or a lot, i can't really remember anymore. but i hate baked beans, i don't know why everyone wants to feed it to vegetarians. atleast on the trip vivien was more than a willing recipient of my baked beans, in exchange for croissants and cheese =)

that above paragraph looks unreadable.

anyway - back to the song - the lyrics aren't actually particularly wonderful, but because of this whirlwind love affair i'm having with it, i must put the lyrics here. i would upload the song or make it play on my blog like the music on yixun's blog or something, but being the complete techno-idiot that i am (although i swear that i'm wayyy less techno-idiot than my mother and brother and, say, my grandfather.) i think i lost my point somewhere. ah yeah. basically, i have to settle for putting lyrics here.

I've been watching your world from afar,
I've been trying to be where you are,
And I've been secretly falling apart,
I'll see.
To me, you're strange and you're beautiful,
You'd be so perfect with me but you just can't see,
You turn every head but you don't see me.

I'll put a spell on you,
You'll fall asleep and I'll put a spell on you.
And when I wake you,
I'll be the first thing you see, lyricstop
And you'll realise that you love me.

Sometimes, the last thing you want comes in first,
Sometimes, the frist thing you want never comes,
And I know, the waiting is all you can do,
Sometimes...

I'll put a spell on you,
You'll fall asleep,
I'll put a spell on you,
And when I wake you,
I'll be the first thing you see,
And you'll realise that you love me.

I'll put a spell on you,
You'll fall asleep 'cos I'll put a spell on you,
And when I wake you,
I'll be the first thing you see,
And you'll realise that you love me