from jens lekman's smalltalk:

Remember I used to wear a golden key around my neck ? I always told people it was a secret why I wore it. I still wear that key, I take it off when I lie in my bed and I twirl it around my finger. I open bottles with it and I tell drunk bogans on the tram that I am a mayor of a very small golden town. I dip it in chocolate and watch the dry Australian heat deepfry its ambiguous symbolism into a delicacy. I suck on it until I can taste the metal.

Now you can buy a key with a cord for wearing. I like to think of it as the opposite of an abstinence ring, but i'm talking not sexual but about in life: a promise to yourself that you will not wait. no more waiting, you're saying to yourself while adjusting the cord, tonight will be the night. You run your fingers through your hair, button up your shirt. One last look in the mirror. On your way across the street you step on a tulip, it occurs to you that it's the freshest sound you've ever heard.

ALSO... Death of this Summer mix, from 2006 from jens is still a gem. this summer will also die. it will have a gravestone. summer 2009: born 2009. died 2009.

jens lekman is one of my favorite musicians of all time. too bad he just contracted swine flu...