The lines “Let me occupy your mind / As you do mine” from Gotye’s ‘Hearts a Mess’ and “Does it trouble your mind / The way you trouble mine” from The National’s ‘Exile, Vilify’ will forever occupy the same quadrant in my brain. #HeartsAMess #ExileVilify #NowListening

And because time is a flat circle, it’s less that the younger song [‘EV’ from 2011] reminds me of the older [‘HaM’ from 2006], but the other way ’round because that’s the order they entered my life.

I don’t even like ‘Exile, Vilify’ all that much. ‘Portal 2’ is great, though.

Notabene, I’m sorry for reminding you of your own ageing by mentioning that ‘Like Drawing Blood’ turns 20 this year, and its more famous successor ‘Making Mirrors’ [the one with “Somebody that I Used to Know”] as well as ‘Portal 2’ 15. 😔 #sorryNotSorry