YOU'RE A CANDY QUEEN, AND LET.ME.SHOW.MY.DAR.LING. WHAT THAT MEANS

Magic FM is funny. The Bangles are singing about ETERNAL FLAMES, GIVE ME YOUR HAND, but I can't feel any hearts beating. The Bangles, not the Buggles. Because video killed the radio star, then the radio star became a zombie and ate everyone's brains

fuck you, internet.

Sorry. I'll make sense now. I'm trying to do student finance forms again, OH SHIT YES, The Carpenters is on the radio.

Magic FM is amazing. The Carpenters and Simon and Garfunkel are about the only two acts my parents played when I was still smearing shit on the walls that I can bear to listen to now. Whenever I hear The Carpenters I see orange

shityes, Magic gets it right again. Seal. Fucking Seal.

Whenever I hear the Carpenters I see orange, a picture of Karen Carpenter smiling and I don't see the bones

when someone told me that she died from anorexia, I really couldn't understand how someone just-

-you know, someone so beautiful with songs and a voice and a smile, no bones

when I was sat on the floor eating babybels in a kit-kat sandwich. mr. kipling mini victoria sponges. a whole packet of petit filous. probably some salt and vinegar McCain crisps.

just couldn't

so here's a Carpenter's song: