The music of love
February 9th, 2010
David Rose, editor of the personal ads column at the London Review of Books1 spoke to GQ about his work:
FRENCH: This is a personal favorite of mine:
If you think I’m going to love you – you’re right. Clingy, over-emotional and socially draining woman, 36. Once you’ve got me, you can never ever leave me. Not ever. Prone to maniacal bursts of crying, usually followed by excitable and uncontrollable laughter. Life is a roller coaster; you’ve just got to ride it, as Ronan Keating once said. Buxton. Box no. 0617.
ROSE: That’s got all the elements of an ad that I really like, including an obscure musical reference. I was going to put a musical discography at the back of the book thinking it would present the perfect sound track to an emotional ride – if you put all of these songs together, this is what heart ache sounds like. But the songs were just completely ridiculous. There was far too much Dean Friedman. Far too much Bachman Turner Overdrive. If that’s what loneliness sounds like, then I don’t want to hear it.
[Via The Morning News]
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