"Will you tell me what you like, or what you think I want you to like?"
"The latter, I'm afraid."
"Hmm. Why be honest now and not then?"
"Ha! You will have forgotten this conversation by then.
Besides, you really want me to like what I'm going to say I like."
"I know, I know, but I want the truth more."
"Do you? I think you want mental justification for your physical desire. You don't make conversation, you administer a test that you've subconsciously developed to evaluate a girl's worthiness of your precious free time."
"It might work if your kind would stop playing games."
"I only play along."
"Oh, please. And why the hell would you do that?"
"Because I have to figure out why the hell guys like you, the guys I'm most attracted to, only want to mess around with female versions of themselves."

Buy the following recently released records:

"Elevator" by Hot Hot Heat - hooky, good-natured, smart, and quirky
"Guero" by Beck - another exemplary patchwork record

Look for a great version of Debussy's only string quartet.
I've heard the Cleveland and Emerson versions, and though both are
good, there must be something better. Something a little less
emotive. Regardless, the third movement will slay you.