'A Thousand Miles' by Vanessa Carlton is one of those songs that seems to always be on the radio even though it left the charts ages ago. Like David Gray's 'Babylon' before it, you can only assume it was selected by some focus group or other as the least offensive record on release, ensuring it a continuous place on the playlists of cautious, conservative programmers. Whatever.

Now I can appreciate a bit of faux-literary female angst with accompanying storm-und-drang orchestration as much as the next man, and I've got the Kate Bush records in my collection to prove it. But I still feel the only appropriate response to a girl who says to you that she'd walk a thousand miles to see you that night would be thus:

'CATCH A PLANE, YOU FREAKY CHEAPSKATE!'

Footnote: The Vanessa Carlton picture above is taken from her official site. The picture file reads 'vanessatouchedup': now that's too much information on what was going on off-camera for my liking, but sounds an ever better job than tweaking J-Lo's nipples, if you ask me...