Read in HOW TO BE GOOD, by Nick Hornby (who has written HIGH FIDELITY - for music nerds - and ABOUT A BOY).
The main character left her family to live a few days on her own. She speaks about living with other people.
And we drank wine, and listened to Air, who are French, and play mostly instrumentals that sound as if they are best heard in lifts. Air are my new favourite group, although Dick is a bit snooty about them, in his quiet, nervous way. He says there's much better ambiant French pop than this, and he could do us a tape if we wanted.
But to me Air sound modern and childless and single, compared to, say, Dylan, who sounds old and married and burdened - who sounds like home. If Air are Conran, then Dylan is the greengrocers. Mushrooms, lettuce and tomato, home to cook bolognese and prepare a salad, and how does it feeeeeeel ? To be on your oowwwn ?
By the way, Dick is one of the characters of HIGH FIDELITY, the Nerd of the nerds.