>> If I ever got to win somewhat six-figure sum in the lottery (which is never going to happen, we all know that, but let's just pretend I would), I'd most likely travel Canada.

If I ever got to choose a dude to accompany me (apart from the boyfriend, of course), it'd have to be a guitar-plucking dude with a rather chilled out, blunt, eccentric persona...

Maybe someone like Jack White from The White Stripes...

As for Meg - here passion and genuineness work via the unspoken word... and do succeed. Seemingly simplistic, pounding drum beats underpinning Jack's sometimes almost torturous, infinite range of guitar riffs musically highlight the closeness and familiarity between the former couple, which adds a unique, intimate element to their on-stage appearance and sound.

Having listened to The White Stripes since their breakthrough in 2002, I still don't seem to truly get them. To me, their personalities just as well as their music are intertwined and multiple-layered in a binary coded way. Every time I seem to come close to thinking "I know what Jack was on about when he wrote this song", I bounce back into my corner of nescience. And yet, I'm still not be able to resist and fall back into their clutches made of uncompromising existentialist lyrics and their unvarnished, pulsing, sheer elusive musicality.

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