Sigur Rós Song in the Latest Prince of Persia Ad

So I'm watching TV today (Spike of all networks but, hey, they're running a CSI marathon in between the Girls Gone Drunk ads) and I see an ad for the latest Prince of Persia game. I just about fell off the couch when I realized that a song by Sigur Rós was being used as the soundtrack. I just started listening to them, and now they're showing up on national television. Coincidence? You decide. Check it out:



I find that the song is "Sæglópur," from their 2005 album, takk. An interesting side-note: most of the song is actually sung in "Hopelandic," a sort of gibberish non-language invented by the band. More on that here: http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2002/103102/music3.html. Thanks, Wikipedia!

Let's Progress! (My Favorite Songs of 2008)

So I finished the list, it's posted below. Note that it's not in table format, because that's still way harder than it should be. And now the list:

TITLE - ARTIST
White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
Lost Coastlines - Okkervil River
We Got the Power (Love Letter from America) - The Born Again Floozies
Believe - The Bravery
The Places We Lived - Backyard Tire Fire
Jesus, Walk With Me (The Sound of Arrows Remix) - Club 8
All Night - Damian Marley
After All (feat. Talib Kweli) - Lupe Fiasco
The Modern Leper - Frightened Rabbit
Sax Rohmer #1 - The Mountain Goats
Dance, Dance, Dance - Lykke Li
Valerie Plame - The Decemeberists
You've Done It Again, Virginia - The National
Top Yourself - The Raconteurs
A-Punk - Vampire Weekend
Immigrant Punk - Gogol Bordello
San Bernardino - The Mountain Goats
Starálfur - Sigur Rós
Ching-A-Ling - Missy Elliot

In the unlikely event that there are readers of this blog, the more astute ones will have noticed that Dance, Dance, Dance by Lykke Li was not on the previous list. So I didnt' hear it until after making the first round list. So sue me.

The Most Awesome Picture Ever

So, as of this writing at least, if you go to Flickr and search for "the most awesome picture ever," (but without the quotes) the first hit you get is this:



This is a picture I clipped from a copy of Lighting Dimensions magazine, back in the 90s when there still was such a publication, and it's followed me through two states, three jobs, and four homes. "Leko guy" has lived on refrigerator doors, office dividers, and whiteboards, and he's still just as awesome as the day I found him.

I wish I could find the photographer (Douglas Edmunds) and tell him just how much joy this picture has brought into my life. I'll just have to hope that some day he'll decide to look around for the most awesome picture ever and be pleasantly surprised.