Heineken Premium Light Commercial – Share the Good

Occasionally an ad comes out with a super great catchy song, or something that just catches my attention and makes me watch. EVERY TIME. This is one of those. Not only is the song one I’m going to very soon add to my iTunes, but watching the colliding worlds of all the people in the commercial is addictive, and I pay attention EVERY TIME. Enjoy!

** I tried to embed it, but that didn’t show up, so here’s the link: HPL Share the Good

You Know You Can’t Resist John Travolta in Wranglers

I am having WAY too much fun on YouTube tonight.

Ok, so I’ll completely unashamedly admit that Urban Cowboy is one of my all-time absolute favorite movies. It stems back to a memory, but in all honesty, it’s a feel-good, great old country music, John-Travolta-at-his-finest-post-Grease-and-pre-Pulp-Fiction, awesome soundtrack 1980s cowboy movie.

This song is one of those it’s-the-reason-I-buy-the-soundtrack songs:

I Fought the Law

Talk about a song that can stand the test of time. This is one of my ALL-TIME favorite songs, sliced and diced a few different ways – it’s come a long way, baby.

The Original Version
Written by Sonny Curtis and performed by The Crickets (post-Buddy Holly):

(My apologies for the lack of video, but these poppies/petunias are awfully pretty, aren’t they?)

Bobby Fuller 4:

The Clash:

Green Day (live version) – btw, I still think that Green Day should do an entire album covering The Clash songs…:

Social Distortion (I love Mike Ness’s voice/sound):

According to Wikipedia:
Cover versions of “I Fought the Law” have also been performed and/or recorded by Bryan Adams, John Cougar Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Social Distortion, Mike Ness, Hank Williams Jr, Waylon Jennings, Green Day, The Ramones, Grateful Dead, Stray Cats, Mary’s Danish, Mano Negra, the Big Dirty Band, Nonstop Body/Lolita No. 18, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Sex Pistols, Attaque 77, Die Toten Hosen, Status Quo, Nanci Griffith and numerous other artists. For the 2003 film, Intermission, Colin Farrell recorded a version of the song, singing it in the guise of his character in the film.

I Won’t Be Your Monkey

When better to rehash this video than during the upswing of political activity all over the place. This is one of my favorite Jon Stewart moments, maybe right behind the day after the writers’ strike ended.

Don’t Miss the Moon

You know the Ford Edge commercial with the girl riding in the middle of the backseat of the car with the sunroof open and she’s staring at the moon/stars/city/whatever the whole time? So much so that she misses when her friends get out of the car until one of them has to call her to see if she’s coming?

You don’t? Ok here it is:

(PS – the song is “The Funeral” by Band of Horses. GREAT song.)

I kind of felt like that as I drove home from the Herkimer. Tonight was the lunar eclipse, and I think I’ve seen one before but I don’t remember remembering. This was so cool. There was still part of a crescent left as I drove home, but by the time I’d gone inside, changed clothes and gone back onto the porch, it was completely covered by a thin almost red-gray shadow. We’ve got these two huge trees in our front yard, which obviously are bare right now being the dead ass cold of Minnesota February, so the full mooned lunar eclipse behind the silhouette of the tree branches… – remarkable. I stood, mesmerized (and freaking freezing) on my porch for as long as I could stand it, taking in the calm, breathing in the cold and just staring.

Amazing. I’m glad I took the time to look. I hate missing out on the small things like this.

I admit it. I stole this.

I totally ripped this off of Erin’s blog, but I just couldn’t resist. Enjoy!

P.S. I really heart Ellen.

Now That Takes the Biscuit Out of Christmas?

Watch out for those shoplifting, crisp-munching seagulls! This is funny, plus the reporter is cute.

I Heart Turk.

Turk makes me so happy. Esp when he busts a move: