Sunday oddments

I heard this song "Somebody That I Used To Know" by a band called Gotye on the radio a couple of times in the last month and really liked it, especially the semi-emo opening verses (e.g. "You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness"). The singers have nice voices, and the sound is part indie, part pop, and part retro, with a xylophone and a distinct Police-era Sting vibe in the chorus. So I hooked up my phone to play it on YouTube through the car stereo while I drove over to a couple of friends' houses this weekend. And it was only after I parked this afternoon and looked down at the phone while the video was still playing that I discovered that Gotye and guest vocalist Kimbra are really good-looking. Wow. I can't stop watching it now, especially after Gotye's face gets painted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY

In other news, I had an unexpectedly fun day over at my friend A's place -- not unexpected because she and her husband are always interesting and entertaining, but unexpected because we weren't planning to get together -- during which they introduced me to some more Finnish cinema of the Aki Kaurismäki a.k.a. depressing and dryly humorous variety and we ate a lot of homemade food and took a walk over to the independent bookstore Politics and Prose which somehow I had never been to, and also I got a haircut last week so my hair is excellently short again, and also I received a tiny adorable plastic trophy for being "Hardest Working Judge" in a local fangirl mystery-ingredient cooking competition that was held on four successive weekends ending last Saturday! Yay.

ETA: Oh, dude, Gotye is playing at the 9:30 Club in two weeks. Anyone in?? ETA 2: Sold out. Oh well.