#20: Portland, Celebrations, and Of Montreal Ads Pt. II.

First off, our thanks to Justin Ellis who wrote a lovely article about us in today's Portland Press-Herald. The piece has already moved Portland, ME up to fourth place in the voting, although I suspect it may rise even higher in the competition before the end of the day. Please read it and enjoy!

Although it was painful to watch the Yankees take a drubbing to the Detroit Tigers over the past weekend, it was refreshing to see a team celebrate a post-season victory so heartily with their fans. Amazingly, I can't seem to find the revelry on YouTube yet, but the old-fashioned among us can read about it. In a nutshell, the post-victory elation saw players running into the locker room for rations of champagne, then running back out onto the field to give endless high-fives to exhilirated fans. Some players took to standing atop the dugouts and drenching fans in champagne, with one player even dousing an uncomfortable-looking police officer. Never thought I'd say it, but kudos to Fox for staying with the celebration coverage much longer than typically happens with these things.

On the sports theme, apparently all I need to do to stay abreast of the world of independent music is watch football. Just the other day I wrote about Of Montreal's Outback Steakhouse ad; well, exactly one week later, again while watching Thursday night college football on ESPN, I heard them providing the score for another advertisement, this one for NASDAQ. Yes, the stock exchange. Again, I'm surprised I can't find this on YouTube yet, but it's definitely them. Curiously, it's an excellent non-album track, taken from the bonus EP to last year's The Sunlandic Twins. The song is called "Everyday Feels Like Sunday" (no relation to Morrissey's classic "Everyday Is Like Sunday"), and you can download it here or listen to a stream below:



If that weren't enough, that same football viewing session included this new Geico commercial featuring a somewhat dated Royksopp (featuring Erlend Oye) track, namely "Remind Me" from their Melody A.M. record:



It seems that--like an abandoned puppy--when one leaves the 'indie' world behind, it merely comes following after.

xoxox
Danny