oh man, what a great intermingling of things i love, colbert, the decemberists, and video editing! i don’t think a mock-rivalry could possibly make me happier. hopefully the result will be a plethora of cool videos for the decemberists featuring a bevy of battles between them and a light sabre-wielding stephen colbert. i strongly suggest checking out the colbert report clip where he lays down the challenge as well. what fun!

last night was also my first trip ever to see an NBA basketball game, thanks to a batch of free tickets dropped on our team at work for the lakers vs. jazz game last night. i’m not a huge basketball fan — in the sense that i literally never watch basketball games, read about basketball news, or play the sport myself; or at least haven’t since the michael jordan/chicago bulls years of my youth — but i must admit it was a very good time. we had decent seats on the lower level behind one of the baskets, and although i don’t generally approve of kobe bryant’s attitude, it was pretty fun watching him sail through the game scoring over 50 points and seeing the home team beat the team with the best league record by an easy 30 points overall. so i was glad to get the chance to be there (for free).

on top of that, i’m gonna share with you guys a nice little pay day song i’ve been singing to myself a lot recently, chinese translation by the wonderful folksy crooner m ward. cause sometimes you need a gentle echoey acoustic ballad to fall asleep to when it’s cold and you’re all snuggled up trying to stay cozy. i was originally drawn to this track after seeing the cool animated video on mtv2, so you may be interested in checking that out as well.

(the thermals’ video for the last pay day song is pretty fun too, if you’re in a music video mood and want even more…. featuring a very short cameo by colin meloy no less, just to bring things full circle.)