Miike Snow

New band on the block, Miike Snow. They’re from Stockholm, and I love it, obviously. I have a thing for Swedes and their Scandinavian brethren. “Animal” is getting a lot of blog attention, but the third track off the album, “Silvia,” is my favorite and absolutely incredible.

Celebrity alphabet game

If, like me last night, you ever find yourself playing the Celebrity Alphabet Game (Go through all 26 letters of the alphabet and take turns naming a celebrity whose first or last name begins with each letter) and wind up landing on “x” every round, it’s smart to have an arsenal of responses stored. Here’s my list:

xzhibit
malcolm x
deng xiaoping
xavier de rosnay
xander berkeley
xuxa
xerxes (of Persia)

…and if you’re playing the version that allows fictional characters:
xena
charles xavier/professor x