This is from when Ben Gibbard played at the Knitting Factory in New York City. I’m sure the humor of this is lost on most people, but I think it’s clever. Even though he doesn’t sound the same as the super tough, punk-rock, 16 year old girl, I think he can pull it off.

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The expressed views and/or expletives that may or may not occur near the end of this track do not necessarily represent the expressed views or beliefs of this site or it’s management. Plus, I am not the one cussing, it’s Ben Gibbard, and obviously his inner punk rock, hard core, “Avril Lavigne” is coming out, so he can’t really be blamed for it either. That is all.

Side note: (Okay that disclaimer wasn’t “all”.) Don’t you like when just the middle finger is blurred out? Is it the detail of the fingernail that is the “offensive part”? Maybe the way it’s connected to the hand? Wait… maybe I shouldn’t have told anyone that there is a middle finger under there.

Here is one of the cutest kids alive playing in the snow this morning. And by “playing in the snow”, I mean “trying to stay on the driest parts of the sidewalk, keep the cold off of his face and hands and asking to go back inside”.

Shaun writes:

“When the folks in charge at MyFreeMusicFriday.com told me that Amy Grant was their most downloaded artist ever, well, I kinda said I wanted to see if we could top that…ok, I said we would top that. And by “we” I meant you and me, our big mouths and our collective technological prowess.

It’s on. In this corner, industry veteran and superstar with zillions of names in a database being zinged emails by a manager or his intern. And in this corner, a guy with a blog and a Myspace page…and a Multiply page…and a Facebook page…and a Tagworld page…and, well, you get the point. I’m seriously wondering how close Web 2.0 sites like these and the word-spreading loyal daily visitors to them can get to Amy Grant’s record setting performance at MyFreeMusicFriday.com.”

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