Staralfur — Sigur Rós
Currently playing on my iTunes: Staralfur by Sigur Rós. Its a nice, haunting song (Epitonic will even let you legally download it), though the more uppity types might find it (as always) pandering or trite. One way to identify the uppity types ;-) is by their unfaltering admiration of Springsteen — I think the thing for this crowd is the Woody Allen trick of mixing the trivial (baseball) with the allegedly profound. Anyway this is not one my pet rants, though it sort of turned out this way. Just wanted to point you to the song.
And also a very interesting movie (which falls into the same classification as the song) called The Girl in the Cafe which I picked up quite by change because of the dratted free coupons that Blockbuster wastes my time with (because of my erstwhile DVD subscription). The movie in short: idealistic, simple, young girl meets nice, old, shy bureacrat resulting in trip to G8 summit and question of poverty, hunger, etc. Includes statutory Bono (One!) blurb at end, and all in all leaves one feeling empty and disgusted about oneself and the world (factoid from the movie: a child dies every 3 seconds due to entirely avoidable causes), except of course one is one of those sophisticated, uppity types described above! The movie ends with Staralfur in the background.