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   Huzzah, it's football season again! That means I'm spending more time
   in front of the tube watching a game...and all of the commercials that
   go with it. By this point in my life I can pretty much tune these out
   (though I can't explain these strange cravings for cheese puffs, fast
   food and big screen TVs), but I make note of commercials I like and
   those that drive me crazy.
   Of the latter, what's really bugging me lately are the commercials for
   Ford trucks. Now I like Mike Rowe a lot and his "Dirty Jobs" show is
   something the kids and I like to catch. He's a likable enough pitchman
   for Ford, but if he's getting paid for every time those commercials
   run he's going to have more than enough to tell someone else to do
   those dirty jobs. Every TV timeout this last weekend featured one of
   two different Ford truck commercials. I mean it, I started to count on
   them: a commercial break would occur and I'd think, "Let's see, last
   break they showed the one with the truck stopping the cargo plane so
   that means that this break it will be the one with the truck going
   through the road course backwards" -- and I'd be right! And I hate it
   when I'm right! (About things like this anyway.) The repetition is
   enough to make me reject the Flomax commercials because suddenly
   having to go to the bathroom at every commercial break doesn't seem
   like such a bad thing.
   This year's crop of Coors Light commercials with the hokey coach
   interviews (which I ripped last year) are still annoying, though I'm
   glad they've let poor Bill Walsh rest in peace. The only interest I've
   taken in these is that they fulfilled my prediction of using Denny
   Green's infamous "they are who we thought they were" meltdown from
   last year, but even that just makes me mad to think that he's still
   getting paid.
   On the "like" side, though, I have to admit to being beguiled by the
   iPod Nano commercial that features a series of the little
   video-playing Nanos being lifted off the table like playing cards
   while showing a music video of a woman in an electric blue jumpsuit.
   Now I'm not an iPod kind of guy. My lifestyle is not such that I need
   to have my ears tickled non-stop by some form of musical
   entertainment. But the little song the woman is singing keeps growing
   on me, or perhaps it's the almost laughably simplistic choreography in
   the video that somehow reminds me of the dance scene in the Charlie
   Brown Christmas program. I don't know just what it was, but it drove
   me to find out who the singer is and the name of the song.
   I succeeded:

   Music Video:[1]1234 (by Feist)
   
   [EMBED]
   
   [2]Music Video Code provided by VideoCodeZone.Com

   (If the video doesn't play on your monitor you can also check it out
   at this [3]link.)
   Her name is Leslie Feist, a Canadian indie-fave and I've found a lot
   of her music on iTunes that I think I'll be downloading (but for CDs,
   not an iPod).
   Mmmm, catchy. "1,2,3,4, tell me why you love me more..."

References

   1. http://www.videocodezone.com/videos/f/feist/1234-2.html
   2. http://www.videocodezone.com/
   3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Z-DIAthbM