I know, I know, this went viral a few weeks ago - still, it's a video that begs to be posted,  even if it's just for posterity's sake. What's great about this video, is not that it's particularly hilarious (especially to people who aren't new to Autotune the News) but that it's incredibly catchy. After I got this song stuck in my head for weeks, along with their Double Rainbow song - I knew that the people behind it were musical geniuses. True enough, The Gregory Brothers are the type that have music pulsating through their veins - particularly the soul kind. To have a better appreciation of their true talent, you've got to check out their MySpace page. It's no wonder how this viral song got so many hits and how it inspired some equally excellent covers that you can check out here, here and here.

It's List Addicts Friday time - and today's topic is high school crushes and unrequited love. Why? Just because I'm in the mood for it and these two always go together.

High school has always been a memorable time for me - not because of the nice memories I've shared with my high school friends, but because of all the heartache, heartbreak and the tramautic experiences I've had dealing with members of the opposite sex. Despite the good intentions of the strict nuns at my high school, and my loving, yet overprotective father, I wasn't prepared to deal the enigma that were boys - high school boys at that . Despite this, I was able to go through high school  with my sanity intact. But then, to anyone who's ever had to deal with high school crushes and unrequited love, I don't think you'll ever leave unscarred.

1. Hello Saferide - Highschool Stalker

When you talk about unrequited love, there always an element of stalking involved.  In Highschool Stalker, Hello Saferide gives us the inside scoop of what it is to be a high school stalker. And because she dates herself by using Yahoo! and AltaVista to search, it would be circa mid-1990s (I myself used HotBot and Infoseek). I never did go as far as breaking into the dentist's office like she did in the song. However, does doing voodoo magic to make your crush notice you count as psycho stalker-ish? It did work though.

Dani from Everyone's Talking sent this in, with the promise of posting my blog to their 50,000 followers. I thought, sure, and started contemplating on why, for the life me, have I not gotten 50,000 followers in the past three years that this blog has been alive. Then it hit me, like an axe hitting the white ivory keys of that hapless piano that got thrown over a cliff. I've had the wrong approach with this blog all along. Since random acts of sex and violence sell, instead of Lyric of the Day, we're going to have Boobies of the Day. But for now, you'll just have to content yourselves with a graphic display of piano mutilation - with excellent mood music to boot. If you liked the music, Dani's got some more at www.everyonestalking.net too.

This will be the first time in months that I'll be doing Fresh from the Post without the usual Q and A - mostly because of the sudden shift in the force and my midichlorian count hitting an all time low (in other words, life got in the way and I haven't had the time to set up proper interviews).  To accomodate me doing other 'important' stuff until I get substantial earnings from running this website (which at its current state is done all for the love of music, aka for free) - Fresh from the Post  will be done without the glamour of the Q and A, but still with the charm of all that's important -- new and exciting music.

This week, I've got some music courtesy of some amazing bands old and new - 

THE GENTLE ISOLATION

What better way to start our Fresh from the Post and bring sweet music to your ears than to listen to sugary twee pop via The Gentle Isolation. If you can hear a hint of 80s nostalgia in their new single Let's Go Slow, it's because the band started out as a new wave cover band before reformatting their sound to the ever lovable tune of indie pop. This four-piece, made up of Ness Urian (Vocals/12 String Acoustic), Monch Cristobal (Vocals/Bass), Joseph Rovero (Electric Guitars) and Batchie Rudica (Drums), is prepping up for the release of their first EP from indie label LilyStars Records come August 18th.

Let's Go Slow - The Gentle Isolation by Lilystars Records

This is the latest from the series of videos from Jarrod Gorbel (The Honorary Title) to promote his newest album called Devil's Made a New Friend. Here, Jarrod and pals - indie fashion designer Rachel Antonoff and Steel Train frontman Jack Antonoff, sample one of the singles off his album called Each Breath. This undeniably catchy song is a stripped down acoustic version, certainly something that'll pique your curiosity and definitely make you wait in anticipation for the album version, which comes out August the 31st.

Watching Inception last weekend blew my mind off, especially with Joe Gordon-Levitt's zero gravity action sequence. Yet it also reminded me that the last film I saw Leonardo diCaprio in was Romeo + Juliet. It made me feel old knowing that the onceTiger Beat fodder Leo DiCaprio, is now playing married men with kid roles and the goofy kid alien from 3rd Rock from the Sun is playing his slick and dashing point-man. Then I remembered how I loved my Romeo + Juliet OST casette tape and played it to death and also, that I forgot to let you guys know that the Swell Season did a cover version of "Young Hearts Run Free" (which was undoubtedly one of the memorable songs from the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack). What's extra good about it is that you can get it for free, down at the Levi's Pioneer Sessions site, where a whole bunch of other artists take on songs that have influenced their music. I'm posting songs from two of my favorite duos here (The Swell Season and She and Him) but you can go check out the site for more music from Jason Mraz, Dirty Projectors and Passion Pit to name a few -

Young Hearts Run Free by The Swell Season

Fools Rush In by She and Him