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Matt invented an interesting concept: Indestructibles. These are those songs you enjoy no matter who’s performing them. (Or in concrete terms, songs you have more than three different versions of in your iTunes library.) I posted a couple over at his site but I keep finding more:

• “One” – U2, U2 + REM, and Johnny Cash
• “Throw Your Arms Around Me” – Hunters and Collectors, Eddie Vedder, Crowded House, the Doug Anthony Allstars
• “Take On Me” – A-Ha, Reel Big Fish, MxPx
• “Fell in Love with a Girl” – White Stripes, Richard Cheese, Joss Stone (though she changes it to “Boy”)
• “Fly Me to the Moon” – Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Julie London
• “I Will Survive” – Gloria Gaynor, Cake, and Jim Carrey (doing Andy Kauffman doing Tony Clifton)
• “Back Home Again in Indiana” – Bobby Darin, Bobby Hackett and Jack Teagarden, Milt Hinton
• “Hotel California” – Eagles, Reel Big Fish, Don Henley (on his own doing a weird reggae version)
• “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” – REM, Great Big Sea, Vic Chestnutt (from a very weird out-of-print REM tribute CD I have called “Surprise Your Pig”)
• “Just Like Heaven” – The Cure, Goldfinger, Richard Cheese
• “Landslide” – Fleetwood Mac, Smashing Pumpkins, Tori Amos
• “Leaving on a Jet Plane” – John Denver, Chantal Kreviazuk, Me First & the Gimme-Gimmes
• “Losing My Religion” – REM, Tori Amos, Tesco Vee’s Hate Police (again from “Surprise Your Pig”), Sydney (techno dance version)
• “Mrs. Robinson” – Simon and Garfunkel, the Lemonheads, REM (an extremely drunken live version with Robyn Hitchcock)
• “Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da” – the Beatles, Save Ferris, Enoch Light Orchestra (from a mix CD from Matt, actually!)
• “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” – Charlie Daniels Band, Primus, Lynn Anderson, Alvin & the Chipmunks (no, really), and several other versions where the Devil goes elsewhere
• “Radio Free Europe” – REM, Just Say No (from “Surprise Your Pig”), and The Replacements (an EXTREMELY drunken live version)
• “California Sun” – the Rivieras, Annette Funicello, the Ramones
• “Shiny Happy People” – REM, Mitch Easter, and REM + the Muppets (which is actually “Shiny Happy Monsters”

I’d find more but the Snook’s yelling at me to go to the store…

Check it out, Dad – albino deer. I remember seeing some deer with partial albinism in Brown County a long time ago, but this is the first one I’ve ever seen that was totally white.

The Gleewarts Express trip is getting all sorts of media attention already… And here too.

Holy crap, ladies and gentlemen. I am DONE. I didn’t really intend to digest the whole thing in one sitting, but here I am seven hours later all sniffly and hungry. Don’t read the comments if you haven’t finished it yet.

One sleep to go, and I’m painting homemade knuts, sickles, and galleons out in the backyard!

Ebert gives Charlie and the Chocolate Factory three stars. What’s remarkable, though, is that he says the movie succeeds in spite of Johnny Depp’s performance. That’s one you don’t hear every day. Ebert also makes the Micheal Jackson connection (not to mention a weird Carol Burnett reference). Anyway, as most of my worries about the film had to do with Depp’s performance in the trailers, it looks like if I can manage to ignore him the rest will be pretty fun. And I can live with that.

Me: Check it out! The Race is on!
Snook: Sweeeet. Remember the deal. If you see them here you have to call me so we can go head-to-head as Amazing Race tour guides.

(Link courtesy of Max.)