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New song I’m obsessed with: “Sitting Down Here” by Lene Marlin, an 18-year-old Norwegian girl. Great voice, nice poppy melody, and a sort of almost country twang to it, if you can believe it. And it’s got lyrics that are fun to sing. British radio is great.

If you’re interested in Sundance or independent film at all, you should check out Roger Ebert’s dispatches from the Festival. His latest, relating a confusing encounter with Daphne Zuniga while under the influence of horseradish cream, is not to be missed.

Josh Kirley proposes a “Thug League” for all the college football players and teams that don’t care about classes or education. He thinks this is the only way that schools with student-athletes (like ND) can compete with each other fairly. Pretty funny and sarcastic.

ND Basketball News: Our woman are officially #1! They also beat Seton Hall on Sunday. And they’re still hungry for more. Our men have had a more difficult time. They beat West Virginia on Sunday, but it was a wild free-for-all game that featured a WV player stepping our an ND player’s face, getting thrown out of the game, being physically restrained and dragged off the court, and spitting on an Irish cheerleader.

Salon wonders when Japanese “dancing” videogames will finally strike it big in the States. They’ve actually got them here in the UK and they’re amazing to watch. Every time I go in Funland in the Trocadero, the same two Asian kids are there in the middle of a circle of admirers workin’ it. They’ve even got extraneous bits worked out to dazzle the crowd – touching the floor, leaping over the bar, and spinning on the buttons. I don’t think I could ever do it myself though. Way too embarrassing. I did play Parappa the Rapper on Playstation though, which was fun. I lived with a guy from Hong Kong who had all the best bootleg Japanese games. Too bad all Americans want to play is Quake and Super Tecmo Bowl.

AICN reports on the “Harry Potter” movie and the rumored regional differences. Basically, the original book was called “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” but we Americans are dumb and don’t like to buy books with words like “philosopher” on them. So they changed it to “Sorceror’s Stone” and switched a few references in the text for the U.S. version. The movie will also go by the two different titles, but it will be the exact same film and use the word “philosopher” in the dialogue. Get it? Whew. As long as they get everything else right, I don’t mind.

Lots of people are up in arms about Bush’s immediate foray into anti-abortion tactics, but for me, his shoddy HTML is the real reason to panic. Even Jakob is dissing the White House site!

Noooo! Say it ain’t so! Converse has officially filed for bankruptcy. Another integral part of my alterna-teen image bites the dust. R.I.P. good friend.

Someone wrote an excellent response to the article about ND’s rising tuition. Would somebody like “Rudy” still be able to attend ND today?

I wish finals had been postponed while we were at Notre Dame. That would’ve been fun.