Feaverish

So a couple of weeks ago Airbag linked to a contest at Footblog where you could win $39 in iTunes for correctly predicting the Superbowl score. Well, I entered. And more than that, I won. Yes, friends and foes, marvel at my prognosticative superpowers. I’ll admit to not being the biggest football fan, and basic comprehension of most sports’ scoring systems is beyond my ken, but free music is definitely the kind of thing I can get my ass behind. And even if you’re not into football, you have to appreciate a site that opts for CSS over tables and runs free as in beer adverts (is that still even a word?) for Jewelboxing, Basecamp, and Apple.

Now, $39 may not seem like a lot to you, Richie Rich, but it’s a lot to me. $39 is what I have left over each month once the bills are paid. $39 is what I spend in a year on the damp newspapers I use to insulate my house. $39 is what I paid for arthroscopic knee surgery in the kitchen of that Thai place down the street. $39 is a lot of money to me. So, how did I blow it, you ask? Here’s what I got:

• The Decemberists — Human Behavior
• No Cars Go — Arcade Fire
• Ladyflash (Hot Chip Remix) — The Go! Team
• New Health Rock — TV on the Radio
• Walking the Cow — TV on the Radio
• Modern Romance — TV on the Radio
• The Commander Thinks Aloud (Future Mix) — The Long Winters
• Graceland — The New Pornographers
• Best of All Possible Worlds — Grandaddy
• I Don’t Think I’m Ever Gonna Figure it Out — Elliott Smith
• Bottle Up & Explode (non-album version) — Elliott Smith
• Your Cheatin’ Heart — Beck
• Clementine — The Walkmen
• Fly Into the Mystery — The Walkmen
• Out on the Side — Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
• My Honey — Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
• The Girl I’ve Always Known — Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
• This Will Be Our Year — Ok Go
• Driving South — The Clientele
• Saturday — The Clientele
• An Hour Before the Light — The Clientele
• Green Imagination (entire album) — The Sunshine Fix & Olivia Tremor Control

Pretty sweet, no? Anyway, clicking on any of the above songs will should take you right to the iTunes Music Store, where you can buy them for yourself.

Also, I upgraded to WordPress 1.5 last night, and though the upgrade itself was super-easy, it seems to have broken a few things regarding the look of the page. You’ll notice, for instance, that you can now scroll off to the right edge of the image. Not too classy. I’m working on it, and look for a fixed page and lots of new features (comments! photo galleries! proper grammar!) coming this weekend at the latest.

Update: I fixed the spacing issues, so for most of you everything should look, um, as it should. Internet Explorer users on Windows will still see several layout problems, but if you’re still using Internet Explorer you probably don’t care too much how things look anyway.