Having a \"Blog Break\" in the summer I guess...<\/p>\n
Anyway, I happened to catch the tail-end of an impressive musical performance last night on The Late Show with David Letterman. So I hopped on Google which led me to the show's site<\/a> where I learned that the musical performer had been \"Feist\". Looking it up on Wikipedia<\/a>, it was not obvious at first that the performance I had seen was by a solo artist, but I was able to make out that it was Leslie Feist<\/a>, a fellow Canadian.<\/p>\n Woops, her official site<\/a> is currently having an \"identity crisis\". Ugh, check out the referenced MySpace page and get inundated with audio that I didn't necessarily want to hear. Enough of this, go to YouTube and search for \"Feist\"<\/a>. First link is to a video for the song \"1 2 3 4\"<\/a> which happens to be the song I enjoyed on Letterman (to be fair this video is also currently the first one on the MySpace page). Video is kind of cool - the fact that it's all one take, colourful, lots of youth and energy, with (apparently) no special effects. Might take one or two viewings, but it's catchy too. Here's a \"Making Of\" video<\/a> too, see if you can spot the differences in the take they used in the final video...<\/p>\n Here's the same song performed on Conan two months ago<\/a>. Still doesn't compare to the bigger choir and brass sections they had on Letterman. I'd pay to see a show with all those people clapping and singing and playing music... An hour after seeing it on Letterman, I used Google's Blog Search to find out<\/a> that someone has now posted the performance on YouTube so you can judge for yourself<\/a> (Update: video taken down, here's another copy<\/a>).<\/p>\n