The new album from The Killers – “Day and Age” – drops November 24th.  The two cuts I’ve heard from it so far — Human and Spaceman — are fantastic.  Spaceman especially.  For some reason, The Killers manage to create a sound that sends my head back to when I was little — you know, wearing pajamas, eating cereal, and watching Saturday morning cartoons cross-legged in the living room.  Simpler times…

I’ve been watching much more TV in the last few days of holidays than I have in a long time.  In the process, I’m playing catch-up on some things.  Like — for example — this (which is awesome.)

With Christmas not far away now, TV is starting fill up with commericals for the season.   And, in an effort to stand out from the crowd, advertisers are really working overtime to find obscure Christmas-like songs to provide the soundtrack for the season of shopping.  My favourite use of music right now is on the Sears commercials — where the song of choice is Badly Drawn Boy’s Donna and Blitzen.  Very very cool.

Finally, Engadget/TUAW is reporting this morning that iPhone 2.2 firmware will start being available for download on November 21st.  The two big additions for me will be the addition of Street View to Google Maps (damn Google vans… drive through Canada once in a while!), and the ability to turn off auto-correct (a good thing when you’re trying to talk in a corporate language and not in normal people words.)

On that note… I’m off to play some Blockles.  You should too.

+J