Today’s Video of the Day is The Cardigans – “You’re The Storm”, from their criminally overlooked 2004 release Long Gone Before Daylight. It’s today’s video pick because Long finds the lead singer, Nina Persson, scary, with the dark eyeshadow and everything. Me, I’m the complete opposite. Also the video is nice if you like the whole “abandoned roller coaster in a barren wasteland” motif.
As you know, The Cardigans are from Sweden. Sweden was one of my World Cup semifinal picks. See I don’t know much about soccer/football, but I do know that I like Sweden. They gave us The Cardigans, Kent, Jens Lenkman, The Wannadies, Ericsson (as in Sony Ericsson), Volvo, Saab, and IKEA.
My other picks for the semifinals were also based on similar criteria (Do I like your music?) and not really goal scoring and ball kicking. My picks were: Sweden, Australia, Netherlands, and France. If you know me at all, you’ll notice that England is missing. And eventhough I love England a lot, they let me down. They were supposed to beat Sweden, hold them scoreless so Trinidad would advance to the Second Round. So as there punishment and to show that I was cross with them, I replaced them with the Netherlands. Honestly, I don’t think I know any bands from the Netherlands, but I believe in their dikes, tulips, windmills, and The Hague.
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your mistake was to expect anything from england other than poor hygiene, cheating, and forcing other races into involuntary servitude.