Surprised? Yes, very.

The Celtic Note music store on Nassau Street is advertising its wares in the runup to Christmas via a series of TV ads when even its Web site is still under construction. The ads features a list of names, such as Ryan Adams, Josh Rouse, and Manu Chao, concluding with the one-word question above. The music accompanying the ad is "Don't You Forget about Me," by one Micah P. Hinson. Whether or not he's aware of this, I don't know: I just wished they'd used the song "Patience" from the same album, The Gospel of Progress, with its screamed chorus line, "And I'm running out of patience, to be fucking with you, now." Not all that Christmassy, but one all the family can join in on during the Boxing Day karaoke session.






Micah P. Hinson, about to give it some welly at Primavera 2005.