I can't believe it's been 6 years since Harvey Danger has released a new album. This is really sad. I hope that Sean or any of the other guys read this and have a sudden deep understanding of how sorrowful a lack of new material makes me and decide to band back up and crank out another album as wonderful as Little By Little is. You hear me, guys? I want more albums. I want to go see you play at Spaceland again. I want to be amazed by how frickin' unbelievably tall Sean Nelson is all over again. Can you do that?

Harvey Danger did something awesome before everyone else did, too, back in 2004. They released the MP3s and FLACs for this album entirely for free on their website (and while I can't check right now I am pretty sure you can still grab it for free) and offered some really rad packages for people who wanted to give them money. For $24 (IIRC) I got a t-shirt, the CD with a bonus disc of good stuff (Picture, Picture is an amazing song that's worth the $20 already) in nice packaging, a set of pins, and a sticker. How cool is that? I actually bought the set while the album downloaded.

Why this song today? Because happiness is boring. I'm happy this morning, and it always leaves me with absolutely nothing to say. Yay, everything is awesome, yadda yadda. This song is about how happiness leaves no mark, how hard it is to nail down into words and characters, and in the process they write one of the best songs about happiness there is.