Cinema-goers in the UK may have noticed a new Pizza Hut advert which ends “Family Fun since 1958″. It’s showing before every U-rated film currently, so I’ve seen it before Bee Movie and Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (both of which I fully recommend).

At each viewing I had the catchy soundtrack in my head for some time after and really liked the song, so I thought I’d have a look around the web to see if I could find out what it was. Thankfully, this post at UTalkMarketing gave the full lowdown and led me to finding the track (”Escribeme Pronto” by Instituto Mexicano Del Sonido) at the artist’s Myspace page.

If you like the track, you can buy the album from amazon.

For non-spanish speakers (of which I am one), Instituto Mexicano Del Sonido translates as “Mexican Institute of Sound”.

This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in months:

Guitar geek Ben Lewry had an old laptop lying around and decided to see if he could cram it inside of the body of an electric guitar.

I used to love adverts when I was a kid. Apparently I could recite them back at the drop of a hat, which must have been wonderful for those around me. Lately, I’ve not felt much love for the commercial interruptions to my viewing - with the exception of the latest Vodafone advert, “Make work, work around you”. Quite apart from the concept being pretty cool, I love the song in the advert - which for anyone searching to find it, is called “The End” and is sung by Nancy Sinatra.

Take a look at the advert on YouTube.

At the risk of just becoming a kottke mirror:

Laptop Orchestras of the world

Just a couple of days until I head off to Bumbershoot 2007! Myself and my lovely wife Jessica will be arriving in Seattle tomorrow, ready for a weekend containing The Shins, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Aqueduct, Crowded House, amongst many others… oh, and a heavy pedal bike rodeo.

With the Reading festival being in my hometown every year and an amazing experience at Denmark’s Roskilde festival in 2006, I can’t wait to experience this insanely feature packed event in a great American city I’ve wanted to visit for years! I’ll let you all know how much of an awesome time we have…