So Who Wrote 'Such Great Heights?'

So I was recently listening to Such Great Heights and had a brief argument over who sang this song originally, Iron and Wine or The Postal Service. If you havent heard either of these renditions of the song, Iron and Wine does a much more acoustic down tempo version, while The Postal Service version is much more up tempo with a more electropop sound. I love both versions but I was surprised to find out it was Ben Gibbard of The Postal Service who was the author of this great song. While I was searching I also found some great other covers. Check em out. Which is your favorite?

Of course I have start this out with a live performance by the original. Here it is...

The Postal Service - Such Great Heights




and then there were the covers...


Ben Fold's - jTV in Australia





Iron and Wine - from the Garden State Soundtrack





Firebrand Boy - an 8-bit cover





Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls - beautiful piano cover





CONFIDE - a metalcore tribute





Tip the Van - a progressive ska cover





Streetlight Manifesto - an american ska cover





This just begins to scratch the surface.... Tell me which cover you like the most! Or if your a purist and stick with Ben....

We can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies.

As Harold took a bite of Bavarian sugar cookie, he finally felt as if everything was going to be ok. Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies. And, fortunately, when there aren't any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys and nose plugs, an uneaten Danish, soft-spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days, are effective for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives. I know the idea seems strange, but I also know that it just so happens to be true. And, so it was, a wristwatch saved Harold Crick.