you gotta be kiddin' me...

i came across this in today's ny times and found it rather interesting that a person, a ny times reader to boot, had not yet heard the cure's pictures of you. the song is used in hp's new television spot for their digital cameras, printers and computers. it's an uninspiring commercial to me. the song, however, carries the spot.

from the new york times comes this:

A Reader Asks : I really like the song about "pictures of you" in one of the new commercials for Hewlett-Packard. Can you tell me who sings it?

Stuart Elliott : "We've gotten tons of calls on that," says Ed Woodward, a spokesman at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, Calif., who says the song — titled, not surprisingly, "Pictures of You" — is by the rock band the Cure.

The spot is one in a series by a principal Hewlett-Packard agency, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco, part of the Omnicom Group. For those looking for the lyrics, here they are:

I've been looking so long at these pictures of you
That I almost believe that they're real
I've been living so long with my pictures of you
That I almost believe that the pictures are
All I can feel

np: Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars) from the album Astrud Gilberto's Finest Hour by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto & Stan Getz, which I like this much: 4/5 stars