Nate Ruess is the lead vocalist for the indie-pop band Fun. The group’s hit single “We Are Young” has topped Billboard’s Hot 100 and Digital Songs charts with more than two million downloads.

READING I picked up “The Hunger Games” thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I’ve spent hours reading it, and I’m not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them. He was really underwhelmed by the movie. He was upset that they focused more on the killing than the government control, political aspect of it. What’s most appealing to me about the book is that I’m not going to finish it.

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LISTENING Lately I’ve been falling asleep listening to “Common One” by Van Morrison, specifically the song “Summertime in England.” It’s 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people’s entire catalog.