Check out this guy. That's Matt Berninger, frontman and chief crooner for the indie band The National. I love this band, its lyrics steeped in cynicism and sometimes seedy sexuality. I sang in several choirs, but I was never in a band. But if I were a singer in a rock and roll band, I would want to sing like this guy.

Berninger's cynicism contrasts with the jubilant optimism of this week, and this video shows him at his most biting, relative to the society under George W. (which isn't yet at an end), but I submit him to OS readers as a sexiest man, his discordant juxtaposition against the new and improved Zeitgeist notwithstanding.