In light of expounding on my own affairs, I am currently taking solace in the fact that some “made to be” couples are, indeed, getting together forever: Zooey Deschanel is engaged to Ben Gibbard.

Part of me weeps, for I’ll never get a chance to become the “him” portion of Zooey Deschanel’s non-musically oriented relationship (check out the album she made with M. Ward under the name “She & Him,” Volume 1).  Yet, another part of me is raising my fists in triumph, for Ben Gibbard will no longer have to write another sad song.  After seven sap-filled Death Cab albums, being married to such a fashion-fox will hopefully cause Ben to fall down some particularly “narrow stairs” and go all “transatlantic” on us, possibly garnering a new sound (or, if nothing else, an album not built on a bed of tears).

With Zooey and Ben off the market, it might be a good time to start planning your seduction of the rest of their “Top 10 Indie Rock Crushes” of 2008.  I’ve got dibs on Emily Haines and Feist.