Friday Snippets and Soundbites

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• Caedmon's Call's song, "Ten Thousand Angels," was featured in the final scene of last night's episode of "Grey's Anatomy." The song played for about five minutes. Check out the lyrics, all about redemption, here.

• NYC comedian Mark Malkoff is spending the week in an IKEA store in New Jersey while his apartment is being fumigated. Malkoff works for The Colbert Report and is staying in one of the bedroom displays in the store. He plans to play laser tag with the security guards and host a housewarming party before the store closes (and he gets evicted) on Saturday night.

• St. Charles, a suburb of St. Louis, Mo., is considering a bill that would ban swearing in bars (and table-dancing, drinking contests, and profane music). A city councilman proposed the bill after receiving complaints from citizens about the city's downtown historic area's rowdy atmosphere on some nights.

• Elvis Presley's birthday was January 8. He would have been 73 years old. Fans participated in a ceremony on the front steps of Graceland, Elvis' former home in Memphis, Tenn., and enjoyed birthday cake and coffee at the restaurant across the street.

• Going on a long road trip? Check out these ideas of ways to make the trip more "interesting":