It's finally been sighted. I heard about this a month or so ago from a kid fighting everyday in the streets of Jeffersonville, Pennsylvania: Richard Buckner's "Ariel Ramirez" is used in a Volkswagen commercial. This doesn't chap my ass at all because Buckner needs the money. For some reason I'm convinced he sleeps in a sleeping bag on top of oily cardboard. Poor guy. And VW has a pretty good track record of background music, like "Pink Moon" and a deep, deep, deep Son Volt track. "Ariel Ramirez", by the way, is on Since, one of my top five underappreciated albums of the '90s.