Seattle indie/folk band Fleet Foxes, led by Robin Pecknold. Photo courtesy Sub Pop Records.

“Holy crap” was the first thing out of Pavan Vasdev’s mouth when he spotted Robin Pecknold, lead singer of the internationally renowned band Fleet Foxes standing not but ten feet away from him as he chatted outside of Neumo’s eating a Molly Moon’s ice cream cone.

Fleet Foxes, a local Seattle-based indie/folk band has become somewhat of a fixture in the modern music scene, winning Best Album of the year awards in 2008 for their self-titled debut from six separate music publications, as well as performing on Conan O’Brien, David Letterman and Saturday Night Live.

So it is understandable that Vasdev, a freshman International Business major at SU’s reaction may have been a bit brusque. “Yeah, I said it kind of loud and he pretty much darted in to Neumo’s right after he heard me. He knew a mob might be forming,” Vasdev said.

But the sightings didn’t end there.“My roomate saw Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard eating at Cafe Presse about two days later. I flipped,” he added.

Newly wed Ben Gibbard and Zooey Deschanel. Photo courtesy VH1.

Zooey Deschanel, half of musical duo She & Him and actress (co-starring in tonight’s showing of Yes Man on the Union Green sponsored by RHA) and Ben Gibbard, lead singer of well-known Seattle rock band Death Cab for Cutie recently married, and apparently decided to honeymoon just streets away from campus.

“I’ve only been here for a little under a week, but I’m definitely in Seattle,’ Vasdev sighs excitedly, a native of Corvalis, Oregon. ‘I mean, Ben Gibbard AND Zooey Deschanel? Really?!”