Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt: "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?"

This whole week has felt somewhat surreal to me. I'm having trouble understanding how it could possibly be 2012 already. A lot is going down this year: Another U.S. election. The world's fiery end. My 25th birthday (and accompanying quarter-life crisis). Probably not in that order.

So it may be a bit early to plan for next year's New Year's Eve, but I just can't wait 360 days to use this video. Posted on YouTube a few days before this new year, this video was made by the multi-talented, acting, singing, dancing, producing, joke-cracking, and lion-taming Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The two starred together in 2009's (500) Days of Summer, though according to the Deschanel-penned video description, the two first met on a small film back in 2000. They've been friends ever since, growing particularly close the last couple of years, and it would seem that their separate music backgrounds -- she's got some albums out and he runs an online collaborative production company called HitRECord -- have finally met. Of course, with Deschanel recently split from musician-hubby Ben Gibbard, maybe this best friendship will turn into the cutest romance in the history of ever.

Adorable.

For this webcam production, a duet of jazz singer Nancy Wilson's "What Are You Doing For New Year's Eve?", Deschanel and JGL broke out the ukulele and guitar, a simple accompaniment that doesn't overpower their soft, sweet vocals. Deschanel starts us off with her signature syrupy, relaxed singsong voice, the lyrics delivered through a half-smile. JGL grabs a verse before the magic really begins. In the final pass through the verse and tag, JGL sings the melody and Deschanel lays a confident, honey-covered harmony underneath. Their voices blend together beautifully; I could honestly listen to an entire album of this.

But I'm serious, their life together might be too adorable to bear. Maybe it's better if they just stay friends. That would also leave JGL on the market a bit longer, which is fine by me. He's come a long way since 3rd Rock from the Sun.

      

 I mean, damn.