Keptin! He put creechurz een oor bodeez! To.... control oor minds!

[captainsblog]

If you don't recognize that, here's the audio. Yet this post has nothing to do with Ensign Chekhov but with my first poll in a long time, on the touchy little subject of....earworms.

You know the ones. A song gets in your head and you can't get it out. There really ought to be some serious audio/neuro/psychological research on this because it's very real.

I just finished mowing the front yard, to a very pleasant in-my-head rendition of Great Big Sea's "Something Beautiful." I know exactly where this came from: I-Tunes, which I was using to try to open an ewww-©protected .m4p download. When it went to save it, I saw my GBS folder list, the last thing I'd used the proggie for. That was enough to get the title track into my head for an hour.

There are also non-song cues that always work. My Mother the Car State requires me to wear a headset when using my mobile in the car. When I disconnect the set, the phone makes a two-note signal which is the exact sequence, tonal and beatwise, of the opening two notes of the theme from The Flintstones. For weeks until I figured out that subliminal, I wondered why I was walking around the office, half an hour later, going "Yabba. Dabba. Doo."

And then there are the really nasty infections. Mine, for the past couple of months, has been "I Wish I Could Go Back to College" from the Avenue Q soundtrack. No shit- I woke up today, and not for the first time, with this song being the first thing going through my head. And last night's dream was about work, so it's not a carryover from that. It's not my favorite song on the soundtrack, by no means the best song, but I don't particularly dislike it, either (or anyway I didn't until this all started). It's something about the chorus on the bridge of the song- or maybe the throwaway line "I wish I had taken more pictures...." which is crying out for a verse or three to finish it. Whatever. It's mine and I'm just accepting it until something better comes along. I pray it's not something worse, cause I've had those, and I am not going to think of them even long enough to write them down.

But you can.

I want your diseases. More importantly, I want your cures, if you've got them. If you have any intention of blaming me for any of this, I have three words for you: Go. No. Further.



[Poll #728123]

Comments

[bluesilverkdg.livejournal.com]

I tend to get commercial jingles stuck in my head. Remember "I love eggs" from about ten years ago? I'd sing that stupid thing constantly. But I tend to get stuck with the most annoying songs on the planet, such as "Hollaback Girl" or "My Milkshake Brings All the Boys To the Yard." Yeah.

[willoughbee.livejournal.com]

::waves:: Hi! I figured anyone who's also plotting to get thunderemerald to another Carbon Leaf show had to be cool, and this poll proves it. :) I'm going to flist you, if that's OK.

btw, sometimes listening to the offending earworm from beginning to end helps dislodge it. I can't do that with the songs that make me want to scratch my ears off, though.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Sure. Welcome:-) I backatcha'd your name so you can get in on all the locked goodness that is the typical Day in the Life here.

Read enough to get a sense of the moozic. I'm a Sister Hazel guy from way back when (the friend I just did the 31st-birthday post to? She now lives in Richmond but is originally from north Florida and knew their stuff even before I did), and I just discovered some of Eddie's amazing material in the past year or so.

I don't musicspam all that often but try keeping it weird eclectic when I do. I'm sure all the YouSendIt links in the back postings are dead, but if anything appeals, holler and I'll post again.

[willoughbee.livejournal.com]

Oh. I didn't even realize you were mostly f-locked. Now I have more to catch up on. I don't tend to read too far back, so forgive me if I ask a dumb question at some point.

Well, pretty much all my posts are music-babblings, but I don't post all that often so I'm OK with that. Even if I didn't already love Sister Hazel's music, I would heart them for organizing the Rock Boat, which is the best vacation *ever*.