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"Her eyes in certain light were violet, and all her teeth were even. That's a rare, fair feature: even teeth. She smiled to excess, but she chewed with real distinction." - Eleanor of Aquitaine
My daughter has been singing this abomination over and over again. And playing it on the computer every chance she gets. It's truly terrible, a horrid earworm from the very pits of Hell. So of course I'm sharing it with all of you!
The Gummy Bear Song - Long English Version
There's basically a whole genera of techno with single lines or phrases repeated over and over till they are drilled into your brain.
OK, I'll jump on it (jump on it, jump on it, AHUNGA HUNGA HUNGA HUNGA!)
That's similar what you're supposed to do when you see something traumatizing, to keep the memory from imprinting. They specifically recommend Tetris for that, though.
There's basically a whole genera of techno with single lines or phrases repeated over and over till they are drilled into your brain. taking the hobbits to isengard - YouTube
This is something like Day 7 of having "Killer Queen" stuck in my head after hearing it on the radio twice without much interval in between. Nothing I do to dislodge it works. I just reread that Guardian article and then tried playing Sudoku. All that accomplished was playing Sudoku with a Queen soundtrack. What a drag ...
So since Sudoku didn't work, I'm thinking of trying Seppuku next.
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"Her eyes in certain light were violet, and all her teeth were even. That's a rare, fair feature: even teeth. She smiled to excess, but she chewed with real distinction." - Eleanor of Aquitaine
This is something like Day 7 of having "Killer Queen" stuck in my head after hearing it on the radio twice without much interval in between. Nothing I do to dislodge it works. I just reread that Guardian article and then tried playing Sudoku. All that accomplished was playing Sudoku with a Queen soundtrack. What a drag ...
So since Sudoku didn't work, I'm thinking of trying Seppuku next.
If you like Japanese games with a 'k' in them, you could visit some bukkake sites.
But if that doesn't work, I recommend the Mandy Bandylegs solution, as this song of his has some of the same chord progressions as Killer Queen, only slower and different.
However, be warned that the cure may be worse than the affliction.
Who is that guy in the picture? That's not Barry Manilow.
Barry Manilow wrote that "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there"* song and also "I am stuck on Band Aids." Try those ones, too, since you all love Barry Manilow so much.
* And Weezer COVERED IT. They didn't even write it, but they COVERED IT because that is how terrible they are. You can't even find the full original version of it, because BARRY MANILOW IS TOO COOL FOR THAT SHIT, but Weezer will not only do it, but Rivers Cuomo will make extremely sincere faces when he says State Farm.
I can't remember if I posted this before or not, so apologies for the possible repetition. I find the Oompa Loompa song, original of course, always works to remove earworms from my head.
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
Who is that guy in the picture? That's not Barry Manilow.
Apparently it's some guy named Chesney Hawkes I never heard of him
Is that his cover version of "can't smile" ? It sounds like the original to me, and I just posted the link without really looking at the photo.
ETA: now I actually read the Wikipedia article I linked above, I see that Chesney starred in a stage musical which featured lots of Manilow songs, so I guess that explains it.
I spent the first minute and a half trying to place the guy in the glasses. I knew I had seen him before. The face at 1:38 helped me to realize he played the baby man in that Written By a Kid short, Goth Boy.
Had a snatch of melody stuck in my head last night and this morning. Took me forever to figure out what it was, but it came to me at last. It was a bit from Les Parapluies de Cherbourg. It's good to have TCM back.
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
This one video I just posted, the Lonely Robot one, starts out with just the beginning of this song, which is one of my most pernicious all time earworms. Whenever I am not actively listening to something else, I am hearing this: