Not-exactly-musical earworms

[kivrin]

Do you ever get text running through your head, like a phrase of a song except not?

I've been having a lot of that this week.




1. I mean, they're not even married or anything! They're not even divorced!

2. I am poor in the essence of happiness, lady, rich only in never-ending unrest. In me there meet a combination of antithetical elements that are at eternal war with one another. Driven hither by objective impulses, thither by subjective emotions; wafted one moment into blazing day by mocking hope, plunged the next into a Cimmerian darkness of tangible despair; I am but a living ganglion of irreconcilable antagonisms. [beat] I hope I make myself clear, lady?

3. What's up with that? What the hell's up with that?

4. Not to mention the extreme pressure exerted on him by his deeply rooted rivalry with Flopsy, Mopsy, AND COTTONTAIL!!!

5. A: Do you want a drizzle, a downpour, or a deluge? B: FLOOD THE PLACE!


High points to anyone who can source any of 'em.

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[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

I saw the episode that shot is from last night. *g*

And I sometimes get a thought on loop in my head when I'm very tired, but my own thought, not a memory of someone else's words.

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[kivrin.livejournal.com]

Yay, s2!

Buffy s2

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

I commented on the first three episodes in my most recent entry.

[kelilah.livejournal.com]

1 sounds familiar; my sister says 3 a lot. 4 has to be from the book report scene in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, but I don't remember which one of them it would be.

And usually when I get text running through my head it's because I'm reading something and got stuck at some place. At least then I know where to start again.

[kivrin.livejournal.com]

It's Linus who does the super-academic-psychological report.

Do you know Deirdre Flint's music? I should upload some mp3s... it's great fun in a filk-ish sort of way.

[kelilah.livejournal.com]

I was about to say that all I had was "Cheerleader," from The Pennsic War Is Lizzie Borden, but then I actually checked my iTunes and realized that I apparently also have "We Fit Right" and, indeed, "Past Life Regressed," which I clearly have not listened to enough.

[breadandroses.livejournal.com]

Well, 3) is Deirdre Flint, "Past Life Regressed."

1) is familiar but I can't place it. I also don't know 2), but it has the feel of "The Lady's Not for Burning" so that's my wild guess.

[kivrin.livejournal.com]

Answers to come. :)

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

"Eighty-three to go." That song's been playing pretty much non-stop in my head since I was ten. I called somebody an enigma once in grade school, and she was goony over it for days.

Other verbworms:

--There's hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut.
--And that's not the weird part! That's not the weird part!
--Get off my hood!

[kivrin.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought of it for a while, but then something brought it to mind yesterday and I had to go trawl Youtube for amateur productions. I regret to report that while I wasn't looking there was a Broadway revival of the show, and that a lot of the music was "revamped," a word which here means "changed and caused to suck." I mean, "Suppertime" is not a smooth jazz number. Not in my world.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Lordy Moses no!

That will not stand. We must burn Broadway to the ground, then salt the earth so nothing can grow again.

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

There's celery lyin' all over the road!

[glimmergirl.livejournal.com]

I do not know any of these! (Do I? Um... I doubt it.)

But! I have been living with various snippets and phrases of *Paradise Lost* in my head for the past week. It's an interesting experience...

OMG NERD. Sorry.

[kivrin.livejournal.com]

They are very random, the fifth one especially so. Having bits of Milton in one's head is much classier. :)

[glimmergirl.livejournal.com]

Having bits of Milton in one's head is much classier.

HEE. I'm not so sure about that... ;)

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#5

[dmaz99]

#5 is from the Boston Museum of Science's Omnimax intro in the 80s and 90s. When they were showing off their system and lighting up the speakers behind the screen, they had a narration of some techs "testing" the system with rain.

I'd love to be able to find video of this online, but it doesn't seem to be out there. YouTube has video of their new intro, but it's nowhere near as good as the classic one followed by Leonard Nimoy narrating "A New England Time Capsule."

The new childish intro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syAsRAJdDbM

"A New England Time Capsule":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKUKxyD6bP4