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Friday, June 11, 2004

june weather, and sticky songs

Note: Due to Diaryland zaniness which has caused this post from yesterday to disappear into the great Internet void, I am reposting it. Now watch, all FIVE copies of this that I tried to post yesterday will magically appear.

It is crazy but nice. It is June. JUNE! High school graduation is tonight! But it is one of those days where it's warm, but it's too cold inside with the cooler on. I just went for a walk with my daughter and we didn't die of heat exhaustion. It's barely eighty degrees outside and I am loving every minute of it.

I am finding in reading other people's journals that the practice of deliberately humming or speaking a few bars of a particularly nauseatingly mind-sticky song, in order to cause one's friends to narrowly escape spontaneous combustion caused but the suppression of the HUMMING, is not limited to myself, my husband, and my high-school friends. I remember one song in particular, by Suzanne Vega, called, what, "Tom's Diner", or something? with this line that went "There's a woman On the outside Looking inside Does she see me? No she does not Really see me Cause she sees Her own reflection" -- and the tune was SO repetitive, it was insane. All I had to do to torture my then-boyfriend and his mullet-laden brother was to hum ONE SINGLE RIFF of that tune and they would be incapacitated for days.

You're welcome, by the way.

And so now it's your turn to get me back. What song do you use to torture your friends? Or to torture yourself? The comments section is open. Extra points if you can link to a sample. :)