Earworm
Copy/paste from Monday: I’m starting this week what I call my Pan-Canadian tour: starting Friday, I’ll be at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF), next week I’ll be in Vancouver for the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival (VanCAF), the week after that I’ll be at the Montreal Comic Arts Festival (MCAF/FBDM). I’ll probably be completely exhausted but happy!! Come and see me!
First: TCAF!! It’s this weekend, May 12-13. I’ll be sitting at my publisher’s table, Soaring Penguin Press, table 121 on the ground floor! Have a look at the floor plan for my signing hours and panel information! My books (including Boumeries volume 8!!) will be available even if I’m not at the table, but you’ll have to meet me in person to buy stickers. See you there!!
You think that’s bad? Try having whole movements of symphonies playing in your head while you’re trying to get to sleep…
Actually I’d rather have whole symphonies stuck in my head! It’s usually the only way I can get rid of earworms, trying to get an orchestral piece in there instead.
The real problem is that you keep having the unfinished symphony running through your head. Try one of the completed ones. What works for me is summoning Beatles or Brian Jones era Rolling Stones song. Since these are from my youth, I’ve heard them endlessly, and they are able to derail just about anything else on shuffle-repeat in my brain.
Ironically, I’ve never had Schubert’s 8th intrude into my headspace. It’s usually something complex like (but not limited to) Brahm’s 1st, Tchaikovsky’s 6th or Beethoven’s 9th. Just one of the vicissitudes of being a Classical Music fan, I suppose…
Reading this got Poco Loco stuck in my head too. Damn it. The Spanish version of the movie’s soundtrack is really good, though.
“I’d like to be… under the sea… in an octopus’s garden in the shade…” [loop]
“Jumping up and down in muddy puddles, splish splash splosh splish splash…” [loop]
Oh, yes. I feel you.
Man, kids shows are so bad for me. My son’s favorite shows can be the worst.
Blue’s Clues wasn’t so bad, although I heard the song in my head while trying to work. But when we have things like hotdog day at work, I immediately hear that Mickey Mouse House song “Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggity dog!”
>_<
That Hot Dog song is terrible but it’s by my favourite band!
“You’re welcome!” :-)
I’ve found that the theme from Gilligan’s Island is my perfect thing to get stuff out. It’s got enough words, etc., to drive out the other drivel – but seems to always go away pretty quickly on its own. It doesn’t get stuck in the old one’s place…
It was great!