An early post today, ’cause Geth and I are boardgaming with friends in the evening. In the meantime I’m enjoying my books and music! Also looking forward to Hogmanay tomorrow.
Today’s earworm playlist:
The Killers – Mr Brightside
Cast of The Nightmare Before Christmas – What’s This?
I really appreciate this week in between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, because it means I can have some quiet time to get on with things by myself. I spent today catching up with radio and TV shows I’d been wanting to watch.
Hoping for similar tomorrow!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Whitney Houston – Saving All My Love For You
Savage Garden – I Want You
Climie Fisher – (Love Changes) Everything
Ava Max – Sweet But Psycho
Geth and I were attending Mum and Dad’s annual Christmas music session today, so there was a lot of nice traditional music drifting through the house, and a lot of nice food to eat. After yesterday’s scales result, though, I was careful not to have too much of it!
Looking forward to a nice quiet day tomorrow, not to mention hopefully starting to feel less bloated!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Darlene Love – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
Dua Lipa – New Rules
And a couple of bonus tracks that Geth was humming earlier:
Traditional – When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Dusty Springfield – I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself
I was up early this morning for a nice brisk walk to Slimming World, where I found out I’d put on an obscene amount of weight that I don’t want to talk about. Mum reckons it might partly be the scales at the group I go to during Christmas, though, ’cause the same thing happened last year.
Anyway, it spurred me on to cook an actual healthy SW-friendly meal tonight, so Geth and I had a delicious pasta dish. There are some new rules for the Slimming World plan that have come into force this week (everyone is being given an updated book), and the main change is that you can now have two Healthy Extra A choices. I’m slightly dubious about this (I don’t drink coffee every day or have cereal that often, so on non-coffee days I’m likely just to end up doubling my cheese portion, and that can’t be right…can it?), but I’m going to give it a go over the next few weeks and see how it works out.
The rest of the day has been nice and relaxed with lots of background music from Geth’s videogames!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas?
Duran Duran – Hungry Like The Wolf
Captain Sensible – Happy Talk
I’ve had a nice quiet Boxing Day. Geth has been playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and so I’ve had that as background music while getting on with my writing and reading today. Looking forward to another day of the same tomorrow!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Levellers – Elation
Mark Ronson and Miley Cyrus – Nothing Breaks Like A Heart
Christmas Day so far has involved lots and lots of present opening (I got so many musical instruments and music books – I’m looking forward to playing them lots over the next year), lots of nice ciders, and a long nap (I only got about three hours of sleep last night – I still had a lot of things that I wanted to get done before Christmas started properly).
After all the Christmas TV (the Strictly special was wonderful) and socialising (the neighbours are coming through later) is done, I’m looking forward to a couple of days spent buried in a book!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Michael Bublé – Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town
Traditional – Hark The Herald Angels Sing
Traditional – Deck The Halls
Lady Antebellum – A Holly Jolly Christmas
Ariana Grande – Thank You Next
Chicago – If You Leave Me Now
I’ve had a lovely Christmas Eve today. I had a couple of pints in the pub with old friends, and a proper chippy tea as a Christmas treat.
Hope everyone has a great Christmas!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Chicago – If You Leave Me Now
Duran Duran – Save A Prayer
Robbie Williams – Something Beautiful
Abba – Chiquitita
Coldplay – Christmas Lights
And a few bonus tracks that Geth was humming earlier:
Darlene Love – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Jona Lewie – Stop The Cavalry
Spike Jones & His City Slickers – All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
I spent today wrapping presents. So many presents! They all look very shiny now though.
I also caught up with the last few episodes of the latest Doctor Who series, as Geth and I have not had time to watch it until now! Reviews to come over the next week.
Just a few things to get organised tonight, and then Christmas can begin tomorrow!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Whitney Houston – Saving All My Love For You
Duran Duran – The Chauffeur
I braved Newcastle town centre today to pick up the very last things I needed for Christmas, and now I’m all ready to get everything wrapped and organised.
Geth has put on Avengers: Infinity War, meaning we are very nearly caught up with the Marvel movies now, and that bit that was set and filmed in Edinburgh where they have a giant superhero fight in Waverley Station is far and away my favourite film moment of the year. Epic blockbuster action in my hometown!
One last day of sorting things out tomorrow, and then Christmas can begin!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Mark Ronson and Miley Cyrus – Nothing Breaks Like A Heart
Octopath Traveller soundtrack
Chris Rea – Driving Home For Christmas
George Michael – Careless Whisper
Jess Glynne – Thursday
Faithless – God Is A DJ
Starship – We Built This City
Context: due to the LadBaby parody version coming out of nowhere to be Christmas number one, I’ve had Starship’s We Built This City in my head periodically for the last twenty-four hours (which is an absolute blessing, ’cause I was terrified it was going to be the LadBaby version that would be the earworm). However, because I am the queen of misheard lyrics, my brain keeps singing the wrong words.
Earworm brain:
Mark Coney plays ‘La Bamba’
Listen to the radio
Don’t you remember
We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
Logical brain (after about fifty repetitions of this):
Hang on a minute. Who’s Mark Coney?
Music lover brain:
Was he a DJ? That would make sense. I’ll go look him up on Wikipedia.
Logical brain:
I don’t think so. I think we’re hearing the words wrong.
General knowledge brain:
I think it’s actually ‘Marconi’. You know, the radio guy, who invented the radio, or something. I vaguely remember something about him from when we got Dad that book on amateur radio as a Christmas present.
Logical brain:
That would make sense.
Evidence-obsessive brain:
Let’s look the lyrics up online to be absolutely sure.
Marconi plays the mamba
Listen to the radio
Don’t you remember
We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
Music lover brain:
…the mamba? Really?
General knowledge brain:
I was right about Marconi though.
Logical brain:
And it probably makes more sense if you factor in the time period of the song’s narrative.
Music lover brain:
I’m…I’m kind of attached to Mark Coney now. Whoever he is. And besides, I like ‘La Bamba’.
Evidence-obsessive brain:
But…but…but it’s wrong! Those are the wrong words!
Creative brain:
Nothing’s ever stopped me from making up my own words to songs before. I can name at least three songs where it’s always my own version of the lyrics that gets in our head rather than the official version.
Evidence-obsessive brain:
But there’s a difference between deliberately inventing alternative lyrics and getting them wrong because you’ve misheard them. The latter is wrong. And we’re never wrong, are we? We strive to be…not wrong.
Music lover brain:
…I suppose so.
Creative brain:
I’ll sit down and write a full set of alternative lyrics, then. Except…no, I can’t, because LadBaby literally just did that, and so it would be unoriginal.
Evidence-obsessive brain:
Good! So we’re all agreed, then. It’s going to be the correct version of the lyrics that gets in our head from now on.
<five minutes later>
Earworm brain:
Mark Coney plays ‘La Bamba’
Listen to the radio
Don’t you remember
We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll