This morning, somewhere after my morning ritual of getting up (with a cold...ugh), making coffee, making the bed and taking the dog out, I settle in to my normal waking up with coffee, revising various writing projects and to go along with the coffee in my waking process, I check my facebook page. This is where a friend posts "I wish I knew why the song, Brass Monkey is going through my head" - good morning and thanks? Now the flippin' song is in my head and I'm not going to lie - I'm too much of a musical snob to allow that kind of silliness to stay there for long.
Blessed, and perhaps cursed as well, am I to have a rather large & varied music collection. Surely there is something there that will stop any part of that song going through my head at various times throughout the day. I'm fortunate that I'm usually exempt from being a victim of having songs that are, shall we say, less than desirable running through my head because I can usually put something more agreeable there. I guess what I'm saying is that with music, there is always something available that I'm perfectly fine with having stuck in my head. There's always a better chorus, guitar solo, bass line or drum groove that it's acceptable to have stuck in my head, so when someone says something like "well thanks for getting that song stuck in my head all day!", I play a little game and immediately think of a song that would be much better to have playing on mind radio.
Nobody needs to know what that song may be, no one needs to care but me. Fine. No one is going to hear it but me, so I won't have to field questions about it. I don't really know how to explain why I find so much music that is off the beaten path of stuff that is more popular so appealing - and mind you I listen to a reasonable amount of commercially popular music. I suppose it's a bit like going to the zoo and only being interested in seeing one particular animal, or going to an art museum and focusing on one artist or piece of work - there's so much more to see and appreciate, at least to me.
So I'm not really worried that Brass Monkey will be stuck in my head all day today - it won't, though I'll admit to the chorus playing once or twice in my mind - but that's merely a reference, so thank you Deneen. Meh, on to songs, plotting out the monumental changes that I'm heading towards in my life over the next few weeks, nursing/banishing a cold and I suppose I should clean my house and put some laundry away. As I sit here with my second cup of coffee, looking for my creativity in the fog of being a tad behind on sleep, thinking about songs I don't want in my head and having a cold, I think about how this blog has steered towards all the things that run through my head while I feed the coffee monkey that's on my back during the first 2-3 hours of every day.
When you hab a cold, you wake ubp and need to bake coffee and hobpe the day shabes ubp. I'b jubs sayingb. 'Choo, sniff, hack...ugh.
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