Friday, February 03, 2006

The early bird gets the earworm

Being that I’m sleeping on a very interesting sleep cycle, I find myself susceptible to two pain-inducing maladies. The first are migraines. I went through a period a few years back where I was getting these cluster migraines at exactly the same time every day. The doc diagnosed that they may partially be the result of interrupted sleep, so after getting a few nights of straight sleep the situation rectified itself.

The second are earworms. You know—earworms. Yeah, well, these days it is Counting Crows' “Mr. Jones”. I remember years ago almost going insane from the B-52's “Love Shack”. What pisses me off more than anything about earworms is that nine-times-outta-ten we're talking about some craptastic fluff song. What I wouldn’t give to be able to erase crappy songs out of my brain so that the songs I can’t get out of my head are the songs I actually enjoy!

1 comment:

Patrick said...

Hah. In German they're called Earwurms. My friend from Potsdam told me that.