Lydia the Tattooed Lady

Why does the human brain grab songs and repeat them over and over and over again?

I often get songs stuck in my head. Usually it's a song that I've heard recently, (whether by choice or otherwise) but sometimes the songs appear because they relate to something that's going on. For example, when I have to go out in the rain, I often get a rain themed song, usually 'Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head' (often with the childhood addition of: If they were rocks I'd soon be dead...) Sometimes it's 'Why does it always rain on me?' by Travis, or the appropriately titled Rain by Madonna. Rarest of the rain songs is 'Singin' in the Rain' (Probably because the prospect of going out in the precipitation rarely makes me feel like dancing around with an umbrella)

When I'm walking up a big hill, I usually get Climb Every Mountain from The Sound of Music. (Thank you very much Reverend Mother...) Actually it also pops up when I'm walking up a slight slope, which is a bit ridiculous... Climb every slight slope...

For some reason this morning I had the theme from The Man From Snowy River stuck in my head while I was messing about with my horses' hooves. There was no galloping down a mountain involved, no colt (from Old Regret or otherwise) had got away, and my horses definitely weren't snuffing the battle with delight, they were just standing around...

I guess there's a horse link, so it's not that weird... but why (oh why!) did I have Lydia the Tattooed Lady stuck in my head just now? Why does it pop into my head so frequently?

I'm really not sure which lyric might set it off, but here's the YouTube video so you can share in the delight of having the Marx Brothers pop into your head when you're cleaning the house, walking the dog or otherwise nowhere near any tattoos, ladies or men with large moustaches and cigars. Enjoy!

Tweedlecheney and Tweedlerove

I was just sitting here, watching The Daily Show, and realised how much Dick Cheney and Karl Rove reminded me of a certain couple of characters...



A very quick photo edit, because I really should be doing other things...

Y or N?

I've been playing Mr Squiggle again!

It's been way too long since I've played 'Mr Squiggle'! My friends and I used to play it at school, it was a great way to fill in time when we were bored in class.

The reason for my squiggling is a challenge on RedBubble that's been started by the 'Make up Your Mind' group. The challenge is here if you want to check it out. The rules are simple, everyone starts with the same squiggle, then lets their imagination run away with them! And the real catch is... you can only use make up for your creation!

So because RedBubble is having a little *ahem* nap right now, I will share my pictures of my squiggly process on here!

Here is a pic of my 'palette' of make up. This was actually given to me as a gift and I've never even used it, so I'm glad to finally put it to good use!



Here is the original squiggle that we were given as a starting point:



Here's my first outline sketch (done with a lip liner pencil thingy)



Then coloured in with a bit of eye shadow, and the lollipop is lip gloss type stuff:



Ta-Da! Very relaxing, and fun to play with the eye shadow as a colouring in medium :)

Here it is with the original squiggles highlighted!

Darth Vader is a ninja, and Luke Skywalker has a girlie voice

Oh dear... I was just introduced to xtranormal.com on my blog travels by the lovely folk at Overthinking It.

Because if there's one thing I don't have enough of in my life, it's distracting things on the internet! I saw this and thought "I don't need to clean out the shed, I need to recreate an obvious movie scene!"

So here it is, all 36 seconds of it:



Here's the link

Lolscience is win!

I know lolcats are soooo 2007, but I just saw this for the first time and it's awesome:



This is care of some sort of lolscience group on LJ.

Kanye Kanye Kanye...

Is Kanye West for real?

I heard one of his songs on the radio this morning (not sure which one, the lyrics were something like "ZOMG I'm the best thing EVAR!!" repeated over and over, so really it could have been any of his songs...) and it got me thinking about whether he's singing those lyrics genuinely, or if there's some level of self awareness going on there.

Does he say "You should be honoured by my lateness" as some kind of commentary on the increasingly selfish attitude of some members of society, or is he just straight out partaking in that sort of thing himself?

Is it all just a massive exaggeration to stir up a reaction from people? I'd like to think he goes home at night and laughs about how ridiculous it is that people really love the music of some guy who does nothing but sing about how good he is while putting his voice through Auto-Tune*.

The thing is, I don't have time to actually research this and figure out a plausible answer, so if anyone wanders by this post can they please let me know (in say... 100 words or less?)

Cheers ;)

* Auto-Tune? Aren't they the company that advertise their car mending services with that catchy jingle sung by an Elton John robot?

Election day... FINALLY!

It's Qld state election day today. Do you know what that means? Yay! No more junk mail from the LNP candidate after today!

If she doesn't get in, it's no more mail, and if she gets in I'm guessing she won't send out nearly as many letters over the entirety of her term as she has in the last few weeks leading up to the election...

For the record, I only got one letter from the ALP candidate, and it was about arranging a postal vote.

I'm just looking up the rest of the candidates on the interwebs while I eat breakfast. I've been following the news, advertising, interwebs and such with the "OMG you made an oil spill!", "OMG the economy", "Argh! Pauline Hanson!", "I'm creating eleventy million thousand jobs more than you, so nyer!", etc, but so far I haven't checked out who the "little people" are in my electorate.

Not sure what the daylight savings people really hope to achieve. I like to amuse myself thinking of the monumental freakout single policy parties like that would go through if they actually got in... Or do they really harbour secret dreams of running the state?

It would certainly make politics more interesting if we broke up the ALP v LNP monotony with a few members of the Daylight Savings Party, Fishing Party, Shooters Party, Legalise Marijuana Party, Family First, Greens, One Nation and Democrats. Let's not forget Pauline Hanson too. If we're voting for every one eyed minority group then we can't leave her out! There'd be so much shouting... everyone would have to wear ear plugs. It'd turn out like those bits of footage you see on TV from other countries with people leaping over desks, throwing bits of paper around and swinging punches at each other.

Awesome.

Disastrous for the state perhaps, but it would be highly entertaining. Let's face it, in harsh economic times like these we need all the free entertainment we can get.

Lost and Found

You know that never ending stream of waffle that used to spew out of my fingers?

Has anyone seen it around?

Hoorah!

A storage vault was required for my nonsensical musings, strange e-discoveries, trivial photography, and various other sources of procrastination. Rather than have them hidden away, gathering e-dust, it was decided that they shall be given the opportunity to be visited upon by wandering minstrels e-peoples.

That's a rather grand description for a blog no-one will read, but never mind.

Bugger. Now I have to go tidy the house because there is the slight potential of someone coming over. Joy.