EarWorms..

[crazycanuck]

Hey Amanda,

Thanks for the package How far are you from Austin?

I didn't know his son's nickname was shooter! The thingies you learn!

[TsPoet]

The only one I get repeatedly is "The Burn" by Matchbox 20, and it's cycling specific
"I wonder how I never got the burn
and if I'm ever going to learn"

- the whole way up any hill I ever ride I'd love to make it go away. At least it has an OK beat.

[tc1]

Some songs that get stuck are the ones that I am trying to figure out on guitar. So lately its been 'Bales of cocaine' by the Reverend Horton Heat. I tend to hear guitar riffs over and over, today it was the opening guitar from Hillbilly Love by the Hillbilly Hellcats, and Crimson and Clover (the original, not the one with Joan Jett's sultry voice.)

I also hear the Underture from Tommy, the part that has John on french horn. But Tommy is one of my all time faves, I can hear any of it at will so don't consider it an earworm.

[Aggie_Ama]

Hey Amanda,

Thanks for the package How far are you from Austin?

I didn't know his son's nickname was shooter! The thingies you learn!

Glad it made it's way to you! I didn't know how long it would take to get there. I am about 35 miles north of downtown, I work in Austin though as well.

Hope those things add to your collection, weren't much but just interesting to find. My Pawpaw was quite the packrat but I didn't know he was a Democrat. He became a Republican in his final years.

[OakLeaf]

William Gibson wrote a series of novels back in the '80s (maybe into the early '90s) where one of the characters' favorite hangouts was a bar called "The Gentleman Loser."

EVERY time I'd read one of those books I'd get "Midnite Cruiser" stuck in my head. I finally had to buy the CD of "Can't Buy a Thrill," because our amp was out of sockets, and I'd have to disconnect something else to plug in the turntable every time the earworm got so bad that I had to put the album on.