chalabi in a dress, my thoughts I confess
Long post on Iraq, Afghanistan, Fallujah and 9/11 coming up. Meanwhile, I just want to share this.
For the past two weeks or so, I've ended up with Come On, Eileen running through my head on a constant loop. This is not A Good Thing. In fact, it's a Very Bad Thing.
But why? Why would this song override every single song I hear during the day? Why, out of all the music I listen to, would a song I never listen to inch its way into my brain at the oddest moments?
I realized after a while that it wasn't just the song itself that was stuck in my head, but one particular, annoying verse:
Come on Eileen too-loo-ra-yay
Come on Eileen too-loo-ra-yay
Tooha toora-too-loora
[your spelling may vary]
Upon further listening to the voices in my head (the voices that do a damn good impersonation of Dexy's Midnight Runners), I realized that's not what they were singing at all. Instead, it was this:
Come on Eileen, Fallujah-ay
Come on Eileen Fallujah-ay
Fallujah, lujah
The mind does work in mysterious ways, is all I'm saying.
Perhaps I need a vacation. Or a psychologist.
Comments
Lisa: You beat Dexy's Midnight Runners!
Homer: Well you haven't heard the last of them.
Posted by: Evil Otto | May 4, 2004 08:15 AM
Its a great song that is catchy as hell. Too bad it was their only hit, even though they were a talented band.
Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge | May 4, 2004 08:44 AM
Thanks a lot, Michele. Now I'll be hearing it all day. groan
Posted by: spd rdr | May 4, 2004 08:53 AM
I think I need one as well. I thought I saw a entry from early this morning but now its not there.
Posted by: Drew | May 4, 2004 08:59 AM
Now it's in my head.
I hate you.
Hate. You.
Posted by: Dean Esmay | May 4, 2004 09:07 AM
Weirdly, I actually liked that song. Still do. Can't explain why, I just do.
Posted by: Ken Summers | May 4, 2004 09:13 AM
misery loves company.
Posted by: Dave in Texas | May 4, 2004 09:15 AM
The name of the band should be noted as Kevin Rowland and Dexy's Midnight Runners, not that I am being picky.
Posted by: Charlie on the PA Turnpike | May 4, 2004 09:22 AM
The Save Ferris version is better than the original - much more peppy.
Posted by: Headzero | May 4, 2004 09:58 AM
Clearly, Dexy's Midnight Runners needed to add an umlaut.
Posted by: Crank | May 4, 2004 10:05 AM
The only thing to cure that is "Shiny Happy People"
Posted by: Ryan | May 4, 2004 12:05 PM
The other night, that song came on as I was driving home on the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway. Before I knew it, I was driving in circles with my head out the window screaming.
Just one of many adverse effects that song has on me
Posted by: PatrickH | May 4, 2004 12:27 PM
Damn, that was YOU?
Posted by: michele | May 4, 2004 12:28 PM
Skip Eileen... just come on Fallujah
Posted by: Chrees | May 4, 2004 12:35 PM
I could always post some more of the music that's stuck in my head sometimes, Michele.
Islands in the stream, that is what we are....
Posted by: Scott | May 4, 2004 12:53 PM