You know how a tune can get stuck in your head, in all likelihood. One of my racquetball buddies has a sibling who was on The Price is Right. Guess which theme song I started whistling, and quite well, I might add?
But sometimes these things come to mind for no discernible reason. What on earth lodged “I Think I Love You” by the Partridge Family in my brain? I seldom watched the show, I never owned any of their music, and I hadn’t heard it recently, at least consciously. (Was it background music in a store or a telephone hold button?) So I’m suddenly dissecting the amazingly bizarre rhyming pattern of a song that I don’t especially like:
So what am I so afraid of
Afraid that I’m not sure of
A love there is no cure for
(If this is wrong, I don”t really need to know; that’s how I remember it.)
I bring this up because I need new tune suggestions. Mr. Lefty Brown, as mentioned before, has sent me a year-long subscription to his favorite music site, eMusic. This means 15 songs a month for 12 months to download. So I ask you: what tunes do I want, that I really, really want? Can be old or new. I’m planning to use the thing as soon as I pull out my chainsaw so that I can liberate it from the industrial strength plastic cover that it’s encased in.
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Meanwhile, I’ve been thing about TV. Not so much about watching it; I’m actually watching less, because there have been a string of repeats on lately. But weird Thoughts, with apologies to Kelly Brown, who I think is somehow related to Lefty.
*Why do they have 42-minute programs, such as the wacky NBC lineup next Thursday? Is this to confound me? And if they do, why do they invariably run long, so that I need to tape the next program as well?
*Why hasn’t Katie Couric caught on? It isn’t just because she came from morning news/talk shows. Tom Brokaw was on NBC’s Today Show, while Charles Gibson spent two shifts on ABC’s Good Morning America. Is it gender? Maybe. It’s true Couric’s interview with Elizabeth Edwards and her husband John on 60 Minutes was rather weird, mostly because she said, “some people say” about a dozen times, thus trying to be hard-hitting, yet nice. Meanwhile, Cynthia McFadden’s Nightline interview with Elizabeth Edwards and her elder daughter this week seemed genuine.
*I’m feeling a tad nostalgic. I looked at the TV Guide, and next week features series premieres, season premieres, mid-season premieres, and season finales. Can anyone really keep track? All I want to know is when does The Closer start up with new episodes, And I can’t figure that out, even when I go to the website.
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