Mundane Misadventures

For some reason, around this time last year I started watching Oingo Boingo videos on YouTube.  I grew up in the 80's, so I of course had heard of Oingo Boingo and saw at least the "Weird Science" video on MTV.  I vaguely remembered "Hey," a song they put out during the height of grunge when I was in high school.  I also knew that Danny Elfman had done some film scores.  That was pretty much the extent of my knowledge.  Then I watched the videos.

( The beginnings of an obsession. )

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For the longest time I've been trying to figure out the title of a Tool song.  All I could remember was the line, "If you choose to pull the trigger."  Last night MidBro was putting some music on iTunes and updating his iPod.  I scrolled through his music library and checked it against a website of Tool lyrics.  Nothing.  Finally I had a startling idea.

What if it wasn't a Tool song at all?  What if I was thrown off by the lead singer and it was really A Perfect Circle?

A quick search of Google and I had it.  "Outsider" by A Perfect Circle.  A similar thing happened not too long ago on Facebook.  Back in my Humboldt days I discovered a video of Pikachu that had been dubbed with a song.  Again, I only had one line in my head.  I spent the last several weeks inputting all permutations into Google that I could.  Through Facebook I asked Gabeen for help.  Within hours I had the name of the song and a link to the video.

My Christmas went well.  My union long ago traded Veteran's Day for Christmas Eve.  So I had Wednesday off.  And since the vast majority of the university would not show up on Friday, they just decided to close that day, too.  (Of course, they are forcing us to take vacation that day.  Apparently if you do not, you are then not eligible to get holiday pay for Christmas and this is just boring.  Moving on.)

( This did seem like the wino Christmas. )

Basically any 80's song has a high level of awesome.  Specifically "99 Luftballons" by Nena.  The German version is best, but the English does have her spitting out "super high-tech jet fighters" in a way that always makes me smile.

I've bonded with many a person through discussion of 80's music.  And I've annoyed quite a few, as well.  My brother can't  bring himself to play Ratt's "Round and Round" on Rock Band 2, probably because I've played it out already.