From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V4 #163 Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk lucy-list-digest Saturday, July 20 2002 Volume 04 : Number 163 In this issue: [lucy-list] when a song gets stuck [lucy-list] minor correction ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:47:12 -0700 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] when a song gets stuck So when I can distract myself from the part of my brain that's almost constantly providing the Falcon Ridge Countdown now ("Six days, eighteen hours!"), I've been noticing that my Constant Mental Background Music Source (the part of my brain that's my own personal radio and tends far too often to come up with programs like "Here Are a Whole Lot of Annoying Commercial Jingles!" and "Let's Replay Corny Songs from Various Upbeat Musicals!") has been featuring Lucy a whole lot lately. I suppose you all aren't surprised...given that it's ME, this shouldn't be all that noteworthy. And it generally makes me happy. Except I've come to realize that for the last two days, my mental background music has consisted almost ENTIRELY of I Had Something. I mean, I guess it turns off when I'm asleep, or at least I'm not conscious of it then...and there was half an hour or so of "The Thief" somewhere in there, plus a smattering of "Hole in My Head"...but overall, it's pretty much been 48 hours of "I had something/It fell from me/Something strong/When I was young..." etc. And this isn't even one of the songs I've usually thought of as my absolute favorite Lucy songs (which isn't to say I don't like it---I do, very much---but a song usually has to have been around longer than that one has before it becomes an absolute favorite of mine). Anyway, here's what I think is the remarkable part: after 48 hours of having I Had Something in my head, I have not (to my knowledge) turned into a raving maniac. I have not even gotten sick of the song. If Lucy herself were to appear before me and start singing it right now, I would be delighted (of course, I would also be seriously hallucinating, which could be kind of a problem, but I would be happy). Nobody ever mentions it, but this, I think, is probably the TRUE test of one's feelings about a song and an artist---whether one can hear a single song by this single person in one's head for 48 hours straight and not go certifiably insane. And Lucy seems to be passing with flying colors with me right now...a lucky thing indeed, considering that the I Had Something marathon shows no signs of stopping yet! :-) Benay still at work and procrastinating mightily on Very Important Tasks to which she will now grudgingly return ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 16:05:06 -0700 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] minor correction OK, so I just realized that in my haste, I typed the lyrics inaccurately...that would be "like a pounding drum" in the fourth line. (Of course I realized that I typed it wrong only after the version in my head---which IS pretty accurate, I think---played another dozen times!) My, it has been a long week... ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V4 #163 ******************************* This has been a posting from the Lucy Kaplansky mail list digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe lucy-list-digest" in the body of the message