This Song's Trapped in My Head, Kumbaya!

Strangely, there are songs that get stuck in my head only when I'm at work. There's nothing I can find that initiates these repetative concerts. (Except for one of the songs; there's a circus game in the arcade. When it comes on, everybody ends up humming along.)

I've embedded the videoes so they can get stuck in your head, too! Aren't I nice?

These songs include:

Kumbaya

Drunken Sailor

Theme from the Odd Couple, which I've never seen, but they sang in Friends

Ask a Stupid Question

In this exciting post I will provide answers for some of the stupidest, most ignorant or misinformed questions posed in my general proximity, following the maxim: ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.  Yes, most of them I heard at work.  Providing the soundtrack for this post are the All New Adventures of Us.


This Edition: From the Theatre
Can I use this coupon more than once?
Yes! It's a magic coupon genie!

What is 3D?
Well... One day 1D and 2D got married and nine months later, 3D was born.  (The number of adults who don't know what 3D movies are is unbelievable.)

What does 2D mean?
2D = 1D + 1D
(This is slightly more understandable but still sad.  Obviously these people were playing hooky that day in 5th grade science.)

Some of my favorite questions are a form of what I call "permission questions."  Coming from adults, these can be hilarious.

"Can I go to the bathroom and come back and buy a bag of popcorn?"

"My movie doesn't start for an hour; can I leave and come back if I keep my ticket?"

"Do I need to pay for my baby? I know she'll watch the movie, but..."

Or, after their movie: "Can I still get a refill?"

Poets Metamorph into Songwriters, but I'm not a Poet...

My David is a lovely guitarist! His music has the charm of shooting stars and picnics on candy striped quilts, clean sheets, still a little damp and warm from the dryer... of a music box inside a teddy bear.  Melodious, sweet, atmospheric... Embellishments are his talent.  And fingerpicking (with his Aspie hands, ^^).  And he sprinkles harmonics through his songs.  Little Tinkerbells, I call them... He wants to compose for films.

For composing he'll use his name, but he also wants to write the sort of songs that have lyrics.  For that band, he's called Half-Hearted Elephant.

That's where I come in.  I want to write lyrics for his songs!  Little scared-of-meter, frightened-by-scansion me.  In these vast fields I feel like such a little bird.  But, maybe, the littlest birds sing the prettiest songs.
But if ever there was a genre of songs for which I could possibly write lyrics, David plays it! Hyperliterate.  A style that concentrates on words without the "convention" of chouruses and lala's, nana's, or oh oh oh's.

John K. Samson, Emmy the Great, Colin Meloy, Ben Gibbard, to name a few, are hyperliterate artists...

I'm twitterpated with the idea of songwriting now.  If David and I wrote a song together... it would be an intimacy of our talents.  An intimacy worth being brave for for.

David told me, "Pick a subject and start writing the words and I'll write the music to it."

Motherhood.  Wifehood.  I'll write about my shyness toward it, my nervousness, and swallow confidence in my ability to be a good wife and mother.

Now on to gathering images and clips to use in the construction:

the dogeared pages of my diary

your cheeks resemble the pennies I rubbed with ketchup to shine

staple kitty's on every lamp post, fence, and tree

sing Beatles songs to our baby, don't forget to let her into your heart

origami wedding gowns made from sheetmusic

hope you didn't fall in love with Mary Poppins

never trusted fireflies to spell out words in the skies

I found love in you like small planes find love in the angeltread


Ah! Even if I fail, I'm having so much fun! I love collecting images! And David loves to compose music.  We can do this if we love it, right?

Love, Emily, pushing Publish Post...

Down on Deer in the Headlights St.

D is the side street that takes me home.  D, and nothing else.  Family member to, of course, E, F, C, B, and A.

This house used to be my Pa and Meemaw's.  Meemaw still owns it, but has graciously allowed us to nest here.  The house should be in a movie; it's painted green, square, surrounded by holly hocks, which I used to eat as a child, lily of the valleys, peonies, hibiscus, hen and chicks, clematis, tulips, lily trees, lemon mint, which I love to roll in my hands, and lilacs; there is a dilapidated shed with a black raspberry patch; green onions grow by a bolder.  Chain link fence.  Carpeted front porch.

David and I lay a quilt out and picnic, cloudgaze, and joke about taking a silver Sharpie to the green street sign and renaming D St.

Dinosaur St.
Danger St.
Ditsy St.
Doofus St.
Die Hard St.
Deoxyribonucleic acid St.
Darling St.
Daisy St.
Dukes of Hazard St.
Duh St.
Ding-Dong the Witch is Dead St.
Dig It St.
Dance St.
Dodo the Hobbit St.
Dingo St.
Deaf St.
Denno Coil St.
Digital Camera St.
Dorky Do St.
Depp St.
Dwight Shrute St.
D.A.R.E. St.
Disgusting St.
Deal or No Deal St.
Doodle St.
Darling, I Do St.

And we just sing, doo doo do do d-do d-do doo! Doo doo do do d-do d-do doo! Doo doo do do d-do d-do dooooo! (Duet Don't miss it!)

Name: Emily, Obsession: List Making, Surrender? Never!!!

My name is Emily and I think I have a gathering addiction, also called data-vacuuming, entertaining research, and list-making.

Let me give you an idea of what I mean.

I research upcoming anime in Japan.  I look up every song of every artist my boyfriend likes on Youtube and Pandora.  I spent hours doing this.  Hours.  Houuuuuuuuuurs.

I recently began working at the movie theatre and realized I've watched precious few movies, even though I absolutely love films! So, I trip over this site called Listal that allows users to make lists of movies they want to see, movies with great kiss scenes, movies of certain actors, ranked from best to worst.  That was last week.

I have amassed 326 movies that I want to see as wells as 430 movies I've watched with a Top Rated list of 326.  And it is exhilarating!

I love finding quirky, indie, sweet, and vivid movies! I typed all the titles down in a Word document and it's 4 pages, with two columns on each page.  Along with this title gathering, I check my library catalog for them, and pull up them on Plugged In, to ensure I won't be surprised by things I don't want to see.

All the time listening to "Rhythm of Love" by The Plain White T's.

I already know I'm crazy, so don't waste Comment space to tell me.  Instead, divulge some good film titles and a little something abou yourself so we can be friends.

So... Wanna a peek? 'K!

Movies I want to See:

Haven't Been Released:
It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Never Let me Go
Somewhere
FrICTION
Flipped
You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger
Tiny Furniture
Nowhere Boy

Released:
Towelhead
King of California
Amelie
The Royal Tennenbaums
Everything's Illuminated
Audrey and Einstein
I Heart Huckabees
Lost in Translation
The Squid and the Whale
Gigantic
The Science of Sleep
Yuki and Nina
You can see the rest of my list at Listal.  My username is hugabubable.

See you there, ; )

My Year in Lists, the first instance

Yesterday celebrated my forth weekend working at Mounds Mall 10... I've been a shaky stocker at confessions and a crummy cash registarist in the box office for a month now.  I think my psyche is putting up a tripwire on me no matter what my task is.

I'm naturally neurotic anyway, worry about making mistakes, make mistakes, try harder, make mistakes, try to calm down, make mistakes, work faster, work slower, make mistakes.

Okay, I'll wipe my tears away.

So, my boyfriend is an all-out music nut.  He's a musician who plans to go pro "when he grows up."  Before I met him, I listened to "The Gummy Bear Song," "Numa Numa" (known in Moldova as "Dragostea din tei"), and "Hollaback Girl" ... How do you make an emoticon skull?

So, he redeemed by poor butt.  Now I listen to real music like Emmy the Great, The Weakerthans, (see my profile; I just spent an hour adding artists)... Why am I telling you this? Where's the list?

Actually, I'll answer those in one sentence: I've been listening to Los Campesinos who have this song "My Year in Lists." Since I (heart) lists and metaphors, similes, vivid, specific details, and the like, I decided to start spinning my blogspot globe with a list of things from the movie theatre:

mixing up drinks - forgetting which is Dr. Pepper and which is Pepsi

lying on my bed at night, sick on coconut oil

getting pelted by popcorn shooting from the popper (strangely comforting)

melting ice in the sink with hot water

making drinks nobody asked for

using an employee pass to see Social Network - score!!!

Kids Tray with Skittles - easiest thing to fill

unscrewing pop fountain spouts - most difficult task

brown paper bags and mini cups for mall employees

20+ teenagers, without IDs, trying to get into an R-rated movie

20+ teenagers, without IDs, trying to get into an R-rated movie with one ID-toting "friend"

writing a short story in cell phone texts

my butter stained uniform

going to the bathroom just to rest my legs

hearing a movie through the bathroom wall

peeling off my socks in the mall hallway after hours

customers wanting to buy an entire salt container

who was that famous writer who worked at a movie theatre?

not recognizing the son of the mall owners

paid in change

a broom half my height

the left mate of my only black shoes losing its rubber bottom

Anderson University mug filled with Wild Cherry Pepsi

free bread sticks from Tony at Tony's Pizza

snapping lids on Icee cups

10 foot cardboard set-up of Megamind and Metro Man with raised eyebrows

making a four-page list of movies I want to see when I began working there


List-making is a great exercise for writers.  Every so often, grab a memo pad and jot down sights, sounds, colors of crayons, different kinds of dispensers, new dinosaur names, band names, stuff outside your window, I like, I hate, I love, I'm on the fence about, movies that should be made, books that should be burned, lists I should make in the future...

This is Emily, aspiring writer, pushing Publish Post... now-