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I’m not sure I would admit this on my own blog, but I often have a little “theme song” playing my head. Anyone remember Ally McBeal? Didn’t her therapist recommend having a theme song? Sometimes I even go so far as to play the song, if I’m listening to music at the time and I have the song available. Growing up, it was “Wild World” by Cat Stevens. When I was single, I used to play, “Foxy Lady” by Jimi Hendrix while I got ready for dates. Cheesy, yes, I know, but it helped. When I went to Vienna I couldn’t get “American Girl” or “Young Americans” out of my head. And in the Bahamas, it was all Bob Marley, all the time.
Now, my usual theme song at work is, “She Works Hard for the Money” or “9 to 5″, but I don’t know many of the words to “9 to 5″ so I just hum the tune. At home, it’s mostly Janis Joplin (“My Baby”) or “What Have You Done for me Lately”. I often turn on Janis Joplin in my car and rock out, singing at the top of my lungs. Oh! Embarrassing story! Once, when I was singing and talking and generally acting crazy in my car, one of my friends saw me at a stoplight. Apparently, he tried several times to get my attention and couldn’t. He asked me about it later, and he was laughing SO HARD. He was like, “What on earth were you doing?” I totally lied and said I was on my cell phone, but I could tell he didn’t believe me.
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Andrea Unplugged
Blue Soup
Bright Yellow World
Bwildered
Caity of the Keps
Catheroominations
Citystreams
Daily Tannenbaum
Did I Say That Outloud?
Dispatches From The Failed Mommy Club
Face Down
For The Long Run
Full Of Snark
Heidikins
In Java, Literally
Just Below 63
LizLand
Malfeasance
A New Duck
The North Is My Snowcone
Not The Daddy
Operation Pink Herring
Pants, Pants, Pants
Red Red Whine
Sassy Buster
Sauntering Soul
Shushing Action
Snarke
Snow-Covered Hills
Swimming With Sharks
Thinking Some More
Trueish Story
Way Way Up
Whiskey Marie
I don’t have a theme song, but I do have random songs going through my head all the time!
Like -R- I don’t have a specific theme, but always have some song running through my head. Today’s song is “Stacy’s Mom” by Fountains of Wayne.
My song is always the same – the theme from The $25,000 Pyramid. Sometimes other songs creep in too, but it’s always playing in the background. It just keeps looping on and on forever and ever…
I totally sing like a crazy person in my car. No one can see you in your car, right?
I LOVE this themesong thing. This is a great post idea. Hmm.
Yeah, I always have background music playing in my brain. Sometimes I let it play in the background and hardly notice it’s there, but when I “tune in”–it’s always playing. Never any one particular song, though.
Dude, I do exactly the same thing. Prior to my annual review at work, I totally sang “Eye of the Tiger” like 65,289 times. Seriously. You are not insane. Or, if you are, then so am I!
Hee! In college, my theme song was “Who Needs Sleep?” by the Barenaked Ladies. It was appropriate; I don’t think I slept for four years.
When I’m having a really bad day at work, I close my office door and blast Weezer’s “We Are All on Drugs” and sing as loudly as I can without seriously embarrassing myself.
I also have a theme song: Eye of the Tiger!
Every time I ride my bike anywhere, the Neverending Story them plays in my head automatically — I have no control over it. I used to hear it when I was biking as a kid and imagined that I was riding on the back of Falcor, and I still hear it as an adult who no longer imagines riding on Luck Dragons.
Doesn’t everyone have a theme song? I guess I’m weird, too!
That is so funny. I almost always have a song in my head, but I find that if I’m having a really hard time (like when I first started law school, and my uncle died and I had a bad living situation all in the same couple of months) I sing “Ooh Child” to myself, constantly.
I love 9 to 5!!! That is the best theme song ever, and it was totally my inspiration my first day of work as a new lawyer. Awesomeness.