Brews you can use

… is Of Montreal’s Wraith Pinned to the Mist (And Other Games)”. Not a bad song, actually, just addictive with a rather poppy beat, and the absurd catchy refrain

Let’s pretend we don’t exist /
Let’s pretend we’re in Antarctica

I did get a brief break from the tune while reading “Green Eggs and Ham”. The cumulative rhyme knocked anything else remotely musical out of my head, a handy trick I will have to remember for later. After the rhyming wore off, a couple Seussian thoughts kept the song at bay for a bit.

Seussian thought #1: I remember a high school speech class assignment involved reading a children’s book to the rest of the class. One rule was “no Seuss, unless you can read without rhyming.” A friend of mine was the only person to attempt it that semester, and pulled it off perfectly. She de-rhymed well enough that the teacher played a tape of the reading for the other sections of the class. That feat seems even more amazing now.

Seussian thought #2: Somewhere, I have a DVD of “The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T” laying around. We also have a new DVD player. Hmmm…

This entry was posted on Friday, January 6th, 2006 at 10:32 pm and is filed under Farts & Seizure.