Archive for April, 2008


Growing Up in The 80′s

Here’s another reason why I’m glad I grew up in the 80’s:

And just in case you didn’t know what they were singing about:

Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo
You’re living in your own Private Idaho
Living in your own Private Idaho
Underground like a wild potato.
Don’t go on the patio.
Beware of the pool,
blue bottomless pool.
It leads you straight
right throught the gate
that opens on the pool.

You’re living in your own Private Idaho.
You’re living in your own Private Idaho.

Keep off the path, beware the gate,
watch out for signs that say “hidden driveways”.
Don’t let the chlorine in your eyes
blind you to the awful surprise
that’s waitin’ for you at
the bottom of the bottomless blue blue blue pool.

You’re livin in your own Private Idaho. Idaho.
You’re out of control, the rivers that roll,
you fell into the water and down to Idaho.
Get out of that state,
get out of that state you’re in.
You better beware.

You’re living in your own Private Idaho.
You’re living in your own Private Idaho.

Keep off the patio,
keep off the path.
The lawn may be green
but you better not be seen
walkin’ through the gate that leads you down,
down to a pool fraught with danger
is a pool full of strangers.

You’re living in your own Private Idaho,
where do I go from here to a better state than this.
Well, don’t be blind to the big surprise
swimming round and round like the deadly hand
of a radium clock, at the bottom, of the pool.

I-I-I-daho
I-I-I-daho
Woah oh oh woah oh oh woah oh oh
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
Get out of that state
Get out of that state
You’re living in your own Private Idaho,
livin in your own Private…. Idaho

Speaking of Facts of Life

This one made me laugh:

The Hummer

Well, I hate hummers.
Especially hummers #24 in the workplace.

Today, I wasn’t in any particular good or bad mood when I got to work but it changed extremely fast after the first half hour. One of my cube mate had her radio on CHFI, the easy listening music station and started to hum over a Whitney Houston song… Now it doesn’t help that I don’t like the song to start with, but when you have ultrasonic screechy throat sounds added on top of it, and just to make it worst, one beat later than the radio version, it’s enough to send any normal person into a padded cell. I was so reminded of an episode of Facts of Life when Blair sings MY BOYFRIEND’S BACK a la opera style and Jo asks: “Blair if you love that song, why are you doing that to it?”, Blair asks: “Doing what?”, Jo replies: “Singing it like Julie Andrews”…

(no, really, see for yourself, jump to 8min 14sec)
(then special bonus at 7min 40sec)

I didn’t really say anything of course, because god knows I don’t want to make another enemy there, but man, I was about to self combust until I realized I had a secret weapon all along… my trusted iPod, full of MY music… and all of a sudden, my morning was good again.

Of course, I kept the volume very low so I could hear others if they needed to talk to me, but it was an interesting experience as some people didn’t think I could hear them make comments or the one who slammed an inter-office envelope on my desk to let me know he was there (as if I couldn’t smell him)… but in the end, I didn’t care, Kylie was singing to me.

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