2011-07-24

How the hell does it go?!?!?!?!

I'm sure this has happened to everyone: you're talking about movies/shows/games/whatever, and then somebody asks "how does [some song] go?", and you think "pfff, how does (s)he not know that?", and when you're about hum the song...you don't know how it goes!!! It's right there, you know you know it, but it just won't come out. And somebody says "I know that if I'd listened to it, I would've known it was from [movie/show/game/whatever]".

That happened to me and my friend today with the Superman theme, we were "tarareando" John Williams themes...Star Wars, somebody hums...Indiana Jones, sure...Harry Potter, ok...Superman...um...how does it go??? All of us looking at each other, eagerly waiting for somebody to do it...nothing...silence...they gave up and changed the subject (I know there are tons of John Williams themes, but we were just starting, and got stuck pretty quickly), but not me, oh no sirree, I needed to know how the Superman theme went. Tenampa remembered the beginning, but I still couldn't figure out the rest. It was frustrating!!! I always ended up thinking of a Star Wars song when I thought I had it.

I gave up after some 20 minutes of trying to remember, but it kept popping back in my memory every once in a while, and I knew I wasn't going to be able to sleep until I heard it. I finally remembered when driving to drop off Tenampa. Phew, that was killing me inside little by little...and now I can't get it out of my head.

On a different note, sometimes I mix up Spanish and English words, today FB did it with German and English, haha, it was pretty funny:

3 comments:

  1. lol wth? (@the FB thing). And yeah, songs break down inside our heads...and they hide, and combine, and morph, and do all sorts of weird things in there! And occasionally, you can retrieve them in a manner that is recognizable to the original song.

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  2. yup, everyone has those 'tip of the tongue' moments..and it's very frustrating! damn those unreliable memories we have! and thats a hilarious fb bug!

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  3. LOL yeah, we all have them pero no manches lol. I wouldn't lose sleep over it like you!

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