Songs in My Head Lately

...and why they’re there...

“Bruce Philosopher Song” (Monty Python)

...because we live off of Hume St.

“David Hume could outconsume/Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel”

“Where Do You Go To My Lovely?” (Peter Sarstedt)

...ever since we saw Darjeeling Limited last fall.

“When Your Mind’s Made Up” (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova)

The film responsible this time is Once.

“An Animated Description of Mr. Maps” (the Books)

Probably the catchiest aleatoric song I know of. Two lines really stick in my head:

“He felt lost but he felt pretty intensely good
and he woke up screaming having dreamed of a color he had never seen before”

“He saw red, but he thought five.
He was pleased to find his road trip was enhanced by number-color synesthesia”

“Blackbird” (the Beatles)

Probably been stuck in there since the mid-1980s. I don’t play guitar, but judging from the number of people who film themselves earnestly butchering “Blackbird,” I’m thinking it appears in Guitar for Dummies.

“Jump” (Van Halen)

Because of this video.