You Can't Stop The Beat

You know that particular tune you can't get out of your head? Hear it once, twice - and then it keeps repeating in your head no matter what you do? Stroll down the sidewalk when suddenly it hits you again like a ton of bricks and you feel like dancing to the beat?

bop-bee-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba, bee-ba

Well, now imagine that you have an entire fuckin soundtrack playing in your head. Certainly more variety but it's driving me mad :) Not that I mind it. Always good to have a little bit of insanity going around in our dull mundane world.


Shake it!
Ever since I purchased the soundtrack to the musical Hairspray, I've been playing it on constant rotation - even smuggled it into the operating theatre just the other day where I shimmied and jived to the traffic-stopping Link Larkin as brains were cut open on the surgical table. There was even a rumour going around that a cool cat in blue scrubs was doing the mashed potato whle raving about Ultra Clutch Hairspray in the empty theatre at one in the morning.

Which explains how I almost broke out into song singing about the New Girl in Town when I met Beret Bill today ( I already sang Good Morning Baltimore as I woke up in the morning though I didn't manage to hitch a ride on a dumpster truck on my way home ). Fortunately he managed to overlook the musically manic look in my eyes and shook my hand quite amiably - despite the fact that I was visibly tapping my feet to a brand new beat.

Since Bill was obviously new in town, I brought him for lunch with some of the nicest kids in town. Oddly enough when they finally arrived, there was no roll call as they walked in to swinging sixties music.

bop-bee-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba, bee-ba

With work calling, Lanky Lex and Jaunty Jared couldn't stay long though so it was back to the daily grind for them. Which left me to take Bill for a cool ride around the city pointing out the pretty sights ( a few outlined in his handy guidebook! ) blithely wondering whether he could hear the bells. Was a little afraid it was all in my deranged lil head so I declined asking whether he could actually hear them chime.

Wouldn't do to scare the tourists away!


Why is she grinning away? Can she hear the bells too?
Yes, I do get occasionally obsessed. Can already imagine getting my words all tangled during the early morning meeting with my colleagues.

Colleague : Any questions on this latest procedure? Do you think we should implement this?
Paul : You can't stop an avalanche as it races down the hill, you can try to stop the seasons, girl but ya know you never will!
Colleague : Huh? You really think so, Paul?
Paul : Yes, after all... you can't stop the beat ever since this old world began. A woman found out if she shook it, she could shake up a man and so I'm gonna shake and shimmy it the best that I can today!

No doubt a psych evaluation will be forthcoming.

Note : Of course, this entire bizarre rant would not make much sense unless you've seen the movie Hairspray so what you waiting for? :)