Enjoying orchestra

In the early days of CI activation, I remember hearing a radio stunt asking listeners to call in and sing the tune of the most annoying song of all time.



We got the ‘Super Mario Brothers’ theme song. (It is in my head as I type this.)


We got ‘This is the song that never ends’.


We got '500 Miles' by The Proclaimers.


But I fail to understand how we didn’t get … (drumroll) … the VB (Victoria Bitter) music. Groan.


OK, it might have more to do with the fact that this beer has the least class of all Australian beers so the song also has a certain stigma attached. But it’s also the song, OK? It’s the song. It’s just an annoying little piece of music that won’t get out of my head.


This is because Jase started whistling it ever since we bought tickets to see a performance by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.


Apparently connecting a beer commercial (*shudders*) with the dignified Melbourne Symphony Orchestra was perfectly acceptable because 1) they were going to be performing ‘sporting scores’ and the VB music features heavily during cricket season so they Just Might Play It and, 2) because the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra were responsible for producing a (pretty clever, I’ll admit) version of this song played with no other instruments than the beer bottles themselves. (You can view it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUru7nSyKxQ)


The little melody was annoying all right. But I was so thrilled that Jase agreed to come and listen to the orchestra in the first place that I decided against threatening to mute him if he continued to whistle it. Besides, I could block it out with the Super Mario theme in the meantime. :-)

Fun, fun, fun … Chuck Berry style

OK. I’ll admit it. It’s true.

I have become Quite The Little Show-off lately. It seems I sometimes take that need to announce my presence just one step too far in a move that has me rapidly progressing from Cute … to Obnoxious.

Take this for example.