FOWC with Fandango — Meter
I can’t help it. Music jumps into my head when I hear a specific word. And it sits there until I find something else to take up that earworm place in my brain.
Brain.
I got tested for cognition, but they didn’t let me have a mouse. I think I missed half the questions because of the strange device I was supposed to use. Whatever happened to point and click? This was clearly designed for the computer under-achiever. They need to rethink the testing and use actual computer tools for people who actually use computers.
I’m sure Garry would NEVER have passed that test because he’d still be there trying to figure out how that circular twirly device that was supposed to take the place of a mouse was supposed to work. If you don’t come in stupid, the bad design will finish you off!
Meanwhile — Lovely Rita Meter Maid is wriggling between my earlobes. Oh look! It’s dancing, too!
I didn’t bother to add the lyrics. We all know them, right? You don’t? You must be young.
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Categories: #FOWC, Daily Prompt, Fandango's One Word Challenge, Music
FOLLOW, FOLLOW, FOLLOW, FOLLOW – Marilyn Armstrong 
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
Love this album!! Just watched the James Carvel/Paul McCartney video I published in July again. Made me so happy. Then I read a poem about my mother that I wrote years ago that a friend had just commented on.. and that has made me so blue. I can’t believe that I’m crying over the death of my mother 18 years after the fact!!! Emotions are strange things. Their timing is often a bit off.
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Garry has yet to mourn his parents. It can take decades, It has with you and I know people who have never dealt with it. I think Garry is probably one of them.
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I mourned when she died..It isn’t a delayed thing.. just an additional sadness and missing of her..Every year I feel a little bit more like her. Can feel it coming out.
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i’ve been thinking a lot about how matter is not created or destroyed, just changed..and I wonder what part of her is in me and where the rest went and what I added to her to make me..I guess each experience adds a bit more matter..or subtracts some. Getting philosophical.
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Stardust. We all return to the universe.
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Once upon a time when the actual Beatles albums were still on YouTube, I took a listen to the full albums from Sgt. Peppers onward just to see what all the fuss was about. I like most of the Beatles radio hits… the ones that everyone knows. I remember not being particularly impressed with the deeper album cuts. Most of them seemed too strange, or too random, or just plain…. meh. Maybe you just had to be there, and of course I was born in the 70’s…
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They changed music. Before the Beatles, all the things you accept as “normal” in music didn’t exist. The changed everything. The instruments used. The pacing. Just … everything. It’s like being born when everyone had cable TV. I got it when I was in my 40s. My granddaughter could use a computer and cable before she was five. My mother remembered the arrival of cars because she grew up with carts & horses. Yo understand their importance, you had to live thru the change they brought.
Of course, it was a great time for music. So many talented musicians and so much cross-collaboration. To me, all music sounds like copies of the originals.
And of course, context matters. It was a very different time.
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I love it when someone says a word and either a song or a quote pops into my brain. And will not leave. You’re so fine, Marilyn. **doo lang, doo lang, doo lang……**
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Lois, you’re a Pip. Gladys Knight approved this comment.
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haha! Back atcha, Garry! 😀
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I love this song and this album. I grew up on the Beatles and now I’m hooked on the Beatles Channel on XM Radio!
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Amoral, you’re hooked? Think you need a sponsor.
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Great minds think alike and the song is still going around in my head
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I have a set of CDs that contain almost everything they sang by date and album. Still my favorites after all these years.
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My No. 1 son, the autist, has completely everything from the Beatles: even something from Hamburg. He has been to two Paul McCartney concerts in Switzerland. He knows every recording session, who was playing etc. etc. When an autist interests himself for something, the photographic memory comes to play.
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“I forgot to remember to Forget”
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That’s one of the Beatles tunes I never heard before.
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You don’t have Sargeant Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band? Race to Amazon and buy it instantly!! (Note: Might be “Sergeant” — the British way.)
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Don’t have a record player anymore….
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You can get it for download or CD. I don’t have records either. I haven’t had a player in years, but oddly enough, vinyl is making a big comeback.
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I still have some 45’s but no record player. Go figure?
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Marilyn, you are right (as usual) about me and that cognition test. I wudda been flummoxed by it, trying to remember the co-star in some long forgotten oater.
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