Surprise Song Sunday: Under Pressure - Queen

Under a little bit of pressure. Hopefully everything will resolve itself positively sooner rather than later.

Word of the Day: Pressure

London 2012 Closing Ceremony.

Or as I like to call it, the Greatest Gig That Ever Was, And Ever Will Be.

Yeah, almost as catchy as the Olympic Anthem.

As I was saying, best gig ever.

At which other gig would you get most-of-Oasis, most-of-Queen, The Spice Girls, Taio Cruz, Jessie J, The Who, David Bowie, George Michael, Take That, One Direction, Beatles songs, Russell Brand singing a Beatles song, and more besides?

None other, that's right.

I don't even like half those guys that I just listed, but other people might. And thus, it adds to a cumulative awesome. If you know what I mean.

And yes, they only had three-quarters of Oasis. They were only missing THEIR BEST QUARTER. And yes, Liam's voice is incredibly nasally now. But whatever. They sang Wonderwall, and if I'm not very much mistaken, it got the biggest cheer/singalong of the night bar Spice Girls. Or at least, the biggest singalong. Such a stadium song.

Obviously, the spectacle wasn't as OMG amazeballs at the Opening Ceremony, but whatever. I'm in it for the music, man.

Seriously. I actually watched 0 minutes of sporting activities.

But Opening and Closing Ceremonies, I'm there. Especially if they're British.

Brazil 2016 should also be a riot. I don't know what it is about samba music, but it makes me want to move.

So goodbye London. I liked you. You have a certain charm about you that I can't quite attribute to one particular feature about you. I'm gonna be deep and say it's your soul and personality that I'm attracted to.

Back to news from Andrewland.

As usual, nothing overly exciting to report. Just finished off my major essay for the Holocaust unit that I went to Europe for. Yes, there was work involved for that.

Also, I'm kind of starting to make a mini-breakthrough with my thesis. Don't tell anyone, but I think how breakthroughy I get with my thesis, and work in general, may be positively correlated with me actually working on it/talking to people that know more stuff about it about it (yeah, repeated words no typo!)

PS. What's with people calling it the 'Closing Ceremonies'? I noticed it with the Opening Ceremony as well. They were trending on Twitter and all as well. It drives me mad. It's almost as annoying as 'Daylight savings'. Urgh.

There are many things that I would like to say to you, but I don't know how.

Word of the Day: Andrewland

Freaky coincidence again?

Ok, I swear I had no idea it was Freddie Mercury's birthday today until I Youtubed 'Don't Stop Me Now' last night, and then only after I looked at it again after chucking it on my blog. Weird thing is, it wasn't even a random compulsion that drove me to Youtube the song. On my laptop, my screensaver pops up with all the album covers of the music that I have in iTunes.

Really cool.

Anyway, they made it stupid with the new operating system, so that when you move your mouse, the screensaver doesn't go away. No. It does much more than that.

It lets you click the album, and it plays!

Pretty cool, except for the fact that you can't get rid of the screensaver by moving your mouse.

But I digress. What happened was that I accidentally clicked on the album, 'Jazz', by Queen. And the only song I have from that album is, of course, 'Don't Stop Me Now'. And at the time, I thought, huh, crazy coincidence, good motivating song for the upcoming week from hell.

But this, this is some next-level crazy coincidence. Lots of weird coincidences happened back in my high school days - we'd talk about something random and obscure in class, and the next day it'd be in the mX - but this just takes the cake.

Anyway, I guess all that's left is to wish Freddie Mercury happy birthday. Happy birthday, Freddie Mercury.

Word of the Day: Mercury

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I'm having a ball

Another week from hell coming right up. Bring it on, I say. Bring it!



Word of the Day: Queen