{"id":1498,"date":"2012-01-04T08:50:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T08:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pouringbeans.com\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2012-01-04T08:50:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T08:50:35","slug":"new-year-new-ways-to-waste-your-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"New year, new ways to waste your time!"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I don’t pay you to talk I pay you to sit there and eat quiche…”<\/em><\/p>\n

Yesterday to liven up the first day back at work, which thankfully only lasted until 4pm due to me needing to be at a previous engagement, I decided to make a note of all the songs that popped into my head. I wanted to see if there was some sort of correlation or if it was just because I wanted to listen to it. The list as it happens is somewhat erratic:<\/p>\n

Howlin’ For You – The Black Keys
\nInstant Karma – John Lennon
\nThis is Halloween –\u00a0The Citizens of Halloween (from the Nightmare before Christmas soundtrack)
\nAll The King’s Men – Wild Beasts
\nHymn For The Postal Service – Hefner
\nAll I’m Losing is Me – Saves the Day
\nHenrietta – The Fratellis
\nAmerican Pie – Don McLean (why???)
\nTheme music from the video game Flashback
\nJacqueline – Franz Ferdinand
\nSunshine Superman – Donovan
\nWithout Me – Eminem
\nThe Perfect Drug\u00a0– Nine Inch Nails
\nThe Drowners – Suede
\nSo You Wanna Be a Boxer (from the Bugsy Malone soundtrack)
\nPrayer of the Refugee – Rise Against
\nBring Me To Life – Evanescence (why???)
\nNightingale – Saves the Day
\nYou’re a Star – Fionn Regan
\nMaps – The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
\nQuiet – Smashing Pumpkins
\nThe fiddle music from Sherlock Holmes
\nDancing in the Dark – Bruce Springsteen
\nWatching the Detectives – Elvis Costello<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure that there were others but sometimes when you’re brain isn’t fully switched on its hard to focus, so who knows there could have been plenty of Abba or maybe even more Evanescence hidden away in there. Perhaps not being able to focus is a good thing.<\/p>\n

Some can be explained, such as the Bugsy Malone song (forced to watch over Christmas) or Flashback (recently revisited) or Fionn Regan (really love the new album) but others are just baffling. If we can sprinkle science over any part of this half-arsed experiment I would suggest we don’t. My conclusions are that there’s a lot going on up there and whoever is pulling the strings likes a bit of most things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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