Does not compute! AH AH AH

Disclaimer: The music referenced to in this entry is excessively queer.

Does anyone else get really freaked out when you reference a song or a movie early in the day, and later at night at an event totally unaffiliated they are referenced to again? Ok, it might be just me who gets freaked out, but probably because it happened about ten times yesterday.

For example: My friend Josh, Colonel Lightning Bolt, and I drove to Grand Haven to a Blueberry Festival that seemed to not exist. (I have the worst luck with GRNow.com with things on Sundays. First a “Wedding Faire” that turned out to be a lonely tray of cream puffs and now this.) I brought my iPod for a plethora of music choices, and we put it on random and the following songs came up:

• Cruel Summer – Ace of Base

• 9 to 5 – Dolly Parton

• Let Me Think About It – Ida Corr

We also discussed Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, because apparently Colonel Lightning Bolt resembles Mira Sorvino. (Pictured below.) This in itself was weird, because I had been thinking about the movie earlier in the day and how much I would like to purchase it.

Now for the freaky six-degrees treatment. (or wait, is it seven degrees? Does this term even apply for what I’m going for?)

When we got home, we installed a free MMO game called Perfect World. The primary reason for such this screenshot:

Yes, that is a woman - riding a tiger - riding a giant bird.

Yes, this game is a real class act. Back to the topic at hand, I was having a hard time finding a name that didn’t already exist for my character, and for some reason I decided to try “Bananarama.”

Things starting to come around yet? Bananarama were partially made famous by their original recording of Cruel Summer in 1983. They also released an amazing music video to accompany their hit single. (I would also like to point out that their allegedly “cruel summer” seems to be filled with happy bouncing and banana eating. I’m not so sure what’s so cruel about that.)

Ace of Base then redid Cruel Summer in 1998.

Cruel Summer was also featured in the Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion soundtrack in 1997.

Noticing the amazing moves in the Bananarma music video, Josh then directed me to the Ida Corr music video:

(He likes their sassy head tilt dance… or so he claims.)

When the recommended videos came up, I clicked the next one which happened to be the video for Destination Unknown:

Note that song for later.

So we eventually got bored with Perfect World (Malaysian servers aren’t the most stable to play on at 11:00 at night) and we decided to head to the bar. The gay bar. (Sigh…) Conveniently enough, it was the Ms. Greater Grand Rapids 2008 pageant and we caught the last few minutes (crowning and final performances.) And what would you think Ms. Great Grand Rapids 2008 Professional sang?

9 to 5 by Dolly Parton.

Weeeeiiiirrrddddd!!

After the ceremonies had ended, the slutty techno dance portion of the festivities came into full force. The first song?

Destination Unknown.

One of the songs after that?

Let Me Think About it.

I don’t know, I thought this was too many coincidences and started to get freaked out. Well, it was fine until I saw that drag queen – riding a tiger – riding a bird. The computer generated Owl from the 1986 SMASH MEGAHIT Labyrinth, no less. My personal favorite movie of all time.

You remind me of the babe.