Why is a song I haven’t heard in 40 years stuck in my head today?
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With 100 billion-plus cells in your brain, and infinitely complex connections, it’s difficult to explain how a particular memory bubbles up at a particular time.
Take comfort: your Martin Briley neural circuit is probably overwriting an important memory, or a much better song, or how to walk and talk at the same time.
Oddly enough, I ran across that record in a shop the other day and thought about how I hadn’t heard that single in years, but fortunately it didn’t stick in my head. Unfortunately, a recent mention of Bette Davis eyes has that song rattling around my psyche. Dammit.
With 100 billion-plus cells in your brain, and infinitely complex connections, it’s difficult to explain how a particular memory bubbles up at a particular time.
Take comfort: your Martin Briley neural circuit is probably overwriting an important memory, or a much better song, or how to walk and talk at the same time.
From Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs:
Oddly enough, I ran across that record in a shop the other day and thought about how I hadn’t heard that single in years, but fortunately it didn’t stick in my head. Unfortunately, a recent mention of Bette Davis eyes has that song rattling around my psyche. Dammit.
I don’t remember ever hearing that song before.
That guy has at least one foot (with shoes on!) on the couch for the whole video and no one says anything.