If anyone can figure out why I’ve had Brahms’ Hungarian Dances running through my head all morning, I’d appreciate it. Because it took me a while to figure out that no, it isn’t Slovanic Dances, and no, Sorena’s orchestra did not play it at the Kennedy Center on Tuesday, and, well, I haven’t heard it in an age, so I have no idea why this music refuses to exit my brain.
The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
It’s a great piece of music, must be why! :)
The best explanation will the freudian one: try to think where, when or with whom did you hear it to last; try to be conscious to the emotions the music gives you and then, with the combination of the first, why do you remember it now.
Another one will be that the NSA had implanted a nano sized bug in your right lobe of the brain to spy on you and it’s Microsoft based so… bugs you know…
Hope it’s not a tumor ;-)
DJ, I think sometimes a song is just a song… but if I have to choose, I’ll take Theory Number Two, please.
Maybe you are about to meet someone with whom you are going to hear the music and it will come to have a significant meaning.
BTW, you forgot to say whether you preferred Theory 2A or 2B.
Actually, according to Theory 2B, they are trying to send you a message. I doubt if a nanosized device whould be able to contain the Micro$oft bloat.
Besides, VISTA probably would be unable to transmit or receive.
Too many Warner Brothers cartoons, p’raps.
Yeah, except I haven’t seen any Bugs Bunny cartoons in ages. Or even thought about them. The only thing I thought of lately in that vein is the Three Stooges. And they didn’t have anything to do with Hungarian Dance #5 as far as I know.
I could be wrong, but I don’t think the Brahms Hungarian dances are used in the Warner Bros. cartoon. Smetena is and of course there’s Rossini and Wagner. Even my brother, who for some reason loves Wagner and sits through the entire Ring cycle when they do it in Seattle, told me that when he saw “Die Valkyrie,” every time they played the main theme all he could think was, “Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit…”
Two words for ya:
“Space Herpes”.
It’s the gift that keeps on giving!