Meh, and music.

[da]

I couldn't get to sleep last night. My brain kept prodding, coming up with trivia to think about. So today's going to be a meh, low-energy low-brain day. ...Now available with more grumpy.

I'm frustrated about the election yesterday: voter turnout was a record low 52% beating the last record of 54% in 1923. The Liberals won by default. Apathy sucks.

There wasn't nearly enough in-depth media discussion of the referendum question in advance, and consequently MMP Representation failed like a lead balloon. The government's information about it was so basic as to almost be useless, which I think was their intent, so now they can say The People Have Spoken, and They Are Happy. Aren't they happy?

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I'm not grumpy about much else, thankfully. Last night when I couldn't sleep I spent a while cozying up with iTunes and now I have a bunch of music I'd heard on Pandora but never bought. So I have a heap of new songs to prop me up today: including some VNV Nation, Apoptygma Berserk, David Bowie, Neuroticfish, and Tiiinnaaa, (What's Love Got to Do with It?)

I was amused to go from browsing David Bowie to Supertramp (The Logical Song) to Scooter (Ramp/Logical Song to (does he take himself as seriously as he appears to in that video?) to realizing Oh, that's what the heck that song's called. I decided Scooter's gone all the way around bad to being good again. I mean: that euro-jock posturing. Those lyrics. Wow. And here I thought there was a trend of club DJs shouting nonsense at their audience and recording it. Turns out it's all one person. Heh.

Also, Apoptygma Berserk has some catchy hooks, but it's awesome for making fun of too.

Comments

[morgan-starfire.livejournal.com]

Empathy on the sleeplessness. The second night running, I curled up in an armchair with the headphones on the stereo and lots of good music, in the dark. It helped.

I think both you and melted will appreciate this particular bit of tackiness and music idiocy. Ms. Math made the mistake of asking me the other night, when we were both very sleepy and punchy but still up and about, if I would love her forever. Whereupon I started with "Let me sleep on it," and sang her the entire rest of the song.

(It's appalling how many versions of that there are on You Tube!)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Yes. I do appreciate that.

But that's all I'll think/say about this, because I so don't need that earworming me tonight.

[morgan-starfire.livejournal.com]

Ow. Forgive me.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

OK. :)