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notafuckingnut[Anyone paying attention is treated to a good thirty seconds of humming -- "Jingle Bell Rock" at first but then "Do They Know It's Christmas" -- but it stops abruptly when he actually finds his train of thought.]
..Is there a word for when you get a song stuck in your head, but every time you get to one part it turns into something else? And it keeps looping because you can't remember any more of it?
There's probably one in German. They're always good for that.
But seriously. I'm getting sick of it; it ends up on that one about whether or not people know it's Christmas and it's just fucking depressing.
[He looks guilty for all of ten seconds -- he's probably not supposed to be cursing, at least not out loud because it's impolite, but whatever.]
[A/N: AU!Richie is the adoptive son of William von Graham and Hannibal. He's a little misguided, and has a tendency towards Bad Life Choices, cursing like a sailor, submitting to peer pressure entirely too easily, and impulsive decisionmaking, but he's generally not a bad kid.
Although you might not want to leave him in charge of your pets, plants, or small children; he tends to be unintentionally neglectful of them.]
..Is there a word for when you get a song stuck in your head, but every time you get to one part it turns into something else? And it keeps looping because you can't remember any more of it?
There's probably one in German. They're always good for that.
But seriously. I'm getting sick of it; it ends up on that one about whether or not people know it's Christmas and it's just fucking depressing.
[He looks guilty for all of ten seconds -- he's probably not supposed to be cursing, at least not out loud because it's impolite, but whatever.]
[A/N: AU!Richie is the adoptive son of William von Graham and Hannibal. He's a little misguided, and has a tendency towards Bad Life Choices, cursing like a sailor, submitting to peer pressure entirely too easily, and impulsive decisionmaking, but he's generally not a bad kid.
Although you might not want to leave him in charge of your pets, plants, or small children; he tends to be unintentionally neglectful of them.]
wiki is full of useless info. like tyler.
Date: 2011-12-17 03:50 am (UTC)gotta love it!
Date: 2011-12-17 04:20 am (UTC)[Eyeroll; he's not a dog. But he minds less than he protests.]
"Earworm", huh? I guess that makes sense. I knew there had to be a German word for it. ...Gross, but it works.
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Date: 2011-12-17 07:22 am (UTC)[You'll just get a second dessert later. Not a 'treat'. Duh.]
Yes. I never claimed to have invented it. It is rather fitting though, would you not agree?
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Date: 2011-12-17 11:03 am (UTC)Something that gets stuck in your ear canal and probably needs to be pried out with forceps before it latches on and tears a chunk out of your brain? Yeah, it fits.
[Maybe it's just phrased that way for the shock value, maybe he legitimately equates them....it's anyone's guess. ...In any event, somebody was watching Starship Troopers last night, apparently, and now might have a tiny temporary fixation on alien bugs. Don't mind him.]
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Date: 2011-12-18 10:27 am (UTC)A very... grotesque explanation, but yes. That is what I meant.
[Note the disapproval there. Polite society does not go into such detail. At least not publicly. And your choice of entertainment? ... He'll let it slide. For now.]
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Date: 2011-12-18 02:22 pm (UTC)I just call it how I see it.
[Nooo not disapproval. Anything but disapproval; he's a little deflated now. He can't help it that he gets a little carried away with his enthusiasm sometimes.
SUBJECT CHANGE.]
So do we watch all the Christmas specials or...? [He's not sure what you people do, Will. He's hoping you say yes though.]
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Date: 2011-12-17 07:17 am (UTC)The only way to get one piece of music out of your ears is with another one.
[He sets his communicator on the piano and breaks into a rendition of "On The First Day After Christmas".]
...that is the perfect drunk icon, omg
Date: 2011-12-17 07:26 am (UTC)I will thank you to keep to yourself while you are unwell, Mr. Stone. You are an exceptional piano player. It is too bad that talent is being wasted.
:D
Date: 2011-12-17 07:36 am (UTC)Odd how I never got this sort of treatment when I was playing Carnegie Hall. But I suppose loss tells you who your friends are.
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Date: 2011-12-18 10:21 am (UTC)Clearly you have selected new friends. I believe one of them is called Jack Daniels?
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Date: 2011-12-18 06:35 pm (UTC)But good old Jack is always available.
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Date: 2011-12-17 11:16 am (UTC)[But he'll listen anyway, because the tune's familiar but the words are different; it's different, at least.]
...Hey, do you ever play that game where the audience tries to stump the guy on the piano with songs they think he can't play?
[He's not suggesting they play, he's just curious.]
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Date: 2011-12-17 09:21 pm (UTC)You see, the song "Do They Know It's Christmas" was written to guilt trip people into paying a charity that is now well and truly over. What that means is, when you hear the song you feel guilty but there's no real chance of resolution. you could always find another charity, but even then it's rather a manipulative song.
Hmmmm? Yes, I have. Do you have a stumper for me?
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Date: 2011-12-17 09:56 pm (UTC)[Think think think.]
Dunno, I was kinda just asking, I don't really know anything people don't know.
[At least, not anything he actually knows the name of; who knows the stuff that gets played at home.]
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Date: 2011-12-18 12:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-18 03:06 am (UTC)[That's not a squeak at the end there, it's not. Although he does kind of snigger.]
Where? ...It was some really fucking shady place, wasn't it. The kind of place people get stabbed in. 'Cause that's the only place I know of where you could get away with that shit.
[...Although Damian would kind of be his hero if it wasn't.]
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Date: 2011-12-18 06:35 pm (UTC)Oops, hang on, Daddy Warbucks is having anal spasms. Apparently I'm corrupting you. Welp...you have a good holiday in spite of. I'm going back to playing holiday earworms.
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Date: 2011-12-18 07:36 pm (UTC)Aw, c'mon, but we were having a good conversation, weren't we? You don't have to listen to him, he means well -- I think -- but he doesn't know how to have fun. It's not like you're saying anything I haven't heard before.
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Date: 2011-12-18 08:43 pm (UTC)...he laughed, by the way.
Yes, we're having a good conversation, and you're a decent and interesting guy. But I don't want to cause you strife. You got a good thing going. I'm on him about being stuffy but those two still have their hearts in the right place.
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Date: 2011-12-19 01:42 pm (UTC)Oh man. That's...that's great.
[So much protesting; for a minute there he looks like a kicked puppy.]
But there won't be strife! It'll be fine. I mean, they'll lecture and everything, but. They do that; it'll be okay. Really.
[A sigh after a minute or so, and all the disappointed faces.]
...But alright, I guess.
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Date: 2011-12-20 11:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-21 03:19 am (UTC)You shouldn't let him push you around.
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Date: 2011-12-21 03:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-23 02:59 am (UTC)