I have a temporary affliction.
It’s either one of those things that I just take for granted that we all get and never talk about. Or I’m dying.
Basically I have had for the last few day a wobbling pulsing quibber in my ear. Every ten minutes or so it just jibber-jabbers, easily ignored, but when not it’s most annoying.
I’ve tried making my ears pop, jamming my fingers in my ears, even pulling my eyelid down and blowing my nose.
But nothing has helped.
I’m sure it’s not life threatening, or rather I hope not. Either way it is certainly something to take my mind of the LIFE THREATENING SUICIDE INDUCING TEDIUM THAT IS MY DAY JOB.
After work last night I was meeting emm for a drink. We had agreed to meet under Freddie Mercury, I know that I could insert a joke here about how that was a popular place to meet people in the 1980′s. But I won’t make that joke as I actually meant this one.
Now back in the nostalgic days of March 2004 I used to quite enjoy waiting for people under Freddie as blaring out of the doors of the Dominion Theatre were Queens Greatest Hits. I was (and still am) a huge Queen fan, through my childhood to when they weren’t fashionable to when they got a bit fashionable to when Brian May and Roger Taylor decided to kill the fashionability by making this musical and re-touring like the STUPID CUNTS they are. They really should just die.
Despite this and the laughable mess that is Queens Greatest Hits III and the guy from Free touring as Queen I still love the proper stuff, and like the chance to get to hear it as I wait for someone underneath Freddie.
But oh no, the cunts have even taken this away from me. Through the doors they are still blaring music, but now it is not Queens Greatest Hits, but the soundtrack for the musical We Will Rock You (or rather “We Will Rape All Your Fond Memories That Queen Were Good And Slowly Fuck You In The Ears Until You Hate Everything You Ever Stood For”… by Ben Elton and Queen)
I’ve always avoided hearing any of this musical after reading an early blurb about Nigel Planer being in it and that they were in a land in the future trying to rescue Brian Mays Guitar from across the Seven Seas Of Rhye. I can’t think of anything worse.
Until you hear the music.
It’s the Queens songs I know and love,
But all sung in that hideous west end musical way, totally devoid of any soul whatsoever., just vibrato and flourishes. And I just wonder if anyone involved in this musical really understands music? Some queen songs will make me cry, especially with Freddie Mercury singing.
Unfortunately these versions just make my already quibbering ears bleed.