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Last night midomi saved my life

ByGwyn Fisher

Well not literally.

6 weeks since my last post eh? That’s got to be some kind of new record. Sorry about that, I’m sure you found other ways to spend your time though. It was probably good for you to take that break. What did you do? Learnt a new language? A musical instrument? The harpsichord eh? Good on ya. Upload a cover of something baroque to YouTube would you. Thanks!

I nipped over to the UK and Eire for a few weeks just to check in on everyone and have a fine old time. We’ve been back in Brunswick, Maine, Top Right of ‘Merica, Last stop before Canada, for nigh on two weeks now. It’s still cold and that snow that fell last week is not going anywhere. I’ve taken up ice-skating and am working on describing graceful figures such as 1 and 0 in the ice.

Your laces are undone
The 'one-glove' technique

There’s a song I’ve been trying to find for almost a decade now I think it was on one of David Byrne’s compilations. It’s a Brazilian duet so I could only sing it phonetically. I think it’s about arrows. Probably. Anyroad, usually if you want to find a song on the internets you usually just google a few words from it + “lyrics”, but if you don’t know how to spell them, you’re stuck. Same with instrumental pieces (like this one). So I thought I’d try www.midomi.com. You hum it for 10 seconds, then it searches its database for songs that match, and lo and behold, first time it found what countless hours of googling couldn’t. I’ve been listening to this over and over. It’ll warm you up when you’re in the negative celsius.

It wouldn’t be a proper post without an Atticus update. He’s almost back to his usual self after 3 weeks on the mean streets of Harpswell, ME. We’ve nursed him back to health after a nasty bout of kennel cough, and some new toys. His favourite is a squeaky hedgehog thing. DON’T try and take it away from him.

Squeak Squeak Squeak
Ñom ñom ñom squeak

Back soon. Abrazos

7 Comments

  2. I was a bit worried about the fact that you were in a life threatening position!!!!! Glad it was a song.
    Ditto John’s comment, alias me.

  3. Cheers Dad & Mum!

    Thought you were a bit keen, checking in on my blog when you were in Cymru, Mum- Call us if you fancy a chat, shall look out for your photos.

  4. that site is brilliant, ive gotta get a microphone coz theres a song ive being trying to find for a few years..
    One night Midori saved my life…

  5. I had to google Midori… I’m not as in touch with what the kids are necking these days as I used to be.

    Innit just, though. Yeah, get a mic, then give us a skype ‘n’all. And tell us what that song is. I’m guessing it’s a B-side of some obscure The Church track, unless you’ve branched out a bit in your tastes 😛

  6. sadly its not a b side by the church, ive got each one of those in 12 versions!
    its some brit electro track that goes ‘we looooooooooove you, and we hope you love we to’ from the long lost decade of the 90’s.
    btw that yahoo mailing list of funny stuff is brilliant, i’ll never need to write a blog again, just pilfer stuff from there.. that scotch eggs song has been stuck in my head for days!
    cheers matey

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