Monday, November 29, 2010

Patagonian (musical) adventures

More from Day 1 and part of Day 2 in the continuing saga of the Patagonian Chronicles: A brief glimpse into the surprising musical taste of the Mulherins. (See September 11th blog post below for the background.)

Tim wrote:
Woke up to Matt singing “Barbie girl” again this morning (can’t seem to get it out of his head.) And Andy singing “I’m your Venus, I’m your…” Listened to the second CD of The Magician’s Nephew… Ben changed the CD to Queen’s Greatest Hits at the old folks’ request.
“I didn’t realise Queen had so many well known songs,” says Mum, and Ben told her that it was a greatest hits CD. “Oh. So this is all of them then,” she says. Later, Ben and I [Tim] are left alone in the car and Ben puts Savage Garden on (couldn’t resist any longer).
Now Ben:
Woke up to “Another one bites the dust” from Matt this morning. Tim’s in the driver’s seat. Not quite sure what he’s doing yet ... Humming along to Petra. The gearbox is suffering greatly as clunking is frequent. We’ve been behind a truck for a fair while now and Dad must have a crick in the neck from leaning over into Tim’s airspace to see if it’s safe for him to overtake.
Andy’s blending “Fall to Pieces” by Avril into “Rock DJ” by Robbie, at Mum’s request. Tim overtakes the truck to applause and cheers. “Good driving Tim” says Matt as soon as Tim comes back to our lane… [Later...] Tim’s still driving. The elbows are at a sweet angle. Now we’ve cranked up Cat Stevens: “..find a girl, settle down, look at me, I’m happy.”

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