Why I Never Get Things Done

[oakenguy]

FOREBRAIN: Okay, everything's quiet here. Now's the perfect time to open up that draft of the play and see if the idea I had last night actually...what are you doing?

HINDBRAIN: I'm looking up the lyrics to 'Jai Ho'!

FOREBRAIN: 'Jai Ho'. The 'Slumdog Millionaire' song.

HINDBRAIN: Mmhmm!

FOREBRAIN: Why do you suddenly want to know what the song's about?

HINDBRAIN: Huh? Psssht. A translation? I could care less about that. I need the lyrics so I can memorize them for karaoke!

FOREBRAIN:..................karaoke.

HINDBRAIN: Mmhmm!

FOREBRAIN: Okay, let's break down all the flaws here. First, can you even name the language the song is *in*?

HINDBRAIN: Doesn't matter, I'll learn it phonetically.

FOREBRAIN: Uh-HUH. Okay, let's try this: when was the last time you actually performed karaoke?

HINDBRAIN: Um............don't remember.

FOREBRAIN: Riiiiiight. What number did the year end in?

HINDBRAIN: Um. Five?

FOREBRAIN: Uh-huh. And where do we live?

HINDBRAIN: Boston.

FOREBRAIN: And how many Bollywood songs does your average Boston karaoke bar keep in its playlist?

HINDBRAIN: It's a very catchy tune!

FOREBRAIN: It's a duet!!

HINDBRAIN: It's a VERY CATCHY TUNE!!

FOREBRAIN: So let me sum up...you're wasting precious time and neuron-space to memorize a song in a language you don't speak so that IF you ever attend an event you go to every five years at best, IF they, despite all odds and logic, happen to have it available you will be able to sing PART of it.

HINDBRAIN: What's your point?

MIDBRAIN: Guys! Guys! If we did something with circus clowns who are also in the Mafia, we could title it "Cosa Red Nosetra"! Isn't that fantastic?

FOREBRAIN: I give up.

Comments

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

OMG, my brain works like that too!

Forebrain: okay, we're up and at them, and it's only 7am! We should be able to knock a couple of those projects off the white board today.

Hindbrain: Do-de-do-do-do...

Forebrain: Hey, what are you... why are you opening Pogo.com?

Hindbrain: Well, today's Wednesday... The new weekly badge challenges come out today.

Forebrain: Those challenges that come out every week?

Hindbrain: Yup.

Forebrain: The ones that often involve playing games for HOURS on end...

Hindbrain: Yup.

Forebrain: Games you don't even LIKE to play?

Hindbrain: Yup.

Forebrain: And all to earn badges that... don't do anything?

Hindbrain: Hey! now, that's not entirely true. They sit in my badge album and look pretty, and if I want, I can use them to change my icons on the game site.

Forebrain: Have you ever done that? Actually used them to change the icon?

Hindbrain: Well... no... I like the icon like it is.

Forebrain: But you're still going to make me spend hours earning your badge by playing... what is it this week? Euchre?

Hindbrain: Pinochle. And yes.

Forebrain: I give up. I'm going to get coffee. Call me when you're done being an idiot.

Hindbrain: Don't wait up...

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

My brain is simpler.

FOREBRAIN: Let's get to work!

HINDBRAIN: *clicks refresh on LJ flist*

FOREBRAIN: Look, I did a paragraph!

HINDBRAIN: *clicks refrehs on Facebook*

FOREBRAIN: Um, wow, there's that paragraph again.

HINDBRAIN: *clicks refresh on LJ flist*

FOREBRAIN: Oh, hey, we haven't checked our comics today.

HINDBRAIN AND FOREBRAIN: *click click click click click*

[malterre.livejournal.com]

Oh you are so lucky...my brain parts have voices and personalities and opinions-and I can Never,Ever let them talk directly to my brain because it's all kept under control by regular carrot/stick to the Monkey Brain.
Still ROTFLMAO at your post :)

[gilana]

I <3 your brain. Brains. Whatever.

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

Also, in my mind, your Hindbrain sounds like Gir from Invader Zim! :) Just thought you'd want to know. :)

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Oh. OH DEAR.

[sairisse.livejournal.com]

Oh good, it's not just me who thought that.

[redfishie.livejournal.com]

really the thing that got me about this was the circus clowns...

[telepresence.livejournal.com]

Your hindbrain could learn the Pussycat Dolls version with (mostly) English lyrics, and there's a better chance a karaoke place would have a selection of pussycat Dolls songs.

See, no problem!

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Ohmigod, I was unaware there was a Pussycat Dolls version. Blissfully so, maybe.

The hack stand-up comic in me is freaking out like a ferret with tinsel now. "'Jai Ho'? More like 'I, Ho'", amiright? Nyuk nyuk!"

[elkster.livejournal.com]

Don't get me started with the Pussycat Dolls' version. Just one word in the chorus pronounced wrong and it ruins the whole song for me!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

My Forebrain wants to tell you this is perfectly normal.

My Hindbrain just saw the word "Wednesday" in another comment and remembered that it's Onion day.

*zooom*

[rigel.livejournal.com]

And this is the reason I adore you.

[smacaski.livejournal.com]

My brain parts definitely do not have conversations as interesting as your brain parts. Their conversation tends to be something like this:

*alarm goes off*

HINDBRAIN: Turn it off!

MIDBRAIN: Yeah, turn it off!

FOREBRAIN: *turns alarm off*

FOREBRAIN, MIDBRAIN, HINDBRAIN: *roll over and go back to sleep*

It's not really much of a conversation, per se.

And I suddenly imagined my brain as the Three Stooges (Shemp can be the amygdala or some other bit that no one cares about).

[olivetree.livejournal.com]

The world is better because you're in it.

:D

[sistahraven.livejournal.com]

Jai Ho means "you will be victorious" :)

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Cool!

The French version, "J'ai Ho", is very different.

[bulrogue.livejournal.com]

*spews coffee on the screen...AGAIN!*

[clionona.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, I think I love your brain(s)!
♥!

And I'd totally do Jai Ho with you at karaoke...

The pumped up Pussy Cat Dolls version, though. 'Cause that's how I roll.

:D

[contradictacat.livejournal.com]

I think it's a combination of Hindi and Spanish, oddly enough.

Also, this is why I am looking forward SO MUCH to the Cedar Point trip. It will be EPIC.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Um. Er. The trip during the weekend when I have to work? :(

[morgan-lafaye.livejournal.com]

Gawd I miss you. My brain has too many sections that must never talk to the others parts. Then there is the hamster who is suppose to keep it all neat and tidy.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

adding you to my lj friendslist was one of the best decisions I ever made.

[breakinglight11.livejournal.com]

I love everything you post. Especially this.

[ravenofdreams.livejournal.com]

I am so glad that I seem not to be the only one with a brain ruled by committee. (Though, lately, mine seem to be half Mexican and half Japanese and I speak neither Spanish nor Japanese. We've been getting very little done over here.)

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

I heart you.