Da Rules: Music: Caramelldansen

If you do not remember, Caramelldansen is a song made by some Swedish Eurodance group.  It became famous through the following looped animation set to the chorus (which was also looped):

This song is just so… high energy, that I am placing a further restriction on it, in addition to the fact that it is in the Insomnia Playlist.  The restriction is thus: For every 24 hours, I can only spend 2 of them listening to Caramelldansen (speedycake remix, by the way).  Now, that might seem like a lot, but the song is almost 3 minutes long, and so that becomes only about 42 listens.

So…. yeah.  I don’t have too much else to say.  Ooh!  I do have something I could share – I got SOCKS!  They’re blue, and have lightning bolts on them, and they remind me of socks that Dobby would make!  Awesome!  Oh, and here’s another video, but this time with the entire song, not just the chorus.  Same blasted animation, though.  Oh, and that is apparently an actual dance.  People have filmed themselves dancing to that song whilst doing that dance, and put it up on youtube.  Anywho:

Addendum: Please do not judge this blog based on the AMV’s in this post.  This blog is really much cooler than that.  It has Harry Potter references!  And breasts! (See top right corner)

Da Rules: Music: Gunther – Scar

Here’s the second batch of music that will be on my Insomnia playlist!

Pleasure Man by Gunther & the Sunshine Girls
You know how Aqua had great music and hilariously bad lyrics?  Gunther is like that, but even more so.  This album WILL make you move, be it uncontrollable dancing, or uncontrollable laughing at lyrics like “Ohhhh, you touch my tra la la / Mmmmm, my ding ding dong” and “I’m so free / You wake the stud inside me / So take your chance / Let’s do the mating dance”.  Throw in a deep understated sense of irony, and you’ll have one of the best albums to drive away sleep, EVER.

“Hampster Dance Techno Radio Edit” by Hampton the Hamster
De de de de de do du du…

“O Little Town Of Bethlehem” by Hangnail
Hangnail’s super fast rock version of one of the most somber-sounding Christmas hymns is nothing short of amazing.

Enchanted Ceiling EP by Harry & The Potters
What it would sound like if Fishboy and They Might Be Giants teamed up to make a wizard rock album.

The Power of Love by Harry & The Potters
My first ever wizard rock album, and still one of my favorites.

“Platform 9 And ¾”, “Save Ginny Weasley”, and “Blood of a Prince” by Harry & The Potters
Two of the HatP standards, and one of their darkest, most metal songs, respectively.

“Girlfriend” by Harry’sJulie
Filking (fandom-themed parodies) takes the guilt out of guilty pleasure music, like this parody of the Avril Lavigne song, from Ginny’s point of view.

Da Rules: Music: 2 Unlimited – Green Day

“Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!”
-Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

Time for the first post explaining the rules!  First off, we’re going to tackle the issue of music.  Music has long been recognized as a key weapon in the fight against sleep, and as such, I’m going to set a “budget” of time for me to listen to certain songs.  You see, it’s not enough to just stay up for 72 straight hours.  Any fool with loud enough music, bright lights, and some surgical needles can do that.  I want to make it challenging.

So, I have compiled a playlist (entitled “Insomnia”) of the bounciest, danciest songs that I have.  For every 24 hours, I can only spend 8 hours listening to the songs on that playlist.  I will compute this by resetting the play counts for all the songs at the very beginning of my sojourn, and then resetting it again every 24 hours.  After the 8 hours are used up, I can only listen to music from another playlist (entitled “Limit Break” – it’s a Final Fantasy pun/reference) until I’ve hit the next day.

So, for your reading pleasure, I have typed up that list of songs, and appended to each a quick note of explanation, or some such.  Also, please note that titles in quotation marks are song titles.  Title in italics are album titles, and thus, all songs in that album are part of the playlist.  Also, some entries have relevant links in them, so be on the lookout for that.