Listening to: Shonen Knife.

The music of the "Russian Sailors' Dance" was
running through my head when suddenly i realized
i was simultaneously hearing the theme from "Davey
and Goliath"--they had four consecutive notes
in common. I was able to shift back & forth
between them at will. I dub this phenomenon
ambimelodism & note that, although i
sometimes discover it listening to one song or
another, there is nothing i can do to recognize
such overlappings in music i already know by
thinking back searchingly...

Imagine a reader who prefers "shannonized"
prose to that composed directly by humans,
which seems in comparison too banal & too
manipulative: well, that's kind of how i
feel about my preference for instrumentals
& songs in languages i don't know.