All around me are familiar badgers

I suspect I'm not alone in often finding myself passing the day with a familiar song running as an undercurrent to my thoughts, near inaudible until you reach a lull in your mental processes and discover that it's been there all along. It happened to me again, today, although in a slight variation on the theme, my mental radio station seemed intent on randomly flipping between two contrasting tracks.

The first was the Gary Jules cover of Mad World, a hauntingly melodic interpretation of Tears For Fears original. The song was featured prominently in Donnie Darko (a film I'm still trying to decide whether I liked or not, but given that it was a thought provoking alternative to the usual mindless summer blockbusters I'm inclined to weigh in on it's side) and turned out to be surprise Christmas hit over this side of the Atlantic just a few short months ago. It's a beautiful, melancholic song that I like far more than I feel I should.

The other was... well, it's not even a proper song as such. Rather it's a meme of sorts, and I should warn you in advance that it's a particularly aggressive and addictive strain. It will crawl and claw it's way into the darkest recesses of your mind, there to lodge forever more. You'll almost certainly regret clicking on the link, so take my advice and don't do it. The foolhardy amongst you should go here.