Another night at the office

I have this thing with bringing annoying/horrible/awesome songs into the Sagebrush office and playing them louder than is respectable to my coworkers.

Hey, it's what I do.

This trend started pretty much when I started working at the newspaper back in the fall of 2004. Our newspaper is weekly, and every Monday night is sort of like a competition between the sections to see who can get out first. For the two-and-half I was sports editor, I was the first section out all but about three weeks.

And because I'm a merciless prick, and not at all a team player, I had to find a way to hilariously display my superiority in a way that not only made it clear that I had won, but also completely annoyed and tore down those who I had beaten.

The answer was Europe's "The Final Countdown."

Every time I finished first, I would pick up the phone and call the news section next door and have my assistant turn on the speaker phone, then blast the song throughout the office until, and sometimes after, somebody threatened me with homicide.



While "The Final Countdown" became the anthem to my awesomeness, Scott and I stepped up the craptasticness by having competitions to see who could come up with the most awesomely bad music videos on YouTube - which almost always devolved into the age old Damn Yankees vs. Winger battle royale with the occasional Foreigner vs. Air Supply faceoff smattered in.

This fall I started a new anthem, "Return of the Mack" by Mark Morrison. While the video is pants, I argue the song is classic.



Regardless, I've also been known to loop Eiffel 65's "Blue" for minutes at a time and start in-office raves complete with techno beats and homemade strobe lights.

Tonight I brought in a new little gem, the dance remix to Summer Jam (you know - "We're gonna party as much as we can" followed by the terrible mid-90s American trance beat).

(This is a different remix version)



This drove pretty much everybody in the office crazy, and somehow the madness created a new, weird competition. Who could come up with the best boy band video.

We have an ongoing office survey to figure out whether N'SYNC or the Backstreet Boys stand as the quintessential boy band. I'm one of like three people who thinks the BBs were better (all five of their members could sing, whereas N'SYNC was Justin Timberlake, sort of JC Chasez, and a bunch of douche bags who could have been replaced at the drop of a hat).

Anyway, this led to about 30 minutes of nothing but boy band music, and I'm claiming that I won with "I want it that way."



Then, for some reason, I started playing Meatloaf video's and everything went to hell. Whatever.

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