This week I'll be mostly making a compilation cd

Burning a cd.
Not sure if I'm doing it right?

I come from a generation of kids who used to sit in their bedrooms on Sunday nights with a radio and a tape recorder, taping the music off the Top 40 on Radio 1. It was quite an exacting science. I think I speak for most of us when I say that it was incredibly important to not have any talking from the DJ in your recording. There was an art to working out when the record was beginning to fade and Tony Blackburn was just about to start wittering on, or Tommy Vance was going to share more wisdom. You'd hit pause at just the right point - or if you were too late, press stop, quick split-second blast of rewind, then record and pause - then wait for the next song.

This week I'll be mostly mishearing lyrics

Let me screw this into your shoe?

Now I've been wanting to put together a misheard lyrics vid for YouTube for about a year now. I keep getting started with something, but never really get very far.

I was reminded of this when, for reasons that I won't go into at this point, someone read out a handful of French sentences to me over the phone last night which I was required to write down.

But having French sentences read out to me over the phone is nothing to do with this week's blog. My point is, however, that those pesky French don't pronounce just about any of the letters in the entire alphabet. I mean, why bother putting 's' or 't' or even 'x' on the end of a word if you are just going to say 'uh' instead?

Moving on (and trying to get to some sort of point (please (I hear you say)))...

So here's the thing. Trying to understand these French sentences that were being read out to me over the phone is suspiciously similar to trying to understand the lyrics to just about any Earth Wind and Fire song. When we were on holiday a while back, we fell about in the car while listening to EW&F's Let's Groove, convinced that the chorus went "Let me screw this into your shoe, It's alight! Aaalight!"

So, back to YouTube. It's all well and good coming up with a misheard lyrics vid, but you've got to pick your song carefully. The classic misheard is of course Wishmaster, with almost 5 million views at the time of writing.

So, I've decided on an Earth Wind & Fire track (and no, it's not Let's Groove), and I've got the lyrics mostly sorted. Got the storyboard sorted too. Just need the drawings (hello Abbie), and to remember the password to the YouTube account that I opened a year ago and never used.

Might have it finished by this time next year. Don't hold your breath.