Peter and I went to see Hairspray at the Princess of Wales Theatre on Friday. Loads of fun! Excellent cast, wonderful costumes and sets, and oh yeah, the best earworm music I’ve encountered since I saw South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Marc Shaiman, not coincidently, wrote the music for both). Earworm is a direct translation from the German “ohrwurm” (pronounced oar-verm), and is a very descriptive name for a catchy tune that bores into your consciousness and won’t get out, no matter what you do. With me, earworms tend to be pieces I like (at least initially)… though now that I think of it, Jon did have a Sound of Music phase a while back that affected us (or should that be infected us?) worm-wise.