Music can be a powerful thing.  It can inspire, motivate, intrigue, or drive you crazy!  Two musical interludes are starting to get on my nerves.

The first is the music that accompanies the NC Lottery commercials.  It plays on both TV and radio, and I've heard just about enough of it.  On television, the commercial shows lots of Las Vegas or Broadway style dancers singing the praises of the lottery.  "It's amazing!"  Why is it that we find a piece of music terrific or terrible or nerve-racking?  This commercial is enough to drive me away from the lottery.

The other piece of music -- if you can call it that -- is a mystery to me.  It's hard to describe, but anyone who has watched a football game in the last year has certainly heard it.  It probably has no more than 20 notes in the entire riff.  It's some kind of synthesized bass sound that plays when they're trying to get the crowd going.  Even though I'm tired of hearing it, I desperately want to know what it is.  It must be new because I've only recently started hearing it.  How do you google a sound in your head?  I've tried, and it's not easy.  One day I'm going to figure out what it is and where it came from.  Until then, the beat goes on.