This is Amedeo. He has been cutting my mom's hair for a good ten years now, and he did all of our hair for my wedding. I figured since I was back in Montreal this week, I would get him to cut my hair. Because really, when else do I get the chance to have an Italian dude named Amedeo run his fingers through my hair and tell me how sassy I look?

Every time my mom mentions Amedeo, I get this song stuck in my head. You know that song with a techno-pop-dance beat that has a chorus that repeats "Amadeo, Amadeo" over and over?

Yeah ... umm ... me neither.

So I decided to try and figure out if this song stuck in my head actually existed, and if so, what it is. An exhaustive Google search of "Amadeo, Amadeo" brought me this, which, despite not being what I was looking for, is actually WAY better than the original song in my head:

But after holding a mini dance party in my bedroom, which may have resulted in a minor neck injury, I still had the other song in my head.

Amadeo, Amadeo.

Amadeo, Amadeo.

I vaguely remember hearing a radio show about some website that allows you to record yourself singing portions of a song you have stuck in your head but don't know the title or artist, and then lets the general public (i.e. those with nothing better to do than listen to clips of tone-deaf people yelling into their computer microphones) give you guesses on what the song might be. The only two problems with this course of action: 1) I haven't the slightest clue what the website is; and 2) ummm ... have you ever heard me sing?

With a lucky shot in the cyberdark, combined with mindless indifference towards my already unwieldy list of usernames and passwords, I conveniently found myself signed up as a member of WatZatSong.com. Despite my skepticism towards the ability of even the most gifted musician to recognize anything that I might sing, I immediately filled out a "Guess Request" form complete with a 5-second vocal performance, and my helpful description "the only thing I can remember about this song is that there is a chorus that repeats 'Amadeo, Amadeo."

Now, I gotta give props to the legions of cybergeeks out there who see it as a priority second only to breathing to make sure that people in the world do not suffer the torture of having a nameless, faceless song bit stuck in their heads. Because within two minutes of posting my far-fetched request I noticed that seven people had already listened to the clip, and within five minutes someone had already posted a guess. The first guess was close, pointing me to a song by Era called "Ameno" but it wasn't a match.

I was already giddy with delight that people were actually responding, regardless of the results. But imagine my sheer nerd-bliss when, only seconds after I confirmed that the first guess was not a match, a new guess was posted. And not just any guess ... A CORRECT GUESS! Which turns out to be even more impressive, considering I later discovered that not only was my microphone off when I made my recording, but I was also wrong about the lyrics that I did know ...

So, here's to all the high school nerds holed up in their basement bedrooms, working their 24-inch iMacs hard into the wee hours of morn and saving the world from unidentified musical compositions. Nerds, I salute you! As a token of my appreciation I present to you the crooning of 1980's German pop-rapper Falco, with 'Rock Me Amadeus.'

(Sorry, I couldn't embed this video ... you know how those 1980's German rappers feel about their work ... )