For some random reason unbeknownst to me (or Sam) I was thinking about my trip to Ireland, and suddenly remembered that while we were on the bus the driver was playing this album full of pop songs covered by Irish artists, only all done acousticly with lots of traditional Irish instruments, done live by this radio station for a charity. And I remember absolutley loving some of the songs, like this male version of "Crazy In Love" and another dude singing "Can't Get You Out of My Head" and some Elvis impersonator (who apparently is famous in Ireland for it) singing Enrique Iglesias's "Escape". Okay, so that last one was really tacky, but really fantasticy tacky.

Anyways, I suddenly went on a craze, searching for the name of this album, trying to find a tracklist so I could download songs, and it took for freaking ever. Finally I stumbled on a slight hint, that this Irish artist Mark Harte according to his website had covered a Beyonce song (didn't say which) for some charity record, so I was like, "OMG!! THIS IS IT!!!"

So I found the album name on his discography page of some fan website and looked it up, only then I could not find it anywhere because apparently the album had sold out since it was so popular in Ireland and isn't for sale anymore, and there wasn't any other info on it (especially none on American websites) but since it was so successful they released a 2nd and 3rd volume, so through one of the sites with those tracklistings, I found this European music software to download songs with (like iTunes) and you got 25 free downloads for a 14 day trial, and I remebered hearing some of the songs from the 2nd volume, so I downloaded a bunch of those, and then miraculously they had downloads for the 1st record as well. I was so excited I nearly peed myself.

So of course, I used up my free 25 downloads in under 5 mins, and then cancelled my trial :)

And now I'm happy, sitting here playing my newly aquired loves.

AH!! That's it!! That's what made me think of Ireland. I was thinking of how I love Irish accents, cause some dude on tv had one, and then I told Sam I needed to marry an Irishman, so I can just listen to him speak, and then I told her how I would have married our Irish bus driver in an instant, and how amazing he was and how good of a singing voice he had, and how he was singing to us, and that made me think of all the other great music he played to us, and that reminded me of the great album!! (Who's title I realize I never typed. It's "Even Better Than The Real Thing" Vol.1 and Vol.2 are the best.)

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