Laughing sound, media keys funny, and black select boxes

I've only had my macbook for 2 weeks and its gone weird today. It starts with a black select box around icons, popup windows, and the task bar. Then i try to listen to the new mac holiday add when i hear weird laughing. Then the laughing starts when i click on something, anything. I try to turn down the volume with the media key (F12) then dashboard comes in. The contrast keys dont work, and F11 makes firefox browser move to the top right of the screen out of view.
HELP ME i am in mac ****.

Hi Doug,
Thank you for your help. I have done some more problem solving and I found something strange in the activity monitor. So i 'quit the process' and shut down. Its all fixed now.
Thanks again, Merry Christmas

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