CoL 49 p. 14
Robin Landseadel
robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Wed Jul 8 08:49:08 CDT 2009
On Jul 8, 2009, at 4:54 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:
> Did anyone besides me think the use of "Little Boxes" as
> introductory music for the early seasons of "Weeds" was highly
> misplaced? Or it could have been ironic. Since the houses in the
> upscale community in which the story takes place seemed to all be
> upscale multimillion dollar mansions.
>
> Wonderful song however.
>
> P
I though the use of "Little Boxes" as the "Weeds" theme was right on-
target. Those upscale McMansions in the opening montage were arranged
with the same "hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning", that same
ordering of a community along the pattern of a printed circuit that
Oedipa first encountered in San Narciso.
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