CoL 49 p. 14

Paul Mackin mackin.paul at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 09:27:32 CDT 2009



On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Robin Landseadel wrote:

> 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.
Yeah, that part I can agree with.

But "little" is somethin' else.

P



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