Comments on: Murder, mayhem and music: part two

By: Kate the Great

Kate the Great — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:18:32 +0000

I love the prose, too, PB. Add my melody to the refrain of praises.

By: trixie

trixie — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:42:46 +0000

beautiful prose, pandora.
and we loved the mix. thank you.
trixie

By: swells

swells — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:43:51 +0000

so early in the year to be posting your best of 2008! that’s not to underestimate your future posts, but I doubt you or anyone could top this prose!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:17:07 +0000

Something that occurred to me when I was rereading this was how there’s this music that usually passes for rebellious, bad-boy/girl music that kids get into, and it’s rock music, or maybe hip hop. But you can make the argument that rock and hip hop are so suburbanized and commodified that they’re perfectly safe — suburban rebellion, nothing more. (Hip hop being more complicated, of course, because a lot of it really comes from “the streets” but is appropriated by suburban kids.) Which leaves unpopular musics, including this old murdery stuff, untouched by the Starbucksification of rebellion and thus really much more frightening, potentially.

(Sorry, end of day, end of week, not very coherent.)

By: Bryan Waterman

Bryan Waterman — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:36:46 +0000

One of my favorite memories of the last 10 year came during one of our old annual camping trips — Pandora singing a ballad at the campfire — something wicked about the singer having sex with the devil or something like that — and her being slightly worried that the kids were still awake in their tents and able to hear the whole thing …