Saturday, March 8, 2008

Pop culture questions

There was a day when the only song Jamie would listen to was "Jackson" by Johnny Cash and June Carter. Things have expanded a bit now and he has his own little playlist on the iPod. Mostly the stuff you'd expect, Beach Boys, Beatles, and some other hits of the 60s. Interestingly, they both seem to like the Ramones. At the first chords of "Blitzkrieg Pop" Connor begins thrashing around in his carseat.

Jamie likes to know what the songs are about and we find we appreciate the Beach Boys for the relative thematic directness that makes it easy to explain. In other cases he asks some interesting questions, such as: "Why Sloopy has to hang on?" The easy answer, that she comes from the wrong side of town, only prompts more questions.

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