Both literary and exuberantly naive, the song epitomizes a particular everything-at-once way of thinking and being. In the ’80s, it was easy to disparage hyperassociation like this as awkwardly geekish. It belied an ignorance of when to shut up—think Rick Moranis as the factoid-spouting Louis Tully in Ghostbusters. (Or for that matter, Rick Moranis in anything.) But something funny happened on the way to the millennium: the geeks won.This is a Blizzapocalypse Open Thread.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
THE SONG IS BARELY THREE MINUTES LONG, BUT IT CHANGES KEYS 18 TIMES: A thinkpiece on "Birdhouse in Your Soul":
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