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Little Boxes…

It’s strange, sometimes, the things that catch my ear. The other day I was watching the show, Weeds, on Showtime. It wasn’t the show itself that caught my attention, but a song on the show.

The song is called, “Little Boxes” and I believe it’s the intro to the show. I did a little research and found this little bit in the Wikipedia:

“My mother and father were driving South from San Francisco through Daly City when my mom got the idea for the song. She asked my dad to take the wheel, and she wrote it on the way to the gathering in La Honda where she was going to sing for the Friends Committee on Legislation. When Time Magazine (I think, maybe Newsweek) wanted a photo of her pointing to the very place, she couldn’t find those houses because so many more had been built around them that the hillsides were totally covered.”

Anyone’s that’s visited that particular area would be able to identify with this song. Hundreds of little identical homes, lined up on the hillsides. All of the people inside of those homes with their jobs, going to school, doing what’s expected of them. Ugh.

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