Country Music and Suicide
Country music is hypothesized to nurture a suicidal mood through its concerns with problems common in the suicidal population, such as marital discord, alcohol abuse, and alienation from work. The results of a multiple regression analysis of 49 metropolitan areas show that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate. The effect is independent of divorce, southernness, poverty, and gun availability. The existence of a country music subculture is thought to reinforce the link between country music and suicide. Our model explains 51% of the variance in urban white suicide rates."
I knew that was X doing Shoot Out the Lights.
Philip Glass video made for
Sesame Street
in 1977: [link]
A blog sez:
According to the Muppet Wiki, "these works very closely resemble the "Dance" numbers written during the same time period as (Glass's) Einstein on the Beach opera."
I'd agree with that. Also, the person who made the video must have studied geometry....
Jon, Matthew Ryan's version of "Little Drummer Boy" on this album is very eerie and ghostly and haunting. And Vince Guaraldi's "My Little Drum" from
A Charlie Brown Christmas
is the exact opposite, a totally joyful variant.
This is possibly the most obvious and pedestrian suggestion anyone could possibly make, yet my Guaraldi love compels me to hit "Post" anyway.
No, those are both great suggestions -- thanks!
You know, someone could do a cover using a cheap Casio keyboard and a voice synthesizer à la MC Hawking....
Thank you, Jon! I'll point my friend there.
BTW, Jilli? Have you gotten the Siouxisie solo album yet? Because it's good. Really, REALLY good.
Of COURSE I have it. I think it's fabulous, and I am filled with despair that she's not coming to Seattle on tour.
We are going to the LA Siouxsie show. Woot!
checks tour dates
Damn, only New York on the east coast? Frelling Big Apple. That's a microscopic tour, though. Sheesh.
