Cognitive Dissonance hurts my head.

[cyrano]

There has to be a point at which irony disintegrates, leaving a radioactive spray of heavy metal floating in the air for hundreds of years.

The new iPod commercials (New device desirable. Old device undesirable.) proudly proclaim the nifty new feature of the latest technology product. And in the background is a song by Miss Li called "Bourgeois Shangri-La" which is about--wait for it--being surrounded by a consumer culture and trapped in social expectations and the desire to escape it. Kind of a Pleasant Valley iSunday.

If I wrote this into one of my stories, people would complain that I was over the top.

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[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

You kids and your music these days.