So I have just managed to get a footnote about Joni Mitchell into my paper on ruins/stripmalls/parking lots: even paradise was paved in "Big Yellow Taxi".
For any of you wanting a pop culture reference for discussions of Silent Spring look no further than the second verse:
"Hey farmer, farmer
Put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples
But LEAVE me the birds and the bees
Please!"
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What about the Talking Heads retort in "Nothing but flowers"
There was a shopping mall
Now it's all covered with flowers
You've got it, you've got it
If this is paradise
I wish I had a lawnmower...
This was a discount store
Now it's turned into a cornfield
You got it, you got it
Don't leave me stranded here
I can't get used to this lifestyle
Good point. That's going in there as well.
Oh God, that Joni Mitchell bit would NOT leave my head while I was reading SS. It's enough to turn a good environmentalist bad.
who needs ddt
i just killed a co-op fruit fly with my bare hands
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