The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.
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Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!
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Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe.
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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
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Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.
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My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.
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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.
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