we build a wall to keep us free, that's why we build the wall, we build the wall to keep us free

Feb 26, 2012 20:21

You know what's amazing?

Hadestown! It's a folk-rock opera/concept album based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and set in a combination of the southern United States during the Great Depression and a dream-like post-societal-collapse future dystopia. Hadestown is an underground city of relative wealth that's extremely hard to get into or out of; Orpheus is a starving musician; Hermes is a train-hopping hobo; Persephone makes bootleg liquor and presides over a speakeasy beneath the earth, etc.

Carrie, you will love this. (The guy who sings the part of Hades sounds pretty much the way I think Dream would sound.)  Everybody else, I encourage you to take a listen, too.

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