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alfreda89 ([personal profile] alfreda89) wrote2007-12-08 02:27 am
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Caulking is my life

But while I'm caulking, I'm thinking up story stuff -- and occasionally finding weird, wonderful stuff. You know you believe the following:

http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2007/12/country_music_and_suicide.php

My favorite was this one, which "assesses the link between country music and metropolitan suicide rates":

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."

The actual paper:

http://www.uta.edu/depken/ugrad/3318/music-suicide.pdf

Yes, I am amused...grimly amused.
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[identity profile] starcat-jewel.livejournal.com 2007-12-08 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. You and me both; having lived in Nashville for 26 years, if I never hear another C&W song again it'll be too soon. For a genre that touts itself as "family-oriented", it sure spends a lot of time celebrating abusive men, losers of both genders, immorality (by its own standards, which are not necessarily mine), and self-destructive behavior in general.

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2007-12-09 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
For a genre that touts itself as "family-oriented", it sure spends a lot of time celebrating abusive men, losers of both genders, immorality (by its own standards, which are not necessarily mine), and self-destructive behavior in general.

I've always wondered about that, too. And CW music has the best titles. I think my current favorite title is "Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goal posts of life."

[identity profile] 6-penny.livejournal.com 2007-12-10 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
I've always savored 'there's a dead skunk in the middle of the road, stinking to high heaven'!

Then there was a folkie heard once only and never foregotten (maybe by Fairport Convention) The Knight in Rusty Armour. about the problems he encountered when he needed to remove (at least the fly portion ) of his armor and couldn't.

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2007-12-10 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
I've always savored 'there's a dead skunk in the middle of the road, stinking to high heaven'!

We loved that because it went all the way to the end of the first verse with one sentence!

Then there was a folkie heard once only and never foregotten (maybe by Fairport Convention) The Knight in Rusty Armour. about the problems he encountered when he needed to remove (at least the fly portion ) of his armor and couldn't.

Oops. Hope it was just sweat -- he'd have a fighting chance of moving the mesh if it was rust from water. Not sure about the added ingredients....
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