Little Boxes on the Hillside

Have you seen the new Showtime series called Weeds? What a funny show. The story revolves around a suburban widow that sells pot in her upper class bedroom community. In one episode a character is going off on her suburban house with an atrium. But the best thing has to be the theme song from folk singer Malvina Reynolds:

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
Little boxes, little boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses
All go to the university,
And they all get put in boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
And there’s doctors and there’s lawyers
And business executives,
And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf-course,
And drink their Martini dry,
And they all have pretty children,
And the children go to school.
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university,
And they all get put in boxes
And they all come out the same.

And the boys go into business,
And marry, and raise a family,
And they all get put in boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.

You can hear a preview of the theme song on iTunes. I’ve downloaded the song and next time I’m driving through one of those “ticky-tacky” subdivisions I’m going to play the song loudly from my iPod as I pass each box. I’ll have a big smile on my face the whole time.

– Steve