the princess diaries 2 soundtrack lived in my discman. our living room radio was for radio disney. the boxy glitchy little alarm clock/radio/tape player in my bedroom was for jazz. when cds lived outside of my discman, i could offer them a home in my blue and orange nickelodeon karaoke machine (just a small boom box w/ attached microphone lol, pictured here). & when i was 11 i got an ipod shuffle that i wore around my neck and filled with songs mostly by lemon demon and smoosh (smoosh had recently been profiled in american girl magazine).
only did this because the concept of a rhyme-based movie-pairing scheme is funny, but they were actually sooo gripping together. two very different horror genres operating on entirely different scales (rope as the horror of being in close quarters w/ people, nope as the horror of wide-open space)....but there's such a strong resonance between nope's relationship to visual information and rope's relationship to spoken information. i was Experiencing It. total run-time 3 and a half hrs.
