Thursday, January 17, 2013  Book Soundtrack: Kelly Hogan Meets
Gone Girl  Kelly Hogan's We Can't Have Nice Things is this
week's book soundtrack choice for Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl. The
song is about love gone awry. Two lovers can't sustain a loving
relationship. The passion they once had has melted into a toxic
acid that destroys everything it touches. Welcome to our humble
home, we can't invite you in/Cause someone's gone and made a
wreck of everything again. They keep their mess hidden behind
closed doors. They suffer in silence.  In Gone Girl, Nick and
Amy can barely tolerate each other. They've learned that the
person they married five years ago is different from the person
they wake up to every morning. They hurt each other. The acid is
eating them alive, yet they're addicted to the toxicity. This is
piqued by the lyric: A teardrop on each pillow here, a hole in
every wall/Still I'd rather have these things than have nothing.
They don't know how to live without each other. They don't know
how to live w