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    • I wonder if the Velvet Underground song is a reference to Sartre’s “Huis Clos” (“No Exit.”) It’s a very bleak and quintessential Existentialist play. In it, to give a very brief summary, a man and two women are escorted to a room where they will spend eternity. They psychologically torture each other. At one point one of the women says to the other, who is very beautiful and very vain, that since the room has no mirrors she’ll be her mirror. This freaks the woman out. There’s a lot more to it than that. It is from this that one of Sartre’s most famous quotes comes from, “Hell is others.”

  15. Not exactly mirror-related, more like a window into another world, but it is from the best musical decade in history, the 1980s, and features Norwegian synth-pop band A-ha. I think when it came out it was played on MTV at least once hourly.
     

  21. Ok, so this is not mirror themed, but I listened to an old playlist in my library earlier and I had forgotten how much I loved this song, and The Faint in general. 


    This is the first DUAN I’m commenting on, hopefully I’m doing it right.

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