Of Montreal's new album, "False Priest" (Polyvinyl), is its 10th and mingles tales of fractured romance, sci-fi visions and bits of confession: "If I treated someone else the way I treat myself, I'd be in jail," Mr. Barnes proclaimed in "Girl Named Hello".
Rodgers and Hammerstein's vision of romance is itself a modern fairy tale.
"When I was young, I had a really skewed vision of romance, from watching all these musicals," Mr. Zachary said.
But the song also hints at what's wrong with the album: its vision of romance is profoundly unconvincing.
Didn't scriptwriter Beau Willlimon realise some of his viewers might want to celebrate Valentine's Day with a less jaded vision of romance?
Like Austen before her, Eliot prefers a vision of romance that is based on common values and mutual respect, rather than a faith in masculine and feminine difference (the goose and the gander, as she terms it).
Happy to get halfway toward their goals, religious enough to resort to prayer in difficult moments and pledged to a monogamous vision of romance, the characters in Bon Jovi songs could be in an Andy Hardy film or a Stephen Foster ballad.
He seems to have a vision of romance that proceeds directly from hair-pulling to true love, and so by the end of Return of the Jedi, Leia is relegated mostly to spouting platitudes, even if she is Luke's sister.
Their doom-laden musical vision meshes romance, tragedy, and energy to C86-era audio stylings.
Hollis mixes the factual bran of history with the romance of the imagination to produce some delightfully atmospheric visions of the past; and he also gives us a short, sharp take on the future of history.
