Showing posts with label pretty polly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pretty polly. Show all posts
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Pretty Polly
A little creepiness for Halloween. An animated video by Jonas Tarestad based on Dock Boggs awesomely unsettling (unsettlingly awesome?) 1927 rendition of the old murder ballad "Pretty Polly." Before the true crime novel--and long before Law & Order--America got its murder fix from ballads. Weird.
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