As bricking and demolition continue this week, C-VILLE is finally getting a first-person perspective on just what its like to have Mall construction going on in front of your office. Greeting us now, not five steps out the office door, are the omnipresent green barriers.
Once completed, the Mall will once again hustle and bustle with sounds of children laughing, buskers playing music and dishes clinking onto metal tables. But right now, all Brick Watch can hear are saws, drills, and hammers outside. C-VILLE’s Publisher’s Assistant Christina Luke says the noise is especially bad "when someone opens the door."
Given these joys of the brick, we thought we would share the joys of some famous bricks. From fairy tales and pop music, to stockcar racing and outdoor shopping plazas, bricks are pretty much everywhere. Here’s the who’s who of bricks:
1. Legos: The Danish sure do know how to make bricks fun! Whoopee!
2. The Wizard of Oz: Basically a movie about the Mall, except they changed the color of the bricks. Elton John’s famous double album, Yellow Brick Road, also gives this movie a boost.
3. Pink Floyd, Another Brick in the Wall: Hello? Of course their three-part anti-establishment anthem would make this list.
4. Indianapolis Motor Speedway: Any NASCAR fans out there?
5. The Commodores, "Brick House": This poetic extended metaphor for a beautiful woman is, well, about as evolved as a brick itself.
That’s all for today, folks. But we’ll leave you with this, which quite spectacularly combines No. 1 and No. 3.
