Aerosmith and Gunsmith

NRA: Is rather fond of guns.

Perhaps opposites attract. Sarah Vowell and her Dad, in her "Shooting Dad", are as different as chalk and cheese and two peas in a pod. It all begins and ends with a bang!, with a gun/cannon shot. She loses interest in guns when she has her first interaction with one at the age of six, and subsequently, interest in her father and his hobbies. While her father loves working with guns and most weapons of destruction, she turns to music and the arts. Furthermore, their house is likened to a war zone, with only a few areas in the house that are not dominated, and her twin glumly says that she is the "loneliest twin in history". The differences are endless and almost insuperable. 

Vowell has a sudden revelation (as her father is lobbing cannonballs in a public mountain and she is madly waving around a microphone) where she realizes that she is just as quirky as her father is; the two have messy work-spaces and enjoy fiddling with various gadgets. Although Vowell still does not like guns, she concedes by admiring the awesome power of the cannon, and the effect it had on her. Both are artists of different kinds, aerosmith and gunsmith, and her father's gesamtkunstwerk is a symphony in which her whole family will eventually play a part in.

Debussy: Writes Clair de Lune.

Although the two have their differences, their relationship is not strained. She may not be as close as her twin is to her father, Vowell and her father have light, playful exchanges as they banter and joke around with each other, which is their manner of expressing love.  (Just as some married couples will argue and tease each other but not  really mean it seriously.) Ultimately, she sees past her differences and decides that she has much more in common with her father than she had thought.