February 2011
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I just heard this song for the first time and it...
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Frailty
After meeting Bill Paxton at a Sarasota Film Society event (a very nice guy who let my friend and me take a picture with him), I was compelled to watch his 2001 film, Frailty, which he directed. I don’t know exactly how to feel about this film after seeing it. It was beyond creepy as Paxton plays a single father of two who one day suddenly proclaims that he has a mission from God to kill...
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“Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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Mike Cooley Interview →
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M.Ward & Jim James's Creme Brulee Blog →
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“You went to Memphis to find yourself
Read every Elvis book on the shelf
Even...”
– Jason & The Scorchers
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The Apostle
I’m in the midst of writing a paper about music and the Latin Middle Ages/music in Christianity and I have somehow incorporated Robert Duvall’s film, The Apostle… I guess I love having a “southern thing” to go along to keep me interested and help my understanding. I figure that my thesis will end up being centered around Southern-ness. I’m also excited about...
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Such is the duality of the southern thing...
I grew up in North Alabama, back in the 1970’s, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth… Speaking of course of the Three Great Alabama Icons… George Wallace, Bear Bryant and Ronnie Van Zant… Now Ronnie Van Zant wasn’t from Alabama, he was from Florida… He was a huge Neil Young fan… But in the tradition of Merle Haggard writin’ Okie from Muskogee to tell his dad’s point of...
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“The mountain moon
Forever sets too soon
Bein’ alone is all the hills can...”
– Townes Van Zandt
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Northern Exposure
I miss watching this show. I watched up until Rob Morrow’s last episode then read on Wikipedia that Maggie and Chris end up together by the end (huh? That’s a Wonder Years-esque ending). Their world was obviously much better with Fleischman. On a side note, to end a show satisfactorily seems impossible. One of my favorites was The Sopranos, but then again a lot of other viewers were...
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Bill Paxton
Texas-boy Bill Paxton, pictured above with BBT in one of my favorite films, A Simple Plan, will be speaking after a showing of Twister in Sarasota this month. When I first heard today I immediately emailed to reserve a (free) ticket. I’m going to keep my fingers crossed to be able to enjoy the presence of the person who portrayed the best Aliens character, Pvt. Hudson. If this happens,...
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Teddy Thompson →
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“You can transmute love, muddle it, ignore it, but you can never pull it out of...”
– E.M. Forster
Finding quotations was never this easy
(via librietlibertas)
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Down around Biloxi Big girls are swimming in the sea Oh they look like sisters in the ocean The boy refilled his pail with salted water And the storms were blown from off towards New Orleans The sun shined on Biloxi The air was filled with vapors from the sea And the boy would dig a pool beside the ocean He sees creatures from a dream on the water And the sun would set from off towards New Orleans...
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I love Sundays. I get nostalgic, I throw on some old school country (Patsy Cline is playing now: “I stop to see a weepin’ willow cryin’ on his pillow. Maybe he’s cryin’ for me”) and I want to take a drive. Ideally, I’d be driving down I-17 that cuts through the pines down east Georgia. Yes, just like in Praying for Sheetrock. Everything just seems so...
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The slow constellations wheeled on -William Faulkner
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Concerts
Bob Dylan; The Raconteurs; John Prine; Levon Helm; Steve Earle; Jim Lauderdale; Bruce Springsteen (x2); Ryan Adams & the Cardinals; Jenny Lewis; Common; The Drive-By Truckers (x4); Mofro (x2); Los Lobos; Wilco (x3); My Morning Jacket; Little Richard; Bon Iver; Modest Mouse; The National; Shelby Lynne; Dr. John; Kris Kristofferson; Jim White
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery, Paint me a picture of an old rodeo, Just give me something that I can hold onto, To believe in this living is a hard way to go -John Prine
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The Waycross Soundscape
For as long as I can remember, I have known and loved the music of Gram Parsons. He is considered the father of the Southern Rock genre, or what he liked to call “Cosmic American Music.” When I listen to Parsons’s music, I think of the South. He sang about cotton fields, baptizing, truck drivers, oak trees and other images that seem to epitomize the South. For the last four years my parents...
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UK Piece on The Drive-By Truckers →
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I’d like to rest my heavy head tonight on a bed of California stars -Woody Guthrie
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E.M. Forster
I have recently become fascinated by anything of the United Kingdom. In the last weeks I have taken a heavy dose of Colin Firth in A Single Man and The King’s Speech, I watched The Queen for the first time and then thoroughly researched Princess Diana, I watched About a Boy for the second time, which was an odd pairing with A Single Man, for Nicholas Hoult must have grown about two feet in...
