I love Gillian Welch. Period. Full stop. But I am baffled in the most delighted way that “Miss Ohio” has become a song folks like to cover. Over at Nine Bullets, they have an enthusiastic version by Lizzie Huffman that makes me happy.
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Today was the first day I walked after falling into the grave and it didn’t go well. My ankle didn’t hurt. It just didn’t work. I was lurching around the neighborhood like some kind of horror movie zombie. Finally, finally towards the end it hurt in a way that suggested that it still had some [...]
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Man, this sentence: “ I was a fan of the ghost more than the band.” Lord almighty that’s brilliant. Perfect. And her larger point is one that I think is important. Ruth Hill in her book on Bourbon Spanish America says that our biggest problem in understanding race in that era is that we look [...]
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Spin has their new video. Fun fact: that bridge at the beginning of the video is the same bridge that’s in the video below. That bridge may also be in other videos, but none are coming to mind.
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IBMA does have an entertainer of the year, which, sadly Dale Ann Bradley did not get (though Steve Martin did, which is fun), but she did get female vocalist of the year again! And people bring her cornbread. Which I find to be the least surprising revelation in the history of revelations.
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I have so many thoughts on the whole DC comics mess, because I believe it’s been the most awesome conversation of at least the latter half of the month. But I am still a little stuck on Catwoman. Not just on her gravity defying boob or her bizarre choice in undergarments (I mean, seriously, they [...]
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So, by weird happenstance, I won tickets to the Bill Monroe birthday tribute last night at Vanderbilt. I guess it’s not weird. But it felt weird to me, because I don’t often win things. And by “often” I mean “ever.” I couldn’t find anyone to go with me on such short notice, but I’m getting [...]
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It is not physically possible for me to dislike KISS any more than I already do. Every time I feel even a remote amount of goodwill towards them, I think of Gene Simmons leaking that video of him having the least rock-star looking sex in the history of sex–which is saying something when there’s people [...]
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Oh, okay, well, let’s talk like a pirate. I believe some of the pirates here are saying “Oooooooo.” And, what a coincidence, so am I! Edited to add: This is the new Captain Morgan commercial?! What the fuck? Where is the nakedness? Where are the flirty smoldering looks? Where is the “I welcome your desire [...]
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The mayor of Carrollton, Georgia banned a forty year old play. I swear, this is the thing I find so weird about America right now. I know, when I was a teenager, even twenty years ago seemed like forever. I can remember babysitting for our neighbors and they had a People magazine devoted to the [...]
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I think I’ve sufficiently covered why I don’t like U.S. pop culture zombies. 1. They’re the same thing as vampires. 2. They’re the same thing as vampires. 3. Reanimated corpse that is going to bite you and turn you into something just like it? They’re the same thing as vampires. 4. They live off of [...]
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As I said the other day, when you start from a position of just blatant and absolute dishonesty and disrespect for people, without some kind of actual contrition and apology, people will suspect that any ongoing endeavors you develop based on the initial clusterfuck of dishonesty and disrespect are likely also to be a mess. [...]
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So, you remember when an assortment of university libraries conspired with Google to make digital copies of books they didn’t hold the copyrights to or have explicit permission from the copyright holders to make those copies? And you remember how nothing came of it because apparently you can sometimes get away with shit when powered [...]
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I’ve decided that the fucked up pronunciation of “Samhain” is a metaphor for everything that’s wrong with True Blood this season. Would it have taken someone thirty seconds to google how to say it? Not even. And yet, why bother? Could the writers on True Blood go down to Louisiana and be greeted as conquering [...]
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Being able to see that shit helps. Even more than lines on a map. And I think the idea of having interactive, moving maps embedded in ebooks is so brilliant that I am jealous of people in the future who will have it.
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Miranda Lambert is covering “Look at Miss Ohio” on her new album! Also, I have decided “Tennessee” is the best song on Welch’s new album.
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Finally, the dog and I got up to walk again. I figure, we’re too old to walk in tropical storms, but that put a damper on our walking until today. I wasn’t even half way to the big tree in the AT&T yard when I felt my chest tightening. I thought, well, fuck, this is [...]
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This is not a good song for happy days, really, but I still like it.
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Well, there’s this. You can hear the single here, but I must warn you that I have found no place on the internet where you can unhear it. You may wonder what an ICP/Jack White/Mozart/JEFF the Brotherhood collaboration would be like, but are afraid to listen. That’s fine. It’s about the joys of butt-licking, which, [...]
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And just like that, all those people he knew–all 95, almost 96 years worth–go from being the friends and acquaintances of a living man to slipping just a little further away from us. Yesterday, you could shake hands with a man who shook hands with Robert Johnson. Today you cannot. Here’s Alan Lomax recording him [...]
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I can’t remember where I learned about Muktuk Wolfsbreath, but I did and I read it and it blew my mind. And so I am passing it on to you. I guess it should go without saying that, since it is the story of a hardboiled shaman, there are some disturbing elements, but I’m going [...]
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Beth sent me a link to this article, because she thought it was relevant, at least tangentially, to our ongoing discussions about list songs and authenticity. The whole post is good, but I’ve been mulling over this: But it’s wrapped up in so much ass-kissing right wing family values bullshit that there’s a wall through [...]
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I mean, other than when you scroll down and read my awesome take on the Dave Clark 5. But this takedown of the whole “Country Boy Can Survive” knock-off genre is pretty damn great. You know I blame Hank Jr. for all this nonsense, but I actually think considering what makes Hank Jr.’s “Country Boy [...]
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I’ve always liked The Dave Clark 5, though not enough to do anything about it. Well, I take that back. My dad and I once made a Dave Clark 5 record into a clock for my room. But that’s more about the aesthetics of having a record clock than about any particular love for the [...]
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