Latest & Greatest Books I've Read
Glass Gastle, A Memoir by Jeanette Wells. At the very least, you'll uncover a big something that you enjoy reading/life-wise. More likely, it is everything you want in a book. Seriously.
Plainsong, Kent Haruf. This is the simplest of stories fantastically written.
No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy. Great work onscreen, greater as literature.
Music
I could go on and on about music and musicians who get it done bigtime, but instead I'll just throw you a Bernie Bone:
Middle Cyclone, Neko Case. It all comes together for Neko on this beauty, suitable for country, pop, rock, alt, alt-country freaks alike. Buy it.
With that, here's a Neko video, "Hold On, Hold On," from Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. Lyrics first. Brilliant. Neko's take on these lyrics? "The song is actually about me. It's not metaphorical about other people. It's not little pieces of my life made into a story about someone else or someone fictitious." Many a boy and girl can relate to them, and said company may or may not include the writer of this blog.
HOLD ON, HOLD ON
Neko Case/The Sadies 2005
THE MOST TENDER PLACE IN MY HEART IS FOR STRANGERS
I KNOW IT'S UNKIND BUT MY OWN BLOOD IS MUCH TOO DANGEROUS
HANGIN' ROUND THE CEILING HALF THE TIME
COMPARED TO SOME I'VE BEEN AROUND
BUT I REALLY TRIED SO HARD
THAT ECHO CHORUS LIED TO ME WITH ITS "HOLD ON, HOLD ON, HOLD ON, HOLD ON"
IN THE END I WAS THE MEAN GIRL
OR SOMEBODY'S IN-BETWEEN GIRL
NOW IT'S THE DEVIL I LOVE
AND THAT'S AS FUNNY AS REAL LOVE
I LEAVE THE PARTY AT THREE A.M.
ALONE, THANK GOD
WITH A VALIUM FROM THE BRIDE
IT'S THE DEVIL I LOVE
AND THAT'S AS FUNNY AS REAL LOVE
AND THAT'S AS REAL AS TRUE LOVE
THAT ECHO CHORUS LIED TO ME WITH ITS "HOLD ON, HOLD ON, HOLD ON, HOLD ON"
Neko Case/The Sadies 2005
THE MOST TENDER PLACE IN MY HEART IS FOR STRANGERS
I KNOW IT'S UNKIND BUT MY OWN BLOOD IS MUCH TOO DANGEROUS
HANGIN' ROUND THE CEILING HALF THE TIME
COMPARED TO SOME I'VE BEEN AROUND
BUT I REALLY TRIED SO HARD
THAT ECHO CHORUS LIED TO ME WITH ITS "HOLD ON, HOLD ON, HOLD ON, HOLD ON"
IN THE END I WAS THE MEAN GIRL
OR SOMEBODY'S IN-BETWEEN GIRL
NOW IT'S THE DEVIL I LOVE
AND THAT'S AS FUNNY AS REAL LOVE
I LEAVE THE PARTY AT THREE A.M.
ALONE, THANK GOD
WITH A VALIUM FROM THE BRIDE
IT'S THE DEVIL I LOVE
AND THAT'S AS FUNNY AS REAL LOVE
AND THAT'S AS REAL AS TRUE LOVE
THAT ECHO CHORUS LIED TO ME WITH ITS "HOLD ON, HOLD ON, HOLD ON, HOLD ON"
Here's Neko's appearance on Letterman, 4/15/09, "This Tornado Loves You," from Middle Cyclone:
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