And now she’s teamed up with writer Melanie Wells and started their own blog (I Feel Awake Louise) about the perils of the creative life. The writing is exceptional and entertaining, and Trish (Thelma) shares some interesting and too-familiar themes and stories about growing up poor in rural Texas.
Paul Potts was a phone salesman at The Carphone Warehouse in South Wales. He decided to audition for Simon Cowell’s show Britain’s Got Talent. His performance was…unexpected. And inspiring:
Producer David Chase has always used music as an integral part of the story telling in The Soprano’s.
It was the first time I’ve seen a lead female cover Johnny Cash (Folsom Prison Blues), and she knocked it out of the park. Joaquine Phoenix should have been as convincing.
A popular Web site, Vote for the Worst, might actually succeed in getting this no-talent-ass-clown voted through as the next American Idol.
Thank God
The freaks and the geeks and the self-appointed “hippsters” have all gone home — or back to their day job at Flipnotics “online coffeeshop and clothing boutique”.
Why do I hate SXSW? Well, Karmalized — who loves SXSW and actually works the show as a volunteer — hits a big reason right on the nose:
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But, it does bring an estimated $38 million economic impact to the city of Austin. So having 80K extra wierdos running around 6th St. for two weeks is somewhat tolerable (not that I’m seeing me cut of that $38mil).
I still remember the day when I heard it for the first time while wearing my BDUs (while in basic training at Ft. Knox, KY). I got goosebumps and teared up listening to the words. Everytime I hear it now,I still get a lump in my throat.
Awarding the Dixie Chicks the Country Album of the Year was nothing more than a political jab at the Country Music industry and radio stations that have spurned the Chicks. It certainly didn’t reflect the albums most enjoyed or appreciated by actual country music listeners (such as Miranda Lambert’s Kerosene, Carrie Underwood’s Some Hearts, or Josh Turner’s Your Man).
For your listening pleasure, I present you Muddy Waters.
Issue 1016/1017 (double-issue) of RollingStone magazine arrived in the mail today. In it they list their 100 Best Songs of the Year.
Here are the Top 10:
Crazy — Gnarles Barkley
Steady As She Goes —The Raconteurs
Ridin’ — Chamillionaire
What You Know — T.I.
Vans — The Pack
Thunder on the Mountain — Bob Dylan
Smile — Lily Allen
Wamp, Wamp (What it [...]
Classical music and cellos. Not usually the topic of comedy routines, I know. But this video of comedian/musician Rob Paravonian is really good.
I usually just keep my music collection on shuffle, but I’m wearing out the new Bob Dylan album, Modern Times and American V: A Hundred Highways by Johnny Cash. Modern Times has a very strong Texas blues sound to it…I’m certain that’s the influence of legendary blues guitarist Denny Freeman from Austin, who was in Dylan’s band for this recording (Denny was a member of the Cobras with Stevie Ray Vaughan back in the day).
3 days, 8 stages, 130 bands — all within a short bicycle ride from my house. That’s the Austin City Limits (ACL) Music Festival. And it starts today at 11:15 a.m. with Claire Small.
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