Dolly Parton has been on my mind a lot. This song in particular:

I played it last night alone in the house, dancing all over the living room as she rip-roars it toward the end. I think this song is one of the most over-played, though I haven't heard the Led Zeppelin original all that much. And Dolly had a knack for capturing me ( Read more... )

I got back from a Tennessee trip last night. Half of it spend in rural TN and the other half in Nashville. And somehow this week+ there felt more like a month. And it was quite fucking excellent ( Read more... )

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this weekend Jeff and I decided to do a "Vacation at home" weekend. I'm not entirely sure where the idea stemmed from, but I think mainly because a few of Jeff's friends invited both of us to join them for a weekend getaway around the San Juan Islands, but Jeff can't due to working on Mondays. So we opted to just pretend it was a vacation. Fuck ( Read more... )