Misc.

[vickyocean]

* It's unseasonably warm here. Seriously, it's supposed to be 78 today. While it's never insanely cold and snow  flurries happen once every five years at the most, the warm weather is sucking out my holiday spirit. Plus, I'm really sick of wearing my summer clothes, but it's too warm to wear the fall/winter stuff and that's my favorite stuff. *sigh

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[pepper_field]

I'm obsessed with Shooter Jennings new album... He does a cover of Dire Straits' Walk of Life

Ooh! I had a look at that in the shop, 'cause you'd mentioned it, but wasn't sure if I should buy it - I'm not familiar with his stuff (his dad, however...). I might give it a go.

And the feisty thing, heh, yes. It always reminds me of a very succinct line by Terry Pratchett - palace guards leering at a girl brandishing, if I remember right, a breadknife:

'"I like a girl with spirit," he said, incorrectly as it turned out.'

ETA: re. recs, I don't know any in the western genre, but Georgette Heyer is purely brilliant, in kind of a Jane Austen style. She writes romance characters with life and wit and humour. I've just successfully introduced her to holdouttrout.

[vickyocean]

Thanks for the rec. I'll check her out

[pepper_field]

Interesting. I'll definitely have a listen - I'm always looking to expand my alt-country boundaries. Some of it's so interesting. There's some really, really experimental stuff out there. I can kind of see why Nashville would hate it - they had a hard enough time accepting first generation outlaw country, and a lot of the new stuff is so very different from any conventional song-writing. But they still seem to have a lot of respect and knowledge of their roots - which makes me happy, because I grew up hearing all the outlaw country stuff from my dad, so it's a big part of my childhood.

(Last concert I went to was Willie Nelson. Not so much with the mosh pits. *g*)

[vickyocean]

I saw Willie with Bob Dylan a couple of years ago. Willie's set was really great, but I was very disappointed with Dylan's. He's sort of hit or miss with me anyway, some of his stuff I really love and some is just meh. He didn't play any of the songs I liked and you couldn't really understand a thing he was singing anyway.

We have a pretty decent sort of dive bar that is really good at getting in good up and coming alt-country and rockabilly groups in. In fact, I'm trying to decide whether to go Friday or Saturday night this weekend, because both nights line-ups are really good and I don't have the stamina anymore to do both nights. I'm getting too old for that . ; )

A Favourite of Mine

[thothmes]

I love Marian Cockrell's The Revolt of Sarah Perkins. It is out of print, but available in many libraries. The basic premise is that a Colorado mining/farming town keeps running through the schoolmarms because out on the frontier where single women are scarce, they keep getting hitched. So the school board decides to require a picture with their application, and choses the one that looks tired and resigned. And the meek end up taking on and inheriting the earth. Marian and Frank Cockrell were scriptwriters for Hollywood in the 40's, 50's and 60's, and it is easy, as you read this book, what an entertaining film it would make. I've cast and re-cast it several times in my head. Enjoy.

Re: A Favourite of Mine

[vickyocean]

Thanks, that book sounds just the kind of thing I'm looking for. I'll definitely be on the hunt for it.