This is why – this is why everyone should go see Melissa live. Everyone. This is what a live show with Melissa feels like. Check her schedule and go.
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Last week, TW was making those scarey noises. Not the house noises, the noises about theme parks and kids and trips and stuff. Those are seriously scarey noises. So scarey that they pushed me to search for some OTHER alternative. Something safer. ANYTHING would be safer than theme parks over Memorial Day weekend. Actually ANYTHING would be safer than theme parks at anytime. So I surfed. And just as I was about to give up and face my fears and give in to the theme park I found salvation in the form of sweet corn and country music. The Zellwood Corn Festival!
I like to say that I don’t like country music and it’s mostly a true statement. But when I see Terri Clark something clicks in my head and I’m a country music fan. (Can the woman wear a hat or can she wear a hat? umm err ummm sorry I got distracted for a minute.)
I sent the link to TW and crossed my fingers. TW is less of a country music fan than I am. She didn’t spend four years in love with a huge country music fan. When you do that, the music sort of rubs off on you and it has a tendency to stick. (It isn’t JUST Terri Clark – it’s also Reba and Kathy Mattea and Faith Hill and The Dixie Chicks and Trisha Yearwood if she would see the light and ditch that jerk Garth Brooks but since she won’t, she’s scratched off of the list) TW said "Sure, it sounds fun." Yes!
I think Saturday must have been the hottest day of the century or they piped in some extra heat just to sell more beer to the rednecks and more lemonade to the kids. (By the way, it was a surprisingly mellow and happy crowd. No loud or obnoxious drunk behavior anywhere in sight. Way to go beer drinking Zellwood people!) It was HOT. So hot that we took a break after a couple of hours of FUN to drive around the county in AC comfort. (Who knew Mt Dora was such a tourist mecca, by the way.)
After the cool down and some ice cream we went back, found a shady spot to sit in our chairs and on our blanket and ate a lot of free sweet corn and listen to Cowgirl Crush (they weren’t bad). It was sweet and it was good and it was a rare treat for TW and her special colon. The kids rode more rides with TW and ate more food (turkey legs and Italian sausage) and I listened to Neal McCoy, who was surprisingly funny. We moved our chairs mid-way through his set, for a better view and because we apparently needed more sun beating down on us. We ate more food, (swirl fries, rootbeer floats and snowcones this time) and waited for Terri Clark.
We played gameboy. We played rummicube. The Gameboy battery died and suggesting a book was met with the cold stare, a child was not so good at rummicube while her sister was very good at it and a wee bit of frustration set in. More rides for the two frustrated children and another Canadian country girl whose name I can’t remember sang remakes of great songs. Finally, Terri Clark. (Can that woman wear a hat or can she wear a hat????)
She sang some olds ones, she danced around with her guitar. She sang some sort of new ones. She sange a verse and a chorus of Emotional Girl, which made the frustrated Emotional Girl very happy. She sang Pitiful Me which made the emotional and no longer frustrated Warren Zevon fan very VERY happy. Life was good for some of us who don’t love our Gameboys more than really excellent country music. For those with Gameboy loss, it was just ok.
Nice bit of family fun, nice to be reminded that country music isn’t so bad and nice to see a woman who can really wear a hat. Nice, nice, nice!
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From the morning drive…
1) Zombie – Cranberries
2) Bring Me Some Water – Melissa Etheridge
4) Good Man, Good Woman – Bonnie Raitt (and who is the man, I always forget…)
4) Theme From Sesame Street
5) Spam – Save Ferris
6) I know you know love – Susan Cowsill
7) I Give Up – Melissa Ferrick
8) The World is New – Save Ferris
9) The Way You Found Me – Ben Harper
10) Outside the Rain – Stevie Nicks
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A pretty decent 10 this morning from the drive to UF and back again….
1) Hurricane – Kris Delmhorst
2) Dumb – Nirvana
3) Autum & Me – Saving Jane
4) Let’s Fly – Melissa Ferrick
5) 3Am – Matchbox 20
6) Jaded – Aerosmith
7) 6 Days- I have no idea who this is by or where I got it – Paige? Sour Duck? Cloud Cult (Here’s a link so you can listen, but I don’t think I’ve ever been to this site before so I still have no idea where I got it!)
8) I Got Money Now – Pink
9) A Widow’s Toast – Neko Case
10) Amazing Grace – Melissa Ferrick
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Michelle Tea – someone I never thought I’d see in person but as TW says, it’s gonna be that kind of year for me. First Michelle Tea tonight at Wild Iris and then Susie Bright at Blogher in July. Pretty darn cool!
Michelle read from her new book, Rose of No Man’s Land, and answered questions. She signed some books and was just very nice to everyone in the room. (Our Michelle is amused because she got her book signed "To Michelle T from Michelle Tea" – it’s the little things in life, isn’t it?) And who knew Michelle Tea was a high school teacher? Can you imagine what that class might be like? Scarey and cool at the same time, don’t you think?
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This music post is long overdue but I’ve been busy and distracted. Music is timeless, as is my appreciation for people who introduce awesome music to me. People like Paige Maguire of Miss Domestic and Swoon and Blogher.
The Swimmers – Heaven
Apostle Hustle – 24 Robbers
The Flaming Lips – If I Only Had a Brain
My Morning Jacket – Make it With You (yes a Bread cover!)
Because of Paige, my iRiver is full of fun new music that I’d have never ever thought about downloading. Because of Paige, I’m having trouble getting work done during the day because she is constantly suggesting new music on Swoon and all I want to do is download it. I’ve had to limit my surfing of the Swoon blog to just a few minutes in the morning and my downloading of new music to just a few minutes at night.
Here are a few of my favorites, all found on one of Paige’s blogs!
Paige is awesome. Swoon is awesome. Go download something. Take an open-mind and be sure to blog about what you’ve downloaded. (Besides being a great music blogger, Paige is always looking for bloggers who are writing about music. Get listening and get blogging!)
Thanks Paige.
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Amy Sherman-Palladino almost redeemed herself with last night’s Gilmore Girls – almost. I was with her right up til the very end and then she blew it.
The town full of troubadours – loved it so much I cannot even begin to tell you how much. Taylor being unable to kick the bums out of town, awesome. Luke calling and calling and calling and Patti and Baryshnikov was pure Gilmore Girls fab. Rory getting put in her place by the vile Mitchum was almost worth the entire spoiled brat Logan storyline- almost. The goodbye scene was nicely played by both Rory and Logan. FND was excellent. The therapy scene in the driveway, not so great but ok. Lorelai confronting Luke and then leaving – priceless. But that last scene. That very last scene. Lorelai. Christopher. Gigi. Not. Right. At. All.
Goodbye Palladinos, it was good while it lasted, or until this season – let’s hope we have a better year in Stars Hollow, next year.
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Finally! Melissa Ferrick has been promising a 6 for $6 download and it has arrived. The songs are "new" and they are acoustic, which is cool. (Melissa wound up playing my birthday show acoustic and I was really glad it worked out that way.) They are also never going to appear on any ideal MF set list I might dream up.
I’ve talked about some of these songs in previous posts about Melissa, (Click the Melissa Ferrick category link on the right sidebar if you want to see those entries.), so you know I’m not really all that thrilled with them. On the otherhand, when Melissa sings "Standing up here singing my secrets", in Easy, it’s definitely the truth. These songs, sans Rest Now, feel very much like she’s sharing her secrets.
Rest Now is the only song of the six that’s different. It isn’t about her. It isn’t her story. It isn’t her secret or her pain. It’s a tribute to the late Chris Whitley. It’s a good song. I liked it the first time I heard her play it in a show, and the second time and I am enjoying this acoustic version as well.
If you’re a Ferrick fan you should grab the six now to tide you over til the album is finished – and that’s the kicker here, Melissa’s had a rough year and the money would go along way toward getting Never Give Up into our hands by the end of the summer or early fall. If you aren’t a Ferrick fan, I don’t think I can recommend this six to you – choose one of the albums available in her store, instead to start you off. (Other Side or Skinnier Faster Live would work for you – preferably all three)
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I had a really interesting Random 10 to share but I don’t have time to post it in the fashion I would like, which is "story" fashion. So instead, you get a bonus music download instead. Shatter Me was part of the Random 10 and I just happen to have not one but two boots of the song for your listening pleasure… thanks to the amazing Cincheetah, (which is where I originally got them and where you can find dozens of other MF boots).
I’m a bonafide independent superhero
and I will tell you the truth right to your face…
you will not, shatter me.
These are LIVE boots (An Ani Difranco story is on one of them, for you Ani fans) so there is background noise and chatter and they are Real Audio files so grabe a real player if you don’t already have one.
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I was a pretty big Dr Who fan back in the late 70’s and early, early 80’s. I loved Tom Baker and I adored K-9. I sooo wanted to name a stray puppy we found in a box after Dr Who’s canine robot but I was out voted. Apparently my vote counted less because I had previous dog naming experience so it was not my turn to name a dog. I was out voted again during the naming of the next dog too because Jennifer’s vote counted more than mine. I even attempted to name a cat "K-9" and Christopher had a FIT because nobody should have a name with just one letter and one number. (The boy was weird even then)
I’m pleased to see someone has found K-9 rusting in a cabinet and he’s being brought back to life – even if it is only for one episode and a cartoon series. I’m pleased even if I never get to see his return to Dr Who or his cartoon-self. Memories of Dr Who marathons and just knowing K-9 is alive and well is enough for me.
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