I've long been known as a hyperbolic person, so forgive me, but I'm Not There is the best movie I've ever seen in my life.1. There are movies that I love almost as much and maybe in some ways more, but this one seemed somehow on a higher plane due to its non-linearity; I don't see super-arty movies a lot, so maybe its artiness was a new thing to me, but the fact that it was arty and I understood
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Well, a musical snapshot of me right now would feature a few things:1. Me streaming Carrie Underwood's Carnival Ride off CMT.com for the jillionth time, wondering if they put drugs in her music.2. Me thrilled that after watching Excalibur, my stepson is walking around humming "Carmina Burana." He's already a chorushead, and also percussionist in the school band...3. ...which leads me to the big...
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I don't think I've mogged about my Ryan Adams thing, really. It began with falling hard for his album Cold Roses, my second-favorite double album next to Exile on Main Street. From there it moved on to a full-blown musical crush. My next favorite Ryan is Gold, then Heartbreaker, then Jacksonville...
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The mysterious Mr. D and the Honky Tonks asked to be my MySpace friends, and I’d never heard of them and I love them. Who are they? I dunno, but they’re wonderful.Max Greene, a.k.a. Roderick Hohl, is a deeply talented songwriter, guitar player, arranger, etc. He’s working on a new album, and I’m very excited. Listen to "Summer" from his last record.So, I’m a little freaked out by country
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If you can believe it, I just started watching American Idol. Part of it was the below-mentioned lack of cable, part of it was fear that I would be driven mad by Simon Cowell and feel so awful for the performers that I would not be able to watch, and part of it was not wanting to be a lemming. But it got to the point where I knew everything about the show without ever having watched it, so I fi...
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We have cable now after a while without, and I'm getting to know all the famous shows. I don't like Lost, I don't like Grey's Anatomy, I do like 30 Rock and Ugly Betty. But the thing I missed most about cable was Opry Live, which is on 8:00 ET, on GAC (Great American Country). I started watching this show 10 years or so ago, when it was hosted by Porter Wagoner. The show always had a mix of you...
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Since I'm going to attempt to Mog more regularly, I thought I'd explain my Country Music Thing, as it's bound to bewilder some folks when I start going on about Dierks Bentley and the like. It started when the folks took me to see the movie Nashville when I was 11. The music was so much fun, and funny, and pretty sometimes, and fun to sing, and I actually kind of adopted an Altmanesque view of ...
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