Shakesthegrounds Rumblings

[jstephens9]

Gary, that video is great, my cat Code does a lot of that to wake me up, but he hasn't used a baseball bat..........yet 

[CellarDweller]

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Thank kew Chuck, Than kew Gary.

Easter weekend. It was pretty. The flowers are blooming, familar faces appear before me, but meloncholy I take up with like a drunk to a bottle of whine.

I got a new album this weekend (remember when they were albums?  ) An wonderful meloncholly masterpiece by Gillian Welch. Lord she is an underrated performer. It is called Time (The Revelator) and contains several refernces to the Titanic sinking and Lincolns assassination, her wonderful version of The Elvis Presley Blues and finishes up with the sweetest lulliby I ever heard, it puts me to sleep, even sitting in the driveway. 

That last song is "I Dream a Highway". It goes on for 14 minutes and 39 seconds. You have to hear it. I could only find this shorter version on youtube, but he captures the spirit well.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCPTeDWUqsk[/youtube]

[southendmd]

Hey Truman,

The only sign of spring up here was a gorgeous pair cardinals singing in the bare trees.

Wow, I just love that song, "I Dream a Highway", and that guy JD Justice is so cute.

I love melancholy songs.

P

[loneleeb3]

That is a beautiful song.
Has me in tears!
Here are the lyrics.
Haunting is a word I'd use to describe them....

Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vision come and rest my soul
I dream a highway back to you

John he's kicking out the footlights
The Grand Ole Opry's got a brand new band
Lord, let me die with a hammer in my hand
I dream a highway back to you.

I think I'll move down into Memphis
And thank the hatchet man who forked my tongue
I lie and wait until the wagons come
And dream a highway back to you.

The getaway kicking up cinders
An empty wagon full of rattling bones
Moon in the mirror on a three-hour jones,
I dream a highway back to you.

Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vison come arrest my soul
I dream a highway back to you.

Which lover are you, Jack of Diamonds?
Now you be Emmylou and I'll be Gram
I send a letter, don't know who I am
I dream a highway back to you.

I'm an indisguisable shade of twilight
Any second now I'm gonna turn myself on
In the blue display of the cool cathode ray
I dream a highway back to you.

I wish you knew me, Jack of Diamonds
Fire-riding, wheeling when I lead em up
Drank whisky with my water, sugar in my tea
My sails in rags with the staggers and the jags
I dream a highway back to you.

Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vision come molest my soul
I dream a highway back to you.

Now give me some of what you're having
I'll take you as a viper into my head
A knife into my bed, arsenic when I'm fed
I dream a highway back to you.

Hang overhead from all directions
Radiation from the porcelain light
Blind and blistered by the morning white
I dream a highway back to you.

Sunday morning at the diner
Hollywood trembles on the verge of tears
I watched the waitress for a thousand years
Saw a wheel within a wheel, heard a call within a call
I dreamed a highway back to you.

Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vision come molest my soul
I dream a highway back to you.

Step into the light, poor Lazarus
Don't lie alone behind the window shade
Let me see the mark death made
I dream a highway back to you.
I dream a highway back to you.

What will sustain us through the winter?
Where did last years lessons go?
Walk me out into the rain and snow
I dream a highway back to you.

Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vision come and bless my soul
I dream a highway back to you

I dream a highway back to you
Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vision come and bless my sould
I dream a highway back to you.

[CellarDweller]

*waves to Truman*

[Shakesthecoffecan]

I just spent $10 on iTunes for this album.  Thanks a lot!   

*Waves @ Chuck*

I am glad you all like it, I think it is very haunting. Reading the lyrics it seems like she is taking the haunting parts of a lot of songs and country music history and bringing them together. The part about John kicking out the floodlights I think is a reference to Johnny Cash performing while all druged up.

[Brokeback_Dev]

Hi Truman!

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Hey Dev!

Last night I watched a cool old movie. "Victim" is a 1961 British film about a group of homosexual men in London being blackmailed. This was in a time when being a homosexual in Britain was illegal. One of the characters had been imprisoned 4 times and is finally taking the advice of the prison doctor and immigrating to Canada.

The hero of the story, Melvin Farr, played by Dirk Bogarde, is moved to stop this, even though it means the loss of everything to him, and he had a lot to loose. He hopes that by standing up to the blackmailers the powers that be will see that the antiquated law only enables blackmailers and should be done away with.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6z-4VcUjjM[/youtube]

My copy of the movie from netflix also contained an interview done with Bogarde done just before the films release and he is asked some of the same questions I heard asked of Heath and Jake. He was adament this would not be a death knell for his career, and in fact it wasn't, he went on to have a very long career.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Bogarde

[southendmd]

'Mornin, Tru.  Dirk says hi.