we'll head up to the mountain, pick-up trucks and old guitars

[debs]

It's been quite awhile since I've been charmed by an album, but that's the best way I can describe how I felt when I stuck Hayes Carll's Trouble in Mind in my CD player on the way to work this morning. Carll is a singer-songwriter from The Woodlands, Texas--most evocative town name ever--who's garnered comparisons to Dylan and Townes Van Sant, but I think he sounds most like Todd Snider. He's got a rockabilly alt-country thing going for him, and this album "sounds" Texas more than anything else I've heard in awhile. It makes me want to go barefoot out in the fields and throw on an old pair of jeans to go drinking at the closest thing we have to dive bar in this town.

I'm sharing "Girl Downtown" because it brings a smile to my face (and I want my romantic life to turn out like that) and "Faulkner Street" because it's my favorite song on the album.

"Girl Downtown" by Hayes Carll
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"Faulkner Street" by Hayes Carll
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Comments

[shoelacedreamer.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. The last fight my sister & I had was while watching the Justin Timberlake HBO show from a few years ago. I was saying how much I enjoyed dancing and my sister was like "so why don't you do it?" and we got into this whole big thing. See, I'm kind of awkward, and kind of fattish and those things mean that I should really only be dancing in the privacy of my bedroom. Especially since I get REALLY INTO IT, lol. Sometimes I have to turn all the pictures of family/photo ops down on their surfaces because I'm even too embarrassed to dance in front of them. :P

I think shunt is an awesome work; it means exactly what it sounds like. SHUNT.

I'm lame all the time, so you're in good company. ;)

[dissonant-dream.livejournal.com]

*snugs you* Sometimes I envy NZ Orlando for how free he was. If he wanted to go crazy and dance or anything, he would. But I'm not like that and don't want to be like that. I'm quieter and more introverted and that's okay. I don't wish I was out clubbing or whatever, but if dancing at home makes me happy, then why not?

I have a bad tendency to add endings on to words so I have SHUNTLET in my head. Mini wee shunt. Cuteness.

I love how we can be lame together. :) I also love how you turn down the photos. *snugs you some more*