10.26.06
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It’s raining in Tennessee. [That's news. --Mimi] I’m sure this comes as a surprise to no one who lives here or has visited here. The rain makes it hard for me to take the long walk to the mailbox, also I think the umbrella is in the car. When did I become such a wimp? Back out West this weather never would have slowed me down. Maybe all the Tennessee whiskey has thinned my blood. Or the delicious, sticky-hot summer has ruined me for more normal weather. [Whiskey. --Mimi]
We’ve recently been lazing around watching CMT and GAC as punishment, I guess, though I’m not sure for what. [How about our entire lifestyle? --Mimi] We really should just put the recorder on when we do this, as transcribing the conversations just doesn’t do us justice, but I’ll transcribe anyway:
The new Hank Jr video? Makes embarassed for my adopted homeland. Oh how I love the South even for these faults, or perhaps because of them. Also I’m not sure if I’m ready for a rant on the muzik mafia, but I think it’s coming soon. [I think it's Muzik Mafia, capitalized to denote the fact they are special. Or something. This Bocephus vid is just wrong. How does one lose all of one's self-respect without the aid of whiskey? It's shameful!--Mimi]
Cricket: “Tequila makes her clothes fall off“?
Mimi: Yes, which I believe now, after the other night.
Cricket: I guess after her clothes fall off she needs to wait for the two pink lines?
Mimi: Why is there nothing in this song about losing your phone down the toilet in the bar, since we know that’s what really happens?
Mimi: Is this our new nemesis Keith Urban? In $300 jeans? In an LA aquaduct?
Cricket: Why does he have emo kids in his video? Who is he appealing to here?
Mimi: Isn’t his market our moms?
Cricket: Not my mom.
Mimi: Maybe mine. Oh, he’s so hardcore he kicked over a mic stand!
Mimi: Does he even really play guitar?
Cricket: He surely doesn’t play banjo.
Mimi: *sneezes 6 times*
Cricket: Jesus, are you okay? You allergic to Keith Urban?
Mimi: Oh thank god, Loretta Lynn. Alright! Oh, never mind, it’s from Van Lear Rose.
Cricket: I hate Jack White. What is wrong with him?
Mimi: Uh, he’s a poseur.
Seriously though, I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but this is the state of middle American music? No wonder our country is so screwed up. I mean this is the music of people who espouse family values as the reason to prevent gay marriage? We’re in a heinous war and our mainstream entertainment is singing about drunk girls and pregnancy tests? Excellent.
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Why it when girls use the men’s room in rock clubs and punk clubs that no one bats an eye, but you do it in a cowboy bar not only do guys have to comment on it, but also perhaps invite you back in with them for some fun? This hasn’t happened to me, but I’ve seen it and I find it curious (and by curious I mean, what, am I not hot enough for someone to propose bathroom sex, even if I’m going to refuse it anyway?). Is this somehow tied to what’s wrong with mainstream America? [I really hope my mom doesn't learn how to work the internet and read this. For the record, I said no to the bathroom sex cowboy.--Mimi]
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And because there should be fun and joy in everyone’s day, here’s Cory Branan roundly abusing a Lyle Lovett song. Thanks to our own Captain Ethel for sending me the link originally and bringing me hours of joy watching it. Now you can join the fun. Cory clearly thinks the same way about Lyle as we do, much to my amusement. Also Cory suggests the person filming this not put it on the internet, so it’s clearly our job to pass it around as much as possible now that it’s up.
[Speaking of Cory, he's out West soon and we will promote the hell out of that…more than I've already done in emails to certain people who live in certain States called California. We will be publicly humiliating ourselves at his show at 3rd and Lindsley here in Nashvegas on Nov 2nd, as well.--Mimi]
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Heidi said,
October 26, 2006 at 6:38 pm
I’ll tell you how it goes at The Mint when that shit goes down.
Brynwulf said,
October 26, 2006 at 8:33 pm
Truly enjoyed watching Cory abusing Lyle. Both Wolfie and I decided having a pony on a boat on the ocean was the best idea EVEH! ‘cept, we added a dog running along side the pony to the mix.
YourMom said,
October 26, 2006 at 10:46 pm
I don’t care so much about the excess of alcohol here, and I’m pretty confident that both of you know how to handle guys who put ’sex’ and ‘bathroom’ together at first thought. But, girls, please: better proofreading, especially for the paragraphs above the fold. I read somewhere recently that grammar is fundamentally a moral issue, and I feel it to be true, I really do.
Mimi said,
October 26, 2006 at 11:28 pm
Mom,
We have a proofreader and everything! We are too drunk to know how to read over stuff.
Cricket said,
October 26, 2006 at 11:43 pm
Meems, way to say the appropriate things to parents. In high school did you always come home before curfew and never go to parties?
Ma, some days we don’t double check our double checker. We’ll be better, we promise.
sarita said,
October 27, 2006 at 10:55 am
Hey, I was at that show! Wonder if you can hear me yelling shit on any of those clips. I wasn’t drunk or anything. Well, maybe just a little.
Esse said,
October 27, 2006 at 2:54 pm
that video is PRICELESS. So much love.
RoxyCotton said,
January 1, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Well, if you have lived in Nashville for any length of time and spent any time at all in the business, then i’m sure you have seen how patheticlly twisted out of context country music has become.
Granted, the slant that Big and Rich took to the mainstream arena was cliche’ and without much depth, but if you are a fan of talent, there is no denying their ablities. Players, writers, singers, who had the balls to do something that was uniquely their own that pissed everyone off.
Gretchen, like her or not, was a breath of fresh air as well after the onslaught of karaoke-level-of talent/pop wannabe chick singers of the time.
If you look deeper in the Muzik Mafia, it’s full of widely diverse talent. Most of who resent the machine that has warped the soul out of country.
Everyone of those artists have had they’re asses kicked in the business and found safety in numbers, and if you don’t believe in your self (…from the “think they’re special or something” comment), than no one else will either.
It’s a stand up to the industry movement that was a long time coming.
Too bad you don’t understand that.
Nothing worse than people hating something they have no clue about.
Cricket said,
January 1, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Miss Roxy, I’m sure there is something worse than people hating things they have no clue about–it’s people who have no sense of humour about the things they find important.