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Amy Sedaris in Dolly's new music video, GOLD!

I love Dolly's bluegrass album "Little Sparrow" and I'm not typically a fan of mainstream country music but I think I'll give this album a try. The only mainstream country album I own is "Taking The Long Way" by the Dixie Chicks (I also own "Van Lear Rose" by Loretta Lynn but that's not mainstream is it?). I bought it out of solidarity because of the song "Not Ready To Make Nice" but I wound up liking the whole album. In any case I'm eager to hear Dolly's cover of the Fine Young Cannibals song "She Drives Me Crazy," the preview on iTunes was very enticing.

Amazing

Brad and I saw Stevie Nicks earlier this summer here in Dallas. She stopped here on tour this year and she was amazing. I've always been a fan of her, especially when I lived in Arizona. There's something about her music and her voice that lends itself to quiet contemplative moments out in the desert, observing the mountains, and the wildlife. Sigh, I miss living in a beautiful place. I digress...

After lunch I was trolling about MySpace and came across a video that is simply amazing. Because I've been tainted by contemporary standards of mainstream musical performance it's quite astonishing to me that Nicks is not lip synching, and that she's just jamming out in her dressing room in this video. Watching this now, in a time where artists seldom sing their own "music" (rather they preform it in a lurid dumb-show), gives me a melancholy feeling - happiness that talent exists tempered with fear of whether or not it's apexed.

stevie nicks-the wild heart [1981]

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Update on the cats: The "tenant" was contacted and he picked up the cats this morning. Not sure how they'll fare with him given that he doesn't seem like an apt caretaker, but at least they're not trapped in the condo anymore.

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