green dresses & greenbelts

[concretekiss]

I been down so long, blues don't worry me...

Saturday was spent hiking the Greenbelt to Twin Falls. The creek was full from the rain & meandering alongside us as we sang our way down the trails. It's amazing how close this oasis is to my work. That while I'm folding architecturals & downloading spec books, a few miles away the creek plays its percussion, oblivious. I wore my big JackieO sunglasses so I could stare at people without looking like a perv.

Then to Marina's soiree where this goof-ass dude challenged me to a battle-dance which, unfortunately for him, I'd had just enough white wine to accept. He got a little out of control with his moves & fell down in the kitchen, making me the winnar of the competition by default, & immensely grateful it wasn't me dumbstruck & pondering my state on the floor. Because it could very well have been, had I chosen the Roger Rabbit with a 3 quarter turn.

Today we shopped. There was a forlorn & weather-beaten white man with a cardboard sign on every corner, because well damn. Ain't it a beautiful day to be a hobo.
I bought myself a little green dress & a 5-pack of orange underwear. The weekend's when I girl out. Someone told me that when a woman wears orange, she is in the midst of or welcoming a significant change to her life. I say come armageddon, come.
I'm sundazed, browned, sore & satisfied, though if I were really bright I would invent an elixir to quell the libido. I would call it Horny-No-More & I would be dirty rich & buy choppers for all my friends.

So...

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happy orange panties

[mojodragonfly.livejournal.com]

3 great soul songs on mp3 for free at this link

http://diddywah.blogspot.com/2006/04/work-songs-pt3.html

otis is badassss &

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

effin a! that ann peebles is sweeeeeet. i could listen to that at night & i would drive with one hand & look mean & pretend i was a cop. hey, thanks!

some good canned heat at that same blog as well

[mojodragonfly.livejournal.com]

thanks for all the mp3s yo'self

[asthecrowflies.livejournal.com]

mmmmmm - the Texas you send makes my heart all hinky - mmmmmmmmm

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

i am luuuuuuring you. muuhuhuhahahaha!

[rebirtha.livejournal.com]

so jealous.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

wanna battle-dance me?

[rebirtha.livejournal.com]

u know it.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

cuz i rock a mean hand jive.

[theonlyguyever.livejournal.com]

heyyyy great pictures :O ! and that looks like the blue hole but i know it's a different place, the one you have mentioned to me before, but i forget the name and i want to take madison there in the summertime to play and swim. hook me up?

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

hmmm do you mean Hamilton Pool? your little one would make that place prettier i'm sure.
i want to try to go to a different pool each weekend. this one was a looong hike, but completely worth it.

what is the blue hole?

[theonlyguyever.livejournal.com]

this is a good reference: http://austin.citysearch.com/feature/2460/

the blue hole is at the bottom of the page. i have been to both of them and prefer #10 in wimberly. no idea what the $50 admission fee is all about - unless something has recently changed. i haven't been in a couple years. you should check it out though :D

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

yes, i should

Soul to Soul

[cowboyjesus.livejournal.com]

You know, there's only one singer I know of that gives what others call a "reverent reading" of soul songs, and that is Tab Benoit. I really, really love the old R & B tunes and to see them re-kindled in this fashion just gives me goose bumps, that's all.

On his latest album he does Sam Cooke's "Bring It On Home".
On 2002's "Wetlands" album he did Otis Redding's "These Arms Of Mine".

I don't know how you could upload them somewhere, but I know they are good.

Tab goes to Austin on a regular basis, and I double-dog dare anyone living there to go see him and try to remain seated! When he gets the crowd really loosened up with Hank William's "Jambalaya" he will somewhere in there segue into "Iko Iko" (The Dixie Cups - 1965) and implore the crowd in the call and response. It can get pretty cathartic, yes, like a Pentacostal revival, only with drinks served.

I have seen him play in several places all over Colorado over about five or six years. He is just one amazing performer and really nice guy.

Re: Soul to Soul

[cowboyjesus.livejournal.com]

You know, I might have to take a hike up Bartlett trail here to see if I can still find a patch of snow if'n your hiking pictures really get to me. This is about the only time you can go hiking down there, am I right? At least before the hot, hot, heat comes on.

Re: Soul to Soul

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

heh. i'm used to the heat, originally from louisiana. as long as there is water nearby it's all good.

i saw snow once, or slush, i guess, when i was five. :)

Re: Soul to Soul

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

hmmm. i'm curious to hear if anyone can top Sam's "Bring it on Home" OR Otis's anything.
thank you for the refs.

Re: Soul to Soul

[cowboyjesus.livejournal.com]

Now, I don't think on re-done classics like that. I only think about someone identifying so well with the true vibe the song has coming through in their own personality. If a singer can do that they say "so-and-so" made that song their own.

Hence, I had to go re-listen to Otis Redding's "These Arms Of Mine" after I heard Tab doing it. I had been listening to Tab so much before he even attempted it that it just sounded like Tab. And if you liked his music beforehand you just listen to your jawbones click as their dropping when he attempts these classics.

He's from Louisianna. Makes his home in Houma. He started VOW, Voice of the Wetlands, trying to raise awareness about the gradual diappearance of the swamps and bayous. He used to have a restaurant down there called Tab Benoit's Lagnaippe Cafe. I think he's since closed it up. Ha ha, I even saw him at one gig Barkley's West, a litle bar in a ski town called Frisco, Colorado one summer in the back of the bar with a chef's hat on. He was cooking before hitting the stage! I just did't get how laid back he was, unless he was altitude sick, or weary from the road. Do all people from Louisianna look like a kitten in need of a nap?

Re: Soul to Soul

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

Do all people from Louisianna look like a kitten in need of a nap?

ha! it's the humidity. ;)

[disorganization.livejournal.com]

your kids are total supermodels!!

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

thanks! they are so skinny tho. they make my butt look big.

[sofarfrom78.livejournal.com]

Send me yo phone number! (sofarfrom78@yahoo.com)

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

done!

[devronika.livejournal.com]

The scenery plus you and your ridiculously beautiful children are all stunning!

you & yours ain't so sore on the eyes either.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

shuuuucks.

[midnightquill.livejournal.com]

Heartbreakers.

hello beautiful

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

and living room rock staaahs.