Lately Nickel Creek has been so good to me musically. And Josh Turner, well really just 2 Josh Turner songs versus the entire collection of Nickel Creek. Something about country music makes me feel at ease. I'm trying to figure out how to get songs posted on here ... when I do I'm putting up some Nickel Creek.
Speaking of music, my dear friend and talented musician friend Nick is going to being playing with Lindsay Holler and Co. in Columbia soon and I can't wait to hear what they have to offer. Word on the street is that they're even better than their CD these days ... and I love that CD.
I just finished reading this book called "VELVET ELVIS." It was also good to me. I'm going to read it again and I would also like to give a copy to everyone I know. I just can't pay for that many copies of books right now. It just makes lots of sense the things Rob Bell says. He makes me feel at ease about the things I think and wonder. I would read pages and just say, "Yeah .. yeah ... YEAH! I thought that might could be how it is!" and not that Rob Bell is the end-all-say-all on "how things are" but its just nice when someone makes you feel uncrazy by voicing that nagging feeling thats been sitting in the back of your brain for such a long time. Anyway, I highly suggest reading it.
I also just finished reading Como Agua Para Chocolate (Like Water For Chocolate). Although it has been one of the most prolonged book readings ever, it is also one of the most worth it. First of all it is the first full novel I've read completely in Spanish and that in itself is a good-feeling accomplishment. (You can get it in English though ... and you should). Second, it is one of the most passionate love stories ever. I mean not be a girl about it but, really, this isn't even mushy love. If you looked up passionate in the dictionary this book would be next to it. It was gut wrenching. And it has that magical realism touch that so many great Hispanic authors love to throw in so that its just not-real enough to be true love, but real enough that the book's life becomes yours and you find yourself trying to make decisions for the characters. Erin just sent me the movie for my birthday, magically, so now I am looking forward to seeing the movie. I don't know though ... the book was so intense that I'm not sure I can handle a visual version! Anyway, Ellen always talks about that book Love Story and what a great love story it is (hence, the title I suppose) and I've read it and it is pretty good but this makes Love Story look like a high school relationship if you know what I mean.
Anyway, thats my music/literature update for the month ... year... i don't know ...
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i've been wanting to read velvet elvis for some time now, my friend aly told me about it. now that its passed the mam-o-meter reading test, i'll try even harder to find it.
thanks.
and thanks for the plug.
I don't know that I've actually read that many love stories... but "The French Lieutenant's Woman" is pretty good. That title is supposed to be underlined and not in quotation marks. I know this, but can't figure out how to do it.
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