hello, beautiful

owen wilson x wes anderson is my favourite kind

How I Wanted You to Find Me

Last night when you didn’t turn up I snapped my timing belt and
spent an hour listening to passing cars make the ditch brush hiss,
watching the earthworms coming up onto the blacktop looking for
a better place to dry out and die. The tow truck driver talked
forever. His shift was over in forty minutes, and if he delayed he
wouldn’t have to go out to rescue anybody else. I texted you as he
dropped me and the dog at the Motorway Motel, but you didn’t
respond so I got out of the cab and tried not to make a big deal out
of things. I ran some water from the sink into the ice bucket and
went to sleep on top of the covers. I imagined there were dead
bodies in the boxspring. I imagined there were U.S. Marshalls in
the room next door. I imagined the next morning I would settle
down and live here with a truck driver who was only home on
holidays. This is how I wanted you to find me. This is how I
thought I could make you feel sorry for what you’d done.

- Sarah Carson

I got a bad desire

lord knows I love a cover: AA Bondy does Bruce

'cause punk rock was too hard to sing

Like a million other people I've been kind of off-and-on with my relationship with Ryan Adams over the years. He was real cute when I was in high school and I got heavy into Heartbreaker, all the Whiskeytown stuff that came before. He knew his way around a broken heart and a harmonica. The Love Is Hell EPs. The Winona period. (c'mon now, who hasn't had a Winona phase?). Lots of concert bootlegs. He was prolific but there was always a diamond somewhere. The last record was rare 'cause it didn't have a single song that got me, but oh Ashes & Fire, we are back ON.

I love to see the towns go crawling by

I heard this at a party on the weekend for the first time in a really long time and now I've had it on repeat for days. Goddamn it, Cat Power. Her covers are untouchable.

you're a real cowboy

and while we're on this western kick - hello, Community!

just a country boy that combed his hair

I won't lie -

I like my cowboys via Hollywood. Soundtrack courtesy of Mixtapes for Johanna, as ever

reasons to be cheerful:

imminent jetsetting

ladies who speak their mind

Southern noir, courtesy of Justified

(hmmm, cowboys)

Slim Shadow

"Sam is a good name," I said. "It will work."

he said, "Eat your ice cream, Patti Lee."