Given my new status as a guitar student, I can’t wait for Crazy Heart to come out in theatres. Unfortunately, where we are it’ll be February 5 before it graces our screens. Meantime, I’ve downloaded Ryan Bingham’s The Weary Kind from iTunes. I just heard he’s 25 years old, but he sounds as if whisky and cigarettes have been with him in the womb. Sorry Mama Bingham, just a phrase.
Don’t know if it’s just me, but these sad songs, dirges, speak to my soul. The ones I like best have a glimmer of hope. I always like to see the sun and a rainbow on the horizon. A double rainbow is something I’ve seen only once. It meant I met the love of my life three weeks later and we’ll celebrate our 7th anniversary of marriage soon.
Sometimes we’re all the weary kind, when life, the economy drags us down. But then we pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off… and start all over again. Perhaps I could have been a contender, not in the Big Band era, but in the folk music 60’s. How I would have loved to be there with such creativity, a mission of social equality and freedom.
Now I get to do that with voice and other instruments, and give the gift of music to others. Our nieces loved the guitar and now the keyboard they just opened the other night returning from midwest snowstorms. Keep cooking, singing along with the radio, and walking the dog (or whatever). Cheers! Dee
Cooking with Dee 
I skimmed this old recipe on another cooking blog I favor: http://recipespicbypic.blogspot.com/2008/10/steak-tartare-and-mack-knife.html
Of course I’m a little leery of RAW BEEF, but I suppose if you have a trustworthy source…
[I would bet my carnivorous cousin would enjoy it ;-)]
Yum! I’ll have to tell The Texans about it, Jim and our Whole Foods butcher! Thanks Val. Dee
I love the sad songs…because they’re slow enough to play!