the art of collecting old stuff (melmac, half a cup coffee cups, plates with trailers on em, and cacti salt shakers)... riding old stuff (vespas and cafe motorbikes) and dreaming about restoring and living in old stuff (spartans and canned hams).
But nowadays, about any trailer wins my heart.. why? you either already know the answer or ya don't. I also love mid-century motels, and the signs above 'em. grr.I also heart ghosttowns and the brokedown side-of-the-road-this-is-my-new-and-forever-life lifestyle. I heart tumbleweeds and scrub and the neverending vistas full of them.
oh yeah, I like houses too. just a little.
somebody else that likes old stuff. somebody who thinks estate saleing is the best hobby in the world!
NO BAND REQUESTS UNLESS YOU'RE SOME VARIATION OF COUNTRYI am not accepting bands as a booker. If you're hoping I can help you with a gig or book you (into a show, not as a permanent booker), go to: www.myspace.com/bcsamericansaloon and contact me there, it's a resource you can use to book yourself as well. If you'd like to play with Shawn Hawkins, contact me there. I no longer accept band requests here unless I am already friends with you and actually care about your gigs, which means yer gonna have to send me a mail, because I turned off the band friend request option. I know it sounds hypocritical, but yikes, there's some crap on here!
old stuff.. I'm a Honky Tonk Martyr.
old stuff:
TENDER MERCIES!!
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW!!!
HUD!!
Shite, if it's about some po-dunk ghosttown in Texas, I'm probably gaga over it.I have a huge thing for 60's contemporary cowboy films, not westerns per se, but cowboys livin' it hard in a changing time.. Paul Newman's "HUD", Kirk Douglas' "Lonely are the Brave", so on and so forth. If you know of another in the same ilk, lemme know!!
definitely old stuff. Anything on TCM after 1 am.
old stuff, with dusty covers, classics and western pulp. But lately, country musician biographies, books on mid-century architecture, ghost town books, history of texas, biographies of cattle drivers of yore, you know, stories about old stuff.
Dale Watson, my Patron Saint of Real Country Crusaders! I have met him and he does not disappoint!!