“Hey, Asshole!” #dirtymarycrazylarry
She recalls, perhaps bitterly, “I was singing when I was in high school and I was too busy to learn cooking and home stuff. I flunked in home economics. To this day, I don’t know how to cook.”
Her husband (Ralph “Drug Store Truck Drivin’ Man” “Wife Beater” “Satan” Emery) interrupted, “Yes… you can cook!”
She went on, “Wives should be home and be thrilled when the husbands come home.” A pause, then, “Maybe I’m selfish in wanting a career. I don’t think I can be a real wife…..”
She talks about her church and her minister, and says, Sunday, the minister said, ‘We are so concerned with ourselves, with the big “I,” and it almost always gets in the way.’ It makes you think.”
And Skeeter is thinking hard… . Somehow, she must find the answer.
-from Country Music Stars, Fall 1964
#Skeeter Davis #Ralph Emery #The Byrds
andreas dorau - die welt ist schlecht
“taking us to mars”
Bee Gees - Spirits (Having Flown)
The suffocating Kudzu. It’s edible! We’re going to be ok.