13: A Front Row Seat
1. Last time I cried: Monday night while listening to Smokey Robinson sing (Abraham Martin John and Bobby) about the assassination of so many of our treasured leaders at the White House Celebration of the Civil Rights movement, aired on PBS for Martin Luther King Day.
2. On the same night I laughed uncontrollably watching an 80 year old woman punk a young man at an airport with an offer to get together in flight for a “high mile” club rendezvous. It was one of the candid camera like pranks on Betty White’s new show “Off Their Rockers.” You should have seen the look on the guy’s face.
3. Speaking of guys, a few new country names I discovered while reading the local obituaries are Venston, Bitley, Histon, Ezess and Worth.
4. The old mountain names are fascinating to me, like today’s hippie names, they seem completely made up. Woman’s names I’ve recently come across are Fressie, Villie, Arnilla, Ezma, Drema and Treecie. God bless them.
5. After hearing about the youtube clips of S*it Girls Say, I discovered some on S*it No One Says, which I liked even better with lines like Twilight deserves an Oscar, My bazooka gum still has flavor, I miss my dial-up, I just have too much money and The Beatles suck.
6. Of course the Beatles don’t suck and neither did the five-star music duo performance we saw at the Floyd Country Store Sunday night. Ketch Secor and Critter Fuqua are old-time revivalists from Virginia and two of the founding members of the famed Old Crow Medicine Show. They play what I think of as “contemporary traditional” music (I know, it’s an oxymoron). The also have a knack for comedy. They premiered a nearly finished song about hillbilly robots, called Hillybillybot, and they spun some really good yarns. HERE they are doing the band’s signature song that has gone gold.
7. Because I got a front row seat at the concert I was able to capture THIS, my son’s girlfriend volunteer to go on stage and do a slow polka with champion flat-footer Rick Sutphin.
8. THIS banjo player from the Hackensaw Boys (far right in picture four with blue shirt) stayed at my house with my son and others from Asheville who came to hear the show.
9. Only in Floyd can you be out helping a friend with disabilities collect litter and run into a neighbor who jumps out of her car, pulls out her banjo and plays you a song in the middle of the road. See the picture HERE.
20. HERE is the beach version of 13 Thursday’s Front Row Seats.
11. On two occasions in my life I’ve come across completely naked people having sex, once on the beach and once at a summer solstice gathering.
12. At least I have never come across a dead body like my blog friend Naomi at Here in the Hills.
13. What would you want a front row seat to?
January 19th, 2012 11:23 am
One of my favorite woman’s old time names is Effie.
January 19th, 2012 11:34 am
Lot’s of Effie’s here. What I love most are the one-of-a-kind mountain names.
I like Arlis and Harlis for a man’s name and once I saw an old country woman’s name “Lake.”
January 19th, 2012 12:30 pm
Oh, I like names too. They intrigue me. Thanks for sharing.
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January 19th, 2012 1:10 pm
Blimey I’ve never come across naked people having sex. I have come across more than my share of naked people when I was at art college and drawing them, but I’m glad to say they weren’t having sex. 😀
January 19th, 2012 2:22 pm
I thank you for reminding me I wrote about finding that dead body….!
I’ve never run across naked people having sex—so, there you go….!
As always, Colleen, a terrific T13!
And to answer your question: I would want a Front Row Seat to ANY and EVERY Broadway Show, whenever……!
January 19th, 2012 3:40 pm
Though there are a lot of performances I’d love to see, I don’t think I’d like front row seats. My poor neck would hurt too much from having to look up all night.
And in answer to the question left on my blog–I wish I got paid to read!
January 19th, 2012 4:44 pm
“S*it no one says” is the clip of the Floyd Country store Band……your TT is as usual very interesting!!
January 19th, 2012 4:46 pm
Oh Yea……front row to “So You Think You Can Dance!”
January 19th, 2012 5:00 pm
Oh, no. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-x8t0JOnVw I’ll fix it up front. It’s funny!
Plus, I found the mile high club video: http://www.nbc.com/betty-whites-off-their-rockers/video/off-their-rockers-preview-pt-4/1379037 !
January 19th, 2012 6:03 pm
I have never come across naked people having sex. It is probably just as well!
I would like a front row seat for the birth of a planet.
January 19th, 2012 7:51 pm
A front row seat to a dinner with Bill Clinton, Buck Brannaman, Fareed Zakaria, Angelina Jolie, Jane Fonda, John Stewart, Aung San Suu Kyi, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkol Karman…for starters!! As you can see I dream big.
January 19th, 2012 8:03 pm
Now you got me googling some of those names.
January 19th, 2012 10:54 pm
LOVE “Shit No One Says.” Thank you so much for the link!
January 20th, 2012 12:29 pm
what an interesting question. I’d like a front row seat to see the aurora borealis. #2 is hilarious. and #4. oh dear #11. happy weekend to you Colleen.
January 20th, 2012 12:32 pm
As always, enjoyed your list. Somehow or other, I lost Thursday this week (probably the pain killers).
I though you might enjoy (if you haven’t already found) Sh*t My Students Write
January 21st, 2012 12:54 pm
9. cool. 15. trying to think. have I ever seen that. don’t think so, but then I automatically avert my eyes at shirts that are in flesh colors. maybe I wouldn’t have registered.
seen this on BPA? http://agardenerstable.com/2012/01/20/home-canning-bpa-free/
January 22nd, 2012 7:20 pm
Thanks for the link, Ron. Funny.
I bookmarked that source for non BPS canning lids, Pearl. Thanks!