Waking Ear

Lucinda Williams/"Here in California" -- I found this cover of a Kate Wolf song while making a mix for Girlfriend. It's reserved and cautious and brimming with passion, a simple folk tune about waiting until things are right. If anybody's familiar with Kate Wolf's stuff, let me know. I'd be interested to hear more.

Girlfriend pointed out that this hasn't been my first dream about Meg White. I can't remember the other one, and if I recorded it here, Google can't find it. But I can see why Ms. White would sneak into the subconscious. She's a sister-wife Freudian mindfuck who rarely talks. She's like a David Lynch character waiting to happen.

Schmubb has accused me of not liking this album because Pitchfork doesn't like it. I don't like it because I find it derivative and unchallenging. I just don't think Longwave hits the levels of emotional intensity and drama they try to bring. I could swap it out for Staind. OK, that's not true. But I could do without it.

Anyway, I'm being far outweighed in my opinion on this, which is OK. But I've been learning that my opinion means much more to my friends than I thought it did. I think I rub them the wrong way sometimes when I say I don't like something. Probably not that I say I don't like it, but how I say it, snobbily I guess.

One time in high school, this girl was singing Joe Diffie's "John Deere Green," and I made some comment about how the song was horrible. I just kind of assumed she knew it was horrible too, but that she was just a passive radio listener and it had gotten in her head. And the lyrics are kind of funny if you have any appreciation for redneck humor. But she really honestly liked the song and was offended. I could understand that people may like stuff that I didn't, but I couldn't understand why she got so mad.

I guess I still haven't learned my lesson.