Heaven and Hell

Somewhere today I got some motivation to add some music to my video from yesterday. Of course I couldn't stop there. I had to pull out a video I made before, when riding with Ben and previously unseen, and add music to it too.



I've been on a Lucinda Williams kick. Typhoid Mary (i.e. Jen) can't stand her, but there's a certain raw truth I find in her music that I can't get away from. Her interviews I can do without, but her music draws me in. Her cover of ACDCs "It's a long way to the top" is particularly intriguing.

This second video contains EXPLICIT lyrics. Watch/listen at your own risk. I actually had the idea of pulling this clip together with the Bastard Fairies when I first looked through the footage.



There's just something about the incessant twists and turns that match up nicely with the beat of the song. Often I find myself repeating songs like this in my head on trails like this. I remember racing at Lodi and singing "Take the skinheads bowling" to myself in a similar manner.

Coincidentally I found the Bastard Fairies held a competition to create the official video for the song I used. The winner and video is here. His is definitely better then mine for the song, but mine captures more of what happens in my head when I'm riding along sometimes.

Now if I could just find a song that captures what's going through Gretchen's head when we ride. It's probably something like - "run, run, run, happy, happy, happy, smell, smell, smell, drink, drink, drink, pee, pee, pee, run, run, run."

Know anything like that?

- b