I'll be waitin' in Jackson, behind a Ja-pan fan

What the hell-they just cut "Jackson"---I KNOW they did the whole song at San Quentin cuz I have the CD.
While I'm watching this special I can't help but think that it would've made people suffer from head explosion to see these rotten people-these criminals-the scum of the earth-presented as articulate human and caring. But I still don't know how I feel about the movie coming up---we're talking about Johnny and June here. The first country album I ever heard was American Recordings. Up until the point I had NO IDEA what country music sounded like. Due to Daddy's hating of all things hillbilly. Wasn't allowed to hear it and I didn't know such a thing existed. Until I heard Johnny Cash. I am a little bit attached to the guy. When June Carter died I wondered how long Johnny would live. When Johnny died I knew he'd gone home to be with June. Isn't it weird someone with so little grasp of religion as it is understood by mainstream Christian America is able to accept that so willingly? It's comforting.
This documentary, on the other hand, is not comforting. I do not need descriptions of what it is like to be executed and I do not need to see a man that was condemned to death telling his story. Tho he is probably very very dead by now---he probably would've died even without the help of whatever the prefered method of gov't sanctioned murder was at that time. Just a thing with me. Call me a bleeding heart liberal...Why are so many things (meals, records, religious consultation, companionship) given to these people if the state has decided they are not worthy of life? Really digging that Peace in the Valley is the backdrop to this montage about the prisoners sentenced to death.
Johnny Cash was an American badass-singing about how much he hated San Quentin to a crowd of inmates, dude must've had balls the size of Impalas0more so than maybe even me. But as much as I am enjoying this show a LOT has been edited from the CD. The CD is a favorite-even if Marty Stuart resident expert on every fuckin' thing wrote the liner notes. At least I think he did. Could be wrong. I am often wrong-but ole Marty loves to go on you know so chances are it was him.
More observation---the guard on TV just stated that sometimes inmates had to be homosexual just to survive. That can't have been normal conversational topic for the time-it was 1968 after all.
The means by which the death penalty was carried out was the gas chamber. That is just an adendum-the way this show is going I half expect that this person will be shown as he dies. OH nevermind. The show is over.
Now there's a show abut the Outlaws on. I love the Outlaws-Willie and Waylon and the boys. Gotta love them-if you don't I think you might not be American. Why do you love the enemy, huh? You bastard I'm calling Dubya on you. But seriously-Big'n'Rich are Outlaws? Why, cuz they---I really don't know...how the feck do they qualify as even kinda sorta ouside of the law? (This being said with the knowledge that I probably wouldn't have a job if those jokers hadn't provided my employer with just enough business that he established a reputation...I could be wrong about that quoting me would be unhealthy)
It still freaks me out when I see on CMT or whatever scenes of Nashville and the scenes are places I've been in the last week. "See you come to (Nashville) and you fit in like a hand into a glove, but there's something dragging you across the (country) all the time...But then you finally go back and it's not like you thought it was..."*
I don't know where I'm going with this. Nowhere basically.
I was at the Mainstreet Discount Wines and Liquors today. One of the oulfellas that work there followed me through the joint telling me all about the wines one cuold get for $3.50/bottle. This is a dream beverage. Some of these wines are really good.
Heh, heh heh, Waylon said "Go get that little redhead sumbitch, what's he got me into?" That is a quote. Jessi Colter is still so beautiful these days-what was she 11 when she met Waylon? I wouldn't buy a solo album by her-but damn she brought out something in Waylon didn't she.
I could continue to ramble on about Willie and Waylon and Johnny and all those hard livin sonsofbitches but I think I will quit pretending I'm doing anyhing productive and just drink some cheap wine (it is VERY GOOD cheapwine tho God bless you Main St Discount Wines and liquors) and get teary listening to Good Hearted Woman (yeah, sometimes it's fun to pretend that's a real emotion in my world-tho I know better) and just settle down and enjoy this CMT show. (I got to say tho I deserve to be one of the people making these shows-dammit, I more than deserve it I have earned it-I have motherfuckin degrees- and know all the right people so what is holding me back?)
I'm going to not campaign for a job right now tho and just watch TV. Oh. How I love TV.









*this is Larry's quote I am just applying it to me as it is just a ture for me in Nashville as it is for Larry and New York City.