Supernatural. Ironic. Grotesque.Tumblr (3.0; @gothicsouth)http://gothicsouth.org/<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ddcw4kcYpNg&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ddcw4kcYpNg&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>One of my favorite Elton John songs, now obscure nonetheless, movingly covered by Brandi Carlile.</p>http://gothicsouth.org/post/272842828http://gothicsouth.org/post/272842828Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:14:00 -0500<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120980017">Season's Best at Indie Booksellers</a>http://gothicsouth.org/post/268230091http://gothicsouth.org/post/268230091Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:46:06 -0500<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku76574NQQ1qanv6v.jpg"/></p> <p><b>Books:</b> In the Lexington area, these are available at <a href="http://morrisbookshop.com">The Morris Book Shop</a>.  This is a great place to go as you can support one of my favorite local businesses while getting me something I want:  two gifts in one.  A great idea in this economy.</p> <ul> <li>Gore Vidal:  Snapshots in History’s Glare, Vidal</li> <li>Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates, Cathcart & Klein</li> <li>Running Away, Toussaint</li> <li>Naked Lunch 50th Anniversary Edition, Burroughs</li> <li>Zeitoun, Eggers</li> <li>The Complete Stories, O’Connor</li> <li>Preservation of the Bluegrass, (forgot author)</li> <li>In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Mueenuddin</li> </ul> <p>I should also mention that I would be thrilled always to have gift certificates from a few of my favorite stores:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://morrisbookshop.com">The Morris Book Shop</a></li> <li><a href="http://cdcentralmusic.com">CD Central</a></li> <li><a href="http://sqecial.com">Sqecial Media</a></li> <li><a href="http://gravescox.com">Graves Cox</a></li> <li><a href="http://goodfoods.coop">Good Foods Co-op</a></li> </ul>http://gothicsouth.org/post/265910804http://gothicsouth.org/post/265910804Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:38:00 -0500“I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else’s. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there’s no truth.”<br/><br/> - <em>Flannery O’Connor</em>http://gothicsouth.org/post/265466592http://gothicsouth.org/post/265466592Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:00:01 -0500<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200910u/gore-vidal">Gore Vidal Interview</a>: <p>Gore Vidal submits to an interview with The Atlantic regarding his new pictorial memoir.</p>http://gothicsouth.org/post/265027461http://gothicsouth.org/post/265027461Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:20:06 -0500<a href="http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/11/27/01">Books are cozy.</a>: <p>For the first time in decades, reading is on the rise in the U.S., and other observations on the state of the written word, as art and industry.</p>http://gothicsouth.org/post/263120124http://gothicsouth.org/post/263120124Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:59:10 -0500