Southern Life Is Where It’s At
April 27th, 2009Continuing from Alabama this weekend…
Here’s an object d’art created by my niece who lives in Alabama. She’s thirteen. I thought this is pretty cool and particularly “modern art-ish” for a thirteen year old.
In the Deep South this freaky huge flower grows on a tree. They call it a cowcumber, or swamp magnolia.
Farewell Mobile Bay way out there. About to drive to Jackson, Mississippi, for a crawdad boil. I sure wish we could play some gigs down here. Southern life is where its at. Super chilled out.
I missed the day at the swimming hole. And the 80 foot homemade black waterslide.
I think this kid was shooting skeet with a 12 gauge a little earlier.
Hosing down a couple hundred pounds of live crawdads. They’re known as crawfish down here but they’re not fish. They’re bugs.
Things are heatin’ up ’round here.
Jackson, Mississippi, airport. This (like most sculptures of children) is a fairly creepy looking sculpture dedicated to racial reconciliation. The portrait behind it is of Medgar Evers, the brilliant champion of the Voting Rights Act and desegregation legislation. He was murdered in 1963. There’s a great exhibit on his life here and having an hour to blow I must say I’m finding it very inspiring.
How cool are these ladies. They’re being arrested for going into the “public” library.
COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR
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Kevin Like Your Brother Kevin says: The SE portion of our country is truly unique. I had the benefit of growing up in a bible belt mentality town in St. Jospeh, Mo. where the Pony Express began and Jesse James ended.
The homemade waterslide reeks of the creativity of my childhood. When the creek behind my house would rise from excess rainwater or spillover from the dam upstream, We’d blow up the ‘tubes and ride the creak through culverts, down behind the subdivision, and into Weatherby Lake.
Anyhoo – enjoy those bugs. Did they make them march down into the boiling water? A friend of mine, and former New Orleans chef, did that for me once. It is very wierd watching your food on a death march.
–Kevin
martine says: Bonsoir Courtney,
your niece is so gifted, encourage her please, You’re an artist, i don’t have to tell you how important it is to leave chidren express their gift ! (oh my english ! lol!) tell her a
martine says: french lady likes a lot her sculpture sincerely !
and thanks for sharing , you keep close this way and become just a very interesting person,
But i also love Courtney of The Dandy Warhols oh oui !
bisous de Paris
martine says: and if my favourite flowersare Orchidee and coquelicot and myosotis i find lovely this swamp magnolia !
xobisouxo
sarah says: never stop sharing with us what you see, what you hear, what you discover … and i totally agree with Martine bout the fact you’re an interesting person who shares his discoveries, a bit of his life with us. I like this person and i like the Dandy’s frontman too.
Lany says: Thank you so much for sharing with us. Your niece does awesome work!!! Very creative, and as Martine said, gifted. I’ve never had the pleasure of visiting Alabama, but I go to Georgia about twice a year. I know what you guys mean about the Southern life. I was raised in California but I don’t really miss it at all. I like the southern hospitality and the food. I like the southern accent too. And the people are usually very polite. It seems like the further south you get, the more interesting the waffle houses get. I sat @ Waffle House in GA one night and it was so comical. A male cook and a female cook were fighting and arguing the whole time and someone caught a skillet on fire. Thay were both very nice to their customers though.
AltRockRN says: Your right, crawfish are bugs but they taste like little lobsters.
Those girls were so cool – and unbelievably brave. I think if you get pissed off enough, you can do anything.
Jennifer says: Okay, love the food in the South, enjoy the friendly people, dig the humidity and freakisly huge foliage, but when it comes to having to actually live somewhere I will chose the more liberal and socially conscious political climate of the Pacific NW. I love experiencing different cultures and have traveled all over the world. There is much of America I haven’t seen, and would really like to drive through the southern states, sampling life along the way. Good on you, Court.
