She Walks These Hills

Recently, I spent some time watching a music video of the Long Black Veil by Dave Matthews Band with Emmylou Harris. I've always liked that song, but after watching this video a few more times, I'm convinced that no one could have done it better. Haunting; I guess that's how I would describe it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA3RKUHhN...

Dave Matthews has also done some acting. I saw him in a flick called "Because of Winn Dixie", in which he played a shy employee in a pet shop. Matthews was cast in kind of an odd role, but he played it very well. There was another small part in this movie (Stevie) who was portrayed by a young lad by the name of Luke Benward. He also played the lead role in a decent little movie called "How to Eat Fried Worms". In this movie, his character (Billy Forrester) had to eat 15 worms in 15 days to win a bet. (According to one of my readers, that wouldn't be much of a chore for our own SnakePlisken).

"... That is disgusting and I have seen Plisken eat those worms! -- Posted by Indymac4."

The movie "How to Eat Fried Worms" comes from a book of the same name which occupies a space on the American Library Association's list of most commonly challenged books. I don't exactly know what that means, but Orwell's "1984", Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" also grace this notorious list. The book was written by a gentleman by the name of Thomas Rhodes Rockwell and I really don't care whose list it is on, it is an excellent book. Thomas is the son of Norman Rockwell, the great painter who we enjoyed so much on the covers of The Saturday Evening Post and Boys' Life.

Norman Rockwell would have been 116 years old today. From an old post of mine about meeting celebrities, I remembered a comment about Norman Rockwell:

"When my Dad was a boy, he and my grandparents met Norman Rockwell. Pretty cool. -- Posted by weimgirl"

Boy howdy weimgirl, that would have been cool. I would have really liked to have met Norman Rockwell; I can't draw or paint a lick, but I sure have a great appreciation for those who can. As a young lad I looked forward to when our copy of Boys' Life came in the mail and quite often he had a great drawing for the cover.

Now that I know that a new Rockwell museum exists in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, I have put it on my list of places to go. If only I were retired and had the time; maybe someday Norman, just maybe... http://www.nrm.org/

Happy 116th Birthday Norman!

P.S. -- A favorite comment of mine to one of my articles has to be this intelligent and well thought out statement.

"I can't remember meeting any real celebrity, but I do know a blogger that's a legend in his own time - I think his name is Al. -- Posted by county gal"