#travis stephens

[cbjustmusic]

Lucinda Williams performing “Jukebox”, a song from her newest album. ____________________ Jukebox Songwriters: Jesse Malin, Lucinda Williams, Tom Overby and Travis Stephens

I've been sitting home every night Staring out the window over the skyline Across the sleepy city and the twinkling lights Sometimes my idle mind hates what it finds

These days my world seems so small I'm a prisoner inside these four walls Going crazy with the sound of my own voice Going crazy if I don't get out of this house

Thank God for my corner bar So close I don't need a car I think I'll wander down a couple of blocks To get to my favorite jukebox

And then I won't be lonely And then I won't be lonely anymore

They've got an old Wurlitzer, it's a work of art And I've got a handful of quarters And I know how to ease my lonely heart With patsy cline and muddy waters

I'm always the last one left Then I get the jukebox to myself Last call always ends my night That's when the bartender turns up the lights

Thank God for my corner bar So close I don't need a car I think I'll wander down a couple of blocks To get to my favorite jukebox

And then I won't be lonely And then I won't be lonely And then I won't be so lonely anymore

[lyledebeast]

August 17: A Wounded Faun (2022)

This movie is about a trip . . . in many senses of the word!

A woman who has worked in the art world for a long time goes on a weekend getaway with a man her artist girlfriends have not met, which is already a red flag. As is usually the case when a woman in a movie goes into the woods with a man she doesn't know well, he is a serial killer. The rest of this is not predictable. It's very surreal. And very Greek. It's beautifully shot with copious amounts of blood in a color I haven't seen outside of 1970s horror, which I believe is a deliberate choice, like everything else going on here.

I would honestly have preferred a more traditional narrative at the end regarding Meredith, the main woman, and how she got out of this situation. Instead, the film centers vengeance is such a way that the serial killer feels more like the protagonist than his victims. But the director is a man, so maybe that's not entirely shocking.