PETA has signed up the 24-year-old granddaughter of Che Guevara, the famed Argentine-born Marxist and Cuban revolutionary leader, to spread the word about veggies. All the sexy helps a lot! Read More
PETA has signed up the 24-year-old granddaughter of Che Guevara, the famed Argentine-born Marxist and Cuban revolutionary leader, to spread the word about veggies. All the sexy helps a lot! Read More
Includes commentary by Willie Nelson and Ray Benson
Sunday, June 28th ~ 11 am
Traveling Bistro ~ NOMAD BAR
Join us for some food, libations and fun!
Photography show by Chris McElhatton at Corona Cafe
As owner of Groovee Fortune web /print design, I am proud to present 2 new web pages for some old friends. Because I have known these people for many years and have lived thru many fun and sometimes bizarre situations w/ these folks, I feel a John Waters’ intro is in order. It just seems to fit perfectly and profoundly.
Visit John Waters Dreamland
Cheers to Litmus Industries and Horse Head!
If you don’t know who John Waters is, I wouldn’t really know where to start. He’s a filmmaker of the darkest kind because he rips the face of June and Ward Cleaver right off America and shoves all the tragic, harsh, real parts of life down your throat. He doesn’t seem to take himself too seriously but he’s really fucking good at what he does! Just brillant. Drag queens, creepy folks, bizzare, absurd, ugly and tragic events…. You’ll just have to watch USA’s “Night Flight” on John Waters’ “Polyester” – 1982.
All I know is we have all lived thru some events together that make our lives eligible for a scene in a John Waters’ movie.
Kevin Holden, my dear old college friend, is part of the new Horse Head Theatre in Houston, Tx. My first 2 years at UT I probably spent most of my time with Kevin going to football games, drinking beer, playing racquetball, playing drinking games, etc… I miss racquetball! We used to play a crazy drinking game called Cardinal Puff…”For the first time tonight I drink to the Cardinal Puff.” While there are many occurences at UT vs OU and on 6th street, I think events at a What-a-Burger on the drag with a homeless man named Bucky who believe he was being followed by the CIA is one of our most Waters’ moment. I can best describe our relationship as a Strange Brew.
Tony and Lori Linder are the masterminds behind Litmus Industries. I can’t even count the numerous John Waters’ moments I’ve live thru with these two! I’ve always loved Lori’s sense of style and Tony’s art. Together they offer all kinds of fantastic creations. Beautiful glass work, vinyl signs, multimedia art, fantastic drawings, business signs, ironwork, etc. You’ll have to come back to this web page to see what ends up in the catalog for you to buy. As for Lori, I think mostly of our many trips to swimming holes in her dad’s old mint green buick which made me feel like we were The Muppets, a wild trip on the train trip to visit her in Seattle and a hunt to defend my honor against the bitchiness of one of the Donnas. Lori dressed me in fantastic Waters’ worthy clothes obtained around the country. The Linder house looks like a Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum, perfect for the set of any Divine movie.
One of my funniest memories with Tony, I left the apartment he lived in with Bob Ray carrying my bike. I had to step down one step to the garage, slipped and end up trapped under my bike that was wedged into the step and a car. I begin yelling but the music was really loud. After about 15 minutes, Tony emerged and rescued me. I had sprang my ankle. Having much experience with twisted ankles, my best remedy was a 6 pack of Pearl bottles. About the time I finished my last beer, unexpectedly the police chased our friend, the neighbor, thru the apartment. Having lost their hot pursuit, who jumped out the second story and later called the police on the phone, the APD turned on us. My ankle, swollen like a catalope, was impossible to walk on and I was surrounded by beer bottles. The policeman walked up to me and asked me if I’d drank all that beer and I pointed at my ankle and he didn’t ask anymore quuestions. They threaten to take us all to jail, but luckily we were set free and left to our own devices. There are many live music stories I could tell about Red River and our trip to the Vegas Shakedown, but you can’t handle the truth. HA!
I’m very proud of Kevin, Tony and Lori. Despite our many adventures that might leave some in a straight jacket, we have grown up enough to do some things we can be really proud of! I am also working on new web pages for 2 of my college roommates (one is a Cardinal) but you can see those once they are ready! Enjoy and thanks for reading! XXOOO Beth Been
Back in the 80s, the sexual noose wasn’t so much around your neck. A movie could come out with the word “pussy” in it, and you would still let you still let your kids go see it. I must have seen Octopussyon the big screen at the Carlisle Theater in Dimmitt, Tx. Did we get to see nippy? It’s just hilarious, now!
Carlisle Theater in Dimmitt, July1990
Photo by Billy Smith
I loved Octopussy! Roger Moore is my favorite 007 but this title sequence is ridiculous. Bond, James Bond deserves something more than this! It looks like a Nagel feminine hygiene ad. The guy swinging the lady around in circles is priceless. Is that freaking Anne Murry? Oh shit! Anne looks fantastic by the way!
WARNING: If you are under 18, I am telling your parents you watched this.
Corey Parks is the only woman I have ever seen blow fire. I have always wished Corey Parks had a reality show and this satisfies some of that. Nashville Pussy has spent many years hanging out in Austin so I got to watch many of her antics. Corey once borrowed my lipstick, bit the top off and handed it back.
Die Hunns – Hate N Love
I’ve had the groovee fortune of going to Petra twice with 2 different groups of people. It was amazing. I found this great video and thought I should show it to you!
On a long walk to the El deir (the Monastery), we had tea with a bunch of Arab guys who lived there. I love that tea and Arabic coffee, too. I want some good Shawarma! Of course, it’s a taco!
Spinnerette – Ghetto Love! Heard it on KLBJ and learned one
member, Brody Dalle, is married to Josh Homme of
Queen of the Stone Age. QOTSA is on the top of my list to see live!
Now I want to see them w/ Spinnerette
Queens Of The Stone Age – Go With The Flow
Here are more videos of brody dalle. All the songs are
different styles and she looks different in each. Love it!
The first time I remember seeing Carrie Rodriguez was at a Frances Nail(her grandmother) book signing in a historic house on 7th in Austin, Tx. Carrie was dressed in fancy dress playing classic violin for the crowd. She couldn’t have been older than 10, but it is hard to say. She was really good & very confident. The dresses in “Never Gonna Be Your Bride” made me think about that day and how far she has come.
Fast forward many years and Carrie has traded in her violin for a fiddle and took off her little girl dress and really laid some tracks in a short time. She’s already been on Austin City Limits and Grand Ole Opry. Some people wait a lifetime to do either.
Carrie’s grandmother Frances is my grandmother Mary’s first cousin. I remember Frances’ mother, Kate, as a kid. Somewhere in there Carrie and I are cousins. Maybe I’d met Carrie at the book signing, but let’s say the first time I met up with Carrie as an adult professional musician was at Waterloo Records. Beau and I went to a Carrie Rodriguez and Chip Taylor in-store. Frances was supposed to be there but wasn’t feeling well so when it came time to go thru the line I walked up with a handful of Texas Rollergirl swag (guitar picks, etc) and announced like a crazed fan, “Hi, I’m your cousin Beth and I’m in the roller derby, blah blah blah blah blah…brought you some stuff…crazy talk…babble babble…this is my husband…great set…talk talk…”
Many months later, I went to the Gingerman and up walked Carrie…”Hey aren’t you my cousin?” We got to see her jazz sax playing husband, Javier Vercher, that night at an open mic. It was great. It’s been a while since I saw Carrie live, but I know she has toured with Lucinda Williams and probably traveled the world, fiddling all the while wooing the hearts of many. I was excited to see her solo, looking so sassy on Austin City Limits. I saw one of her videos on ME Television and wanted to email my mom and video and found so much stuff, I might as well pass it on to you. Looks like she has a new album, She Ain’t Me. Try it you might like it!
If I ever had to fight the Devil in Georgia, I’d definitely recruit Carrie for the event. Not to put words in her mouth, but I imagine her saying, “My name’s Carrie and it might be a sin, But I’ll take your bet, your gonna regret, ‘cos I’m the best that’s ever been.” She’d kick her cowboy boots in the dirt and show the Devil a thing or 2 about fiddling!
Carrie sings a song called Memphis, Tx which is cool since I was born there and lot’s of my family still lives just down the road from Turkey, Tx – home of Bob Wills. I must mention her mom, Katy Nail.
Go Carrie Go!
