#vandaveer

I am glad you asked. I’ll break it down by media type. 

Books/Plays: 

The Crucible: Arthur Miller. Not only a classic piece of American Lit but also an allegory for The Red Scare. 

A Streetcar Named Desire: Tennessee Williams.

The Little Foxes: Lillian Hellman

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: Edward Albee

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Ken Kasey (Fun Fact, Based on his experience with the government’s MK Ultra experiments) 

House of the Seven Gables: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Young Goodman Brown: Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck

Fever, 1793: Laurie Halse Anderson. 

Movies: 

Jezebel: Bette Davis in one of her most renowned roles as Julie, a strong willed southern belle, who manipulates those around her to try and win back her lost love. 

Interview with the Vampire: 200 year old vampire, Louis (Played by Brad Pitt), recounts his life to a reporter. 

The Beguiled: A wounded Union soldier seeks refuge at an all girl’s school where tensions begin to rise with his presence. 

The VVitch: A thrilling film about a puritan family ejected from their colony and forced to live in isolation where they are plagued by strange events. 

Freaks: a 1932 black and white film about a traveling freak show that takes measures against exploitative outsiders. 

Oh Brother Where Art Thou: A southern musical about three runaway convicts. 

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: An anthology of stories in the dangerous world of the early American West. 

House of 1000 Corpses: An honest example of “hillybilly horror” by Rob Zombie

Music 

Bottom of the River: Delta Rae

Barton Hollow: The Civil Wars

Dig Two: The Band Perry

Coal Mine Moonshine: 3 Penny Acre

The Oh Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack

Bildgewater: Brown Bird

Blood on My Name: The Brothers Bright

Awake O Sleeper: The Brothers Bright

Ain’t No Grave: Crooked Still

Pretty Polly: Vandaveer

In Hell I’ll be in Good Company: The Dead South

Hells Bells: Carrie Ann Hearst

American Murder Song: Chapters 1, 2, and 3. 

“Long Lost Cause” (Vandaveer: Divide and Conquer, 2009) 

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THIS 1?

Song of the day

Spite by Vandaveer

Album: Dig Down Deep (2011)

The lyrics of this one are just really strong, despite the fact that they’re basically just “cut off your nose to spite your face” taken up to 11 and perhaps a somewhat disturbing conclusion. Perhaps I found a little bit too much of myself in the spiteful man being sung about...

Favourite lyrics (some of which I was going to use as my new blog title until I realised there wasn’t enough space):