I don’t know this state very well, so I fear that this list is not, in fact, my favorite things from Maine. It is what I think are my favorite things from Maine:
1. Writer: The first five volumes of The Dark Tower are amazing plus I love The Stand and Misery and The Dead Zone. He’s not as good as Melville or Faulkner but few other American writers beat him.
2. Painter of seascapes: He’s not from Maine, but surely he counts because he painted there. Try this one, or this one.
3. Painter: Marsden Hartley, this one is atypical. There is also Andrew Wyeth, do you know the old saying "As usual, the truth lies somewhere in between"?
4. Poets: There is Longfellow, E.A. Robinson, and Edna St. Vincent-Millay, none of whom I much relate to but nonetheless I am impressed in the aggregate.
5. Best writer about spiders and swans: Duh.
6. Movie director: John Ford, with Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as the classics.
7. Composer: Walter Piston is the only one I can think of, try this disc.
8. Beautiful woman: Liv Tyler. Wasn’t she beautiful? But when? I can’t find any picture on Google to prove it…
The bottom line: For an isolated, underpopulated state, this is a pretty awesome line-up. But hey, it’s cold up here!
Which version of “The Stand” do you prefer, the original, or unedited version? I’m going to guess at the original.
On the subject of Maine, anyone else nostalgic for the goofy old LL Bean catalog, with its homely models and sturdy clothes that “give a neat, trim appearance,” as the text was wont to say? There is a very funny parody called Items From Our Catalog, I think by Gingold, that included the Penobscot Paper Clip and a shearling-lined yarmulke.
Lobster, dummy.
There’s this writer named E.B. White you might want to check out…
Wild Blueberry pie while visiting Acadia National Park, don’t remember the restaurant.
Lobster rolls. One needs to do a study to determine why they are cheaper as you move away from the coast.
maine = sailing
It is lovely up here and I’ve always liked brick architecture. If you don’t already know the town try a weekend trip.
I tried to walk into “J’s Oysters” at 11 a.m. (I was hungry, no real breakfast) and a surly waitress growled at me: “We don’t open until 11:30!” I replied politely: “The sign says you open at 11.” (I didn’t mention that, also, people were in there drinking.) Even more irritated, she bellowed: “That sign is *thirty years old*!”
What about Civil War Hero:
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Favorite Maine country singer: Dick Curless
author/militia member: Carolyn Chute
Um, Tyler, let me fix that for you:
“He’s not as good as Melville or Faulkner and virtually all other American writers beat him.”
Sarah Orne Jewett is a luminous writer who set most of her stories in Maine and lived there. Penelope Fitzgerald and Marilynne Robinson are her aesthetic descendants.
hey my dude,
http://www.poster.net/tyler-liv/tyler-liv-photo-liv-tyler-6221534.jpg
Liv looks terribly beautiful on this shot!
Greets.
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