Word: faulknerisms
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...said that Mexico has accepted the "great culture" such as Faulkner and that "Kentucky Fried Chicken is secondary...
...William Faulkner wrote 16 novels and innumerable short stories set in the deep South, a body of work which garnered him a Nobel Prize in 1950. Never at a loss for words (reportedly characterized by an occasionally indiscernible southern accent), the Mississippi-born writer offered profuse commentary on the social ways and means of southern culture. Indubitably among the most significant was his desire to make the invidious distinction that "some whiskeys just happen to be better than others...
Liquor wasn't too crude a subject for one of the acknowledged pillars of modern American literature-nor is it for one of the, admittedly less-acknowledged, bastions of American "white trash garage rock" Southern Culture on the Skids. Faulkner learned to drink in Mississippi, and Southern Culture "learned to dance" (albeit somewhat woozily) in the same place, as one of the songs of their newly released album, Liquored Up and Laquered Down, proudly proclaims. The same region of the United States that gave birth to Jim Beam and Jack Daniels produced Rick Miller, North Carolina native and founder...
...unlike Faulkner, Southern Culture has an appreciation for corn liquor, with Miller dedicating "King of the Mountain" to "the sellers of homegrown hillbilly liquor out of the trunk of a Chevy Cutlass." The crowd was certainly driving towards a sort of zenith of intoxication (and towards a Motel 6), with tatooed-up indie rock fans and prepped-out 20-something ladies and gents nodding their heads and quaffing brewskies in syncopation with Southern Culture's twangy guitar riffs and rapid-fire drum beats. Beer (and, one would hope, the more appropriate whiskey sours) were washing down heaping handfuls of "Banana...
...knowledge" and "love for the podium." "We'd hand him a bare outline of points to make and policies to explain, and he'd 'pretty it up,' with detail and argument tailored to the mood of the audience. We'd give him Hemingway, and he'd turn it into Faulkner...