Blogocentric Formulations

Stone

"The Soundtrack of Your Life"  | Day 10
"Stone" by Whiskey Myers

This is one of those songs that I think I have an emotional attachment to more for where I first heard it. This was the band playing in the bar during an episode of Yellowstone when Rip and Beth finally had a romantic moment together. I love the bittersweet sound of this song, and actually listened to quite a bit of Whiskey Myers after I discovered the song, although I still think this particular track is the pinnacle of their work for me.

Yellowstone is a show I have a bit of mixed feelings about. The first season was amazing, and the second season was pretty good, but I really don't see what the extreme hype is about. The characters are great and the dialogue is pretty compelling, but it feels like every single storyline is about how important the land of the ranch is, almost to the point of fetishizing it. Everyone prizes it and everyone's after it, and people are willing to lie, cheat, steal, and literally murder each other over it. I remember one storyline early on some developer wanted to buy some of the land to building a housing development, and the Dutton family was all furious that anyone would dare try to take their land from them and all I could think was, "This ranch is supposed to be like 750,000 acres and someone wants to pay them millions of dollars to have a small chunk of it for land development? How is that offensive?"

I guess I'm more capitalist than cowboy...