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Continued from Page D1. They lived in one room at a time while Bev started a reclamation project. She also planted a garden and tended it every day, pulling what the family needed from the ground. And Rick provided the protein. “I would kill game animals,� he said. “I really didn’t care if it was in season or not. This was subsistence.� The family raised rabbits — “and we got to name two, that was it,� Miranda said — and other animals for food as well. When the Lamberts revisit that time in their lives, their emotions vary. Shame and pride. Fear and joy. There are just as many laughs as there are tears. The 26-year-old singer first heard “The House That Built Me� when it was sent to boyfriend Blake Shelton, to whom she became engaged
Continued from Page D1. and garden. A new resource guide at the Extension office donated by Georgia Antoine helps Master Gardeners assist homeowners with weed identification. “Weeds of the Southâ€? was written by research botanist Charles Bryson and Michael DeFelice and features more than 1,500 color photographs of the most troublesome weeds plaguing Southern gardens. Hundreds of Southern weeds are highlighted with pictures of the seedling, flower and seed in addition to information on plant characteristics, habitat, toxicity, range and any special identifying features. •
this week. It was immediately powerful to Lambert. Shelton insisted she take the song. “It was beautiful,� Lambert said. “I mean, I just started bawling from the second I heard it. He was like, ‘If you have a reaction to this song like that, then you need to cut it.�’ Her parents, who retired from the private investigator business a few years ago and live on land that borders that old house, simply refused to believe Lambert didn’t write the song. The imagery matched their lives in every way. The family did bury their dog of 14 years in the yard of that rundown house — just like it says in the song. And the little room at the top of the stairs is, in fact, where Miranda did her homework and learned how
to play guitar. “And this guy didn’t know us,� Rick said of Douglas, who credits Shamblin with the idea for the song. The friends, who’ve logged many No. 1s separately, were at a songwriters event when Shamblin brought up a kernel of a song over breakfast. He was interested in the idea of how powerful the memories of houses are for people. They started to shape that idea into a song, looking for a nice turn of phrase, something like “the house that he built.� “I believe Allen twisted it to not ‘the house that I built,’ but ’the house that built me�’ — just talking about that quintessential home that everybody has had,� Douglas said. “I guess the song does strike a chord of universality because I think even if you haven’t had the home, it’s the
feeling of it’s the home you want to have or the home you’re trying to create.� As the operator of Lambert’s fan club, Bev knows firsthand how universal that song is. The response to it has been powerful. “So every single day I cry, because every single day I get somebody’s story and somebody’s grandma raised them and somebody was homeless and it reminds me of where we were at the time,� Bev said. Turns out all those details were just coincidences, moments drawn out of the songwriters’ lives. Put them all together and Miranda Lambert thinks it’s a triumphant tale that’s also deeply personal. Like the narrator in “The House That Built Me,� she believes those struggles turned her into the tena-
cious, fiery, hardworking woman who is shaking up country music today. The Grammy nominee won three Academy of Country Music Awards in April, including album of the year for the critically acclaimed “Revolution,� and she recently had her first No. 1 single with “White Liar.� It looks as if “The House That Built Me� might be her second as it continues to climb the charts. That would be quite the happy ending for the Lamberts. “It’s such a sad story, but it’s really such a happy story because it really just built our family back and it made us stronger than ever,� Miranda said. “And it made me.�
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Wild birds attack in “Birdemic: Shock and Terror.�
Really bad movies gain instant cult status via Net By Christy Lemire AP movie writer SAN FRANCISCO — It’s late Friday night outside the arthouse Roxie Theater, and a line is forming down the block. Twentysomethings — mostly men — stand around joking and waiting to file in. The smell of pot permeates the cold, damp air. Underneath the theater’s marquee, a fast-talking Vietnamese man in a suit and tie dashes around with a camera crew in tow, hastily laying a makeshift red carpet on the sidewalk and directing people to stand, pose, smile. He is James Nguyen, a writer and director, and his movie, “Birdemic: Shock and Terror,� is about to make its San Francisco premiere. A former Silicon Valley software salesman with no film-school education, Nguyen made this homage to his idol, Alfred Hitchcock, for about $10,000. He set and shot his killerbird saga in nearby Half Moon Bay and Santa Clara, and after showing it to sold-out crowds across the country, this is his homecoming. Lots of people make bad horror movies. Yet “Birdemic� has become an instant cult classic, one of several such movies that have gained popularity online and through social networking sites. It’s got the kind of beloved status that used to take years or even decades to achieve through video rentals and late-night cable. The schlockery of “Birdemic� is evident from its trailer, which has hundreds of thousands of YouTube views: uncomfortable dialogue, stiff acting, shoddy lighting, jumpy edits. And then there are the eagles and vultures that terrorize a quiet town before bursting into flames. To describe them as cheesy would be charitable. Characters swat at them with wire hangers, which have become the film’s trademark. First in line in San Fran-
cisco, Korrena Bailey said she heard about it from a friend back home in Ireland who’s a B-movie aficionado. “The birds explode! There’s no better reason (to see it),� she said, smiling. “The special effects are obviously topnotch.� Still, Nguyen insists fans are drawn to its sincerity, and not just coming to cackle. His film has screened for executives on the Paramount Pictures lot, and he’s working on a sequel, “Birdemic: The Resurrection.� “It’s a good story, there’s some humor to it, and people like that,� he said. “Despite all of its imperfections — from the visual effects, the animation, you name it — the audience will acknowledge that and see through that.� Laughing at the earnestness and ineptitude of such movies is only part of the allure; doing it in a theater packed with people is the bigger draw, said Michael Paul Stephenson, star of the 1990 cult favorite “Troll 2.� “These films celebrate the communal experience of watching a film together. That’s something that’s passing away,� Stephenson said. When Evan Husney of Severin Films saw “Birdemic� at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009 — where it had been rejected, but Nguyen brought it anyway — he had no idea what to make of the movie. Still, Severin picked it up, and sites like Twitter — with help from celebrity fans — have propelled it. Social networks also have created buzz for a horror movie with far better production values, “The Human Centipede,� which has played at packed midnight shows in New York and is expanding this month. How to describe it tastefully? A mad German scientist abducts people for an experiment in which he attaches their bodies to each other to make, um, a human centipede.
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