A Quickie With Lisa Marie: These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ (performed by Nancy Sinatra)


These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ is one of my favorite songs, one of those that is perfect for making either an entrance or an exit.  There’s probably not a day that passes without this song playing somewhere in the back of my head.

Written by Lee Hazelwood, this song has been recorded by everyone from Jessica Simpson to Megadeth but I prefer the version that made it famous, Nancy Sinatra’s.

Plus, the video for Nancy’s version cracks me up because, if you look real closely, one the dancers has got a run in her hose. *

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*Actually, as I sit here typing this on my lunch break, so do I.

A Quickie From Lisa Marie: Running Out Of Empty (by The Spaceship Martini)


One of my favorite songs from 2009 was the Spaceship Martini’s Running Out Of Empty.  The song was written for Lymelife, a flawed but still oddly effective little movie that featured excellent performances from Rory Culkin, Emma Roberts, Alec Baldwin, and especially Timothy Hutton.

Running Out Of Empty is used to score the film’s final scenes and it brings the perfect melancholy touch to the entire movie.  I could devote a lot of space to everything that didn’t work in Lymelife but it does have an absolutely perfect ending and this song and its use in the film has a lot to do with that perfection.