If I were living in Manhattan or virutally any other borough right now, I could go see the following performances (in no particular order):
Damien Rice/The Swell Season Taj Mahal (sorry, Jess!) The entire Wainwright clan Electric Six Good for the Jews Aimee Mann The Killers
All either tonight or tomorrow night. I didn't even put a dent in the list of shows going on in the next two days in that city. Yesterday I had this specific thought, but I figured the fact that living in Houston allows me to wear sandals and a skirt in December is at least a pretty decent consolation prize.
Nope. Winning the Huffy bike is not the same as winning the Disney World vacation and the karoke machine. Not the same at all.
Lou Reed says it best, I believe.
"I'll take Manhattan in a garbage bag with Latin written on it that says, "It's hard to give a shit these days." Manhattan's sinking like a rock into the filthy Hudson what a shock They wrote a book about it, they said it was like ancient Rome."
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New York -Lyrics :Sex Pistols
an imitation from new york you're made in japan from cheese and chalk you're hippy tarts hero 'cos you put on a bad show you put on a bad show oh don't it show still oh out on those pills oh do you remember think it's well playing max's kansas you're looking bored and you're acting flash with nothing in your gut you better keep yer mouth shut you better keep yer mouth shut in a rut still oh out on those pills do the sambo you four years on you still look the same i think about time you changed your brain you're just a pile of shit you're coming to this
you're sealed with a kiss kiss me think it's swell playing in japan when everybody knows japan is a dishpan you're just a pile of shit you're coming to this
you're sealed with a kiss still oh out on those pills cheap thrills anadins aspros anything you're condemned to eternal bullshit you're sealed with a kiss kiss me a kiss a kiss you're sealed with a kiss a looking for a kiss you're coming to this i wanna kiss anything oh kiss this eh boy
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I would love to catch the Damien Rice show.
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But the question is are you going to do the cross Texas drive to Marfa? Stay in Alpine, meet a cowboy ( of similar faith, of course ) and maybe see the famed Marfa Lights!
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Thanks Nix, also apropos.
extraordinary: big ditto on that one. nice and calm.
Beachy: Texas and I have a very strange relationship. I am aware of the fact that everything is bigger in Texas. In two years, I've probably explored about 10 square miles out of the whole state. I think I'm cool with that arrangement, and so is lady Texas. Alpine sounds like an interesting place to be in an area with no mountains, though. What's there?
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Ahh, come on, they got mountains in Texas!
Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park
And the Marfa Lights would be excellent after party drinking spot