4.19.2008

No Country For Old Men


Finally watched this shit after promising myself I'd see it in theaters. Didn't happen but fuck it, that opening scene is the best part about the motherfucker for me. When you see that shit before sunrise coming over the mesa. I've seen that so many fucking times. That drive through west Texas from El Paso to where you finally get some relief because you just saw that 290 on ramp and realize that sleep is just a short drive away. I remember when I gave some fucking nyc russian mafia motherfucker a ride from Tucson to Austin. Fool puked out the side of my ride just a few miles outside of van horn. Apparently buying tall cans of steel reserve at 1am in Las Crucas isn't the wisest the move you can pull. I remember one day I was bored in a hotel in Fort Stockton so at dawn I just drove south down to Alpine Texas just too see what the dirt on those hills looked like. West Texas is not magical, it's just a place full of dirt that dreams go to sleep on the side of a dusty highway in. I've stayed in shitty ass rat filled motels out there just because in January even snow falls in the desert. Sure you could try and make it to Ozona but when you're heater is out you say fuck it and pull into the first motel you can find. Sure the sink pours black chunks of rusty cockaroaches and the bed is lumpy with needles, but when that heater kicks in at 3 am you know you've made the right choice. The next morning after a cherry pie and hot coco from the local Phillips 66 you're ready to take on any doped up trucker or wrangler ass redneck border patrol cocksmoke with trigger happy racist prejudices that comes your way.

sorry I've been drinking and reminiscing. If this doesn't make any sense to anyone but me that's fine.
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