A JEW WALKS INTO A GAS STATION BATHROOM IN WEST TEXAS AND IS GREETED BY FOUR NUNS..
Posted on | July 11, 2009 | No Comments
There should be a punch line, but there isn’t.
It’s Saturday night at midnight and I’m unable to sleep. The West Texas air smells amazing and there are visible stars in the sky. I miss those simple things living in brooklyn. Dan and I drove (yet again when I say “Dan and I drove” what I’m really saying is “I drove”) from Austin to Marfa yesterday. The drive was beautiful. Imagine the highway from No Country for Old Men, that is the terrain we drove through. I did end up in a gas station bathroom with four nuns, true story. The only thing entertaining that happened was me giggling.
We checked into the Hotel Paisano. It’s straight out of a movie, literally. The film Giant with Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean was filmed here. It feels as if it’s stuck in time. In fact, all of Marfa feels that way. As Dan keeps saying, ‘it’s an alternate universe’. Since Donald Judd moved here and started making work in the 60’s This small town in West Texas, population 2000 has become a Mecca for Artists. We dropped our bags and headed out to McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains for a star party. We learned about constellations and stars that were millions of light years away. The whole experience was incredible. Today we took tours of the Chinati Foundation and Judd’s studio and home. It was a long hot day. We called it a night with a dip in the pool, some delicious pizza (from the chef of Il Forno in Providence), a bottle of red wine and a fire on porch off our room. Marfa, Texas, it’s a magical place. Try it, you’ll like it, I promise.
Chinati Foundations: http://www.chinati.org/ Donald Judd Foundation: http://www.juddfoundation.org/marfa.htm McDonald Observatory: http://mcdonaldobservatory.org/ Marfa Texas: http://marfa.org/ Hotel Paisano: http://www.hotelpaisano.com/Comments
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