Marfa
Marfa is this little pop. 2000 town just north of Big Bend National park in the middle of nowhere West Texas. Everything about the surroundings remind you of desolation. We drove for half an hour sometimes before seeing another car on the highway. The music had to compliment the surroundings...
Cat Power - The Greatest [via Matador Records]
Yo La Tengo - Beautiful World [live]
The funny thing about Marfa is that on the weekend there are all these New York/LA/Austin Hipsters that come in and enjoy the triving arts scene there. Back in October, Yo La Tengo played a show there at the Thunderbird Hotel. There was a great article in the Austin Chronicle about Marfa on a Tuesday in December, questioning whether the hipsters are ruining the town they put on the map. Well, my friend Chris and I took a trip there on a Tuesday in December ourselves, just to see what Marfa had to say about it.
And what's a buddy trip without a Sufjan song about two guys on a roadtrip themselves?
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago [acoustic] [via mp3 online]
posted by paul @ 3:02 PM
3 Comments:
man we went to marfa? that was quite a nap...
chris
ummm is this my old long lost friend Paul? And what a random way to run accross my long lost friend - from a friend of a friend of a friend's blog!!! well it is good to "see" you - i ran into a campus crusader that knows you - i think everyone knows you.
oh and yes west texas is hell, thats why i left!
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