Last Picture Show

Seriously the most beautifully tragic movie of all time. I must have read the book 20 times when I was 15-17 years old. There was one stretch where I was alternating between Last Picture Show and Texasville for six months.

I've been homesick/ nostalgic for Texas lately but it's for that mythic Texas. The one where you put on a clean white shirt and slide your boots across old dancehall floors on Saturday nights or eat thin hamburgers cooked on flat tops with your mom after school. I can't ever remember going to an old school picture show, but there was a time when my dad was on a search for the best chicken fried steak in North Texas. Now I guess you'd just yelp it or get on chowhound but I have no idea how he came up with these places unless he just wanted to see the old towns before they died and he assumed there would be a diner with a chicken fried steak wherever we went. There was this one in Southern Oklahoma which technically disqualified it from consideration for Best in Texas, but it had won some prize and was one hell of a chicken fried steak. The best part was walking down the street after lunch there was a facade of a picture show that was in the process of being torn down. We walked around the back and the whole back wall and roof were torn out but the rows of seats and the balcony were still up. That's the place I think of when I think of Last Picture Show. And there's a scene between Duane and Jacy that hits a little close to home. As Sam says "being crazy about a woman like her is always the right thing to do."

"Run along now Wichita...I can't protect your shoe shine all night."

Potash insane

So they caught a bid at 140 last week which was promptly turned down but guess the model did allow for some upside.