[lbo-talk] music in Iran: verboten

Mike Beggs mikejbeggs at gmail.com
Wed Aug 4 20:31:05 PDT 2010


On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> What work? A good friend of mine from college came out of the Calexico aristocracy (i.e., her grandfather named the place, along with Mexicali, and ran a private army for the Chandler family in Baja). Can't believe what a godforsaken place it is - the air stinks of ag chemicals, you can't drink the water (or even brush your teeth with it) because of all the toxic runoff, and it's always like 105 degrees. Always interested in hearing more.

This place is the setting for Orson Welles' Touch of Evil right? I just saw that a few weeks ago - must be the coolest border-crossing sequence in the movies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg8MqjoFvy4

Mike Beggs



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