The Salton Sea's a central setting in Everlast's What It's Like video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z9f9Eybv4I
There's also a great documentary, Plagues and Pleasures of the Salton Sea: http://www.saltonseadoc.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atgg7t4XbPk
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Mike Beggs <mikejbeggs at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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