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...white plastic chair by the ice machine at the Highland Motel in Bullhead City, Arizona; hang around the parking lot at the El Rey Motel in Searchlight, Nevada; knock on doors at the Desert Inn Motel in Needles, California, and the sad stories pour forth. There's the fireman who fled his eastern Washington home when his wife started sleeping with his fire-station colleagues. He moved to Alaska, worked security on the pipeline, then drifted south, where he gambles away his earnings as a casino janitor. There's the Michigan supermarket checker whose husband left when she told...
Broken homes are the common thread that binds the lives of drifters. An accident or an illness can push someone over the brink. Wes Moreland, living in a $125-a-week room at the El Rio Motel in Bullhead City since March, says his life fell apart after a near fatal car accident in 1984. A onetime maintenance man in Thornton, Colorado, he lost three years of work, 64 lbs., and "my wife felt I wasn't the handsome young man she married." Three years ago, after his wife divorced him and got their $140,000 home and custody...
Moreland's roommate of several weeks, Sidney Gibson, quietly fries hamburger on a hot plate. A 27-year-old Native American, he traveled to Bullhead City from Oakland, California, with his brother, who "painted a beautiful picture of good work and higher pay. I should have known it was bull." Across the river is the casino boomtown of Laughlin, Nevada, and his brother, a gambler, landed in jail for a bad check, Gibson says. Now Gibson, who spent his teenage years in an Oregon correction facility, works in a Kingman plastics factory. But he dreams of heading to Northern California...
...Executive Floor), they said, or rented an Expense-o- Car, I could earn one-fortieth of a ticket to Kalamazoo. Then, just as I was booking cars I didn't need, they introduced segments. That meant that if I flew from Seattle to Vancouver via Chico, Oshkosh, Bullhead City and Purgatory (Colorado), I might clock up enough miles to make the same trip for free! Alternatively, if I flew to Casper, stayed in the most expensive hotel around, made some calls to Zaire at prime rates and rented a car to drive back to the airport, I might be able...
...grunge--slow churning, soiled with feedback and riff-laden--was Melvins (not "The Melvins," but simply "Melvins"). Melvins have been around since 1984. Along the way, the band has gone through many line-up changes and has released albums as mediocore as Ozma and as flat-out irritating as Bullhead. Obviously I'm not a fan. But in fairness to Melvins followers (who call themselves not "Melvins Army," but "The Melvins Army"), I don't really like Black Sabbath much either. However, I suspect that even a grunge music afficianado would find Melvins' new release, Houdini, inescapably trite and monotonous...