Word: cowboying
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...been said that the modern age offers no more pleasurable rewards than this: driving east, across New Mexico, in the early morning light, the desert sunrise even--while listening to the New Riders of the Purple Sage. It's strong seventies imagery, all cowboy songs, loping and drifting beneath a painted sky, past cactus and rocky badlands. My brother didn't take off his high boots and NRPS tee shirt for two years...
...dirty book stores and porno booths, privacy ensured, and the old auditorium, Ryman's, which used to be the Grand Ole Opry in better days, looks like a church turned bingo hall. The Ernest Tubb Record Store is only a dingy Woolworth's--lines of cheap cowboy boots and tumbled boxes of western shirts, old George Wallace Speaks records, trick glasses that look like they're full of beer but when you pretend to spill it on someone the beer stays in because there's a false...
...loosing her battle for the shag-cut brown-haired, fishy-moustached, brown-oiled, flat-faced stud in the bleach spotted blue sweatshirt who passes God-knowing glances to the skinny, tight-asses, thin-featured queen of the joint. The Oly tastes pretty good here in 1975 doubleknit cowboy heaven with pinball and Pong and ethnic diversity at a reasonable price...
...entire investment by the end of 1976. John has sold 42 million albums and 18 million singles worldwide; nine of his twelve albums are over the million mark in the U.S. alone, often with several hundred thousand to spare. His latest album, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, had an advance sale to retailers of 1.4 million copies before anyone outside the recording studios had heard a single bar of this extraordinary autobiography in music by Elton and his faithful lyricist-companion, Bernie Taupin. This week it was in the No. 1 spot on all major U.S. record charts...
Perry finds some arresting images to underscore his theme. Beautiful Navajo rugs are spread out for an airing under the big sky as a cowboy works them over with a weirdly out-of-place vacuum cleaner; a brand-new Lincoln auto is pumped full of slugs from an ancient buffalo rifle. But Perry appears to distrust his taste for surrealism and settles too often for the merely slick. Similarly, McGuane, a highly regarded young novelist, tells us too little about the characters in this original screenplay. Rancho Deluxe might have been a film of considerable originality, something on the order...