Quickie

[rejectomorph]

What!? Is it ten thirty already? And I'm not even drunk! Time has a way of sneaking out from under me and dropping me into the abyss of entrylessness. Well, it's Friday night so nobody is here anyway. I won't be missed, I'm sure.

Look! It's probably the oldest continuously operating movie theatre in the world. It's in the small town of Mesilla, New Mexico (pop 2180), a suburb of the not-very-large city of Las Cruces. This is a list of the movies they've shown since 1989. Some of those are so obscure that they probably haven't even been seen in Los Angeles or New York. An extreme art house in the middle of nowhere! I do enjoy when the world presents me with the odd and unexpected.

Comments

[juneflame.livejournal.com]

Las Cruces is beautiful, a barren brand of a barren beauty. And Mesilla has an excellent eatery named El Comedor. Specializing in dishes featuring chiles, the harvesting of which the area is renowned for.

The sunsets there wrap around the sky three times at least and you can lose yourself, pinned by the light against the broken teeth of the Organ Mountains. As for movie theatres, I know nothing, but on the basis of the salt flats and those sunsets, I recommend it.

[rejectomorph]

I have friends who live in Silver City, which I think is about 80 miles from Las Cruces. There's always a possibility I'll get the chance to visit there. The place sounds engagingly eerie.