Saturday, July 24, 2010

Dentron - The Home of Happiness

This is our 4th year in Denton Texas U.S.A. We are living in Denton proper right now ("proper" meaning properly situated away from 288). The "like a folky berekly" neo-folk-hippies, vagetarians, gear heads, artgeeks, neo-nerds, crusties, synthaholoics, gender benders, 12 pack PBR fixed gear crew, beardos, UNT jazzbos and barbacoa cadets are just too beautiful. The small slice of chillelectro folktronic vibe here is breath taking . If you turn your head sideways It looks like a cross between a David Lynch and John Waters film and that 1983 cult film called Liquid Sky. The usually obvious Richard Linklater "Slacker" film association only seems appropriate if you invert the concept and filter it through a texican-pinneapple prism. Yes, I do believe that our perceptions of so called "solids" comes through a collapse of the wave form of multiple, potential possibilities. Though normally it does embody a combination of "the bohemian charm of Berkeley with the rural folksiness of the South." However, there isn't too much of an overwhelming crusty layer of monoculture and neo-folk, tough if you travel away from "proper" too much you hit Texas. The beer on a budget drunks have saturated the place and the weirdos are authentic not plastic... strange stuff. Definitely not like San Marcos at all the 3rd week in. By the time the 1st year rolls around you say to yourself "wait this doesn't feel like a 1970's Austin or a San Marcos on shrooms wtf is this? Is this really happening in Texas? on planet Earth?" During the third year you have taken everything for granted until you travel to Austin or Kingsville, TX again and realize what you have. Great spot for a true staycation. Pics coming soon. "I'm not sorry I took the money..."




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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The beer on a budget drunks have saturated the place and the weirdos are authentic not plastic... Lmao.. awesome, Sounds like a place I need to visit!

Anonymous said...

Denton Texas in a nutshell... I couldn't have said it better my self. In fact, I love it when Non-Dentonites fall in love with my hometown. It puts a smile on my face and warms my heart. And, I'm glad that you and Veronica plan to stick around... That way I'll always get to see you! You're great people. Glad I met you both. :)

Bernardo said...

you know what they say... i wasn't born here but i got here as quick as i could. :)

i could play the po-mo whydentonsucks ironic card game and said the same thing...thats big with the kids these days... but i went for the more traditional approach i guess.

thanks for the delightful words mavis rose. we appreciate your friendship as well. in reality its not so much a place... its the people that inhabit the place that makes the place magical or not and you are apart of our experience... our little slice of life we carved out here in lil d. thank you.

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not possibly born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
---Anaïs Nin

Bernardo said...

Definitely NeNe!

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