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July 26, 2009

stormhoek, terlingua

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[Never a dull moment in West Texas etc. A video of me telling some local peo­ple down in Ter­lin­gua all about Stormhoek.]
I recently made the acquain­tance of the pro­prie­tors of both The Star­light Thea­ter and La Kiva, two pro­mi­nent bars down in Ter­lin­gua. The mee­tings went well– I liked them both, they see­med to like me. So it looks like we might be selling down there, fin­gers cros­sed. Hurrah!
Ter­lin­gua, 100 miles South of Alpine, Texas, right on the Mexi­can bor­der, is pro­bably the stran­gest place I’ve ever visi­ted in my life– it has an unrea­lity to it quite unlike anything else I’ve ever seen. But there’s a won­der­ful appeal to it, that’s for sure. If you ever wan­ted to know what it was like to be living in the old Wild West, this is pro­bably as close as you’re going to get, first hand. The peo­ple, archi­tec­ture and lands­cape seem right out of a Sam Pec­kin­pah movie.
So why try selling South Afri­can wine in Ter­lin­gua? “Futile Mar­ke­ting”, of course…

[Backs­tory: About Hugh. Twit­ter. News­let­ter. Book. Inter­view One. Inter­view Two. Limi­ted Edi­tion Prints. Pri­vate Com­mis­sions. Cube Gre­na­des.“EVIL PLANS”.]

Tags: La Kiva, Sam Peckinpah, Stormhoek, Terlingua, The Starlight Theater

One Response to “stormhoek, terlingua”

1. Steve Nathan says:

   July 28, 2009 at 2:57 AM

   Enjo­yed the video. I have done a few tas­tings and in my old soft­ware days a few demos that went like that.

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