NO CHANGING IT ALL JUST REVISING THE
…ya know…after moving back to Dallas in 2004–here I was in the late 80s and early 90s–it still strikes me that Dallas is a lonely city, that it breeds isolation, that it is cold despite the heat and movement. But somehow I don’t blame the abstraction of a culture that is the city nowhere.
…what is it? the transitional work crowd (Dallas has more job-created in & out movmement than any other city in the USA) or the car culture? the urge to be in style with our appointed peers? the demolition of old buildings along with southernish manners?
THE DALLAS VIDEO FESTIVAL–THE DALLAS BACH SOCIETY–SMU VENUES–UTD STUFF–OAK LAWN GAY PRIDE–LAKEWOOD CULTURE–LOWER GREENVILLE–DMA–DOWNTOWN GROWING UP AGAIN–MCKINNEY AVENUE ATTITUDE–HIGHLAND PARK JAUNTS–SHOPPING AND MORE SHOPPING–THE DALLAS OPERA–LOTS OF TOO MUCH WORK: somehow it never adds up to anything more than cars without human flesh inside. Yet we stay and survive, sometimes thrive.
Very well said, Zayn. Even when we share similar cars and similar careers, the familiar never quite becomes family.
i like that: “the familiar never quite becomes family”–so does that mean that the dallas-we cares little for family values? the dallas-we is about the individual mostly i guess…