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zanzara

Um, seriously, this was where we went on vacation when I was a kid

May 27, 2007 03:15

Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea

Add to My Profile | More VideosDescription: As narrated by legendary counterculture filmmaker John Waters, there was time when the Salton Sea, tucked into the southeast corner of California was known as the Riviera of the West-a haven for jetsetters and vacationers. Originally created by accident, it’s now ( Read more... )

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i_got_the_music May 27 2007, 19:31:21 UTC

Wow--very interesting. I had no idea that existed!

zanzara May 27 2007, 20:41:23 UTC

It's exactly like that too. A totally icky place that people of a certain sort (?) love.

I remember when I was 9 or 10 years old and waterskiing over the top of dead piles of fish...

"Dad, I don't really think this is so fun..."

i_got_the_music May 27 2007, 21:44:41 UTC

Ew... gross.

xxxmorbidiaxxx May 28 2007, 00:19:10 UTC

John's grandfather used to take him to the Salton Sea when he was little to go fishing. He says it was really gross. I went there once when I was a kid, but I don't remember it.

zanzara May 28 2007, 03:08:32 UTC

I mean LAYERS of dead fish and birds on the thing...and it's big as an ocean, smelly, hot.

My father would catch fish out of it (live ones) and then feed them to the family, and I'm like "ummm, why are all those other ones dead??? And we're eating these???"

Seriously, when I blow a gasket from stress up here (I'm close) I should drive down, pick you up, and we should take a camera down there and spend a few days just absorbing the strangeness.

At least home might look good ;-)

xxxmorbidiaxxx May 28 2007, 11:07:02 UTC

Oh dear Lord, the strangeness. I have to tell you the story of the stolen-storage-container-sold-to-the-nudist-hippy-in-a-smock-getting-stuck-in-the-sand-at-4-in-the-morning-in-Joshua-Tree story one of these days.

Scary thing is...I'm oddly drawn to those little towns out there. I think I would fit in. And that's scary.

John calls me a bird-lady. Then makes a boot-boodly-doo-hee-hee-hee noise like a dove. Its what he calls those past middle-aged women who are "artists" and "free spirits" and make art intheir front yards out of tin cans and have multiple wind chimes and lawn ornaments and lots of cats and hang out at yard sales. He's certain I'm well on my way to becoming one. And I have to admit, I am. And that doesn't bother me. Most of the influential women in my life are bird-ladies. And hell, the area you live in, which I consider myself "from", is full of bird-ladies.

zanzara May 30 2007, 01:11:26 UTC

Okay, I WANT that story.

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zanzara May 30 2007, 01:08:57 UTC

Hey, another reason to visit sunny California!

hangedwoman May 29 2007, 15:01:45 UTC

I don't think I"d heard of the Salton Sea until the eponymous movie with Val Kilmer (hey, another revenge tragedy!), but yea - ick.

zanzara May 30 2007, 01:10:52 UTC

I really liked that movie, probably mainly because it's the only film I've ever seen about the Salton Sea...though actually it was more about tweakers (and they captured that lifestyle quite nicely...gotta LOVE Bobby Ocean with the wife under the matress) and of course, REVENGE ;-)

ex_scorppoe June 2 2007, 15:16:51 UTC

TWo days after you posted this my friend sent me a set of pictures on this same place. I guess his friends are looking at investing in the area and he tagged along just to take pictures. When adjusting for the, uh, locale's quality (?), the pictures end up being quite lovely. If I thought we could post and attachment here, I'd upload that because it gives a nice artistic spin to the whole area.

p.s. How do two of my friends post/email about the exact same location that I'd never previously heard of within two days of each other?