"Bubble"-foiled
I really want to see "Bubble." It's not playing in any local theaters, and the one copy at our local video store was checked out. Drat.
"Bubble" was filmed in the Lee Middleton Original Doll Factory, in Belpre, Ohio. Belpre is one town over from my hometown, Marietta. I am now feverish to see this movie. I think it's homesickness. Funny thing is that the movie is, as far as I can tell, not particularly flattering towards the lovely Mid-Ohio Valley. Swell as the place is, my ass has a better economic climate. It's just another cluster of dying small towns in dying industrio-rural America.
But I miss it, and I miss being around salt-of-the-earth folks. Joe teases me that my deepest desire is to move back to Marietta, and he's right. I have to admit it. I'd move back there in a split second, but I think it would take at least a few months for me to regret it deeply. There is nothing for us there. Nothing for me but memories, and nothing for Joe but in-laws. If I could write there, all Joe would have to do is get a job at the college (Washington State Community College or Marietta College), and then we could buy a sweet-ass historic house for cheap. And we could save up money and travel and then have a family and raise them with solid American values.
Oh, it's a sorry pipe dream. My pipe dreams used to be of leaving Marietta, of going off to bigger, better, more cultured places. Well, culture can be hollow and ruthless. No matter where I live, I will always dream of leaving, and I will always dream of returning. To somehwere.
In lieu of my own comments on "Bubble", as we are so pathetically "Bubble"-deprived, here's some local Mid-Ohio Valley color in the form of a rambling blog interivew. One interviewee is impressive on two counts: a) she used to guide tours at Lee Middleton; b) she sounds intelligent. You don't have to live on a coast, east or west, to be smart. Ha.
"Bubble" was filmed in the Lee Middleton Original Doll Factory, in Belpre, Ohio. Belpre is one town over from my hometown, Marietta. I am now feverish to see this movie. I think it's homesickness. Funny thing is that the movie is, as far as I can tell, not particularly flattering towards the lovely Mid-Ohio Valley. Swell as the place is, my ass has a better economic climate. It's just another cluster of dying small towns in dying industrio-rural America.
But I miss it, and I miss being around salt-of-the-earth folks. Joe teases me that my deepest desire is to move back to Marietta, and he's right. I have to admit it. I'd move back there in a split second, but I think it would take at least a few months for me to regret it deeply. There is nothing for us there. Nothing for me but memories, and nothing for Joe but in-laws. If I could write there, all Joe would have to do is get a job at the college (Washington State Community College or Marietta College), and then we could buy a sweet-ass historic house for cheap. And we could save up money and travel and then have a family and raise them with solid American values.
Oh, it's a sorry pipe dream. My pipe dreams used to be of leaving Marietta, of going off to bigger, better, more cultured places. Well, culture can be hollow and ruthless. No matter where I live, I will always dream of leaving, and I will always dream of returning. To somehwere.
In lieu of my own comments on "Bubble", as we are so pathetically "Bubble"-deprived, here's some local Mid-Ohio Valley color in the form of a rambling blog interivew. One interviewee is impressive on two counts: a) she used to guide tours at Lee Middleton; b) she sounds intelligent. You don't have to live on a coast, east or west, to be smart. Ha.
posted by Lefty at 6:43 PM
3 Comments:
i'm taking a year off from working. gonna travel the states and do a few overseas gigs. today is my last day on the job. damn, it feels good.
anyway. ohio. i'm thinking of heading back east throughout this spring and summer on a number of roadtrips. ohio is definitely on my list of states to hit. any advice on where to go what to see? much obliged, pardner.
yo, that takes balls. Good for you Evil. Be sure to go down south. Tennessee is cool, go to Memphis. It's a fun place.
I love the south. It's like going back in time to when people had slaves and blacks knew how to act.
my uncle is from Knoxville TN. never been there with him. i'd like to see it plus nashville and memphis.
after 12 years at the same job i decided to call it a day. shit ain't doing nuthin for me no more so might as well split. i figure i should get out and see a few things before i get too much older. w0rd.
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