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The Desert
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	Zabriskie Point [VHS] Buy used from: $4.99 Seminal hippies-do-it-surreally-in-the-desert film from maestro Antonioni. Why no DVD? We finally got The Passenger, let's have this and Red Desert.
	Diamonds are Forever Buy used from: $11.41 Aging, portly Connery fights Afro chick and Jazzercise instructress in Lautner's Elrod House (really in Palm Springs, here transposed to Vegas). The Bonds started to suck when they quit being about modern architecture and moon-buggy thefts.
	The Stone Killer [VHS] Buy used from: $8.44 Frankly, this isn't as great as you might expect from an early Winner/Bronson, but it ends with a shoot-out in a crazy house in the Mojave. I love crazy houses. And the Mojave.
	Palm Springs Modern: Houses in the California Desert by Adele Cygelman Buy new: $31.50 / Used from: $22.50 Hey, guess what's in here -- Lautner & friends' crazy houses in the Mojave. Nothing I could ever afford, either, but I still have a sick weakness for aspirational-lifestyle coffee-table books.
	Unassigned Territory by Kem Nunn Buy used from: $11.93 This is OOP! That's short for 'OOPS, I AM A STUPID PUBLISHER!'
	After Dark, My Sweet Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $7.98 Gritty existential desponditude on the dilapidated outskirts of the Coachella Valley as punchy post-pugilist palooka Patric woos woefully winsome wino Ward. No good can ever come of associating with Bruce Dern, especially a Bruce Dern wearing loud patterned silk shirts.
	The Salton Sea Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.56 Not nearly enough actual Salton Sea in this. Try the doc 'Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea' if & when it ever comes out.
	Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905-2005 (Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places) by Kim Stringfellow Buy new: $21.37 / Used from: $17.60 This is more like it. Not a movie, though.
	Twentynine Palms Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $11.87 'You don't want to go in the desert.'
	Lost Horizon by Friends of Dean Martinez Buy used from: $6.98 Really all of the Friends' records belong on here, but their latest might just be their best. Haunting, abstract tone poem evocative of the vast empty spaces between I-8 and I-10. Pretentious but true!
	Sunshot: Peril and Wonder in the Gran Desierto (The Southwest Center Series) by Bill Broyles Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $9.03 This is the real $4!+ here -- El Camino del Diablo, the Big Hard Place. Will never see a housing development or a tourist bus, and that's the way I like it.
	Dry Borders: Great Natural Reserves of the Sonoran Desert Buy new: $36.52 / Used from: $29.22 Hot Sonoran coffee-table action!
	Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader by William T. Vollmann Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $2.00 This is just a placeholder until Vollmann finally finishes IMPERIAL (and/or Amazon lists it for pre-order). Get cracking, Bill!