I just got back from a big adventure! I went to a bunch of artistical installations in the high desert near the glorious town of Yucca Valley and it was super fun. What happened was, my sister and her super-foxy friend are thinking of doing some kind of deranged land-art project out there and found out about this event which is, like a bunch of other people who are doing the same thing. Gee suddenly everyone is tootling a round on a bulldozer in the desert, pushing great mounds of earth! Maybe I missed my calling. Hey did I ever tell you about the 24 acres of useless desert land out there that I bought for $600? Gee I guess I should, it’s a pretty good story. But anyways we saw a bunch of interesting art and some that wasn’t so great such as the “optical illusion video projections with rave music” and the “artists on tour” who seemed to just be selling T-shirts out of a brightly lit tent in direct violation the two main tenets in their manifesto. My favorite thing was a sauna made out of a rock, and also there was a really great signpost that someone had installed in the middle of nowhere, and a deranged guy building a bunch of fantastical assemblages out of garbage. We also ran into about a jillion people from LA and it was kind of sad, like a huge invasion of hipsters getting their Volkswagen Golfs stuck in the sand. Some other things that happened were, we spent the night in a swanky adobe cottage and we also went to a pig-roast at Garth’s place, he is one of those rugged earthy lunatics who has built a sprawling complex of pools and saunas and fire-pits, and lives in a teepee. Talking to him was like talking to myself in 20 years. Also we ran into that guy who inexplicably looks like a baker, who is greatest guy ever and that was really fun. And we went to this bowling alley that had a selection of ancient arcade games from a time before technology. The whack-a-mole was so antiquated that it used actual moles. Another thing we saw was a cactus store that was having a moving sale which was really funny but it’s hard to explain why. But the best part was seeing my sister who is simply the greatest.
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