A Thief of Time (2004)

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Last updated: March 2, 2020

PBS production based upon the book of the same name by Tony Hillerman, one of the series of books featuring Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Starring Wes Studi as Leaphorn and Adam Beach as Chee, roles they also filled in the film versions of Coyote Waits and Skinwalkers. Also starring Gary Farmer, Graham Greene, Peter Fonda, and Ernest Tsosie III. Filming locations: Albuquerque, Jemez, Santa Clara Pueblo, San Ysidro, To'hajiilee (Cañoncito/Navajo Chapter), Zia Pueblo.


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Various views (Monument Valley? Grand Canyon?)

Rock Shelter

Jemez Pueblo Civic Center, seen from about ( 35.610924°, -106.723725°) - also seen in Coyote Waits

Cliffs - Santa Clara?

Big Chief

Chaco Culture National Historic Park - Zia Day School - (35.509558°, -106.708355°)

Driving

Mine road turnoff

Gypsum mine

Excavating ruin

On horseback - trash pickup crew (35.538984°, -106.785815°)

Cabin

Big Chief

Slick Nakai's Revival Tent near Sandias (35.359437°, -106.523734°)

Driving

Nighttime turnoff - Bobby Nails

Zia Day School

Joe's house

Riverbank

Cabin

Joe's House

Museum or library

Looks like Old Town Plaza, in ABQ. Past La Placita and Yucca Gallery into Patio Market, right turn into .... Nelson's.

Mr. Dumont's office

Paved walkway - fountain - house

River at ....

Drive near... Pena Blanca (or Santa Clara)

Mr. Houck's house - where have I seen this place before?

Silos, Sandias, buildings

Rio Grande? near San Ildefonso.... Maybe Jemez River country, north of San Ysidro

Out of gas - To'hajiilee?

Copper & 2nd in ABQ

Hotel Andaluz Lobby.

Room 515 - Look out window at State Theater.

Cabin

Canyon

Looks like Jemez country

Thanks given to Canoncito Band of Navajos, Jemez, Zia, and Santa Ana Pueblos, Village of Corrales, Jemez State Monument, and City of Albuquerque

Burning Bodhi (2015)

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Last updated: March 13, 2020


Very-compact set of filming locations!


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View of Sandias from....

View of river midstream....

House

Big City - Chicago

ABQ House

Club in daytime

Travel trailer

Gas station

Campmobile - Bobby Foster Road

View of river bridge

View of Sandias, Presbyterian Hospital, and Encino Retirement Home, maybe from Dennis Chavez Bridge over RR

Sunport (front)

Farm

Santa Clara Cemetery, 615 Foothill Dr SW, Albuquerque, NM 87105

Dad's House - Approximately 1301 Lopez Rd. SW

3rd & Silver

Parking lot that used to be where Imperial Bldg now is (35.082628°, -106.650530°)

House

Bobby Foster Road

Camper next to house

Dad's House - GBW

Chapel at Hotel Albuquerque, where Hotel Chaco is now (35.100752°, -106.668463°)

Chapel interior

Riverside drain (but where?) - (35.048908°, -106.665405°)

Dad's house

Grandmother's house - 1320 Lopez Rd. SW

Park

Katy's home

Bridge - can see a McDonald's - but where?

Big Bob's - 1325 Lopez Rd. SW

Morgue/ Cremation

Wake (35.052563°, -106.670677°)

Bed & Breakfast

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“We shot it on one block in the South Valley. We secured different locations up and down the block so we just turned the camera around. We never had to move except for two days. We actually never went over ten-hour days. They were pretty short. We were very efficient about it. We knew what we wanted and got it.”

Four Mammals

Last night, just as we were finishing up our walk, Jasper gazed at the nearby cemetery and saw four sociable mammals at the fence. It was hard to make out what kind of mammals they were, but based on prior experience I'd say they were almost certainly skunks. Jasper insisted on visiting, but the mammals had their own idea and disappeared into the night.

A Visit To The Antelope Aquatic Complex

Six-year-old's birthday party at the Antelope Aquatic Complex. A surprising number of Russians in the crowd there on a hot afternoon.

Went down these big tubes. It went something like this....

David Koch Still on Wrong Side of River Styx After Refusing to Pay One-Cent Ferry Tax

Koch wants to change things:

“I don’t see why there needs to be a blanket fee for everybody when we could simply allow the market to determine a fair price,” said Koch, shivering over a small fire at the edge of the ancient river that separates the mortal world from the realm in which all human souls rest together in eternity, free from pain and worry. “I see a lot of profit to be made here.”

...Charon reportedly felt there had been a misunderstanding between himself and Koch.

“The coin is more like, you know, a metaphorical thing,” said Charon. “Giving up your worldly possessions so you can move into the afterlife on an equal footing with everyone else. That’s why we make it so cheap. I’m not sure if this guy really gets it.”

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Detour to Terror (1980 TV Movie)

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Last updated: March 7, 2023

Drama featuring O.J. Simpson as a heroic bus driver. My, times do change....

I had real problems just where in the heck they are located out on the Laguna Reservation. Love that big black mountain, but where is it?


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Car Wash - Downtown Bus Station

SB on 4th next to police station, WB on Marquette

Big-I/NB, then WB

I-40 - Gallup 125

Mesa

Highway 6/I-40 overpass/SB cattle crossing (34.981431°, -107.171734°) and San Jose River bridge

Driving N & S

Bus runs off road - approx. (34.968497°, -107.174780°). This picture is taken nearby - just north of the coordinate.

Highway 6 (Detour to Terror).

Bus back on road, but where?

Turnoff

Atrisco Vista overpass over I-40

EB I-40 approx. (34.992935°, -107.241397°)

Hilltop Campground

Hijack - turn into desert

Overpass at Rio Puerco

Big Mesas

Donuts

Big Mesa

Deserted house

Gravesite

Desert chase

Drop into Rio Puerco

Final aerial shot (34.890206°, -107.068948°)

Dirty Weekend (2015)

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Last updated: March 9, 2020

Comedy/drama starring Matthew Broderick, Alice Eve, and Phil Burke; filmed around Albuquerque.


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Sunport

Driving east on Menaul at Pennsylvania - Taxi Drive 1

Lounge

Restaurant

Hotel hallway

Hotel lounge

ATM

Drive - Menaul, just east of Juan Tabo (Cancun Car Wash) - Taxi Drive 2

Airport

Desert Sands Motor Hotel

Taxi Drive (unclear)

Just north of Central on 5th; view of Lindy's/ Beside Kimo

Alley behind Kimo

Market - Vape shop? - Ray's 3 Smoke Shop, 518 Central SW, Albuquerque, NM

Sex shop - Shop right behind Lindy's.

Lindy's

Walking in front of 325 Central Ave. NW - walking north on 4th St.

Restaurant with GBW

Civic Plaza - Under the canopy

Taxi Drive 3 - East on MLK at Broadway

Lounge again - View out window clouded

Driving east on Menaul at Pennsylvania

3rd at Mountain - Taxi Drive - Remco Bolt

5th & Central, taxi turns north

Zorro, in alley behind Lindy's - stairway!

Zorro interior - in Rosenwald Building? Here is Rosenwald Building, seen from the sign. I could observe a disco ball hanging from the ceiling.

Thanks in credits given to Effex Nightclub.

Brother and Sister's Apartment - Banque Lofts - NW side of building

Building in a converted school? - View of Amy Biehl School

Nighttime taxi drive - Second St. N. of Convention Center

Lomas & 3rd St.

Lounge again.

Hotel - Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown.

Ballroom - Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown, 2600 Louisiana Boulevard Northeast, Albuquerque, NM 87110, United States.

Airport

Bottom of the World (2017)

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Last updated: August 19, 2019


Drama / Mystery. A young man faces profound changes while searching for his missing girlfriend. Filmed in Canada, Albuquerque, and Gallup. Starring Ted Levine, Jena Malone, Tamara Duarte, Douglas Smith.


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Out near Shiprock? (36.644767°, -108.817612°)

Another vista

Another vista (36.645564°, -108.807152°)

Train

Town (Gallup)

El Rancho Hotel, 1000 E Hwy 66, Gallup, NM 87301

RR Crossing on S. 3rd St. (35.528139°, -108.744619°)

Stark building

Arrowhead lodge

Stark crosswalk

Desert Skies Motel, 1703 Rte 66, Gallup, NM 87301

Richardson Trading Co., 1913 Rte 66, Gallup, NM

RR Crossing on S. 3rd St. (35.528139°, -108.744619°)

(Church of the Solid Rock Sufferer)

Drive

Turn-Around Point

Church

Bar

College Rd. & Boardman Dr., westbound

Nearly hit guy

Bleak Drive near Shiprock

Road north along Hogback

Church

Modern home - 676 , 674 - Ontario scene

View of cliff - Church is gone

Digging pit east of Hogback near Shiprock

Ontario

Driving

Beat up house

Credits list Cities of Ottawa, Gallup
Communities of Shiprock, Manuelito, Defiance

Eagle Cafe, Manuelito Church of God
Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Centre
Coal Street Pub

Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976)

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Bare (2015)

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Last updated: March 6, 2023


Drama starring Diana Agron, Paz de la Huerta, Chris Zylka, Louisa Krause and Gary Farmer. Filmed around Albuquerque and Moriarty.

I wasn't able to determine exact location of sand dunes, just that they are the ones southwest of Albuquerque. Couldn't determine house locations either.


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Nightclub

SB I-25 (35.134095°, -106.607720°)

Houses

Quonset Hut

Lost Galleon

Supertown Grocery store (see Harts Hardware below)

Bedroom

Quarry

Roadside

Kitchen/ B-Day party

Supertown - Harts Hardware exterior in Moriarty (Willowpea).

Nacho's Restaurant in Moriarty.

Second hand store - Francesca's

Reno lights - Eldorado

Casino interior

Hotel

Pool

Home

Fast Food place - Dairy Dream - Frozen Yoga place - No apparently Idian Food Hub.

Longhorn? yes! Blue Room (exterior)​.

Longhorn Motel.

Longhorn Motel.

Longhorn Motel.

Country road

Suddenly, SW of ABQ

BrBa Confessions sand dune?

Stink bug

Quarry

Pete's Bar, 800 Central Avenue, Moriarty, NM. (Now apparently demolished.)

Marez Barber Shop, 400 Rte 66, Moriarty, NM 87035.

Willowpea Police Dept.

House - 416?

House - South Valley? - 606

Club 203, Adult entertainment club, 20364 Rte 66, Moriarty, NM 87035 (Longhorn)

Banshee Chapter (2013)

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Last updated: August 18, 2019


Banshee Chapter (2013)
AKA: Banshee. Suspense Thriller. An investigative journalist seeks to find the truth about government mind-control experiments. Starring Ted Levine, Katia Winter, Michael McMillian, Monique Candelaria, David Midthunder, Jenny Gabrielle. Filming locations: Albuquerque, Socorro, Tijeras.


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Condo or Apartment

Interview Room

Driving - Bobby Foster Road

I-40/Highway 6 interchange span

Condo or Apartment

Budget TV Repair (9641)

Drive west of ABQ?

Poles - Edge of Black Rock Desert

Big Building

Thomas Blackburn - Hunter Thompson lookalike shooting machine gun

House w. Spanish Tile Roof

Chamber 5

Wild Horse Mesa bar

Big House in the Dark

Fleeing

Room for medical experiments

Medical Bldg

Freshly-built neighborhood

Peeing & City Lights

Radio antennas - Old Fallout shelter - Chamber 5 - On NM Tech land somewhere near (34.088915°, -106.998872°) [This is approximate - not exact location - couldn't quite track it down exactly.]

Large buildings - near Balloon Fiesta Park?

Sheriff Dept.

Entrance into property

Thanks given to: City of Rio Rancho, City of ABQ, Villages of Tijeras and Corrales, Town of Bernalillo

Location provided by NM Tech

American Waitress: New Mexico (2002)

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Last updated: March 3, 2020


Documentary shot around Albuquerque and Santa Fe, featuring waitresses Lilian Beams, Sonya Fairbanks, Sherry McElwain, and Karen Webb.


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(Many of the restaurant and business locations are gone now, so the map is rather conservative on posting sites, in order to avoid making mistakes.)

Garcia's Kitchen, 1113 4th St NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102

Route 66 Diner, 1405 Central Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM.

Compound Restaurant, Santa Fe

The Cowgirl Restaurant

Duke City Diner / 1915 Menaul Blvd. NE ????

Medusa Salon, 107 Washington SE /

Farmer's Market / (which one?) ???

Sonya Fairbanks

The Plaza Restaurant / ???

.... Karen Webb - Santa Fe?

Hooters ABQ / (There are two - which one?)

Salon

Various homes

Hawaiian Restaurant / ????

Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Restaurant /

Due Corvi Pizzeria / ????

Tulips / ???

Saigon Cafe /

near a Harley Davidson's sales store

1508, Mika's

Fina

Ranchers Club of New Mexico

Duke City Diner / ???

Metalworking Studio

Big Cross

Kelly's / Presumably Kelly's Bar in ABQ

Pranzo Italian Grill

Frontier Restaurant

Independent Inc. Tatoo Shop / ???

Mika's Cycle Shop / 1508 Cerrillos Rd., Santa Fe, NM

Santa Fe Community College /

Blewin Gallery /

Aston Gallery /

La Cocinita /

Frank (2014)

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Last updated: March 7, 2023


Comedy Drama. A young musician joins an eccentric band. Filmed in Ireland, Texas, and Albuquerque. Starring Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson, and Maggie Gyllenhaal.


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Beach

English town

etc.

New Mexico:

On Highway 60 (34.432895°, -106.535061°)

View of mountains (34.431250°, -106.562614°)

East Highway 60 sign (34.425743°, -106.658098°)

Turnoff (34.424454°, -106.679744°)

Spreading Ashes ( 34.409493°, -106.678313°)

Big-I 35.105975°-106.630471°

SB I-25 (35.088210°, -106.635908°)

4th & Central

Countdown to SXSW gig - ABQ Convention Center

Kap's Coffee Shop & Diner - 5801 Central Avenue NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

Kap's Coffee Shop.

Kap's Coffee Shop.

Kap's Coffee Shop.

Kap's Coffee Shop.

Kap's Coffee Shop.

Warm-up gig

Hotel room

Ritz hotel

Hotel - Parq?

Walk down Central

Alley

Hotel

Doubletree Hotel - 201 Marquette Ave. NW

Central & 2nd - View of Mural

2nd St.

SXSW Theater - Launchpad?

French Quarter Motel, 9317 Central Ave. NW

Hospital

Lam's Chinese Restaurant, 2124 Central Ave SW

Westbound I-40 Frontage Rd. - 35.105554°, -106.639421°

The Madrid Lounge

Overpass and Exit from Freeway - Appears to be I-40 and Highway 41 exit at Moriarty (35.007473°, -106.045520°)

Magnum Steel Sign - I-40 near Moriarty ( 35.019266°, -106.084182°)

Moriarty-area road

Remote House

Bluff City , KS - Looks like Albuquerque - 7704 Harwood Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM, USA - John passes by this house.

7715 ..... 7715 Harwood Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Telephone pole road

View of RR & Highway 60 - Can't quite make it work.

El Madrid

Walking south on 1st St.

My Videos of DMTC's 2019 Teen Cabaret - August 11, 2019

A video of the entire show, plus videos for each song.

Entire Show




Introductions




"Another Openin' (Kiss Me Kate)




"Friend Like Me" (Aladdin Jr.)




"Aquarius" (Hair)




"Little Girls" (Annie)




"Always Look on the Bright Side" (Spamalot)




"Happiness" (You're a Good Man Charlie Brown)




"When You're an Addams" (The Addams Family)




"As We Stumble Along" (The Drowsy Chaperone)




"Putting On The Ritz" (Young Frankenstein)




Together Wherever We Go" (Gypsy)




"Interjections" (School House Rock)




"Thank You For the Music" (Mamma Mia); Bows and Thanks

Posted Four Years Ago, But Always Welcome

Jafar and Gaston and Darth Vader and Aladdin....

The Rainbow Bridge

While I was waiting yesterday evening with Blue the Dog in my vehicle in the driveway of VCA Mueller Veterinary Hospital, I started talking to a woman who was also waiting with her dog in her vehicle. Her dog appeared to be paralyzed. "Aren't dogs wonderful?" she said. "They love you so. I've had my son's dog for a lot of years now. This dog saw me through the alcoholism years, and so many other things. He's blind and deaf now, and isn't much company, but I love him so. The end is probably coming soon, and I'm trying to find the strength for that time."

I talked about putting down Bella the Dog in 2016, and the joy these days of having Jasper, a young dog. I suggested she think about a young dog when the time came.

Hospital staff came and took her dog in.

About an hour later, I saw her leave the hospital. She was stricken, choked with tears, and couldn't speak. The hammer had fallen so fast.

Hard To Find An Emergency Vet on Sunday Evening in Sacramento

Still peeved about last night. Friends Gabe and Eleanor went to Los Angeles again this last weekend, and again I was tapped to dogsit for their pets, Blue and Molly. They live in the general neighborhood of Florin and Highway 99 in South Sacramento.

On Sunday evening, we had just returned from a walk around the neighborhood. I let the dogs out into the back yard. The dogs ran to the north fence to bark at people on the other side - people transiting the pedestrian walkway that crosses over Highway 99, just like they've done a million times before. Except, this time, Blue returned with a limp. A pad on her right front foot had been sliced off entirely and the webbing between her little toe and the rest of the foot had been severed. And blood. Lots and lots of blood!

(Our working theory is that there was glass embedded somewhere in the back yard. A wannabe burglar had shattered a bedroom window just last month before being scared off by the alarm. Despite Gabe's cleanup, it's conceivable some glass remained undetected in the yard, and that's what Blue hit. We still haven't found the hazard.)

I called Gabe in LA. He suggested going to VCA Mueller Hospital, near Meadowview and Freeport. Several miles away. Quite a distance I thought, given the amount of bleeding occurring, but no places closer were bound to open on a Sunday evening, so I went.

Most VCA veterinary hospitals advertise that they are open 24 hours. This may be technically true, but it doesn't mean that they can accommodate you. I waited 1.5 hours for the emergency vet at VCA Mueller, only to learn that the vet had gone into surgery and wouldn't be available for 2 or 3 hours.

I had to find another vet. But you couldn't rely on the advertising. If 15 or 20 vets are advertising 24/7 services, how do you find the 1 or 2 places that are actually open? I had a bleeding dog. I didn't have time to call all the hospitals. The vet staff at Mueller said they'd help, but there was a shift change - they got distracted and stopped helping. An animal can bleed to death in the meantime. I threw up my hands and chose to go UC Davis, far from South Sacramento. The veterinary school there was staffed with vet students. More importantly, because they were located in a public university, I could count on the UC Davis vet hospital actually being open on a Sunday evening, unlike the privately-held VCA hospitals.

Later, I learned there there are apparently a few Sacramento-area vets open on a Sunday evening: maybe ones in Roseville, Rancho Cardova, and Folsom, on the far northern or eastern fringes of the Sacramento metropolitan area, where disposable incomes are higher and life is easier. We were in South Sacramento, where there was just one overworked vet in hours-long surgery, and thus unavailable to anyone. (And of course that applies to Elk Grove, Sacramento, and North Sacramento too. Close to a million people, and just one overworked vet.)

Finally, about 9 p.m., 3 hours after the bloodletting had started, Blue finally started getting medical care. She was released about 10:30 p.m., with a bandaged leg, some pain meds, and a Cone of Shame.

Evil Afoot

More frightening than any horror movie:

Posing for this photograph, the Trumps remove any last doubt about their dead-eyed cruelty and transactional view of life. Smiling emptily above this wounded little boy, whose life was shattered before he could take his first step, the president and his wife call to mind those famous safari photos taken by Trump’s sons, Eric and Don Jr. — in which they, like their father, smile brightly over the victims of their own heedless cruelty and violence. To Donald Trump, this baby is little more than a hunting trophy in his own brutal race war (which explains his triumphant thumbs up).

Injured, confused, squirming away from Melania’s brittle embrace, and straining toward what’s left of his family, Baby Paul now stands in for all the children — indeed, all human beings — who, like him, have been harmed and are being held against their will by a white supremacist president.

Don't Dally At The Hospital

I saw this sticker today in the Sutter Hospital parking garage, and posted it in the "Useless, Unsuccessful, and/or Unpopular Signage" Facebook Group with the comment: "Don't dally at the hospital." It turns out to be a very popular post: so far, 24 shares and 623 views. Apparently it was a well-recognized meme for people nostalgic for the 2007-2012 Internet - "Charlie the Unicorn." Who knew?