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At 9:03 PM,  Anonymous said...

Salam Arash! As usual, enjoying your blog! It's interesting, because I recently moved back to Houston after a year and a half of research in Washington, and as my friend was driving me to town at midnight, I was really transfixed by all these billboards, highrises, freeways, strip malls, car dealerships, all these neon lights and huge trucks and things that really mark Houston as a city and it sort of felt like a science-fiction movie or something. We were listening to this loud rock music, and I was wondering whether things had really changed so much since I left Houston last or I was the one who had forgotten the feel of Houston. Probably a little bit of both. But anyway, in the midst of all this re-finding and re-feeling the city I'd left, I came across an add for this museum they are trying to create in Houston, called the Museum of Missing Places. And it's exactly that, a chronicle of places in Houston that are no more or that are today but won't be tomorrow, based on people's personal narratives of the city in the form of writing, recording, pictures, music, etc. It sounded fascinating and I was instantly drawn to it, given that Houston is one of those cities that are constantly changing and growing with the speed of lightening, a city whose very local character is sometimes hard to see for outsiders who don't have time to dig deeper under its fecade of lights and highrises and freeways and malls. Anyhow, this is what I wanted to tell you, about this similar project. It's really interesting. And, of course, I'm in love with your idea. You might wanna ask my uncle Hamid as well; or ask if you could use something he wrote previously about his childhood in Isfahan and fascination with cinema, which says a lot about the city in general. I was also pulling my books out of boxes in my new apartment yesterday and I came across this book, A Walk in the City, which I think deals with the same sort of stuff. i have forgotten the name of the author now. It's from a class I took years ago about cities and modernity, or something like that. We were all supposed to do a project about the city of Houston, which was potentially very interesting; like one person did something about the experience of a cyclist of this majorly car city. I'm just very much into this idea of places rihgt now, changing places, missing places, places that are pregnant with their past and their future, places that are pregnant with us and out memories. I'm working on a short story about place. Nahal

 

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