[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.
We’re on the moon,” Sadie murmured. “El Paso, Texas,” Bast corrected.
Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.
You know, I know a lot of lifeguards. Both my parents were lifeguards at a lake in El Paso, Texas. I was a lifeguard in a swimming pool in Portland, Ore. And I have known and met and befriended a number of oceangoing lifeguards in California where I live.
I moved from New York to El Paso in 2015, just before my senior year. I was super nervous. My mom, she's in the Army, and she got stationed at Fort Bliss. We packed everything up and drove all the way to El Paso.
Growing up, everyone around me in El Paso, Texas, was all about watching 'The Wall' and, you know, 'Money' and 'Dark Side of the Moon,' which are fantastic records, of course.
If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus
And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.
I spent some special years in my hometown of El Paso.
We in El Paso and Juarez are literally one community. There's no separation; there's no DMZ; there's no buffer.
I didn't feel like I had a home until I moved to El Paso.
I've got to thank the city of El Paso for standing behind me.
I was in dire need of a band that was serious about getting out of El Paso.