re: Urban Cowboy is one of my favorite movies and I'll tell you why.

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Sling Blade too (specifically Doyle Hargraves)

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What a lot of people don’t realize is bud put in a good 30 years at the refinery. He had bought a 100 acres a couple hours outside of town so he could go be a real cowboy. A “Houston Farmer”. Paid about 3 grand an acre in late 90s. Eventually he retired with over a million dollars in Exxon stock and moved full time out to his ranch. A property that’s now worth nearly two million dollars just for the land itself. Bud has a hard time with taxes cause in the 2010s oil companies came in and started fracking in that part of Texas and the lease money they pay him is just unreal. They even built him a 5 acre lake. Buds kids all moved to Frisco outside Dallas. He doesn’t get to see them as often as he likes. They are all very liberal

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Or (to borrow from Charlie Robison) his sons moved back to Houston and they work in the Gulf; seven days on and seven days off.

Bud works for the doctor who bought his old ranch from First Quality Federal, foreclosures branch. The doctor calls him hillbilly and laughs at Bud's hair.

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I hate this movie was filmed in Pasadena, TX and not Denahm Springs. It’s perfect for being all about ‘that life’

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As someone sitting in La Porte, it does not get more plant trash than Deer park/pasadena

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Dazed is like a home movie.

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For me too. Wish I could say I was the Randall "Pink" Floyd of my school, but I was more of a cross between Benny and Sasha.

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When taking her back after getting raw dogged every night by the convict in a camper trailer behind Gilley’s it becomes sloppy seconds

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I've heard those boys that have worn those stripped pajamas only want anal.

Urban Cowboy Good movie Great soundtrack and a better world back then.

Saw these in the back of a pick-up truck's window the other day.

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What a lot of people don’t realize is bud put in a good 30 years at the refinery. He had bought a 100 acres a couple hours outside of town so he could go be a real cowboy. A “Houston Farmer”. Paid about 3 grand an acre in late 90s. Eventually he retired with over a million dollars in Exxon stock and moved full time out to his ranch. A property that’s now worth nearly two million dollars just for the land itself.
Bud has a hard time with taxes cause in the 2010s oil companies came in and started fracking in that part of Texas and the lease money they pay him is just unreal. They even built him a 5 acre lake. Buds kids all moved to Frisco outside Dallas. He doesn’t get to see them as often as he likes. They are all very liberal

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Yeah but do you remember Bud and Sissy's on again off again relationship. For awhile there, Bud got caught up in downside of Telephone Road. When things were great, the nightlife of Telephone road trumped anything offered by Gilley's. But Bud hung around when the bust came in the 80's along with the epidemic of inner city crack to that area, the place couldn't recover. The bars turned into lowlife hangouts of guys spending that Texaco check on crack, prostitutes and the likes. But Bud was able to pull through it all I hear.

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what about musicians and tattoo artists?

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There weren't that many tattoo artists then. Tattoo parlors were shady and they weren't exactly called artists then. A surprisingly small number of the musicians had tattoos in 1980 as well.