I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Gov. Bill Richardson, as Trip Jennings noted Wednesday, was recently in Los Angeles, California meeting with Hollywood producers to help entice them to film more TV shows in New Mexico.
This led the Los Angeles Times to report, “Some states are so hungry to keep their slice of Hollywood, they’ll even send their governors here to drum up business.”
“If we want to compete, we have to hustle, we have to stay competitive,” Richardson said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times before meeting with executives. “We’ve got the incentives, free state land. We’ve got the landscape and excellent weather.”
New Mexico has had some success stories with movies and TV shows (Both “Transformers” movies are among the highest grossing movies of all time while the TV show “Breaking Bad” was nominated for five Emmys today), and Richardson has hung his hat on this success before.
“I made this trip to show our strong commitment to the industry and to showcase the differences that make New Mexico the ideal place to do business,” Richardson said in a statement sent Wednesday after the meeting.
If you don’t get the reference to milkshakes that the LA Times (and our headline) makes, it was based on a famous scene from the movie “There Will Be Blood.” In the scene, Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), explains his odd business view by telling Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), “Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that’s a straw, you see? You watching? And my straw reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake… I… drink… your… milkshake!”
You can watch the scene here, but it does get a bit graphic.
Though the film was not shot in New Mexico, the title was based on a quote by former U.S. Senator Albert Fall, a New Mexico Republican, about the infamous Teapot Dome Scandal.
Fall was convicted of conspiracy and bribery in the scandal.
