Gas Food And Lodging. The triumvirate of road-trip necessities: gas, food, and lodging. It tells the story of a waitress trying to find romance while raising two daughters in a trailer park.
It tells the story of a waitress trying to find romance while raising two daughters in a trailer park. I even cast James Brolin, who later signed a poster for my Daddy writing, "It was great being you…". Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could drive her away.
American independent director Allison Anders made her name with this keenly observed tale of a single mother and her two daughters stuck in the truck-stop town of Laramie, New Mexico, barely a fly speck on the never-ending desert horizon.
Synopsis: In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town.
Gas Food Lodging set a template for the music Green on Red would make in the future, but they rarely hit their targets as squarely as they did here; there's an emotional weight and a ring of truth to this material that missing from much of the band's later work, and while closing with "We Shall Overcome". All three are typically readily available along the American roadside, which makes for some heated competition among the sellers. It tells the story of a waitress trying to find romance while raising two daughters in a trailer park.