Sunday, July 5, 2009

The Collegian (dream)

A guy with large, messy, curly, ashy-blond afro and peculiar face - all together he looks a bit like the guy from Mask, except not such a messed up face - narrates his memory of his college years.
Video quality like that of a home movie camera and a fond and sentimental voiceover give the piece striking similarity to and episode of The Wonder Years.

Freshman year, first semester:
It was wild.
The funny looking guy runs around the quad playing Frisbee, telling animated anecdotes, talking loudly.

Second semester:
I wanted something to eat.
I looked for something to eat.
I bought something to eat.
I ate the food I bought.

Junior year:
The funny looking guy sitting at a desk pilled high with papers and books and studying seriously.

Then college was over,
Funny looking guy graduated, hair popping out his cap and gown.

but I had two more years.
The funny looking guy walking back up the quad.

He stands at the top of the steps talking to someone. In the background you can see the frozen lake (Michigan) that was seen when he was first a freshman, but now there are huge trucks on the ice because six years into the future they can put more than just boats on the ice.

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