Minnipeg Part 14
On Monday night, Goldfeather and Semple’s last night in Northfield, I may or may not have wandered the Carleton Arboretum naked with Goldfeather and Semple and five other strapping young people. I also may or may not have left all my clothes in one of these young person’s backpacks, and then lost track of that person, and ended up walking all the way back to my house naked, at 2:30 in the morning.
I woke up the next day to discover my right thigh covered in scratches, my left big toe covered in congealed blood, and my lower back aching rather considerably.
It’s official: I wanna stay in Minnesota forever, and never go back to Hampshire.
Oh Hey: Something else I did while Semple was here (during those few precious moments he wasn’t blathering on about his fucking GPS system), was to get him to help me rip old DVDs of all my high school moviemaking projects. A bunch of those movies are now available on YouTube. Let’s see, what’ve we got (in chronological order, from the earliest to the most recent):
The Nerd Movie: Sarah and I made this one as sophomores, with techie help from our friend Dan Edwins. This is the one that got shown in the Women in the Director’s Chair film festival at the Walker Art Center. We attended the screening on the afternoon of our junior prom, in all of our prom finery.
Bohemian Rhapsody: This was a movie I made for a “video poem” assignment in my junior year Digital Film class. I remember thinking it was pretty badass at the time, but with the wisdom of age, I just find it pretty tedious.
Death of a Ninja: This was my final project for my junior year Digital Film class. I was really into ninja movies. And Quentin Tarantino. And watching my guy friends show off. We did most of the filming for this one on the morning after junior prom.
Bum Luck: This is a little Chaplin-esque piece I made starring Phoebe and our hound Dixie. It was one of my films for my senior year Honors Art class.
Killer Prom Queens: The music video to our signature song. The parts where we’re playing were shot in my basement, which is where we used to rehearse. This video was also done for my senior year Honors Art class.
Sigh. I think I’d just like it to be high school again, thank you very much. Sarah and Semple and Phoebe have all gone away, which means summer’s nearing its end, and I am left alone to too much contemplation. Oh, and last night I had a dream that I moved to New York! Once again it seemed like the perfect future plan…until I woke up and thought about it for real.
Okay, that’s enough mopey moping. For today anyway.
August 26th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Hmm, I don’t know about staying where I am forever (especially with the no job thing), but this whole going back to western Massachusetts thing seems like a very strange life decision indeed. When in hell did I decide to do that? Sure, I loved making my own major and all that jazz, but by telling us it’s time to stop taking lots of classes and work on our own projects, isn’t Hampshire saying that we’re basically done already? Plus, I’ve been gone since January (you since December) and getting REattached to things I’ll be leaving in another nine months sounds like bad news. BAD NEWS.
Today my sister told me that I’m only allowed to live in the Pacific Northwest or northern California. The day before, I actually had a moment where I thought that Los Angeles could be on my radar afterall (stupid boy-crazy part of me thought that anyway.) And I love New York even though that sentiment belongs on a t-shirt. And London has a freakin’ transport museum. And Toronto is where Jane Jacobs went when she got old, so it must be good.
But you know what, the Pioneer Valley has really good milk. The best fucking milk I’ve ever had. And Deals and Steals. And the bus is free. And I’m going to rock that town and rock it inside out. Or something like that.
August 27th, 2009 at 11:04 am
All alone? It’s a perfect time to start your summer comic for submission to the Omen!
August 27th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Haha, may or may not. Now that this is on the internet we’ll never get jobs. Except as art models or hire-a-flasher. DOT COM.
MOVE TO NEW YORK. Listen to that dream. YOU’RE DREAMING THE FUTURE, BABY.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
i am exploding right now. probably because intern training makes me love my job so much that cupcakes, door tags and community love are flying out of me.
but also because i just read the last two action athenas. and (on this rare evening of down time) i must work to ensure that a letter is in your hampshire mail box by the time you return. and i am freaked out that you dreamed of san fransisco (where this grad program i have maybe become obsessed with lives) where i have been inventing a naive future for myself to make me feel better/excited about leaving hampshire. i have been meaning to reply to your last letter for a month or so now. though i know you are not excited about hampshire right now i am excited for you to come back and to hear more about your summer and catch up and be in the same place again for one last year. i am excited about that. and because discovering strange dream synchronicity in blogs is funny even if it is not that remarkable or specific. I don’t know you have made me miss talking to you. again! how did you do that?! sometimes i forget that you don’t get to hear my response to each comic as I read it and that i don’t have a blog for anyone to read. and then suddenly i realize and say nothing that makes any sense but simply must somehow attempt to remind you that what you do is amazing and engaging and i miss you.
August 27th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
I tried to watch the ninja movie, but the sound has been blocked.
August 30th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Hmmm…you may or may not want to delete that part about wandering nude in town. Now that your’e of age…those Northfield cops could bust you and it may or may not be pretty…
August 31st, 2009 at 8:51 pm
“Semple kept blathering on about his precious, precious GPS system, but it’s cool ’cause I certianly had the last laugh when he got back to Boston, only to find that it had started malfunctioning and he had to use Google maps directions to get to Philadelphia, which worked really well up until the last 5 or so miles of his journey when he got lost for two hours, and moped about, dreaming of what a sick-nasty awesome adventure it would have been if only he had his glorious Garmin Nüvi 265WT GPS with him.”
By the way, “blather” is a really awesome word.
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Tabitha: Somehow, I don’t think you will end up in L.A. But New York, Toronto, and London all sound like worthy options for a lady of your class. I will appreciate getting to know Hampshire all over again with you. I hate milk, but it’s possible that those vegan cookies in the “Hampstore” were starting to grow on me. And I will definitely–DEFINITELY–appreciate Deals and Steals, and the gloriously free PVTA.
Jon: I know, it sucks! YouTube has gotten really crabby all of a sudden; they didn’t appreciate my using Star Wars music and whatnot as a backtrack. They blocked the sound in several of my videos, I may just take them down eventually.
Mom: whatEVER.
Chris: hahahahahaha
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:33 pm
KATE!
I’m glad that being an intern is making Hampshire seem extra appealing, I like being around for orientation for the same reason. Maybe you will let Tabitha and I steal some of that school spirit off of you when we get back. We may steal some cupcakes, also.
If you are considering San Francisco, then I will DEFINITELY consider it more seriously. For real.
I can’t wait to catch up with you, in letters and in person! I love it that you appreciate my comics, and even my self-absorbed blog whinings. I am excited to trade stories of the rest of our summers.
I’m so glad you exist! You have made me excited for Hampshire!