This Awful Continent
Thursday, January 11th, 2007This Christmas, my brother David came East (from California) for the first time in six years. I hadn't seen him since May '04.
He prefers ground transport to air, so on the way over he took the train. When it came time to head back home, the train was sold out for a few days. So he decided to take "the dirty dawg."
Right before he embarked on his three-day journey from Port Authority, he bought a disposable video camera. 20 minutes of memory, no rewinding, no "editing." Click below to see the movie he made, a depiction of the tedium and joy of going cross-country by Greyhound.
Here's a little "director's commentary," in case you were curious about Lashayshay (taken from our IM conversation):
the "garage" as roland calls the st louis station is about five blocks away from downtown i had a two hour layover so i boldly took that walk to buy some Stag beers shared a few with a street dude who was doing some kind of hustlin' (he showed me where to get the togo's hence saving me the money of going into a bar and thus earning himself some juice …then i took the shot of the christian church and headed back to the "garage" I got a few more beers on the way , ran into the street dude who wanted another , so I said I needed all I had for the long journey…but I was feeling pretty good, soI said," I can offer you a good luck buck!' which he was thankful for. then i set out across the four or five block wasteland setting the garage apart from the city . I turned around to get the skyline shot which had me standing right smack in the middle of wasteland and lashea shea came up. i thought she was walking away so i yelled"bye!' and then she came back saying that for 20 bucks she would "do something for me" I said "DO something?" then explained that i was making a movie which is "basically a joke", . I said ,"the whole thing is basically a big joke about my trip across the country" she said,"Oh I gotta joke for you, gimme a beer"