Amanda and I decided we have so much extra footage floating around the timeline, that it would be fun for us to randomly pick 20 seconds here, 30 seconds there and post it on a consistent basis.
This first teaser is just Larry cruising along some road… somewhere *shrug* I’m too lazy to look it up :) but it’s pretty where-ever it is.
Maybe someone better with words could explain why it is abandoned houses always feel so fascinating when on the road.
I used to spend hours in them on my first bike trip… Tim and I would drag our bikes off the road, make lunch while sitting on a dirty, glass-covered floor. I would poke through old dressers, look for things that used to be important to someone. Baseball cards. Magazines with notes scribbled on the margins.
It was late when Larry came across this old farm-house – he stopped, took a few pictures, wandered around the back and peaked inside… but there wasn’t enough light to really find your way around.
He was only there a few minutes, and then he was back on his bike… I wondered when I was filming this when the last time anyone payed any attention to this empty home.
This is almost a cut & paste right from the first 14 minutes of the feature film – I just decided to pull the music out because I’d like to keep that a secret… or something like that.
This is Larry watching the sunset on the Mississippi… he sat there and watched the sky for a long time on that bench. Tonight he sent me an email, and near the end of it, he reminded me of a few things from that night, he wrote:
“I remember watching that movie that was like Quiinosquatsi but callled something else [Baraka], in the van. And than I went and waded in the Mississippi and drank beers listening to Jeff Buckley and wishing he didn’t drown in that river.“
