Tuesday, April 30, 2013

play and follow along


I picture this boy waking up in the middle of the night to a phone call from his girlfriend. It's probably 3 in the morning. He answers it half alive and her high pitch voice is hurting his ears. Hello? She starts; "Now I know how late it is, but I've been up all night giving this a lot of thought and do not feel this is going anywhere. . . are you there?" He wakes up again from falling asleep on her; "Huh? Yeah, I'm here." She continues to say that it's "over" and that she was secretly dating someone else behind his back anyway and that she only dated him because of social status, and that it was a dare. "OK," He passes out back to sleep not even fully hanging up the phone. He wakes up the next day. Goes to work early in the morning washing dishes then gets picked up by his friends. They are cruising in a galaxy. They go all throughout town. They shoot old toilets and rusted cans in a junkyard with 22's, hop on rooftops, and ride dirt bikes in the mud. They go to some Chinese buffet place then end up getting kicked out for throwing fortune cookies at each other. The night fast approaches and they are driving up to a red light. (Right at marker 1:56) They're laughing and being crazy as ever until the kid looks over and sees a girl waiting at the light ready to cross. She runs her hand through her hair then slowly looks over to him. Everything is all in slow motion while the craziness is continuing on with his friends in the background while he breaks a smile at her. She smiles back at him. He mouths the words 'hi' to her, and she responds back the same way. He then tries to get out of the car while she approaches him. (Right at marker 2:30) Then the light goes green and the car's front lifts as the driver jack rabbits slamming down the gas, he is about to jump out after her while half way out of the car and almost attempts to get the other leg out but is caught on something. His upper body bends over with his hands nearly touching the road. His foot gets free and is almost out, but his stupid crazy friends pull him back in. As the singer shouts out "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!" is when he mouths those words. He holds his hand out for her as they separate. His buddies start punching at him laughing not even aware of what just happened between him and this "new-found-love". He fights to get free but they enter the highway. Then the solo goes off as they drive off into the night.

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