September 30, 1955

Is it just me, or does that kid look like Tom Cruise? Anyway, I saved this during my James Dean phase, so around the first week of March. I recorded a biography of James Dean and the above film was mentioned. IMDB says "when Jimmy's idol, James Dean, dies on September 30, 1955, the small-town Arkansas college undergraduate goes berserk...". So far, I find this film awesome for two reasons: 1) James Dean 2) Arkansas. IMDB also says it "would not recommend this film", so I'm totes def gonna watch it. If I can find it. That's something that's really been bugging me lately; no one sells any well films anymore.

Yes; well.

But apparently there's four trillion other movie stores here that I've never heard of. Also a heckuva lot more stores in general I've never heard of. Take the bike shop, for example. We were having Brown Girls Picnic at Wilson Park, but Karina asked us to stop by this bike shop to check out a bike. I made eye contact with an underweight man/woman in a black wifebeater who was smoking a cigarette and I pretty much wanted to barf on its face. Besides that, the place is kinda cute. It's behind the Tea Shop and this nice old man was helping us out. Old as in forty. But it smelled like liquor and tires, so I'm really not in a rush to go back.

Moral of the story: I need to find this film, James Dean films, and James Dean posters. Like the one Becky Cox has.

HEH

1. Tom Clancy

Ah, my very first draft. I distinctly remember saving this one on a band trip in November of 2008. Time to get nostalgic...
All the "cool" bandies were playing a little game of "Zoo" when I looked over to see Joe's freckly nose in a book. After a few bours (that's "bandie hours" for you non-bandies. Just kidding. I made that up that just now), I went up to him to see why he was being anti-social. "I just...I really like this book. I've been reading a lot of Tom Clancy lately."
And that is the epic tale of my first draft.
I'm pretty sure that the band trip happened the same week I watched Red October, so that may or may not have something to do with it.

Now to use the wonderful world of Wikipedia to find Tom Clancy books that interest me:
The Hunt for Red October*
Patriot Games*
Clear and Present Danger*
Without Remorse

Uh. The book blurbs just kinda gave away some endings. I'm going to stop reading Wikipedia now. Anyway, the ones with the asterisk are also movies. Two of which just happen to be starring HARRISON FORD. Who is kinda just a little bit my favorite person ever. But mostly as Indie and Han. CONNECTIONS: Sean Connery is in Red October as well as the third installment of Indiana Jones, starring Harrison Ford. Whew.

So I think that's the end of this post.

Well, I guess there's just one thing left to do.
(In my mind, Robert Redford is sitting at a computer while his injured crime fighting partner [noted by a bandaged eyebrow & left hand with a few scrapes and bruises on his face] has his back leaning against the computer desk, and is staring Redford down. Redford looks longingly at the computer screen and, after the camera cuts into a zoomed frame of the keyboard, presses the "delete" key on the keyboard. The computer completely shuts down. His partner claps him on the shoulder with his right hand, picks up a styrofoam cup of coffee with his left, and walks off. Redford stands up, picks up his coat that was hanging on the back of his chair, and begins to follow his partner. He halfway turns around, smirks at the computer/exhales a laugh through his nose, and walks on. The camera moves towards the computer screen. A green light turns on. Cello-dominated music starts to crescendo. Black out. Roll credits.)