The continuation of last week's near-heat stroke adventure culminates with a cleansing ritual. Chris Monks unveils a piece written exclusively for DriveTime: Donuts and the Car Wash. Peter Bebergal follows with a ribald reading from his collection, True Florida Stories: 1975-1980.
(QuickTime, 08:55)
15 comments:
Great show! I like the whole carwash thing and it was creepy with the night vision mode on. LOL
I liked the first poem... but I have to say... and you really hit it on the nose... the 2nd one turned me off big time. It had a kind of George Costanzaish quality to it that made me flinch.
Good work Ravi and Sonya! *claps*
~L~
Funny, I had sort of the reverse preference. I thought the first one sounded like Chris remembered he had to write the poem 10 minutes before he got in the car. The second one was much better crafted, the somewhat uncomfortable references notwithstanding. But hey, that's what art is supposed to do sometimes... make you uncomfortable. It certainly evoked the awkwardness of a boy the age of 11. I have to say, though, I'll never look at someone else's swimming pool the same way again.
jc
Yeah I'm sorry about the pool detail there, but let me make it clear that nothing actually "happened" IN the pool.
Otherwise, I would like to start a "please fix the air conditioning campaign." If you want another cultural minute this summer, you will each and everyone of you urge Ravi to get it repaired.
hey lehsa and joe c -- glad the readings impacted you both in different ways!
thanks for conveying the true hell that it was peter -- maybe we'll employ an extravehicular camera for when I go to the auto shop to inquire about recharging the freon (to get their doubled-over in laughter response). I will also say that we are continuing to explore ways of using the sleeker and more reliable (and air-conditioned!) studio-V. It's all a matter of clamping...
wow! my favorite episode to date ....
car wash as multimedia. loved watching the stark action thru the rear window!
and big bonus points for the Micronauts reference hmmm... Micronauts... i'm guessing that story was from 1979?
keep the artsy episodes coming!
has anyone volunteered to ride in the trunk yet?
*cue trunk cam*
ken -- I think this clinches no Cultural Minutes until September... though it has been downright chilly this week (we even pulled out the "winter" comforter the other night). Ah -- June in New England! Thanks for the diligent freon research... we may really be seeing the demise of Studio-A over the next few months (though I've been saying that for years). Still, she has to pass inspection next month -- and this year it's emissions time!
brian -- I like the trunk cam idea! We should have done a Sopranos cross-over for a true "Who's in the Trunk?" (coined by an early adopter DriveTime fan last fall).
Joe, yeah it was a bit sophmorish but I liked the simplicity of the poem. It was fun and whimsical. :D
No offense to Peter... I did like his poem but it isn't my type of story. I hope I didn't offend with the George Costanza comment. I was trying to be funny.
Ravi, I know about living w/o AC. Im in TX and you can't have a car (or dwelling) w/o AC and be comfortable in TX. I only have my current van AC fixed because it was (IN)conveniently attached to the same mechanism that runs my serpentine belt and other necessary items. :P And it wasn't cheap. >:(
Christopher Monks has posted the full text to his now-legendary poem (epic?) on his site.
Wrong "joe c". I didn't write my poem ten minutes before I got in the car--I wrote it twelve minutes before I got in the car. Besides, it seems like you're letting your anti-donut bias cloud your objectivity. Let it go, man, let it go.
With that said, Peter's story was better than mine. A lot. But only because he dropped the m-word. If I had known that kind of stuff was allowed it would have been a totally different story. Literally and figuratively.
We especially liked the use of night vision during the wash part of the piece. Sort of a Kansas/Oz moment as DriveTime was thrown from the cyclone-like car wash into a verdent Massachusetts morning. I half expected Sonia to say "Toto, I don't think we're in Revere anymore." Only there wasn't any dog, just donuts. I leave it to others to decide who was the Tinman, the Lion and the Scarecrow. The towel guy looked a little on the short side, too ...
hey laura and randy -- spot on with the Wizard of Oz tornado like chaos... it was quite frightening in there. And then we were tossed out so violently. I still shudder to think about it.
Peter should be on in the future. We need more Florida Stories to get drivetime ratings up. I think that this should be something that you save for the sweeps. Keep up the good work, you can get a doritos sponsor, I am not sure of which flavor would be appropriate. I have been watching since the inception and this plus Chris and his job interview snafu was the best.
Brilliant ep. If I was musically inclined, I'd make a song out of Donuts and the Carwash.
Donuts and Car Wash poem during DriveTime in a car wash? Ranks as best-of vlog content I've seen to date. I'm a DriveTime fan!
david -- thanks for the fundraiser idea! It could devolve into a general "Save Studio-A!" campaign.
anonymous -- Peter will no doubt be back on DriveTime soon. And Chris told me he would be DriveTime's "Tony Randall".
jeshii -- yes! Song! YES!
Wow Maura -- thanks! Hmmm... maybe this landmark experience shouldn't have been on the sleepy summer DriveTime season, but during our "sweeps" periods.
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