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Before Music Mitchel's Date

Picture to Tarp: My First Minneapolis Show

By Sam WalkerPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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I don't think I got it yet. Listen to Natalon in E. Minneapolis took a different direction after I heard Simeon ten Holt's music. I'd like to get this across by writing a few Minneapolis Shows. I hope they get better and better.

Here's the first one ever written:

Characters

Music Mitchel

Me

Cabe

Our Car

Music Mitchel’s Car

Minneapolis

Traffic Light (Red)

Traffic Light (Green)

The Minneapolis Skyline

4:30pm

Falling Leaves during the whole picture

Rising Leaves during the second half

Simeon ten Holt CD

The Set

Shots from inside Our Car. We are in the great, old car. Cabe and I are in the great, old car. Grey, gray leather; the leather is held together by grey tape. Music is playing. The great, old car is stopped behind a newer car. For weather, we are looking at an out-of-the-park cool, sunny day. Leaves fall each time I change the way my head is facing. Later on, the falling leaves rise back up again; they rise every other time I change the way my head is facing. More music is playing, but it’s the same one. We are placed on a road that is on the outskirts of the center of the city. The camera should make it clear that the scene’s road is barely hanging on to the center; the Mississippi River has almost as much impact as the city does when it comes to the feeling of being inside the great, old car.

Music Mitchel is behind the wheel of the newer car in front of us. Cabe and I both know where his girlfriend lives. Music Mitchel’s car is placed on the road leading to her apartment building. Based on the time of day, 4:30pm, Cabe and I assume that Music Mitchel is on his way to pick up his girlfriend. He’s picking her up so that the two of them can go on a date together. Everybody in Minneapolis has seen the way Music Mitchel parades around. These days.

Between the headrest and the driver’s seat, we can make out the top of Music Mitchel’s grey, wool coat. We can also make out his neck heading towards the bottom-most border of Music Mitchel’s grey hair. It should be clear that this coat-neck image held between the goalposts that hold the headrest away from the driver’s seat is the center of our picture. In this rectangle, the back of drivin’ Music Mitchel completely gives away how happy he is to be picking up his date. Music Mitchel’s car, followed by our car, is stopped at a red light. When the light turns green, Music Mitchel will continue driving straightforwardly. When the light turns green, Cabe and I will turn left. There’s more city where we are headed and there is more of the River where Music Mitchel is headed. This should be clear by the composition of the picture. Neither the River or the city is actually seen. If you look too far in the direction of Music Mitchel’s path, the picture becomes nothing but bright. And if you look too far in the direction of Our Car’s path, the picture becomes nothing but bright. In other words, you can only see what you see. And then there’s bright edges everywhere else.

All that we have on camera is a tucked-away, traffic-lighted intersection on the outskirts of the center. Two cars. Music Mitchel’s and ours. Early fall day. Leaves falling. In the second half, some of the leaves rise back up again. Cars stopped. Until they go. Cabe and I are looking out the great, old car front window. We are looking through the newer car’s rear window. We are looking through the newer car’s rear window at the back of Music Mitchel’s head. Cabe and I are looking through the goalposts that hold the headrest away from the driver’s seat. Through the goalposts we see the top of Music Mitchel’s grey coat, his neck, and then the bottom-most border of Music Mitchel’s grey hair. All we can see of Music Mitchel betrays how over-the-moon he is about picking up his date.

Cabe and I would like the light to turn green. Cabe and I would like to see this picture past the picture. We would like to make it to the bright.

Cabe and I: There goes Music Mitchel!

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Everything above here is in picture form across the body of a lake-big tarp. Our picture is pulled over the top of the lake by a group of people. The tarp is held up above the water; it is held in place by big rocks. Our big tarp, with “Before Music Mitchel’s Date” on it, puts the lake to sleep early. Before Winter.

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Sam Walker

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