It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books
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- 1988
- 85 min
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[Man]
Hey.
I'm back in Missoula.
Just got back from Seattle... yesterday.
Just got back from summer school.
Glad to get that over with.
And I just got your tape too.
That was-- was good, 'cause I was
wondering what had happened to you.
Sounds like, uh... like you aren't
in the best of spirits these days.
Like, you're just - I don't know...
kind of up and down
about, just, things.
You sound like
you're kind of bumming about -
bumming out about the prospect
of another semester of school...
which I guess you guys
will be starting pretty soon.
School doesn't start here
for another few weeks.
My folks want me to get a job
till then, but, uh, f*** that.
I don't think that's gonna happen.
The only thing I feel like doing is, uh...
I don't know.
I was thinking maybe if you wanted
to blow off school or somethin'...
you could come up here for a while
and, uh, hang out.
It's pretty nice up here.
It's good hiking weather.
Could maybe--
There's a big concrete dam
up on the side of the mountain.
Maybe we could hike up there
or somethin'.
I'll probably have to spend some time
with Linda, but, uh...
I don't know.
I got a roommate who's, uh--
He's into-- He's up for doing anything,
just about anything.
He's into hanging out.
[Chuckles]
Linda has a friend too.
Maybe we can, uh...
Maybe we can all do somethin'... together.
I don't know.
Maybe you should just go to school.
How long you think that'll be?
- About five minutes.
- Okay.
[Beeping]
[Footsteps Approaching]
[Girl Speaking, Indistinct]
[Boy Speaking, Indistinct]
- [Gun Hammer Clicks]
- [Tires Screeching]
- [Bells Chiming]
- [Gunshot]
[Chiming Continues]
[Bell Dinging]
[Brakes Screeching]
[Man On P.A.] Smoking is permitted
only in the rear 24 seats of coach cars.
Smoking is not permitted at all in the diner
or in the center section...
of the upper lounge and the lower--
I mean, the table area
of the lower lounge.
Pipes, cigars and clove cigarettes are
permitted only in private accommodations.
[Man Continues, Indistinct]
We also ask that you not move
from car to car.
Shoes are required at all times
We also ask the parents of small children
not to leave them unattended.
[Continues, Indistinct]
We also ask that you please do not open the
lower vents, doors or windows at any time.
For your convenience, each coach
has a trash receptacle at either end...
and one in the center of each car.
Toilets are located on the lower level
of all coaches and sleepers.
[Man On P.A.] May I have
your attention, please? Amtrak 3414...
[Continues, Indistinct]
[Radio Chatter]
[Man]
And I'll pull the other end off.
[Man #2]
How about 30, Tom?
[Chatter Continues]
[Beeps]
- [Man] That was, uh, to Willaston.
- [Man #2] Yeah.
Okay.
[Chatter Continues]
[Man] I'll give this information.
One of the doctors was describing to me--
- So how are things going in Austin?
- Well, you know, same old sh*t.
Parents pissed 'cause you're not
going to school?
Yeah, they're pissed, but, um,
I haven't really told 'em yet.
- Yeah.
- Guess I'll send 'em a postcard...
or somethin' like that.
Doubt they're too worried
about it, though.
Anything particular you want
to do in Missoula?
No, not really.
Whatever's goin' on.
What is goin' on?
Uh, I don't know.
I guess we could, uh...
We could rent some movies.
It's kind of nice out.
We could, uh, you know...
We could do somethin' outside.
Hmm. Any shot of us gettin' up to Glacier
like you mentioned?
Uh, actually...
yeah, if we could, uh,
scam my girlfriend's car off of her.
I don't think she'd be into goin'
too much herself, but, uh...
She doesn't really like to hike or anything.
And that, uh, friend of hers
you mentioned?
Yeah, we might be able
to get her to drive up there with us.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- Where are we goin'?
- [Indistinct]
- What's that?
- Uh, a chicken place.
- Chicken?
- Well, they got a bar menu.
- Oh.
- We might get other food there.
So, we're goin' out tonight?
- What's there to do?
- Drink a lot of beer, dude.
We could get, uh, you know...
something to eat downstairs,
you know, and, um...
Um, and then maybe go out
to Top Hat later on.
[Indistinct]
Hey, those big mountains--
I'll tell you what you
do have.
You have nice air,
you have mountains and you have Luke's.
- That's all you have.
- There's a lot of people out.
- So you have to take advantage of that.
- Yeah.
- Want to go to Luke's?
- Luke's?
- You want to go to Luke's?
- Let's go to Luke's.
Hey, check this out. This guy--
This guy just, uh-- He just met--
He just got through reading
"The Metamorphosis," right?
He meets Kafka. And they're talking
about writing and everything...
and he says, and the author
says to Kafka -
they're just talking about writing,
what he writes--
He says,
"I'm disturbed by the light, the factory...
"the houses, the windows over the way,
most of all, by the light.
The light distracts my attention".
And then Kafka says...
"Perhaps it distracts one
from the darkness within.
"It is good when the light
overpowers one.
"If it were not for these horrible
sleepless nights, I would never write at all.
But they always recall me again
to my own dark solitude".
Then the author says,
"Is he not himself, the unfortunate bug?"
[Chuckling]
That's pretty-- pretty stupid.
- "The unfortunate bug".
- "The unfortunate bug".
[Train Approaching]
There it is, Missoula Valley.
All you do is climb up here--
Gotta do somethin'.
Have you figured out
a place to go?
I think we should go to Holland Lake.
Where's that, uh--
Where's that place that--
- It's Holland Lake.
- Sure it's not Seeley Lake?
That's Seeley Lake. -No, that's
Seeley Lake. This is Holland Lake.
This right here?
- [Chuckling] It's Seeley Lake.
- [Chuckling]
That's Seeley Lake,
but this is Holland Lake.
- Are you sure? How do you know?
I know.
Boom.
[Spits]
[Whirring]
- [Man On TV] It's beautiful, isn't it?
- [Man #2] Yeah, it's exactly what I wanted.
Yeah, pops, you could take care
of a whole roomful of people with that gun.
Maybe not kill 'em all, but then they
wouldn't be good for anything afterwards.
I knew you'd take care of it
for me, Nikki.
- Say, how long you had this place?
- Almost a year.
Yeah, it's picturesque enough,
but there can't be much profit in it.
There isn't. But then, there isn't
much trouble neither.
- What are you thinking about?
- A job.
- Your kind of a job, a job with a rifle.
- What kind of money, pops?
- 5,000.
- Who do I have to kill?
- [Reading Russian Words]
- [Repeating Words]
- "Paxhat".
- "Pakat".
- Nyet. "Paxhat".
- "Pakat".
[Resumes Reading]
[Whirring]
[Grunts]
Sh*t!
[Chuckles]
Thanks.
- Well, let's check it out.
- They're dry?
- Yeah.
Hey, be sure to tell Linda
thanks for lettin' us use your drier.
Sure. Yeah, it's pretty nice.
Save some bucks. Save me, uh...
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