reading on the way to reed

the kids from the lost film fest hit town last night, so i had to hike it out to reed college. had no idea where it was, and it turns out it's a bit tricky by bus.
i still don't really know where i was exactly, but i figured a bus full of white college kids was a good starting point, and i made it there alright despite not knowing where i was going. but figuring out what to do when i got there was the hard part...reed's a lot bigger than i had been lead to believe, and at any rate, it wasn't nearly as self-explanatory as i thought it would be.

it was very dark which added to the mystery factor (they don't seem to waste much money on street lights, which is good for budding astronomers but bad for the lost), none of which facilitated me finding anybody more quickly. i wandered around all over campus and got a full spectrum of the kinds of conversations that only college freshmen tend to have on residential college campuses. i eventually got lucky and found who and what i was looking for, but it was more accident than design, believe me.
didn't look like anyone else had this problem though, there were plenty of people in the auditorium when the films started...I'm guessing there was some kind of electronic forum that everyone there tunes into that made it abundantly obvious where and what they were looking for...

i'm not going to give a whole recap of what i watched except to say that:
a. rappers from europe are pretty weird.
b. i haven't laughed this much in months (a small blessing, having something to laugh about).
c. the lord of the rings remake by the stolen collective was hilarious
d. watching cops beat the crap out of kids on bikes still sucks

i had to leave pretty early to catch the bus back, and leave the mysterious world of reed college behind, and return to my own.