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I wanted to post The Football Kid by CBoyardee, an amateur YT creative personality, but it appears he has taken down his works.  The Football Kid is a brilliant short film which combines impressive aesthetics and dry humor.  A monotone narrator tells a story over a montage of unrelated shots.  The story is itself unimportant and simply serves as a centralizing point giving the visual sequence an implied meaning.  The aesthetic is one of dreamy suburban banality, one seen often in the classic indie cinema of the 1990s.  The Pesky Suitor (1995) featuring Claire Danes comes to mind.  The soundtrack, the best joke of this short production, is Satie’s Gymnopedies.  Satie’s most overused piece thusly gives the suburban scenes a faux artfulness.  With this final smirk in place, The Football Kid functions more as a metafilm, appeasing all the sensory requirements without any narrative substance.   CBoyardee is probably best known for his absurdist take on Dilbert where Scott Adams’ famous character is seemingly animated by Mike Judge and enacting a workplace version of Gus Van Sant’s Elephant.

I wanted to post The Football Kid by CBoyardee, an amateur YT creative personality, but it appears he has taken down his works.  The Football Kid is a brilliant short film which combines impressive aesthetics and dry humor.  A monotone narrator tells a story over a montage of unrelated shots.  The story is itself unimportant and simply serves as a centralizing point giving the visual sequence an implied meaning.  The aesthetic is one of dreamy suburban banality, one seen often in the classic indie cinema of the 1990s.  The Pesky Suitor (1995) featuring Claire Danes comes to mind.  The soundtrack, the best joke of this short production, is Satie’s Gymnopedies.  Satie’s most overused piece thusly gives the suburban scenes a faux artfulness.  With this final smirk in place, The Football Kid functions more as a metafilm, appeasing all the sensory requirements without any narrative substance.  

CBoyardee is probably best known for his absurdist take on Dilbert where Scott Adams’ famous character is seemingly animated by Mike Judge and enacting a workplace version of Gus Van Sant’s Elephant.

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These dudes are all a various composite of what I look or have looked like from age 13 to 25.

These dudes are all a various composite of what I look or have looked like from age 13 to 25.

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ananke:

I wish the suburbia that is presented in music videos and pop song lyrics existed 

Like kids just doing stuff on bikes and by traintracks and all that

I feel like I missed out on that whole segment of life, I never had neighborhood friends, never climbed on any roofs or biked around or any of that

hmm

The suburbia I grew up in was a mixture of what is described above and the sunny, spaced out, somewhat depressing suburbia of Gus Van Sant films.

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