A New Little Movie

RYAN: STEPHEN

STEPHEN: RYAN

RS: You fool. How the hell are you?

SK: We actually know someone named Ryan Stevens. A great man and someone who drew up a contract for us many moons ago. Anyway, I’m fine. I’m currently deep in the edit cave. What do you know about that?

RS: It’s funny to think that we once employed a lawyer. Who I believe is a criminal defense attorney and knows nothing about contract law.

What are we talking about? Editing. I know very little about editing. The little I do know is useless and extremely crude. What are you editing?

SK: I am editing a film for Salomon. I tagged along with them during Marianne Hogan’s third-place run at Western States a few weeks back. Dare I say things are moving along smoothly and hopefully it will be on a big screen in your neck of the woods real soon.

This little editing chunk has also reinforced the fact that it’s something I really enjoy! You sit around staring at all this footage and time drags very slowly and then you’re hit with inspiration and enter some sort of flow state where time evaporates and you’re manically cutting, dragging, and dropping. It’s wonderful. It’s my new religion.

RS: Do you think this is the best movie you’ve ever made?

SK: I will let the internet decide.

Can we talk about the movie you just made?

RS: Sure, Steve. We can talk about my movie. It’s called Quebec City Rules and it is an extremely silly account of what happened during that bike trip we talked about in a previous edition of this newsletter. It stars Dakota Jones and a bicycle I received from Salsa Cycles. At about 10 minutes long you’d assume it requires a bit of an attention span to get through, but you’d be wrong. Because it’s very juvenile. Our friends at a bicycling website called The Radavist just uploaded it yesterday. Watch it on the internet.

SK: I had fun watching it. I broke into a smile many times and I don’t think it’s just because you are two of my dear friends. You made something fun which isn’t happening much. I think you should pat yourself on your back.

RS: Thank you, Stephen. I had fun making it. We sent it around to a few people who more or less said “interesting!” and then wanted nothing to do with it. That’s something that I found very amusing.

SK: If you’re not making interesting stuff, what are you doing? You’re doing the same thing as everyone else. You had a vision, albeit a deranged one, and you executed it.

When do you have to return your fancy bike? Do you have any final rides planned before you give the most expensive bike you’ll ever touch back?

RS: Some of you might watch the little movie and think “surely he wanted to make something better than this.” But you’d be incorrect. What you see is exactly what I wanted to make. This is my truest form of artistic expression.

Anyway. I gotta give the bike back in a month. Just today we were talking to some friends about riding it to a Dairy Queen 15 miles away from where we live. That’s the biggest ride I have planned so far. As my dear friend, business partner, and fitness coach, you of all people should know that I have very little time for riding in my schedule coming up.

SK: As a fitness coach, I’m used to my athletes rarely listening to what I have to say so I figured you’d do the same. Thank you for adhering to my strict guidelines as you train for the NEW YORK CITY MARATHON.

RS: Do you think you’ll come out and watch me run?

SK: Buddy, I wouldn’t miss it.

RS: Be like Steve and go support your old friend Ryan by watching his little movie at The Radavist Dot Com.

SK: You’re gonna have a nice time. I guarantee it.

Thanks for hanging out with us. Maybe we will do this again next week.