I had explored Scripture in this fashion many times before, sometimes losing myself for hours in random adventure.
The Dispatch trips have been the most gratifying professional experiences of my life precisely, I think, because from the beginning, neither Alec nor I have approached this long, rambling project as a strictly professional experience, but rather as a series of road trips, random adventures, and long conversations between two friends in a van.
Mark Cieslak talks to Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright about his online project the Random Adventures of Brandon Generator which lets the audience influence the outcome.
Much as he loved stories with happy endings he preferred human life as he found it, with all its random adventures.
It was in the hangouts, trips to New York, random adventures to Center City, workout sessions, coffee chats, second meetings, follow-ups where I got to really learn more about the people I've met in my first year in college.
A bit more flotsam and jetsam from Samuel's former life surfaced during our discussion: He spent a lot of time hanging out with small-time gangs who sold drugs on the UNAM campus, joined a squatters' collective, demonstrated with socialist groups, slept on the beach at Acapulco one night and nearly drowned, and ran with Mexico City's biker gangs, among other random adventures.
Swenson felt that, although the lower levels can degenerate into a random monster mix, the strong points of these adventures outweigh their flaws.
The story is entertaining and rips along at a pace, although the real joy comes from picking a random direction and sailing off to engage in unscripted adventure.
Random thing, just a random thing.
