The Adventures Of Teen Boy!

Or

How I Learned To Bullshit my way through School

So now I'm a full fledged teenager and what a change from being a little tyke that can get away with anything. Responsibility is a bitch but we must all learn to live with it. But me...I just learned how to twist things around to suit my ways.

Most of my free time was busy being creative down in my newly given hangout - The Basement. My room was getting a little cluttered with my collections throughout my younger years and the fam decided to give me the Basement. Cool!

Wanna see just what my bedroom looked like click on the door.

Down in the Basement there was a freedom like no other. My friends Perry, Bill, and Noreen would drop by on countless occasions and just hang out. We'd play Ping-Pong matches, listen to records, and we also made own comedy audio tapes.

Yeah we'd just make things up. Movie parodies, commercials, anything we could think of, and all add lib.

Of course Perry didn't think they were that great, but he did continue to join us in our taping sessions.

Go to "Us Tapes Present's" for the audio fun!

It was also down in my Basement where I started on my first serious film venture, "Son Of Jason and His Argonuts". For more info on that click here.

But soon the time for education came again, so it was off to High School for me.

Graduation class of 78' at Gordon S. Hubbard High. Quite an honor to make it this far too, considering how badly I did in Grammar school. Slipped out of there with C's and D's thank you very much. Like I said before, I was just board in school. With my many interests outside of class, such as playing, girls, making model kits, girls, riding my bike, girls, not to mention my new interest in making movies. This is what my mind was really preoccupied with.

It's funny and a true fact that somewhere along the way my interest in girls seemed to disappear when I received a Super 8mm movie camera and projector on my graduation. I was already interested in movies and now I had the opportunity of a lifetime. To make my very own movies. Sure they weren't the greatest but it was something new to do.

But then came High school.

Being new in High School was pretty much a drag. I'm sure there are quite a many stories out there by all so I won't dwell on mine, only to say that as soon as I found my niche, it was easy. That niche turned out to be none other than my filmmaking talents. I guess as soon as my teachers knew that I had an interest in something other than sports or the norm they accepted me and I soon fit in just fine.

I have to owe the easiness of High School to my Speech and Drama teacher Mr. Lunde. In his class we didn't study the boring basics of education, in his class we watched movies. All kinds of movies. Spielbergs first film "Amblin", Jim Hensons "Time Piece", Roman Polanskie's "Two Men and a Wardrobe", and the obscure films like "Un Chien Andalou" and "A Stain on his Conscience". It wasn't long before my own films would make they're premiere in this class. This is where the fun began.

See, Mr. Lunde was the kind of guy who liked to show off the new talent in his classes, so I was called on to show my films to all of them. On these special days I would be excused from all my classes. Sure this wasn't a very good schooling technique, and a lot of my other teachers weren't too happy with the idea, but who cares? I had found my niche. From sophomore to senior I had cart blanch in certain classes. I even started to make my own films on the school premises with some of the teachers acting in them. I was doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it.

Around this time is when I met up with one of my best friends, Terry.

Terry also had an interest in film and it wasn't long before we tagged up together. We would get together after school and come up with ideas for films we could make ourselves. "The Magical Mystical Disintegrating Gun From Planet Poofra" was one of the best.

My grades? Well there's where the trouble comes in paradise. They weren't that good. C's and D's again, but those were in subjects like algebra, science, etc. But my Speech and Drama and English classes were A's straight and through.

At home my parents weren't to pleased by this. They felt that I was wasting my time with this film nonsense and would constantly ask me what I was going to do the rest of my life. I would say "Make movies", they would respond "Get real".

I eventually got to them though and convinced them to let me go to College. After all, by that time my brother was taking up an astronomy class so it would only be fair to let me take one in Film Making. The next Steven Spielberg was on the way!

On to...

"College Life"

Copyright ©1998 Roger B. Domian