Hiebert, TedBrown, RebeccaBugni, Corbin Louis2017-10-262017-10-262017-08Bugni_washington_0250O_17804.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/40426Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2017-08Why Are We Doing This? Oh That’s Right Rock N’ Roll, and Love, and Drugs, and Especially Best Friends! Let’s Live Forever. is a two part collection including the novella Live. Smoke. Try Again. and the feature film If Not This. These works are mirrored documents of the human spirit; A film about getting high and a novella about a film about getting high. But if you look deeper really it’s about surviving illness and heartbreak and hanging out with friends and raging into the fires of self and culture. Which are sites of ineffable suffering. Each project is a love letter—to friends—that says, ‘Fuck the suffering. We live.’application/pdfen-USCC BY-NCBugniCorbinIfNotNovellaThisArt criticismFilm studiesLiteratureTo Be AssignedThesis