Rotten Apples

by tinamf@csrlink.net

The whole video is has a black and white look but it is in color,
everything is kinda drab and/or pale.
The video starts a few seconds before the music atually starts.  A Young
man, any age between about 16 to 26, walks down a hall, camera close on his
troubled-looking face and then on his feet, and then back.  He is wearing
faded, wrinkeled black pants, black shoes or boots, and a wrinkley
grey(gray?) shirt.  His medium-length hair is rumpled, and when the camera
is on his face, he runs his hand thru it and looks as if he is on the verge
of tears.  He needs a shave. 
	The music starts when he enters a bedroom and shuts the door, door is cue
for music to start.
 	He proceeds to go to the center of the room (room is somewhat dirty and
has not been straightened up for a while, clothes, papers, etc. all over
the floor, clearing in the middle, carpeting is a dark purpleish red and is
stained, guitar, indeterminate make, old, proped agianst one wall.  He sits
down rather like he is falling, and picks up a picture, by now, Billy has
begun to sing.  When BC sings "...love unrequited", the camera show that
the picture is of a girl who is of an age similar to that of the man and
who is kinda pretty.  The man's head falls and he seems to be crying softly
as Billy fades into being, sitting on the edge of the bed in the room while
singing and playing an acoustic.  The man cannot hear BC.  
	The next few scenes are outside,
	The guy, lets call him Jonas, (no reason, i just like the name) is walking
on the street wearing the same clothes as before, but with a long, black
raincoat-like garment.  The streets are kinda dirty and eveything is
dreary. It doesn't really matter exactly where the music is right now as
the scenes are more of a discription of Jonas' story with RA as a
soundtrack than an actual interpretation of the song.  
	From across the street, Jonas sees the girl in the photo and is
immediately brightened.  She doesn't see him yet, and appears to be looking
for someone.  The street is about 4 lanes wide, the buildings aroud are
somewhat old, 3 and 4 story, regular, dirty buildings, there is traffic,
but it is moving consistantly.  As Jonas begins to cross the street to talk
to the girl, she is met on the opposite sidewalk by a man and they walk off
together.  Jonas stops in the center of the street and looks sad and angry.
 Cars pass on both sides of him.  
	At second "Dirty your face...", Jonas is walking along a quiet street buy
an old, red bridk factory.  it is night and the streetlights shine down on
him.  He walks with his head slightly down and his hands in his coat
pockets.  He hears a car and looks up, when the car passes, the camera goes
into the car and shows a guy driving with a girl beside him and two guys in
the back, and the girl from the photo in the middle in the back.  Some of
the occupants are smoking cigarettes and they seem to be laughing and
having fun.
	Jonas looks back down and as he walks, pictures fall from somewhere on him
and fall to the ground, where they catch fire, but slowly, aroung the
edges, so that you can see taht they are of the same girl.
	On third and last "Dirty your face..." the scene is back in the room but
Jonas is not there, Billy is sitting ion the bed playing and singing as
before, and the rest of the band is looking aroung the room.  D'arcy picks
up a picture and passes it to (i guess) Matt.  James reaches down and
plucks idley once at the old guitar while it rest against the wall.  As
Jonas walks in, D'ardy sets the picture back down on the floor and Jonas
picks it up, he can neither see or hear anyone else in the room.  He looks
at the picture and when the camera shows him again, he is standing alone. 
"Dust to dust, we're wired into sadness."- Jonas lets the hand holding the
picture drop and falls onto the bed.
The End.