Unicycle : Looking At My World (1976)

[Music] I've had flashes when I was riding my us cycle that I was riding along a 6in wide board 500 ft in the air backwards just riding along all SE people looking at me with these big wide eyes and I just almost I fell off once when I thought about it riding my unicycle is just like playing basketball people live two different lives they'll use basketball to meet people in things and unicycle is just a skill part of my life it's just something I do [Music] about 5 years ago at my school it was a class and uh we just got on them and we held on to a fence and just started going and you'd go for an inch or two at first and a couple people fell and broke their arm I probably fell about 10 or 20 times every day and then finally that one big day you know the day before you'd say I'm going to quit and then the next day you say I'll do it one more day and then you get on it and the way you [Music] go when people see me riding around all over the place I'm going to work and to me it's just like a normal casual thing and some people look at me and I just look at him and smile and say thank you I'm see it as anything [Music] special I've had thoughts about making a living at flying the Goodyear blimp but I I haven't really thought about it right now as a living but I think maybe someday it would be fun hi Tony see you oh was cool today it was all right come and help me with the groceries what' you do in English uh we did an essay and we'll be getting a b tomorrow good for you how about biology um I got I got a test St and I got I think people my age have a lot of problems with their home life I've been lucky and I have had any problems with my family life at all I think that's helped me tremendously in school and in my hobbies and things like that hey Mom oh that's great Tony I Lear how to do it just beautiful I'm going to go over and show Andy Gomez how I do it all right go and show Andy will you come home in time for dinner I might have a BT cheat over there all right all right but save room for dessert okay okay see you later okay wait just a second May [Music] rain I sort of enjoy being looked at I think I like to show off if I see somebody looking at me and I'm just riding along I'll Whip around and go backwards and try to make an impression it's it's fun more routine how's the ranch still good have you gotten any new animals lately yeah yeah which one what time did you get you new goats new goats yeah have they doing any milk yet no not yet I go in about 3:00 or 4: in the afternoon and talk to Andy Gomez who's the owner of the Mexican restaurant um he talks to me and he tells tells me about the different things I used to do when I was in there when I was young and he sort of smiles when I when I ride my unicycle because he's from Mexico and he doesn't see it in Mexico very often and we'll just talk about different things in the restaurant business and house life and we just have good times you just pull it as hard as I can okay kind of a got it and what happens when this gets bu what happens when this gets buil well like we can put another one oh okay it go it goes quickly quickly that's right look how fast it's going now uh-huh [Music] how it going how you like turn ride the unicycle I know it's fun oh okay okay here get on the seat no a lot of my friends think I'm crazy because I study all the time and and I talk to the teachers who are generally older and they enjoy seeing one student out of 5050 who come up and ask them how the day was a lot of my friends are like that and I enjoy people who enjoy all people rather than just people that are under 20 years old L come on try and ride now when you leave forward a little bit and then you'll get it I used my cycle to get to one particular job that's only about a mile away and he is a 91-year-old man who is from Germany and he was a fighter in World War I for the Germans and he managed to come over here because he got shot down in the war and he came over here and all his friends are Jewish for some strange reason how far is that from Hamburg oh I mean is it Clos middle middle of ger the middle of Germany and Hur is at the at the FL what sort of plants are we going to plant now no yeah nothing special we have the only thing we have um we have to plant to transplant is the Rose Oh you mean the rose over here we work for 2 or 3 hours gardening or building I like bricks for him and we cut and prune and things like that in the garden did you plant this tree yeah how long ago how long ago about um 25 years you planted this yeah just a little seed no and it was a little Tre start if they are falling down all all the ones which fall down fairly fairly right mean you don't you don't pick them off you don't pick them I always wait till till they fall I think what I like best about Mr rosenal is his humor and his way he's so active he comes out build and whatever I do he just helps me do and he cracks funny German jokes in German unfortunately I can't understand them so he he sort of makes fun of me see then from this little but it comes to the side oh I see you mean so you mean so when you cut it when you cut it off bottom then then more juice goes up to that far we talk a lot about his old friends that have all sort of you know haven't written and haven't come back you know and take more weeds out like that people die when they get over see you later byebye [Music] I think we need a little bit of trimming down I work for a woman over on A Street near my house I go and garden that's how we do and she I think she just enjoys seeing me because she she isn't around younger people very often at all they don't you don't put them in dirt at all anymore than you do or how do they get the nutrients out of the you know out of the air yeah they well naturally and the uh I mean they just take tropical countries they get it oh the bottle brush that's this is a well I I thought it was a shrub and I was going to put a small shrub back here but it turned into quite a large tree I like it very much did you plant this one well I'll we'll get some cuting before you go and it's so nice that young people are interested in that type of thing now I don't know her name I've I've worked for her for almost a year now and I just happen haven't asked her her name f come on in I think old people are nice and I've just found that in my traveling it just happens I meet older people I'm sure some older people do feel lonely but then there's some younger people who feel lonely too I mean you like rice pudding yeah I love it that's Do's favorite especially your rice pudding that's best I make it for him quite frequently rice pudding and shell beans go is that sure never tried that one before m I put peanuts on ice cream too we never really get into intricate conversations we just talk about the present because she doesn't believe in the past she doesn't want to know of things that happened a long time ago simply because they've already happened forward to the future future I think that the past was very important because you learn from the past and of what's already happened for the future and I sometimes go out and buy her groceries because she has a problem with her lungs and she can't get out very [Music] often I think the one of the biggest problems that bothers me is the fact that there's money in the world money is just a whole different way of turning the barter system around I think that if there wasn't money then nobody would be starving they there would have to be some kind of a limit to food I think some people get into groups of people that just aren't the right people to hang around I have fun by myself I don't have any group and I'm I feel I'm just doing [Music] fine e [Music]