Bass Ackwards
The journey begins, as journeys often do, with an ending. Romantically bereft and a bit of a lost soul, Linas is seeking some kind of life change, and, already a documentarian, he is contemplating a personal road film as the antidote.
What may have been a dark quest is quickly brightened through the introduction of "Shorty," a 1969 Volkswagen van that Linas impulsively acquires early on.
Shorty is not an ordinary van. Cut out in the middle and welded back together, Shorty is an eccentric vehicle, the bizarre love child of Herbie (of Disney fame) and 'Pimp My Ride,' with a small helping of 'Christine.'
An unlikely but charming traveling companion for Linas as he makes his way eastward from Seattle to Brooklyn, Shorty becomes his deliriously off-center sidekick.
Starring: Linas Phillips, Paul Lazar