But, when he had to decide between a dream posting in a position he coveted and sowing his own entrepreneurial dreams of opening a surf school, he caught the wave.
Though his dialogue, spoken with the charming hesitation of inexperienced improvisers, conveys the tensions of the postcollegiate proletariat caught between big dreams and petty realities, Swanberg most faithfully captures the sound of artistic creativity today in bursts of tapping on laptop keyboards.