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A Girl Affair HD ( Drama, Romance )
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00:00:00She's upstairs with my wife.
00:00:01Okay, someone will be there right away.
00:00:05Hey, hey!
00:00:06Hey, hey!
00:00:08All right!
00:00:10Nice, sis.
00:00:12Nice, girls. Nice.
00:00:14I don't know, I just feel like when these so-called skeptics of any and all religious faiths,
00:00:19spirituality, metaphysics, whatever you want to call it,
00:00:25are tempted to shut the idea out completely.
00:00:27Obviously, I think that it's important that the question be asked,
00:00:31what is the difference between the material that they talk about and study and meditate upon
00:00:38and the spirit which we talk about and study and meditate upon?
00:00:44Is there actually a difference or is it really just a different way of thinking or of seeing?
00:00:52And I'm not so sure that there is a difference.
00:00:55Anyway, these are just, they're some of the ideas that I hope come across in the novel.
00:01:03All right, I'm out of words.
00:01:05I'm sure that's not true.
00:01:07But that does bring us to a close.
00:01:10So I want to thank you all for being here
00:01:11and a very special thanks to Miranda Ruth for making time for us.
00:01:14I need to take this.
00:01:38Excuse me.
00:01:38I just think getting away would be good for her, good for both of us, actually.
00:01:48We've been going at each other a lot lately.
00:01:50And she's interested in Chicago for college, so, you know.
00:01:53Well, I'm not sure how exciting I'd be, but of course I would love to have her.
00:01:59Um, how long?
00:02:01I don't know.
00:02:02A couple of weeks.
00:02:06That would be fine.
00:02:07Um, when were you thinking?
00:02:10Soon as possible.
00:02:14Okay, yeah.
00:02:15Um, yeah, we can make that work.
00:02:17Sure.
00:02:17Opportunity for some literary monopologies.
00:02:22Family.
00:02:24Are you okay?
00:02:25Yes.
00:02:26No.
00:02:27I aim to please, but I don't know how to get there.
00:02:56So I guess that's how I end up here.
00:02:59Pumping poison through my veins.
00:03:03I aim to leave.
00:03:05Find a way out of my own hell.
00:03:08I push and pull and then I tell myself to remember the names.
00:03:14Of the people you met in December.
00:03:19It's surreal.
00:03:22It's true.
00:03:23It's hard to remember.
00:03:25It's like a baby in the middle.
00:03:26It's true.
00:03:27It's just like a baby.
00:03:27Let's go through my veins.
00:03:28It's really hurt.
00:03:28It's really hurt.
00:03:29It's really hurt.
00:03:30It's really hurt.
00:03:30It's really hurt.
00:03:31It's really hurt.
00:03:32It's really hurt.
00:03:33It's really hurt.
00:03:34You're hurt if I'm not having a baby.
00:03:41Oh, my God.
00:03:43You grew up.
00:03:44You grew up.
00:03:47Hey.
00:03:48Hi.
00:03:51Oh, welcome, sweetheart.
00:03:55Thanks.
00:03:56Come on in.
00:03:58How's your flight?
00:03:59Oh, a little bumpy.
00:04:00Yeah.
00:04:01Oh, can I get that?
00:04:02Oh, no, no, no, thanks.
00:04:03I got it.
00:04:04You were very little when you were last here.
00:04:06You probably don't even remember this place.
00:04:08I don't do.
00:04:09Yeah.
00:04:10You're upstairs, so why don't you come on in?
00:04:14We'll get you settled.
00:04:25And here it is.
00:04:27Oh.
00:04:28It's small.
00:04:29It's cozy.
00:04:31The light is brilliant in the morning,
00:04:33and a chair in the corner makes for a really nice reading nook.
00:04:37Oh, I don't really read.
00:04:40Well, there's some real gems on the bookshelf if you do decide to give it a go.
00:04:49Do you have Wi-Fi?
00:04:51I do.
00:04:52Ralph Waldo is the name of it.
00:04:55Okay.
00:04:56And the password is, all caps, Hawthorne, with an E.
00:05:011850.
00:05:03That's the year that the scarlet letter, you don't get it.
00:05:07Got it.
00:05:09That's the year the scarlet letter was published?
00:05:13Yeah.
00:05:14Cool.
00:05:15Are you hungry?
00:05:16Uh, yeah, a little.
00:05:17Um, well, just get settled, and whenever you're ready, come down and eat.
00:05:22Thanks.
00:05:23It's just your mom's room, by the way.
00:05:24It's just your mom's room, by the way.
00:05:28Hey.
00:05:29I'm just about ready.
00:05:30Um, you can go take a peek out back if you like.
00:05:31I think that's where we're gonna eat lunch.
00:05:32Do you eat potato salad?
00:05:33Oh, shit.
00:05:34What?
00:05:35Are you vegetarian?
00:05:36No!
00:05:37No!
00:05:38What?
00:05:39I'm just about ready.
00:05:40Um, you can go take a peek out back if you like.
00:05:53I think that's where we're gonna eat lunch.
00:05:57Do you eat potato salad?
00:05:58Oh, shit.
00:05:59What?
00:06:00Are you vegetarian?
00:06:02I'm sorry. I have, I've got more, I've got, you're not?
00:06:07No, I'm good.
00:06:09You're so bad.
00:06:32You're so bad.
00:07:02Your dad told me that you're thinking about coming up here for college.
00:07:09That's exciting.
00:07:10Yeah, maybe.
00:07:12It depends on where I can get a scholarship.
00:07:15Well, your mom went to DePaul, of course, and that's a good one.
00:07:19And I'm at U of C at University of Chicago, which is where I teach occasionally.
00:07:25Although there are little nuts there, so I might want to avoid that one.
00:07:30Okay. Will do.
00:07:36What about you?
00:07:37Um, how's books? How's books and stuff?
00:07:43Books and stuff are good.
00:07:45I've been doing actually a lot of press for this new thing, this novel.
00:07:50What's it called?
00:07:51In the dawn.
00:07:54What's it about?
00:07:55Oh, really?
00:07:57Well, it's about, it's about this woman named Jacqueline.
00:08:01And on her 50th birthday, she's...
00:08:04You sure you want to hear this?
00:08:06Sure.
00:08:07What else are we going to talk about?
00:08:10Good point.
00:08:11Um, so on her 50th birthday, she starts to become extra sensitive to the sun.
00:08:17And it starts to affect her relationships, her friendships, her work.
00:08:24Uh, I'm not sure how much you really want me to tell you, but...
00:08:30You can tell me all of it.
00:08:33That was no fun.
00:08:35Well, isn't that like what you're supposed to do with stories?
00:08:39Well, yeah, but I mean, when you've worked for two years on the heart of it.
00:08:46Yeah, but I'm not going to read it.
00:08:50Fair enough.
00:08:53Um, well, come to find out, she's been doing a lot of research on this condition called photophobia.
00:09:01Is that real?
00:09:03It is, but in my version, it's a little heightened.
00:09:06Anyway, so she...
00:09:09She's doing this research, and then she realizes that it dates back centuries into her own family.
00:09:15And that its original name, Aether Amesthesia, actually comes from a Greek god.
00:09:23So...
00:09:24Oh, you write fantasy.
00:09:25No, no, I don't write fantasy.
00:09:27A lot of my work has some metaphysical themes and some spiritual themes, but it's basically realism.
00:09:34Sounds like fantasy.
00:09:36No.
00:09:37No, it's not.
00:09:38It's...
00:09:39Um, so she, uh, decides then that she's going to go to Greece to get to the bottom of this.
00:09:44And then when she gets there, she gets into this awful...
00:09:47Off.
00:10:07Be good to see where your mom came from, huh?
00:10:09Okay...
00:10:10I know she's a little bit of a little bit.
00:10:11That's all I had years ago.
00:10:12I know my mom, huh?
00:10:13Come when she sees her.
00:10:14I know my mom, huh?
00:10:15I know my mom, huh?
00:10:16That's all I can do.
00:10:17That's a real life.
00:10:18I know my mom, huh?
00:11:19We may never see her again.
00:11:21I haven't seen her since she was, she must have been eight.
00:11:26It was right after the funeral.
00:11:27She was there when it happened.
00:11:29She was fast asleep, but yeah, she was in the house.
00:11:33Jesus.
00:11:36She plays soccer.
00:11:38Whatever will you talk about?
00:11:39Like, I've, that's the thing, I'm scared.
00:11:43She's funny, she seems smart, but I don't know.
00:11:48Hopefully she likes me.
00:11:50Rest assured.
00:11:50Okay.
00:11:53So, okay, where did we, where did we leave off?
00:11:56Part two, chapter one, but we can backtrack if you've got any, like, structural.
00:12:02How is our timing?
00:12:03When are you showing this to Jeff?
00:12:04I told him late summer.
00:12:06Oh.
00:12:07Yeah.
00:12:07Right.
00:12:08Well, that'll be fine, because I really think the second half, it's just more about what
00:12:11can come out than.
00:12:12Right, than any, like, drastic.
00:12:13Right, any drastic changes.
00:12:16Um, but I will say, if we can back it up to the, well, if we can back it up to the end
00:12:21of part one, um, I just think it's sort of, you know, it's these two opposing problems
00:12:28that are dividing the book of the way in.
00:12:31Um, the end of part one's characterizations, they're beautiful.
00:12:35I mean, they really are.
00:12:36I mean, and I, but I mentioned it last week, I just think that the information is just being
00:12:40kind of clunkily laid out.
00:12:41Right, which I partially disagree with.
00:12:44Right, but that's why you have come to your brilliant writer friend, Miranda, for her
00:12:49ideas.
00:12:49I have, indeed.
00:12:50Just so we're clear.
00:12:52And we are.
00:12:53Um, so you're starting with this beautiful steady momentum at the top of part two, with
00:13:00DeAndre on the trail, the journalist.
00:13:03This is the smoothest, most energized passage in this book.
00:13:06And, and then you do earn, in chapter 12, this breathing space.
00:13:10There's this nice, patient lull that relaxes and speaks to us.
00:13:17But once the journalist, I don't know what his name is.
00:13:20Right, right.
00:13:20Once Ernest throws himself off the bridge, leaving DeAndre alone, I think, I think that's
00:13:25when the book is just telling you you need to move.
00:13:27Just move, move, move.
00:13:28So the philosophical tangents in parts two and part three, they, they probably just need
00:13:35to go.
00:13:35That, that's my biggest note.
00:13:36I know.
00:13:37I can't, I can't believe that I'm saying that.
00:13:39Who are you, and what have you done with Miranda?
00:13:41Right?
00:14:04Hi.
00:14:05Hi.
00:14:05Uh, I think I'm lost.
00:14:08Where are you trying to be?
00:14:10Ravens, some?
00:14:11Ravenswood?
00:14:12Yes, uh, but there's, there's something else.
00:14:14Gardens.
00:14:16Uh, yeah, yeah, that, that's it.
00:14:18East of the bridge, you're actually on the right road, just head straight west a few blocks.
00:14:24You should start to look familiar.
00:14:25Okay, thanks.
00:14:26Thanks.
00:14:35Now, I didn't say that the ending wasn't justified, I just said that it doesn't currently
00:14:40work.
00:14:41Because of the tangents.
00:14:43Possibly, but it's also possible that it doesn't work despite the tangents.
00:14:46Good lord.
00:14:48I, hey!
00:14:50Hi, sorry, I can go back outside.
00:14:52No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:14:53We were, we were just having discourse.
00:14:56Sid, this is my friend Anthony.
00:14:58Hi.
00:14:59Hi, Sid.
00:15:00Anthony is an old writer friend of mine.
00:15:03Old writer friend, how flattering.
00:15:05Old Pulitzer Prize nominated writer friend of mine, how is that?
00:15:09Anthony's a very well-respected journalist, writer of non-fiction, and now he's writing
00:15:14a novel, that's what we were discussing.
00:15:17Now he has to go talk about the election on television.
00:15:20Cool.
00:15:20I'd rather be doing anything else, believe me.
00:15:24I'm going to go take a shower, smell bed.
00:15:26Okay, there are towels that are right outside the door on the shelf.
00:15:29Nice to meet you, Sid.
00:15:30Yeah, nice to meet you, too.
00:15:31See you Friday?
00:15:32Uh, oh, the soiree.
00:15:36I haven't even told you about that yet.
00:15:38All in good time.
00:15:39Yeah.
00:15:44I'm out.
00:15:45Thanks for this.
00:15:47It's really good, Anthony.
00:15:49And, you know, my thoughts are my thoughts.
00:15:52It's your book.
00:15:56I know.
00:15:59How's Brandon?
00:16:00Oh, he's fine.
00:16:01He's fine.
00:16:02He's with his mom this week.
00:16:04Taking him to his first Cubs game for his 15th birthday, but he doesn't know it yet.
00:16:08Oh, he'll love that.
00:16:09I think so.
00:16:15See you Friday.
00:16:16Bye.
00:16:16Bye.
00:16:19So what's the deal with your friend?
00:16:47The deal?
00:16:51Uh, well, Anthony and I went to the University of Chicago together years ago.
00:16:57We were grad students.
00:16:59We became fast friends.
00:17:02So no romance?
00:17:05What?
00:17:05Oh, my God.
00:17:06No.
00:17:07No.
00:17:07Why do you ask?
00:17:10Just curious.
00:17:11He seemed nice.
00:17:13He is.
00:17:14And a brilliant mind.
00:17:17He's handsome.
00:17:21He is.
00:17:22You should see his son.
00:17:25This beautiful boy.
00:17:26He's going to swoop up all the ladies one day.
00:17:30Or the men.
00:17:31Or both.
00:17:31Anyway, he's married, um, technically.
00:17:37What about you?
00:17:37What do you, do you, do you, do we have a boyfriend?
00:17:40Yeah, kinda.
00:17:42Kinda.
00:17:45Mmm.
00:17:46Wonderful.
00:17:47Anything else I can get you, ladies?
00:17:49No, I think this is fine.
00:17:51Thank you, Sarah.
00:17:52My pleasure, Miss Ruth.
00:17:53Enjoy.
00:17:54Bye.
00:17:55She's wonderful.
00:17:58She's so sweet.
00:17:59So much food.
00:18:00I know.
00:18:03Are you sure that you don't want something other than just water?
00:18:05Oh, yeah, I'm fine, thanks.
00:18:07Good for you.
00:18:10So did you come here a lot growing up?
00:18:13Oh, yeah.
00:18:14We came at least once a week.
00:18:16Your mom and I would get pretty sick of it.
00:18:19But, uh, now I love it.
00:18:22Cool.
00:18:25So, um, so the boy.
00:18:29What?
00:18:30Oh.
00:18:31Yeah, I don't know.
00:18:33I mean, we've been hanging out for a while.
00:18:35His name's Josh.
00:18:38Josh.
00:18:40He's fine.
00:18:42Isn't he cute?
00:18:43Yeah, he's pretty hot.
00:18:47He's a good time.
00:18:50Well, that's great.
00:18:51I'm so sorry to interrupt.
00:18:53Oh, I see you just got your food.
00:18:55Would you mind signing your book?
00:18:56I ran all the way home to get it.
00:18:58Oh.
00:18:58We love you.
00:19:00Sure.
00:19:01What is your name?
00:19:02Jennifer.
00:19:03And do you live in the neighborhood?
00:19:04Yeah.
00:19:05This is one of our favorite places.
00:19:07You know, I don't want to take much of your time, but I just want you to know how much I admire your work.
00:19:12Oh, thank you.
00:19:13Oh, that means so much to me.
00:19:16Here you go.
00:19:19Have a great night.
00:19:20Thank you so much.
00:19:26That's never not weird.
00:19:28It's pretty cool.
00:19:29I finished two-thirds of the essays, and by finished, for some of them, I mean I've just revised,
00:19:58because they were in magazines or whatever, but to be honest, I already miss fiction.
00:20:06It's just, it's so different.
00:20:08You know, on the one hand, you're just trying to lay out the material as elegantly as possible,
00:20:14but then on the other hand, you're actually, you're making the thing,
00:20:18and I suppose that's not actually accurate, but I just...
00:20:26Sid?
00:20:35Sid!
00:20:36Hey, I found one of your books.
00:20:42Which one?
00:20:45Valley of Their Shadows.
00:20:50Borrow it!
00:20:51Good night, Sid!
00:21:06Night!
00:21:07I'm really glad you're here.
00:21:10Yeah, me too.
00:21:12I'm not boring you, am I?
00:21:14No, no, it's fun.
00:21:16Okay, good night.
00:21:19Night.
00:21:20Helen.
00:21:50Cassandra.
00:21:57Margaret.
00:22:06Alice.
00:22:15Cassandra.
00:22:26Hey.
00:22:27Hi, love.
00:22:29There's some juice and some muffins downstairs if you want.
00:22:32And some coffee, too.
00:22:34Thanks.
00:22:35I was actually going to lay out in the backyard, if that's okay.
00:22:40Yeah, absolutely.
00:22:42Cool.
00:22:43Could you put some sunscreen on me?
00:22:46Sure, of course.
00:22:48Thanks.
00:22:49Do you sleep well?
00:22:53Yeah, that's super comfy.
00:22:55It is, isn't it?
00:22:56That was mine growing up.
00:22:57Really?
00:22:58Uh-huh.
00:22:59Your mom's wasn't quite as comfy, but she wanted to take it with her anyway.
00:23:05I think it ended up in your old house.
00:23:11So is this where you write all your books?
00:23:17It is, yeah.
00:23:18Mm-hmm.
00:23:19Okay.
00:23:20I think I got you.
00:23:21Is that good?
00:23:22Yep.
00:23:23Thanks.
00:23:24Do you ever wish you moved away, tried other cities?
00:23:27No.
00:23:28Do you ever have to come in?
00:23:29No.
00:23:30No.
00:23:31Uh-huh.
00:23:33Thanks.
00:23:34Uh-huh.
00:23:35Hmm.
00:23:36Uh-huh.
00:23:37No?
00:23:38Okay.
00:23:39I think I got you.
00:23:41Is that good?
00:23:42Yep.
00:23:43Thanks.
00:23:44Do you ever wish you moved away, tried other cities?
00:23:47No.
00:23:48Thanks.
00:23:49How should I do?
00:23:50Thank me.
00:23:52Okay, so we got you.
00:23:54I get you.
00:23:55We'll see you next time.
00:24:25We'll see you next time.
00:24:55You don't have to stop listening.
00:24:58I'm just getting some fresh air.
00:25:00You mind?
00:25:01No.
00:25:02You want to lay out with me?
00:25:03Oh, no, thank you.
00:25:04I don't even think I own a bathing suit.
00:25:07For real?
00:25:08Yeah.
00:25:09No, I don't.
00:25:11Yeah, no.
00:25:13I read some of your stories.
00:25:15You did?
00:25:17The short ones.
00:25:19Oh, God.
00:25:19That was forever ago.
00:25:21What did you think?
00:25:22I liked them.
00:25:23They didn't seem that old.
00:25:24Oh, good.
00:25:25That's the idea.
00:25:26All the characters kind of seem stuck in their own heads.
00:25:30Well, that's part of the interior nature of the form, but I can...
00:25:33And they're either single or divorced or drifting away.
00:25:38Well, Des is happily married.
00:25:40And Joan is dating...
00:25:41I mean, most of them.
00:25:44Huh.
00:25:45You write a lot about religion, like religious people.
00:25:51Yeah, yeah, I guess I do.
00:25:52Like, there's that one woman who is a nun or whatever, and then there's the one about the preacher's wife, and then...
00:26:00Don't forget the witch.
00:26:01Yeah, yeah, I was going to say the one about the witch.
00:26:03Claire's an athlete.
00:26:04I didn't get to Claire.
00:26:05Yeah, she's a tennis player and does as a scientist.
00:26:08Does the religious thing, does it seem like a hindrance to you?
00:26:19I mean, I don't know if you and your dad...
00:26:21Oh, we don't go to church.
00:26:22No, but it didn't bother me.
00:26:23I mean, I think it's interesting that there are people like that.
00:26:27Religious people?
00:26:28Yeah.
00:26:29Yeah, there are a lot of them.
00:26:33Are you?
00:26:34Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:26:36We weren't growing up.
00:26:38Like, what kind?
00:26:41Um, well, I go to the Lutheran church over in Andersonville.
00:26:47So you really believe in, like, a heaven and hell and all that?
00:26:52I, you know, I don't know.
00:26:54I, um, I believe in grace.
00:26:57I believe in some sort of a complete meaning somewhere.
00:27:05I don't really know anything else.
00:27:06What's the difference, then, between you and, like, an agnostic?
00:27:08I just think I, I just believe so very strongly in, in a great unknown somewhere, and to deny the, it's complex.
00:27:23Yeah, like, a great unknown or whatever, but, you really think we're going to see my mom again?
00:27:29You really, really think that?
00:27:30She didn't believe that, did she?
00:27:39She didn't believe that, yeah.
00:28:09You new to town?
00:28:12Oh, yeah.
00:28:14No.
00:28:15I'm visiting my aunt.
00:28:18Where from?
00:28:19South Carolina.
00:28:21Where's your accent?
00:28:22I don't have one.
00:28:24My dad is from New York and I was born in Maryland.
00:28:27We moved down a little.
00:28:29I can hear it in there a little bit.
00:28:30You can't.
00:28:32I can.
00:28:33I totally can.
00:28:34But I'm not going to fight with you.
00:28:37I'm Katie.
00:28:39Sit.
00:28:43Cool.
00:28:47Hey.
00:28:49I get off in about ten minutes if you want to...
00:28:52I don't know, go for a walk or something?
00:28:56Okay.
00:29:07Hey.
00:29:08Hi.
00:29:09Nice to see you again.
00:29:10You too.
00:29:11So what have you been doing with yourself?
00:29:13I've just been chilling at my aunt's house.
00:29:14Trying to explore a little bit.
00:29:15I went for a run.
00:29:16Your aunt cool?
00:29:17Yeah.
00:29:18She is.
00:29:19She is a writer.
00:29:20What's your name?
00:29:21Miranda Ruth.
00:29:22Miranda Ruth.
00:29:23No way.
00:29:24You've heard of her?
00:29:25Yeah.
00:29:26She's a big deal.
00:29:27Oh.
00:29:28Weird.
00:29:29Cool.
00:29:30Cool.
00:29:31Yeah.
00:29:32Cool.
00:29:33Cool.
00:29:34Yeah.
00:29:35Um...
00:29:36She lives in the same house she grew up in.
00:29:37Just kind of strange.
00:29:38It's a nice house though.
00:29:39Rad?
00:29:40So you have your own apartment?
00:29:41That's pretty sweet.
00:29:42Yeah.
00:29:43Right when I hit eighteen I was out.
00:29:44I live with my brother.
00:29:45Cool.
00:29:46So South Carolina, huh?
00:29:47You shell shocked?
00:29:48What?
00:29:49I did not know.
00:29:50I was in the same house.
00:29:51Yeah.
00:29:52I was in the same house.
00:29:53Cool.
00:29:54I was in the same house.
00:29:55I was in the same house.
00:29:56Yeah.
00:29:57I went to the same house.
00:29:58So I was in the same house she grew up in.
00:30:01It's kind of strange.
00:30:02It's a nice house though.
00:30:03Rad?
00:30:04So you have your own apartment?
00:30:05That's pretty sweet.
00:30:06Yeah.
00:30:07Right when I hit eighteen I was out.
00:30:11I lived with my brother.
00:30:12Cool.
00:30:13What? Come on, that's pretty lame.
00:30:16Okay, you're right. It is. Sorry.
00:30:23Um, my dad actually got a job there once my mom died, so...
00:30:28Sorry. How old were you?
00:30:31Like eight.
00:30:34What does your dad do?
00:30:36I don't really know. Financial stuff.
00:30:40You get along?
00:30:42Um, not really.
00:30:45It's part of the reason why I wanted to get away, honestly.
00:30:47He is, like, always home, and he's super depressed, so...
00:30:52Yeah. I hear that.
00:30:58I thought you were working.
00:31:00They sent me home.
00:31:01What's up, Katie?
00:31:02What's that, Tab?
00:31:04What's going on? It's like a Thursday.
00:31:06Hanging out.
00:31:07Hi. No! Put me down! No!
00:31:09Dude, put my sister down!
00:31:11What's up?
00:31:14Hey.
00:31:15Um, this is Sid. She's visiting from South Carolina.
00:31:18South Carolina? Isn't that...
00:31:21It's...
00:31:22I'm just gonna go change.
00:31:24We might go up to the roof. My room is back here.
00:31:26Nice pants, Kate.
00:31:30Fuck off!
00:31:36You can sit on the bed if you want.
00:31:39Sorry, I don't have, like, a chair.
00:31:47Sorry about those guys. They're pretty lame.
00:31:49Lame.
00:31:50It's okay.
00:31:51Don't look.
00:31:52Help.
00:31:53Help.
00:31:54Just kidding.
00:31:56You can look if you want to.
00:31:58Theiff caso.
00:32:02I'm un� Sonic.
00:32:03Ready.
00:32:04Okay.
00:32:09Let's talk to him.
00:32:10Okay.
00:32:11And I'll plug and send it to you.
00:32:13Yeah, I'll plug you first.
00:32:15I want, he just**ygooks at the piece of paper.
00:32:16The bullet that we put is tied to the week.
00:32:18Oh, soüy symbols that we put together.
00:32:20Oh, yeah.
00:32:21Well, that's because I want to tell you here.
00:32:23You want toザgg Lipstick?
00:32:55Oh, yep.
00:33:20This is nice.
00:33:25Come on.
00:33:31Are they making a movie?
00:33:33I guess so.
00:33:38So are you in college?
00:33:40Or is the, like, coffee shop thing what you want to do?
00:33:44Hell no.
00:33:45That is not what I want to do.
00:33:47I'm not in college yet.
00:33:49I'm taking a break to figure shit out.
00:33:51So what do you want to do?
00:33:53I don't have a fucking clue.
00:33:57I want to not rush things.
00:33:59That's what I want to do.
00:34:01Cool.
00:34:04So what about you?
00:34:05What's your deal?
00:34:06Um, I play soccer.
00:34:11I hang out with my friends.
00:34:12You play soccer?
00:34:13That's about it.
00:34:14Yeah.
00:34:15That's fucking hot.
00:34:23Hey!
00:34:24Oh, we'll get out of your way.
00:34:26Oh, no, don't.
00:34:27Uh, this is going to seem really weird, but we actually need a boy and a girl slow dancing
00:34:31in the background.
00:34:32Would you guys be willing to do that for us?
00:34:35Actually, no, wait.
00:34:36Uh, yeah, what do you want us to do?
00:34:38Oh, wow, thank you.
00:34:40So, yeah, if you can kind of just get yourselves over, um, at the center of the roof.
00:34:45Yeah, that's perfect.
00:34:46And now, I'm going to stop acting, and when I do, just, like, be in love.
00:34:52You got it.
00:35:02Action!
00:35:02Action!
00:35:08I don't know.
00:35:38So we did.
00:35:42We danced.
00:35:43And you never knew that he was a she?
00:35:46No, I guess not.
00:35:49Well, maybe she is a he.
00:35:52Yeah, maybe so.
00:35:56Guess what I did today?
00:35:59Wrote an essay.
00:36:00Shut up. No.
00:36:02I laid out.
00:36:03Oh, my God, you did?
00:36:05I did.
00:36:06I did also write an essay, actually.
00:36:08But I laid out.
00:36:09You did have a swimsuit.
00:36:11You knew you did.
00:36:12I didn't.
00:36:13I had no idea.
00:36:14I didn't even remember.
00:36:15I had to dig it out.
00:36:16It was purple.
00:36:17And it fit.
00:36:18And that is a real deal miracle, Miss Atheist.
00:36:21It is impossible that it fit.
00:36:23I want to see it.
00:36:25Maybe tomorrow.
00:36:27We can get a little tan before the soiree.
00:36:30Oh, God.
00:36:30I have to remember to call a caterer tomorrow morning.
00:36:32Yeah.
00:36:32So, wait.
00:36:32What is this thing?
00:36:34Oh, right.
00:36:35So, second Fridays of every month, I have a soiree.
00:36:40Academics, writers, church friends, normal people.
00:36:43And we eat.
00:36:44We get drunk.
00:36:45We read.
00:36:46We tell stories.
00:36:48Hmm.
00:36:49I didn't bring anything to wear to something like that.
00:36:51Oh, that's okay.
00:36:52It's totally casual.
00:36:53Um, I could take you shopping tomorrow if you want.
00:36:58We could get something cool.
00:37:00Nah, it's okay.
00:37:01Thanks.
00:37:01I'll go to the thrift store, ask Katie or something.
00:37:04Can she come?
00:37:06Uh, sure.
00:37:08Cool.
00:37:08I hate my feet.
00:37:17Oh, you have nice feet.
00:37:19Oh, God.
00:37:19Look at mine.
00:37:21Let me see.
00:37:23Yeah, but yours are prettier.
00:37:28Oh, yeah.
00:37:29You're right.
00:37:29They are.
00:37:31Whatever.
00:37:38You're right.
00:38:08So, what time does this thing start tonight?
00:38:16Um, people usually start showing up around six.
00:38:20It doesn't really get going until about seven.
00:38:23Will Anthony be there?
00:38:25Always.
00:38:33Do you ever have sex?
00:38:34Do you ever have sex?
00:38:41Oh, I'm sorry.
00:38:42Is that...
00:38:42No, no, no.
00:38:43No, it's okay.
00:38:44It's, um...
00:38:44Just...
00:38:45Wow.
00:38:48Um, sure I do.
00:38:49Really?
00:38:50Yeah.
00:38:51When?
00:38:51With who?
00:38:52I...
00:38:52I have...
00:38:54I've had sex.
00:38:55Yeah, I know.
00:38:56We've established that.
00:38:56I'm just trying to think.
00:38:59Aunt Miranda.
00:39:00What?
00:39:00I'm trying to think.
00:39:02It's been forever, hasn't it?
00:39:05Uh...
00:39:06Well, there was this...
00:39:09Well, there was a guy at, um, at a hotel.
00:39:18Mm-hmm.
00:39:19At a lit convention.
00:39:21In 1992.
00:39:23No!
00:39:23Ow!
00:39:24Sorry.
00:39:25Sorry.
00:39:25Yeah, but, um...
00:39:32No, it's...
00:39:33It's been about five years.
00:39:35What?
00:39:37Yeah.
00:39:38Shit.
00:39:39I was 11.
00:39:41Damn it!
00:39:44God.
00:39:45Well, I did...
00:39:47I had...
00:39:47I had a very...
00:39:49I had a very long-term boyfriend, so...
00:39:51Mm-hmm.
00:39:52I want to put that out there, but...
00:39:55It didn't work out.
00:39:56Mm.
00:39:58That was that.
00:39:59So...
00:40:00And there have been some other...
00:40:01There have been some other chaps, here and there, but otherwise...
00:40:06So, you have no interest in doing it again?
00:40:10Do what?
00:40:11I don't know, like...
00:40:12Date?
00:40:13No, not really.
00:40:18What?
00:40:19Sex?
00:40:21I don't know.
00:40:22Um...
00:40:23I...
00:40:24I...
00:40:26I...
00:40:26I really haven't thought about it.
00:40:30To be honest.
00:40:32Hmm.
00:40:37Can I tell you a secret?
00:40:39Yes, you may.
00:40:40I kind of want to have sex with Katie.
00:40:49What?
00:40:49Is that weird?
00:40:52Not at all.
00:40:56How do I do it?
00:40:59How do you...
00:40:59How do you do...
00:41:00Uh, don't ask me...
00:41:02You're gonna have to Google that.
00:41:05Okay, will do.
00:41:07Yeah, your mom had a little fling with a girl once.
00:41:11Really?
00:41:12She did?
00:41:12Yeah.
00:41:16It was lovely.
00:41:17Hi.
00:41:21Hello.
00:41:24Oh.
00:41:25Oh, my God.
00:41:27Oh, my God.
00:41:28Hi.
00:41:28Hey, Ridley.
00:41:29I...
00:41:30I'm sorry.
00:41:31I...
00:41:31I totally forgot that you were coming.
00:41:33Do you want me to nod?
00:41:35No, no, no.
00:41:35No, you can do your...
00:41:36Do your thing.
00:41:36Um, this is...
00:41:38Sid.
00:41:39She's gonna be staying a couple weeks with me.
00:41:42Hey, Sid.
00:41:42Hey, this is Ridley.
00:41:44He's the son of some very dear friends of ours around the corner.
00:41:47So, and he sometimes comes to Second Friday.
00:41:50Are you coming tonight?
00:41:51Sure am.
00:41:52Good.
00:41:52Good.
00:42:12Who's stuff is this?
00:42:18Fucking Tab moved in.
00:42:20Why?
00:42:21He lost his apartment, I guess.
00:42:24Thanks.
00:42:29Honestly, I don't have much.
00:42:32Except this one dress I used to wear to church.
00:42:35You want to wear that?
00:42:37No offense.
00:42:38It's a little...
00:42:38Yep.
00:42:39Thought so.
00:42:40Sorry.
00:42:40Um, dressy-wise, I don't really have anything else.
00:42:45Except the tux I wore to prom.
00:42:47You want to wear that?
00:42:55You ready?
00:42:57Yeah.
00:43:03Oh, my God.
00:43:07Hey, little lady, what's your name?
00:43:10Are you sure you don't want to come to the party?
00:43:37No, I'm good.
00:43:42Can I call you later?
00:43:45Please, please, pretty please.
00:43:49Hello.
00:43:50Hello.
00:43:51Oh, thank you so much for bringing all that.
00:43:54No problem.
00:43:55You look very nice.
00:43:56Oh, thank you.
00:43:59It's, um, it's just this little...
00:44:03Is there more outside?
00:44:04Yeah, lots.
00:44:05Did you get some sun?
00:44:06What?
00:44:07Um, yeah, I did.
00:44:10I laid out with shit in the grass, and I got some sun.
00:44:17Huh.
00:44:18Hmm.
00:44:18Stop.
00:44:40Some music?
00:44:41Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:45:11She went to see a friend about an outfit.
00:45:15A friend already?
00:45:16Mm-hmm.
00:45:19A friend friend?
00:45:41Wait a minute, wait a minute, I'ma bring it home.
00:45:44Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, I'ma bring it
00:45:49on home.
00:45:50When I was just about ten years old, I walked up to the prospect of a cleanest soul.
00:45:55And I clung tight to the preacher's role.
00:45:58Brought down to the pulpit with my mic exposed.
00:46:00He was my uncle.
00:46:01And it was like the first day of the month.
00:46:04I really had a thirst to pray, what a start.
00:46:07My mama just cried and cried.
00:46:09Big up a loving chest, we cried.
00:46:11And I, I buckled.
00:46:13I gave it all to him, but listen with a grin in my childish ways.
00:46:17I chuckled, paved the way for Grimmson when I couldn't sit with my wife and wife.
00:46:22Oh, wonderful, now how long were you there?
00:46:24About a week, about a week.
00:46:26This is relaxing, it's such a great time of year.
00:46:29You came from Princeton?
00:46:31Absolutely.
00:46:32I mean, I think that's wonderful, we have these East Coast connections.
00:46:36Yes.
00:46:37Hi.
00:46:38Hi.
00:46:39Is this okay?
00:46:41It's perfect.
00:46:42It's amazing.
00:46:43Hi.
00:46:44Hi.
00:46:45Welcome.
00:46:46Thanks.
00:46:47Come on, let me introduce you to everyone.
00:46:48Everyone, this is my niece.
00:46:50Hi.
00:46:50Hello.
00:46:51This is Miss Evergreen.
00:46:52This is Anthony's mother.
00:46:55This is our good friend Thompson.
00:46:56He's also at the university with us.
00:47:01Jack.
00:47:01Jack, pardon me, of course.
00:47:03And this is his wife.
00:47:04Hi, Bailey.
00:47:05Hi, Sid.
00:47:05Bailey.
00:47:07Sid, and of course, you remember Ridley from her hair.
00:47:11Yeah, yeah.
00:47:13Nice talks.
00:47:14Thanks.
00:47:21Okay.
00:47:21These days been house ridden, couch sitting in a cold light.
00:47:37Long silence, the dim tide.
00:47:43An old man breathing.
00:47:45I have an idea.
00:47:46A little bit of color.
00:47:57I don't want people to think you're a caterer.
00:48:04I love it.
00:48:09You like it?
00:48:13Good job.
00:48:14Thanks.
00:48:14Have you ever been in Chicago?
00:48:16No, it's my first time.
00:48:18Oh, we're gonna have a look in our city.
00:48:20It's a beautiful city.
00:48:23Yeah.
00:48:24I'm sure the truth of the matter is from the shadows it was staring me in the clouds
00:48:36Where I lost myself in the desert of the hearts of my tarnishing delay
00:48:54we were rivals she was a prosecutor I was a DA that's so cool but we should also add that I was
00:49:03married yes so in any case we knew we had to wait until one of us retired so we could
00:49:07successfully make a go at it you worked on the same case cases it's incredible so you
00:49:14were both married to men yes I was a widow when we met I was a widow early on Betty was
00:49:19married got divorced later that's where he came from so you liked it and you
00:49:26didn't what being married to men are you asking if we like dick
00:49:35I did she didn't I do
00:49:48dick is not terrible it's not terrible it is like the opposite of terrible
00:49:58so what are you into hon oh um I like everything
00:50:11and he goes outside to go on his little date you know to the dance and in two seconds he comes back
00:50:22again and he's like mama her parents left we need a ride I don't think that's exactly what happened but
00:50:29whatever oh shut up I drove you on all your days yes you did and I love you mama thank you
00:50:36I could drive you two if you want to go somewhere
00:50:40where's Jay thought he was coming home he got himself a date really
00:50:55mm-hmm there's some girl work weird you're supposed to hang out how are you
00:51:04fine how are you I'm good I'm sorry about making fun of you in front of your friend the other day
00:51:14I like pick jums fun here around so what are you up to tonight don't know
00:51:21well let me know if you want to hang out
00:51:24uh okay
00:51:27this is a story about a woman who burned her own house down
00:51:38not true
00:51:39no sir this is very true okay this is very very true
00:51:441968 Cincinnati Ohio
00:51:47sweet sweet Cincinnati Dolores mother of four worked for the Ohio insurance company
00:52:00husband left her for another woman left her alone in that house with four children three boys one girl
00:52:10one day someone knocks on her door she opens it to find a very nice seeming young man standing there
00:52:17he is new to town works for the paper looking to rent a place money is tight for them see
00:52:24so she moves into her daughter's bedroom gives the nice young man her own room
00:52:29just till he gets off the ground here good Christian man not a concern in the world
00:52:34couple of days later she catches word a woman in Columbus has been murdered
00:52:40by a devil worshiper
00:52:43and he got away
00:52:47oh dear
00:52:48oh don't worry I don't think it's true
00:52:50what did you say
00:52:52I said uh yeah you know I think I read about that somewhere
00:52:57yeah she's uh just pregnant so she's uh really sensitive
00:53:05I did just came out
00:53:13so what it's gonna be
00:53:18there's a certain slant of light winter afternoons that oppresses like the heft of cathedral tunes
00:53:31heavenly hurt it gives us we can find no scar but internal difference where the meanings are
00:53:41none may teach it
00:53:43none may teach it any
00:53:43tis the seal despair
00:53:46an imperial affliction sent us of the air
00:53:50when it comes the landscape glistens shadows hold their breath
00:53:55when it goes
00:53:57tis like the distance
00:53:59on the look of death
00:54:01Emily Dickinson
00:54:05I have
00:54:06a memory an impression when I read this poem
00:54:09did you ever get the feeling
00:54:11when you were a child
00:54:13the end of August
00:54:15when the first little chill comes in the evening
00:54:17and you're thinking
00:54:18school starts
00:54:20end of summer blues
00:54:24behind what we think of as the Russian menace
00:54:26lies what we do not wish to face
00:54:29when they regard a negro
00:54:30reality
00:54:31the fact that life is tragic
00:54:34life is tragic simply because the earth turns
00:54:38and the sun inexorably rises and sets
00:54:41and one day
00:54:42for each of us
00:54:44the sun will go down
00:54:45for the last last time
00:54:47perhaps the whole root of our trouble
00:54:50the human trouble
00:54:51is that
00:54:53we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives
00:54:56we'll imprison ourselves
00:54:58in totems
00:54:58taboos
00:55:00crosses
00:55:00blood sacrifices
00:55:02steeples
00:55:03mosques
00:55:04races
00:55:04armies
00:55:05flags
00:55:06nations
00:55:07in order to deny the fact of death
00:55:10the only fact we have
00:55:12it seems to me
00:55:14that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death
00:55:17ought to decide indeed
00:55:19to earn one's death
00:55:21by confronting with passion
00:55:23the conundrum of life
00:55:24we sat looking off across the country
00:55:26watching the sun go down
00:55:27the curly grass about us was on fire now
00:55:31the bark of the oaks turned red as copper
00:55:34there was a shimmer of gold on the brown river
00:55:37out in the stream the sandbars glittered like glass
00:55:41and the light trembled in the willow thickets
00:55:43as if little flames were leaping among them
00:55:47the breeze sank into stillness
00:55:51swooned slowly
00:55:52as he heard the snow falling faintly
00:55:54through the universe
00:55:55and faintly falling
00:55:56like the descent of their last end
00:55:58upon all the living
00:56:00and the dead
00:56:01james choice of the dead
00:56:04thank you
00:56:07hey
00:56:12what the fuck man
00:56:13i was wondering if you wanted to go
00:56:16and sell the balcony
00:56:17it's not a bed
00:56:18it's a couch
00:56:19get the fuck out of my room
00:56:20couch
00:56:20yeah
00:56:20no get the fuck out of here
00:56:22come sit on the couch
00:56:24tab
00:56:25get out of my room
00:56:29i thought i'd share a little bit of nature
00:56:34from ralph waldo emerson
00:56:36on this lovely summer evening
00:56:38to speak truly few adult persons can see nature
00:56:43at least they have a very superficial scene
00:56:47the sun illuminates
00:56:50it's only the eye of the man
00:56:52but shines into the eye and the heart of the child
00:56:55the lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other
00:57:03who has retained the spirit of the man who has retained the spirit of infancy
00:57:07his intercourse with heaven and earth and the earth becomes part of his daily food
00:57:13crossing a bear common in snow puddle in snow puddle in snow puddle at twilight under a clouded sky
00:57:22without having in my thoughts any occurrence of a special good fortune i have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration
00:57:29i am glad to the brink of fear
00:57:34in the woods too a man casts off his years and at at what period soever of life is always a child
00:57:46in the woods is perpetual youth
00:57:50and he lost
00:57:59it's about smiling no smiles
00:58:04oh okay okay
00:58:05that might have been a tie
00:58:21that might have been a tie
00:58:26so glad you could come
00:58:49oh thank you for having us
00:58:50wonderful meeting you
00:58:51you as well thanks again
00:58:52congratulations i hope you can come back next month
00:58:54absolutely
00:58:55we'll see you then
00:58:55all right
00:58:56take care
00:58:56i think he and the girl might be somewhere
00:59:01uncle god
00:59:03well it happened
00:59:04you know i i'll go i'll go get
00:59:06i'm sorry um
00:59:29dad
00:59:33dad
00:59:33yeah
00:59:34is ridley in there
00:59:37yeah
00:59:39ridley i mean your mothers are looking for you
00:59:42okay
00:59:43hi
01:00:04hey
01:00:04where'd you disappear to
01:00:06i was upstairs
01:00:08i think aunt miranda's mad at me
01:00:12she'll get over it
01:00:15she's telling me about your son
01:00:19yeah he's
01:00:21something else
01:00:22she also said you were
01:00:26technically married
01:00:27well you just got the whole rundown didn't you
01:00:30uh true um separated
01:00:34um
01:00:35we're through the thick of it though
01:00:38you're getting back together
01:00:39no no no no i mean um
01:00:41like through the initial burst
01:00:44oh
01:00:44of it all
01:00:45yeah we're
01:00:45moving forward
01:00:47and brandon's been a real saint
01:00:49about
01:00:50so um
01:00:55maybe once the dust settles you could
01:00:58i mean
01:01:00would you ever consider dating miranda
01:01:03anthony did you want to take home those cream cheese things
01:01:09yeah
01:01:09for you and brandon
01:01:10yeah
01:01:10i mean i'm gonna grab those
01:01:12all right
01:01:14uh
01:01:24and
01:01:26and
01:01:29and
01:01:29and
01:01:31and
01:01:36and
01:01:37and
01:01:37and
01:01:39So that is so good Friday, though.
01:02:00Pretty crazy.
01:02:01Did you have fun?
01:02:03Yeah.
01:02:04Everyone was super nice.
01:02:06Can I help you clean up?
01:02:08Sure.
01:02:09If we can just get everything in this general vicinity, we can deal with it tomorrow.
01:02:16I'm pretty exhausted.
01:02:17Yeah, me too.
01:02:18I'll check the back porch.
01:02:21It was cool to hear everybody read and stuff, all the stories.
01:02:28Yeah?
01:02:29You like that?
01:02:30Yeah.
01:02:31I like that one story that that one woman told.
01:02:34Cornelia?
01:02:35Yeah.
01:02:36Was it true?
01:02:37Probably not.
01:02:38I liked yours.
01:02:39My what?
01:02:40The thing you read?
01:02:41Oh, the part you heard?
01:02:42Well, there was more.
01:02:43Yeah.
01:02:44Yeah, I'm sorry.
01:02:45It's fine.
01:02:46It's fine.
01:02:47It's fine.
01:02:48No, it's okay.
01:02:49I don't want to do that relative.
01:02:51It's...
01:02:52It's...
01:02:53It's...
01:02:54It's...
01:02:55It's really...
01:02:56It's more about the smoke.
01:02:57I just don't like it in the house.
01:02:58And I...
01:02:59It's not...
01:03:00I'm sorry.
01:03:01I'm sorry.
01:03:02It's...
01:03:03It's okay.
01:03:04It's...
01:03:05No, I don't want to do that relative.
01:03:07That's...
01:03:08It's...
01:03:09It's really...
01:03:10It's more about the smoke.
01:03:11I just don't like it in the house.
01:03:12And I...
01:03:13It's not...
01:03:14I'm sorry.
01:03:15It's okay.
01:03:16Really.
01:03:17It's...
01:03:18It's fine.
01:03:19Okay.
01:03:20Do you want anything else before I put this food away?
01:03:25No.
01:03:26Thanks.
01:03:27I'm good.
01:03:28Um...
01:03:29I'm gonna call Katie.
01:03:30Okay.
01:03:31Oh!
01:03:32I might...
01:03:34Have half a piece more of Annamie's cake.
01:03:37Are you sure you don't want some cake?
01:03:39No, thanks.
01:03:41You know, maybe if you had sex once in a while, you wouldn't want to eat all the time.
01:03:50I'm really sorry.
01:03:52That came out super nasty.
01:03:53I was just kidding.
01:03:54Let me just say something to you real quick.
01:03:55I really am sorry.
01:03:56No, no, no.
01:03:57That's okay, but I need you to listen to me, okay?
01:04:00May I wish that I could...
01:04:03I could share with you the utter joy it brings me to spend three hours on a Saturday afternoon
01:04:08reading Emerson or Melville or Virginia Woolf or discussing T.S. Eliot or James Baldwin with a dear friend until dawn.
01:04:20The fulfillment that I get from going to church, from reading theology, from reading science, from praying.
01:04:32But I can't.
01:04:34Because I am me, and you are you, I can't relate to the total fulfillment that I get from these things.
01:04:41It's impossible.
01:04:43I know.
01:04:45And I understand.
01:04:46You're finding your own joy.
01:04:50You're engaging your own stuff, and that's great.
01:04:54That's how it should be, and it's a beautiful thing.
01:04:58But hear me.
01:05:01It is not a handicap to have one thing, but not another.
01:05:07To be one way, and not another.
01:05:11We are different shapes and ways, and our happiness is unique.
01:05:18There are no rules of balance.
01:05:23I'm sorry.
01:05:24Don't be sorry.
01:05:26But I got a quarter of a century, Ani said.
01:05:29So, let's just enjoy ourselves.
01:05:34Okay?
01:05:35Let's just, like, respect each other's selves.
01:05:41Ani, stop talking.
01:05:44I guess I just feel like...
01:05:47Are we done in here?
01:05:48Because I really need to be done in here.
01:05:50Did you get all of the bottles?
01:05:52Yeah, everything's clear.
01:05:53Okay.
01:05:54Thank you for helping.
01:05:55I'm gonna go upstairs.
01:05:56Okay.
01:06:11Miranda?
01:06:26You don't have to come.
01:06:29I'll just call you when I get out.
01:06:32I'm coming.
01:06:33Uh, she wanted me to text her and not to buzz out.
01:06:37She wanted me to text her and not to buzz out.
01:06:41Okay.
01:06:51Oh, hi, sweetheart.
01:06:52Are you okay?
01:06:54I'm sorry.
01:06:56I didn't mean...
01:06:57Let us in.
01:07:05Are you okay?
01:07:08Fuck.
01:07:10Um...
01:07:12He finally passed out.
01:07:16What happened to his nose?
01:07:18I punched him.
01:07:20I'm sorry to make you come over. I feel so stupid.
01:07:23Don't be silly. Are you okay?
01:07:26Yeah.
01:07:28Katie?
01:07:30Are you okay?
01:07:32Yeah.
01:07:33Did he hurt you?
01:07:35I tried to go out and he wouldn't let me leave.
01:07:38He was acting really weird.
01:07:41I don't want him to wake up.
01:07:43You can probably go. It's fine.
01:07:44No.
01:07:45You should go get your picture.
01:07:46You're gonna come with us.
01:07:47I just didn't know.
01:07:48I just didn't know you...
01:07:49It's fine.
01:07:50I was...
01:07:51What the fuck?
01:08:16Sid.
01:08:21Sid.
01:08:24Sid.
01:08:26Sid.
01:08:28Sid.
01:08:29Sid.
01:08:30Sid.
01:08:31Sid.
01:08:33I'm Miranda.
01:08:44Katie.
01:09:14Scott Helles.
01:09:21Cool room.
01:09:22Thanks.
01:09:23It was my mom's.
01:09:32Reddit.
01:09:34Reddit.
01:09:36Reddit.
01:09:38Reddit.
01:09:40Reddit.
01:09:42Wait, really?
01:09:44Yeah, why?
01:09:46I don't know, I guess.
01:09:48You don't really seem like a reader.
01:09:50Fuck you, what does a reader even seem like?
01:09:52Oh.
01:09:54Yeah. Oh my god.
01:09:58Holy shit, your aunt wrote this?
01:10:00I read this in middle school.
01:10:02What?
01:10:08Wait a minute, I know that book.
01:10:12Wait, Aunt Miranda wrote that?
01:10:14Uh, yeah.
01:10:16Is that the one about the baby born in a castle?
01:10:19The hotel that used to be a castle, yeah.
01:10:21And her parents treat her like a princess and she starts to develop powers.
01:10:25Yeah, and she thinks she's magic and you don't know if it's real or not?
01:10:28Kind of badass.
01:10:30Hm.
01:10:37What?
01:10:38My name.
01:10:40That would be correct.
01:10:44Wait a minute, let me see that.
01:10:46Bye!
01:10:58Hi.
01:10:59Is she okay?
01:11:00She okay? Yeah, she'll be okay. Are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine. I found this.
01:11:28My mom used to read this to me, didn't she? She did. You were way too young for it. You fell asleep every time. She did it anyway, though. She did it for herself. She loved that book.
01:11:49You named her after me. Check the date. It's the other way around.
01:12:11It's the other way around.
01:12:18When do you go back?
01:12:23When do you go back? Thursday. What will I do without you?
01:12:30Probably what you did last week before you knew me. What will we do until then?
01:12:37Whatever we want.
01:12:59The summer sun is shining through. I'm no longer waiting on you. Baby, when the time is right.
01:13:27When I'm gone. I'm reveling my mind. I'm ready to go out and have fun.
01:13:34I'm ready to go out and have fun. Tonight I'm gonna be who I want.
01:13:41I'm ready to go out and have fun.
01:13:48I'm ready to go out and have fun. I'm ready to go out and have fun.
01:13:53Tonight I'm gonna be who I want.
01:13:56I'm gonna be who I want.
01:14:02The sun is always shining on me.
01:14:08We're trying something.
01:14:13Tofu I feel like is kind of like, you can do a lot with it, versatilous.
01:14:26Oh, sure.
01:14:27Um, hey, one of you is free to use my shower if you'd like to.
01:14:32Yeah, I'm just going to do some emails.
01:14:34Oh, hey, I'm giving this talk in a Q&A downtown tonight if you'd like to come with...
01:14:40Who are you talking to?
01:14:43Oh, I got burned, didn't I?
01:14:55Let me see.
01:14:57Oh, shit.
01:15:00Yes, you did.
01:15:03Did I?
01:15:05No, you're good.
01:15:13Wait.
01:15:25No, no, no.
01:15:27So, I had a brother, Devin.
01:15:57He was like 12 years older than me.
01:16:07He had a lot of mental problems or whatever, just like a lot of issues.
01:16:14And he and my mom and my dad used to get into these really big fights.
01:16:23They thought about sending him away to military school or whatever, but I never did.
01:16:36Anyway, one weekend when I was really little, my dad was away and after I'd gone to bed, my
01:16:46brother and my mom got into this really big fight and he shot her.
01:16:57Oh my god.
01:17:03And then himself.
01:17:14Somehow I slept through the whole thing.
01:17:17And the neighbors found them before I could, so I was protected.
01:17:28Anyway, that's the story.
01:17:35Feel free to relax in here until we're ready for you.
01:17:52We'll probably hold the house for about five or ten minutes just so it can fill up so you
01:17:55have plenty of time.
01:17:56You can help yourself to some snacks and if you have any questions, I'll be right up
01:18:03the hall.
01:18:04Thank you, honey.
01:18:05This is interesting.
01:18:07Do you want some?
01:18:08Hell yeah.
01:18:09Sure am, Nick.
01:18:10Aunt Miranda, you're so big time.
01:18:11I'm not that big.
01:18:12Well, maybe.
01:18:13Just a little.
01:18:14Hello?
01:18:15What?
01:18:16Okay.
01:18:17Are you sure?
01:18:19It's okay.
01:18:20Uh, well, I'll come home soon.
01:18:27What?
01:18:28I'm not that big.
01:18:30Well, maybe.
01:18:31Just a little.
01:18:32Hello?
01:18:33What?
01:18:34Okay.
01:18:35Are you sure?
01:18:36It's okay.
01:18:37Uh, well, I'll come home soon.
01:18:40Why don't you?
01:18:41Why don't we start with a simple question?
01:18:45Are there any simple questions?
01:18:48Do those exist?
01:18:49Where do your ideas come from?
01:18:52Oh, you would think that I would have a quick, straightforward answer to that by now,
01:18:58but I don't.
01:19:01You know, I'm tempted to give the standard answer that they come from everywhere.
01:19:10They come from different places.
01:19:11A feeling, a relative, a place, other works of art, a concern, but...
01:19:23What kind of concern would give way to an idea for a book?
01:19:27A concern of the spirit, I guess?
01:19:32A kind of unrest.
01:19:34A kind of unrest.
01:19:38But I suppose if I'm being completely honest, I can't say that in their essence that they
01:19:50come from outside at all.
01:19:53They...
01:19:54They come from me.
01:19:56They are me.
01:19:59Each one of them, sort of, me, reformed.
01:20:12And I was working at the library when I discovered your book of short stories.
01:20:18The title of which just fell out of my head, I'm sorry.
01:20:22The Valley of the Shadows.
01:20:24That's the one.
01:20:26There was something about those women that gave me strength.
01:20:31How thoughtful.
01:20:33How engaged with the bigger picture or something.
01:20:37Going through life with such patience and curiosity, despite seemingly relentless hardship.
01:20:49It reminded me of the women in my life who I love a lot.
01:20:54My grandmother recently...
01:20:56I don't have a question, apparently.
01:21:02Uh, I guess I just wanted to thank you.
01:21:05For honoring them.
01:21:07Well, thank you.
01:21:08That means a lot.
01:21:11Anyone else?
01:21:12We have time for one more.
01:21:26Hi.
01:21:29Wow.
01:21:30Hello, young lady.
01:21:31That's my aunt.
01:21:34My aunt Miranda.
01:21:36Um, anyway, I wanted to ask you what your greatest pleasure in life is.
01:21:45Like, joy.
01:21:49Cake.
01:21:56There they are.
01:21:57Welcome, ladies.
01:21:59Hi.
01:22:00Hi.
01:22:01Good.
01:22:02How are you?
01:22:03Good.
01:22:04Good.
01:22:05How are you?
01:22:06Good.
01:22:07How are you?
01:22:08Hi.
01:22:09Good.
01:22:10How are you?
01:22:11Hi, Sid.
01:22:12Hi, Sid.
01:22:13Hey, Sid.
01:22:14Hi, Sid.
01:22:15Hi, Sid.
01:22:16Of course, you know and her friend Katie.
01:22:17Hey, Katie.
01:22:18Uh, well, uh, help yourselves.
01:22:19We got food, drinks.
01:22:20We got good people, good weather.
01:22:21Hey, Brandon.
01:22:22Hey, Brandon.
01:22:23What?
01:22:24Who are you calling what?
01:22:25Come over here.
01:22:26This is Miranda's, uh, niece, Sid.
01:22:27That's her friend, Katie.
01:22:28Hi, sweetheart.
01:22:29How's your summer going?
01:22:30He's 14.
01:22:31He's 14.
01:22:32He's 14.
01:22:33He's 14.
01:22:34Hey, you guys.
01:22:35Let me take your picture.
01:22:36Yeah.
01:22:37Yeah.
01:22:38Yeah.
01:22:39Yeah.
01:22:40Yeah.
01:22:41Yeah.
01:22:42Yeah.
01:22:43Yeah.
01:22:44Yeah.
01:22:45Yeah.
01:22:46Yeah.
01:22:47Yeah.
01:22:48Yeah.
01:22:49Yeah.
01:22:50Yeah.
01:22:51Yeah.
01:22:52Yeah.
01:22:53Let me take your picture.
01:22:54Yeah.
01:22:55Yeah.
01:22:56Sure.
01:22:57Come on.
01:22:58It's all squeezing tight here.
01:22:59Cheese.
01:23:00Got it.
01:23:02Hey, come on.
01:23:03Let's get a bite.
01:23:05I got, uh, hamburgers.
01:23:06I got chicken.
01:23:07I got Polish sausage.
01:23:08I got chicken pots.
01:23:10Hey, how's the grub?
01:23:17Burger overcooked though.
01:23:18You got the hot dog.
01:23:20Well, hot dog is excellent.
01:23:21I can't really speak for the burger.
01:23:23Yeah.
01:23:24I can.
01:23:25They're overcooked.
01:23:26Fuck it.
01:23:27Fuck it.
01:23:28You were right, by the way.
01:23:37The other day.
01:23:38About what?
01:23:40On part two and three.
01:23:43Read back through it.
01:23:44What you said kind of clicked.
01:23:46Well, good.
01:23:47Well, as long as it's for the book and not for me.
01:23:50Well, you know, I do it all for you, don't you?
01:23:58Hey, I gotta go pick up my brother from work.
01:24:00I'll watch Priscilla for me?
01:24:01Yeah, sure.
01:24:02Lisa, do you know Miranda?
01:24:03I think we may have met once or twice at a UFC thing.
01:24:06But hi, nice to meet you.
01:24:07I'm Isabelle.
01:24:08I'm Isabelle.
01:24:09Miranda, nice to meet you.
01:24:10I'm actually a fan.
01:24:11Love the new one.
01:24:12Oh, thank you so much.
01:24:13Definitely.
01:24:15Don't let him get into too much trouble.
01:24:17Define trouble.
01:24:18Oh, shut up.
01:24:23She's lovely.
01:24:24Yeah, she lives around the corner.
01:24:26It's her little girl.
01:24:27Is she divorced?
01:24:28Yeah.
01:24:29Hmm.
01:24:30So, is there any potential there?
01:24:45We'll see.
01:24:55Hey.
01:24:56No, no, no.
01:24:57That's not for playing with.
01:24:58Hey.
01:24:59Maybe you should visit me sometime.
01:25:10Seriously?
01:25:11Yeah, why not?
01:25:13What would your dad think?
01:25:15Who cares?
01:25:18Columbia, South Carolina.
01:25:21What's it like?
01:25:23It's fine.
01:25:24Come and see.
01:25:26Hey.
01:25:27Are y'all girlfriends?
01:25:30Maybe so.
01:25:31Cool.
01:25:32Yeah.
01:25:33They are.
01:25:34Yeah.
01:25:35They are.
01:25:37They are.
01:25:39Hahahaha.
01:25:40Hahaha.
01:25:41I'm sorry.
01:25:42I'm sorry.
01:25:43I'm sorry.
01:25:44Maybe.
01:25:45It's fine.
01:25:46Maybe so.
01:25:47Cool.
01:25:48Yeah.
01:25:49They are.
01:25:50Hahaha.
01:25:51I'm sorry.
01:25:59Hello?
01:26:24Sud?
01:26:25Yeah, who's this?
01:26:28It's Miranda.
01:26:30Oh, hey, you're calling me.
01:26:33I am.
01:26:34I just wanted to check in and see how you were.
01:26:39I'm at the beach.
01:26:41I'm with my toes in the sand.
01:26:44Well, that sounds nice.
01:26:46Okay, girls, let's go.
01:26:48Oh, am I calling you at a bad time?
01:26:51No, it's okay.
01:26:52I have soccer practice.
01:26:54It's about to start.
01:26:56Oh, okay.
01:26:57Alright, well, you go and play your heart out.
01:27:00And I just called to say hello.
01:27:02Yeah, thanks for calling.
01:27:04Of course.
01:27:06I miss you.
01:27:09I love you.
01:27:11I love you, too.
01:27:12Okay, well, have a great practice.
01:27:13I'll talk to you later.
01:27:14Okay, that sounds good.
01:27:15Alright.
01:27:16Bye-bye.
01:27:17Bye.
01:27:18Let's go, let's go.
01:27:19Let's go, let's go.
01:27:20Take it.
01:27:21Take it.
01:27:22Take it too long, that's a good time.
01:27:23I'll talk to you later.
01:27:24Okay, that sounds good.
01:27:25Alright.
01:27:26Bye-bye.
01:27:27Bye.
01:27:28Let's go, let's go.
01:27:30I've taken to lie at my head, blow my heart
01:27:54I'm using my hands to cover my open mouth
01:28:02Cause I could feel my front porch
01:28:09And I could sense red blood moving around
01:28:19There was a subtlety in the calm
01:28:25You came suddenly and then you were gone
01:28:35My hands to take out my pants
01:28:45I was on my bed
01:28:47I could feel my hand
01:28:48No, no, no, no, no, I'm gone
01:28:49You're not on your bed
01:28:51You're not on your bed
01:28:56You're not on your bed
01:28:59You're not on your bed
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