1 00:00:00,434 --> 00:00:03,335 Us music] 2 00:00:03,437 --> 00:00:10,476 ♪ ♪ 3 00:00:18,853 --> 00:00:20,486 - hi, hi. 4 00:00:22,490 --> 00:00:25,958 Norman mailer lived, uh, two doors down. 5 00:00:26,043 --> 00:00:28,360 I saw him bite rip torn's ear off one night. 6 00:00:28,462 --> 00:00:32,131 Seems like a different lifetime. 7 00:00:32,216 --> 00:00:33,966 If you're looking for more action, I can, uh, 8 00:00:34,051 --> 00:00:36,368 show you something on commercial street. 9 00:00:36,470 --> 00:00:38,303 But you should know that by November, even downtown 10 00:00:38,389 --> 00:00:40,872 is so empty and quiet that you could hear a gnat fart. 11 00:00:40,975 --> 00:00:43,375 - I like the quiet. 12 00:00:43,477 --> 00:00:45,544 Need my privacy. 13 00:00:45,646 --> 00:00:47,429 How's the ventilation? 14 00:00:47,515 --> 00:00:49,714 These old houses can get pretty stuffy. 15 00:00:49,817 --> 00:00:50,265 - You a writer? 16 00:00:50,351 --> 00:00:53,268 Painter? 17 00:00:53,354 --> 00:00:54,886 Hermit? 18 00:00:54,989 --> 00:00:56,438 I know you're not here for the social scene, 19 00:00:56,524 --> 00:00:57,389 whatever's left of it. 20 00:00:57,491 --> 00:00:59,441 I've been here for 50 years. 21 00:00:59,527 --> 00:01:01,110 [chuckles] 22 00:01:01,195 --> 00:01:03,061 you know, back in the day, you'd walk downtown, 23 00:01:03,164 --> 00:01:04,896 and you'd see boys getting butt-fucked on front porches 24 00:01:04,999 --> 00:01:07,616 like some kind of perverted norman rockwell painting. 25 00:01:07,701 --> 00:01:11,370 It was true homosexual americana. 26 00:01:11,455 --> 00:01:15,207 Now it's mom and dad or dad and dad or mom and mom 27 00:01:15,292 --> 00:01:18,794 and baby stroller gridlock all fucking summer long. 28 00:01:18,879 --> 00:01:21,296 - I just left my job at a lab in providence. 29 00:01:21,382 --> 00:01:22,431 - What are you, a chemist? 30 00:01:23,968 --> 00:01:25,750 - It was an ugly divorce. 31 00:01:25,853 --> 00:01:27,136 I just need some time alone. 32 00:01:27,221 --> 00:01:29,805 - Let's cut the bullshit. 33 00:01:29,890 --> 00:01:31,756 A big-city chemist looking for a quiet place 34 00:01:31,859 --> 00:01:34,143 with great ventilation in a town where the things 35 00:01:34,228 --> 00:01:36,311 that are most plentiful for eight months a year 36 00:01:36,397 --> 00:01:39,764 are methheads, choppy seas, and depression? 37 00:01:39,867 --> 00:01:40,432 That sounds like a woman looking to set up 38 00:01:40,534 --> 00:01:41,733 her own little meth lab. 39 00:01:41,819 --> 00:01:43,402 - I have a phd from harvard. 40 00:01:43,487 --> 00:01:46,572 Meth is well below my pay grade. 41 00:01:46,657 --> 00:01:48,490 - Good. 42 00:01:48,576 --> 00:01:50,659 'cause the sheriff has a nose like a truffle pig 43 00:01:50,744 --> 00:01:52,911 for that junk. 44 00:01:52,997 --> 00:01:55,497 - Just lookin' for some quiet. 45 00:01:55,583 --> 00:01:57,499 I'll take it. 46 00:01:57,585 --> 00:02:00,586 [suspenseful music] 47 00:02:00,671 --> 00:02:07,726 ♪ ♪ 48 00:02:23,777 --> 00:02:25,777 [liquid trickling] 49 00:02:25,863 --> 00:02:32,918 ♪ ♪ 50 00:02:57,311 --> 00:03:00,195 [chilling music] 51 00:03:00,314 --> 00:03:06,318 ♪ ♪ 52 00:04:01,325 --> 00:04:04,993 [piano music playing] 53 00:04:05,112 --> 00:04:06,995 - do you know that guy, uh, tex? 54 00:04:07,114 --> 00:04:08,330 He cruises the docks? 55 00:04:08,449 --> 00:04:09,915 - Wait, don't tell me. He's from texas. 56 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,833 - Yeah. How'd you know? 57 00:04:11,952 --> 00:04:13,335 [laughs] 58 00:04:13,454 --> 00:04:14,920 anyway, he taught me this trick 59 00:04:15,005 --> 00:04:16,922 you do right before a guy comes. 60 00:04:17,007 --> 00:04:18,323 - Mm. - You press down on his taint, 61 00:04:18,425 --> 00:04:20,592 you time it just right, 62 00:04:20,694 --> 00:04:21,993 you can get him to come again right away. 63 00:04:22,096 --> 00:04:25,430 - Mm, but you'll charge me for just the one, right? 64 00:04:25,516 --> 00:04:26,598 - Exactly. 65 00:04:26,684 --> 00:04:27,766 - You're playing out of your league. 66 00:04:27,851 --> 00:04:29,101 Scram. 67 00:04:29,186 --> 00:04:30,686 - Look, can I just borrow ten bucks? 68 00:04:30,804 --> 00:04:34,222 - I said scram, methhead. 69 00:04:38,028 --> 00:04:40,112 - Hi. - Hi. 70 00:04:40,197 --> 00:04:43,365 - I'm new in town, got a few extra bucks. 71 00:04:43,484 --> 00:04:44,950 You do girls too? 72 00:04:45,035 --> 00:04:46,618 - Yep. Here. 73 00:04:46,704 --> 00:04:47,519 Look at that. I'm a gentleman. 74 00:04:47,621 --> 00:04:49,237 - [chuckles] 75 00:04:50,374 --> 00:04:53,358 [eerie music] 76 00:04:53,460 --> 00:04:55,744 ♪ ♪ 77 00:04:55,829 --> 00:04:57,045 don't touch anything. 78 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,368 - So, uh, what do you want? [chuckles] 79 00:05:03,470 --> 00:05:05,137 kind of do things as a standard 80 00:05:05,222 --> 00:05:06,371 sliding scale kind of deal. 81 00:05:06,473 --> 00:05:08,873 It's, uh, $50 for oral. 82 00:05:08,976 --> 00:05:11,042 Straight-up sex, that's $100, 83 00:05:11,145 --> 00:05:12,678 but I'm currently running a Halloween special. 84 00:05:15,316 --> 00:05:16,932 I'll do anything for 20 bucks. 85 00:05:17,017 --> 00:05:18,767 - But Halloween isn't for a week. 86 00:05:18,852 --> 00:05:22,721 - Mm. It's a, um, seasonal thing. 87 00:05:22,823 --> 00:05:24,523 [both laugh] - I just wanna talk. 88 00:05:26,493 --> 00:05:28,076 I'll pay you for your time. 89 00:05:31,365 --> 00:05:34,065 - All right. 90 00:05:34,168 --> 00:05:35,500 - Tell me about your dreams. 91 00:05:35,586 --> 00:05:37,502 - Like, at night? 92 00:05:37,588 --> 00:05:39,671 - No. Like, in life. 93 00:05:39,757 --> 00:05:44,176 You ever wanna be a model or play for the yankees? 94 00:05:44,261 --> 00:05:47,512 - You really think I could be a model? 95 00:05:47,598 --> 00:05:49,965 - No. But you must have something. 96 00:05:50,050 --> 00:05:51,883 Everyone does. 97 00:05:54,638 --> 00:05:55,470 - Well, I write a little. 98 00:05:55,556 --> 00:05:57,639 - You any good? 99 00:05:57,725 --> 00:05:59,891 - I don't know. [laughs] 100 00:05:59,977 --> 00:06:01,309 I don't think I've ever shown anyone 101 00:06:01,395 --> 00:06:03,762 anything I've written before, but, uh... 102 00:06:03,864 --> 00:06:08,099 Um, yeah, you know, I think I'm pretty good. 103 00:06:08,202 --> 00:06:11,153 Why, you, like, a big-time movie producer or something? 104 00:06:11,238 --> 00:06:12,988 - I'm a biochemical engineer. 105 00:06:13,073 --> 00:06:15,490 Spent the past nine years working with the u.S. Military 106 00:06:15,576 --> 00:06:16,491 trying to understand and unlock 107 00:06:16,577 --> 00:06:19,411 the creative parts of the brain. 108 00:06:19,496 --> 00:06:21,747 - They wanna make more creative soldiers? 109 00:06:21,832 --> 00:06:22,881 - Less. 110 00:06:22,966 --> 00:06:25,250 They don't want them to think for themselves. 111 00:06:25,335 --> 00:06:26,385 But to lock up the creative mind, 112 00:06:26,470 --> 00:06:28,920 we also have to understand how to unlock it. 113 00:06:29,006 --> 00:06:30,255 We have tons of research 114 00:06:30,340 --> 00:06:32,424 from studying highly creative people. 115 00:06:32,509 --> 00:06:34,676 Every one of 'em says the same thing. 116 00:06:34,762 --> 00:06:36,795 They don't know where it comes from. 117 00:06:36,897 --> 00:06:40,298 [whispering] but I do. 118 00:06:40,401 --> 00:06:42,350 [normally] the occipital lobe. 119 00:06:42,436 --> 00:06:44,853 Talented people have denser, more numerous clusters 120 00:06:44,938 --> 00:06:46,855 of neurons in that area. 121 00:06:46,940 --> 00:06:50,692 I don't care if you are bill fucking shakespeare. 122 00:06:50,778 --> 00:06:53,779 If I whack you hard enough in that part of your head, 123 00:06:53,864 --> 00:06:56,782 you'll never write again. 124 00:06:56,867 --> 00:06:59,167 So I started developing a drug to target that area. 125 00:06:59,286 --> 00:07:02,337 Made the neurons in that part of the brain fire at 10, 126 00:07:02,456 --> 00:07:05,457 50, 1,000 times faster and more frequently 127 00:07:05,542 --> 00:07:07,626 than they usually do. 128 00:07:07,711 --> 00:07:10,378 - Uh, wow, um... [laughs] 129 00:07:10,464 --> 00:07:11,963 did it work? 130 00:07:12,049 --> 00:07:13,632 - We started testing it on primates. 131 00:07:13,717 --> 00:07:17,469 And yeah, it worked... 132 00:07:17,554 --> 00:07:19,221 On some of the apes. 133 00:07:19,306 --> 00:07:20,388 The ones who tested higher on cognitive tests 134 00:07:20,474 --> 00:07:23,358 before we gave them the medicine. 135 00:07:23,477 --> 00:07:28,363 Suddenly, they could play complex notes on a keyboard. 136 00:07:28,482 --> 00:07:31,867 - So, um, what happened to the ones it, like, didn't work on? 137 00:07:31,985 --> 00:07:33,034 - They became highly aggressive. 138 00:07:33,153 --> 00:07:35,036 Bloodthirsty. 139 00:07:35,155 --> 00:07:37,739 Tore the other apes limb from limb. 140 00:07:37,825 --> 00:07:39,741 I think the medicine has different effects 141 00:07:39,827 --> 00:07:42,160 on creative and noncreative people. 142 00:07:42,246 --> 00:07:44,246 It's almost like the noncreative ones 143 00:07:44,331 --> 00:07:46,915 can tolerate their lack of talent 144 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,334 until they're confronted with it. 145 00:07:49,419 --> 00:07:52,304 Then their mediocrity drives 'em mad. 146 00:07:53,724 --> 00:07:55,173 So... 147 00:07:57,344 --> 00:07:59,394 Wanna try one? 148 00:07:59,513 --> 00:08:01,897 - Fuck no! 149 00:08:02,015 --> 00:08:04,099 - Maybe you're one of the talented ones. 150 00:08:07,938 --> 00:08:09,187 - Um... 151 00:08:11,775 --> 00:08:13,525 Thanks but no, thanks. 152 00:08:13,610 --> 00:08:17,529 Uh, look, can I just get my money? 153 00:08:17,614 --> 00:08:19,364 - It's a long winter. 154 00:08:19,449 --> 00:08:26,338 ♪ ♪ 155 00:08:26,423 --> 00:08:30,091 I'll give you $50 for anyone you convince 156 00:08:30,210 --> 00:08:31,176 to come take one of these lil' black beauties. 157 00:08:31,261 --> 00:08:38,300 ♪ ♪ 158 00:08:43,056 --> 00:08:43,855 [scattered applause] 159 00:08:43,941 --> 00:08:44,923 - maybe I should sing tonight. 160 00:08:45,025 --> 00:08:47,108 Do you think they have any joan baez? 161 00:08:47,227 --> 00:08:50,946 - Ooh, wow, joan baez. [both laugh] 162 00:08:51,064 --> 00:08:52,113 wait, doesn't, uh, singin' make your cough worse anyway? 163 00:08:52,232 --> 00:08:54,533 - Yeah, but... 164 00:08:54,618 --> 00:08:56,117 Good news is, it's October and I've only had bronchitis 165 00:08:56,236 --> 00:08:57,786 five times this year. 166 00:08:57,905 --> 00:09:00,789 - Oh, that's a-- a real victory, karen. 167 00:09:00,908 --> 00:09:01,289 [both laugh] 168 00:09:01,408 --> 00:09:03,074 - [coughs] 169 00:09:06,129 --> 00:09:07,629 - I always get depressed this time of year. 170 00:09:07,748 --> 00:09:10,715 - Oh, no, no. 171 00:09:10,801 --> 00:09:12,717 I love it. 172 00:09:12,803 --> 00:09:18,557 All the assholes leave town, and the galleries close, and... 173 00:09:18,642 --> 00:09:21,927 None of the paintings inside them mock me when I walk by. 174 00:09:27,067 --> 00:09:28,466 - Do you think you're talented? 175 00:09:28,569 --> 00:09:29,901 Like, uh--like, uh-- like, if you just had, 176 00:09:29,987 --> 00:09:31,570 like, a little bit of help, 177 00:09:31,655 --> 00:09:33,137 you could paint things good enough for those galleries? 178 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:35,306 - Oh. 179 00:09:35,409 --> 00:09:38,076 No. 180 00:09:38,161 --> 00:09:41,479 No, I'm shit inside and out. 181 00:09:41,582 --> 00:09:45,584 Can I have a hit, please, before I bore myself to tears? 182 00:09:45,669 --> 00:09:46,651 [billy joel's "just the way you are" playing] 183 00:09:46,753 --> 00:09:48,253 [microphone feedback whines] 184 00:09:48,338 --> 00:09:51,155 ♪ ♪ 185 00:09:51,258 --> 00:09:53,825 [sniffs, coughs] 186 00:09:53,927 --> 00:09:56,595 - ♪ don't go changing ♪ 187 00:09:56,680 --> 00:10:00,682 ♪ to try and please me ♪ 188 00:10:00,801 --> 00:10:04,436 ♪ you never let me down before ♪ 189 00:10:04,521 --> 00:10:07,606 [suspenseful music] 190 00:10:07,691 --> 00:10:08,172 [banging on door] 191 00:10:08,275 --> 00:10:15,230 ♪ ♪ 192 00:10:17,150 --> 00:10:18,116 hey. 193 00:10:18,201 --> 00:10:19,951 I'm a singer. 194 00:10:20,037 --> 00:10:22,454 Mickey sent me. 195 00:10:22,539 --> 00:10:24,239 [door creaks] 196 00:10:27,828 --> 00:10:30,245 [door creaking] 197 00:10:34,651 --> 00:10:37,135 [soft dramatic music] 198 00:10:37,237 --> 00:10:38,069 [bell rings] 199 00:10:38,155 --> 00:10:41,639 - welcome, welcome to our last 200 00:10:41,742 --> 00:10:43,641 autumn reading octoberfest event. 201 00:10:43,744 --> 00:10:46,578 Some people come out to the cape to see the foliage, 202 00:10:46,663 --> 00:10:49,748 others for a fresh bag of cranberries 203 00:10:49,833 --> 00:10:51,866 or a walk in the dunes. 204 00:10:51,952 --> 00:10:53,818 But the authors we've been lucky enough 205 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:57,222 to bring here to read their new works 206 00:10:57,324 --> 00:11:00,759 are just as satisfying a draw, if you ask me. 207 00:11:00,844 --> 00:11:04,328 Today I'd like to welcome belle noir, 208 00:11:04,431 --> 00:11:07,498 a romance novelist, self-published, 209 00:11:07,601 --> 00:11:10,001 who will be reading from her new book, 210 00:11:10,103 --> 00:11:12,103 "martha's cherry tree," 211 00:11:12,189 --> 00:11:15,173 a rather racy retelling 212 00:11:15,275 --> 00:11:18,109 of the george and martha washington story. 213 00:11:18,195 --> 00:11:21,946 [light applause] 214 00:11:22,032 --> 00:11:23,815 - thank you. 215 00:11:26,703 --> 00:11:31,373 I'm going to read you a section of chapter 17. 216 00:11:34,161 --> 00:11:36,527 Martha suspects george is sleeping 217 00:11:36,630 --> 00:11:37,545 with one of their maids. 218 00:11:37,664 --> 00:11:43,034 And upon searching the maid's bed, 219 00:11:43,136 --> 00:11:46,704 she finds one of george's wooden teeth. 220 00:11:46,807 --> 00:11:49,424 Rather than confront george, 221 00:11:49,509 --> 00:11:52,594 she decides to seduce the maid herself. 222 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:56,765 "'I cannot tell a lie. 223 00:11:56,850 --> 00:11:58,099 "I cannot tell a lie.' 224 00:11:58,185 --> 00:12:01,719 "had he whispered those false words 225 00:12:01,822 --> 00:12:03,938 "to innocent little penelope 226 00:12:04,024 --> 00:12:06,891 "when he drove himself into her? 227 00:12:06,993 --> 00:12:08,443 "had he lied about loving her? 228 00:12:08,528 --> 00:12:12,396 "lied about her being the only one? 229 00:12:12,499 --> 00:12:14,899 "lied about never lying? 230 00:12:15,001 --> 00:12:17,452 "the only thing that distracted her from these thoughts 231 00:12:17,537 --> 00:12:21,623 "was the soft skin of penelope's breasts and belly 232 00:12:21,708 --> 00:12:25,910 "as martha slowly kissed her way down to the hairy warmth 233 00:12:26,012 --> 00:12:27,595 between the young maid's legs." 234 00:12:32,803 --> 00:12:35,720 [doleful music] 235 00:12:35,806 --> 00:12:42,644 ♪ ♪ 236 00:12:42,729 --> 00:12:44,229 [bell rings] 237 00:12:44,314 --> 00:12:51,236 ♪ ♪ 238 00:12:51,321 --> 00:12:52,787 who should I make it out to? 239 00:12:52,906 --> 00:12:54,038 - The chemist. 240 00:12:56,493 --> 00:12:58,293 You're a good writer. 241 00:12:58,411 --> 00:13:01,463 - That's very kind of you. 242 00:13:01,581 --> 00:13:03,214 - Got some real potential. 243 00:13:05,001 --> 00:13:07,585 - Tell the publishing houses for me, would you? 244 00:13:07,671 --> 00:13:12,423 ♪ ♪ 245 00:13:12,509 --> 00:13:16,427 [seagulls squawking] 246 00:13:16,513 --> 00:13:20,431 ♪ ♪ 247 00:13:20,517 --> 00:13:24,769 you said you were going to come in for the reading. 248 00:13:24,855 --> 00:13:27,939 - Your books gross me out. 249 00:13:28,024 --> 00:13:30,608 - It grosses you out to hear your wife talk about sex? 250 00:13:30,694 --> 00:13:34,162 - Yes, especially this book. 251 00:13:34,281 --> 00:13:35,947 I can't look at a $1 bill or mount rushmore anymore 252 00:13:36,032 --> 00:13:38,783 without wantin' to puke. 253 00:13:38,869 --> 00:13:40,952 How many books did you sell? 254 00:13:41,037 --> 00:13:43,505 - One. - [scoffs] for fuck's sake. 255 00:13:43,623 --> 00:13:44,622 I would've just bought a book from you at home, 256 00:13:44,708 --> 00:13:46,624 and we could've skipped this bullshit. 257 00:13:46,710 --> 00:13:47,842 - It's not bullshit. 258 00:13:47,961 --> 00:13:49,294 It's my dream. 259 00:13:49,379 --> 00:13:50,962 - What do you want from me, belle? 260 00:13:51,047 --> 00:13:53,097 I'm here, aren't I? I agreed to puttin' up 261 00:13:53,183 --> 00:13:55,934 a big chunk of our retirement for this dumb book tour, 262 00:13:56,019 --> 00:13:57,769 during which we've sold six books. 263 00:13:57,854 --> 00:13:59,854 You want me to support your dream? 264 00:13:59,973 --> 00:14:01,606 Here I am, supporting the fuck out of it. 265 00:14:01,691 --> 00:14:04,192 - [chuckling] and I'm grateful. 266 00:14:04,311 --> 00:14:07,478 But can't you see I'm doing it for both of us? 267 00:14:07,564 --> 00:14:10,148 I could be the next danielle steel. 268 00:14:10,233 --> 00:14:12,367 She's worth a billion dollars. 269 00:14:12,485 --> 00:14:13,318 - How many times has she been married? 270 00:14:13,403 --> 00:14:16,037 - Four, maybe five. 271 00:14:16,156 --> 00:14:18,456 - Well, I guess then there's one way you could be like her. 272 00:14:21,661 --> 00:14:23,995 - [huffs] 273 00:14:24,998 --> 00:14:29,167 ♪ ♪ 274 00:14:29,252 --> 00:14:30,885 let's go back to the hotel and freshen up 275 00:14:31,004 --> 00:14:32,720 and then watch the sunset from muse. 276 00:14:32,839 --> 00:14:35,807 I hear it's beautiful. 277 00:14:35,892 --> 00:14:37,725 - Do you want me to suck some cock while I'm in there? 278 00:14:37,844 --> 00:14:39,227 - What? No. 279 00:14:39,346 --> 00:14:41,479 - Then why are you asking me to go to a homo bar 280 00:14:41,565 --> 00:14:44,482 and do something totally gay like watch the fucking sunset? 281 00:14:44,568 --> 00:14:46,317 I wanna do something actually fun, 282 00:14:46,403 --> 00:14:47,551 like the haunted dune tour. 283 00:14:47,654 --> 00:14:50,738 - Sounds scary, I don't wanna have nightmares. 284 00:14:50,857 --> 00:14:53,658 I need my sleep before the next tour stop in the vineyard. 285 00:14:53,743 --> 00:14:56,394 - You know why I'm really so angry at you? 286 00:14:56,496 --> 00:14:58,663 It's not the stupid book tour 287 00:14:58,748 --> 00:14:59,998 or the fact that you write about sex all day 288 00:15:00,083 --> 00:15:01,732 but haven't touched my dick in two years. 289 00:15:01,835 --> 00:15:02,733 It's that you're weak 290 00:15:02,836 --> 00:15:04,735 and scared 291 00:15:04,838 --> 00:15:07,005 and boring. 292 00:15:07,090 --> 00:15:09,591 - I'm the same as I was when you married me 40 years ago. 293 00:15:09,709 --> 00:15:10,792 - Well, I was at work for those 40 years. 294 00:15:10,877 --> 00:15:12,093 Now that I have to be with you all the time, 295 00:15:12,212 --> 00:15:14,262 it's intolerable. 296 00:15:14,381 --> 00:15:17,048 - I hear they have great calamari! 297 00:15:20,553 --> 00:15:23,438 [soft piano music playing] 298 00:15:23,556 --> 00:15:27,692 ♪ ♪ 299 00:15:27,777 --> 00:15:30,278 - hey. 300 00:15:30,397 --> 00:15:33,781 Pretty cool color on your nails. 301 00:15:33,900 --> 00:15:34,866 You mind if I join you? 302 00:15:34,951 --> 00:15:37,702 - What are you, a hustler? 303 00:15:37,787 --> 00:15:38,820 I wrote a book about a hustler 304 00:15:38,905 --> 00:15:42,040 who ends up sleeping with the head of the kgb 305 00:15:42,125 --> 00:15:44,208 and then becomes head of the cia. 306 00:15:44,294 --> 00:15:47,445 - That sounds awesome. [chuckles] 307 00:15:47,547 --> 00:15:48,162 I'd like to read that. 308 00:15:48,248 --> 00:15:50,948 - I'll send you a copy. 309 00:15:51,051 --> 00:15:54,335 You're wasting your time with me; I'm married. 310 00:15:54,421 --> 00:15:55,619 - Wait. 311 00:15:55,722 --> 00:15:58,122 I know you. 312 00:15:58,224 --> 00:15:59,007 You're the author that was doing the reading 313 00:15:59,092 --> 00:16:01,459 at the bookstore, right? 314 00:16:01,561 --> 00:16:03,678 - Were you there? - Uh, well, no. 315 00:16:03,763 --> 00:16:05,680 They, uh--they don't let me in there anymore 316 00:16:05,765 --> 00:16:07,348 after I stole the, uh, "screenplay for dummies" book 317 00:16:07,434 --> 00:16:09,133 a while back, but, uh, 318 00:16:09,235 --> 00:16:10,634 I saw you through the window. 319 00:16:10,737 --> 00:16:12,470 - You write too? 320 00:16:12,572 --> 00:16:15,473 - Ah, sometimes, but not like you. 321 00:16:15,575 --> 00:16:17,808 You're, like, a real published author. 322 00:16:17,911 --> 00:16:20,311 - Self-published. 323 00:16:20,413 --> 00:16:21,812 - Hey, I mean, 324 00:16:21,915 --> 00:16:23,147 just finishing a book's a big deal, right? 325 00:16:23,249 --> 00:16:24,532 [chuckles] 326 00:16:27,337 --> 00:16:29,320 - let me buy you a drink. 327 00:16:29,422 --> 00:16:30,821 - Yeah. 328 00:16:30,924 --> 00:16:33,324 - I know they say that anyone can be a writer, 329 00:16:33,426 --> 00:16:34,992 because all you have to do is sit down and write, 330 00:16:35,095 --> 00:16:36,761 but that doesn't make you a writer any more 331 00:16:36,846 --> 00:16:39,330 than a kid playing catch is a ballplayer 332 00:16:39,432 --> 00:16:41,716 or a sperm donor is a dad. 333 00:16:41,801 --> 00:16:44,001 I know I'm not the greatest writer in the world. 334 00:16:44,104 --> 00:16:46,670 I mean, a lot of my stuff is schlock, but... 335 00:16:46,773 --> 00:16:48,005 I'm a writer; I know I am. 336 00:16:48,108 --> 00:16:50,341 I can't stop. 337 00:16:50,443 --> 00:16:51,726 Even if it wrecks my marriage, 338 00:16:51,811 --> 00:16:53,478 even if I go broke doing it, 339 00:16:53,563 --> 00:16:54,812 even if I never sell a book, 340 00:16:54,898 --> 00:16:56,614 it's who I am. 341 00:17:00,153 --> 00:17:01,319 Can I ask you a question? 342 00:17:01,404 --> 00:17:03,988 Do you have any cocaine? 343 00:17:04,074 --> 00:17:06,824 I always wanted to try it, and you look like a drug addict. 344 00:17:06,910 --> 00:17:08,493 No offense. 345 00:17:08,578 --> 00:17:10,161 - Oh, none taken. 346 00:17:10,246 --> 00:17:12,530 'cause I am. - Mm. 347 00:17:12,632 --> 00:17:16,033 - But, um, no, no coke. But... 348 00:17:16,136 --> 00:17:17,085 I've got something better. 349 00:17:17,170 --> 00:17:20,088 [ominous music] 350 00:17:20,173 --> 00:17:25,376 ♪ ♪ 351 00:17:25,478 --> 00:17:27,428 - [sniffs] 352 00:17:27,514 --> 00:17:28,712 [gasps] 353 00:17:28,815 --> 00:17:31,715 [chaotic percussive music] 354 00:17:31,818 --> 00:17:38,523 ♪ ♪ 355 00:17:44,364 --> 00:17:47,615 [dreamy pop music playing] 356 00:17:47,700 --> 00:17:51,702 ♪ ♪ 357 00:17:51,788 --> 00:17:54,705 [ominous music] 358 00:17:54,791 --> 00:17:55,923 ♪ ♪ 359 00:17:56,042 --> 00:17:59,544 - give me a bloody mary. 360 00:17:59,629 --> 00:18:01,596 - Hey, dude, you don't look good. 361 00:18:01,714 --> 00:18:03,047 - I feel sick. 362 00:18:03,133 --> 00:18:06,217 I think that bitch karen gave me bronchitis or something. 363 00:18:06,302 --> 00:18:08,052 - You sure? 'cause she says 364 00:18:08,138 --> 00:18:09,270 she hasn't been sick in a while. 365 00:18:09,389 --> 00:18:15,860 ♪ ♪ 366 00:18:22,485 --> 00:18:23,451 - I'm gonna puke. 367 00:18:26,656 --> 00:18:28,039 [door slams] 368 00:18:31,244 --> 00:18:33,294 [retching] 369 00:18:36,416 --> 00:18:39,584 [panting] 370 00:18:39,669 --> 00:18:42,587 [unsettling music] 371 00:18:42,672 --> 00:18:48,726 ♪ ♪ 372 00:19:02,108 --> 00:19:03,741 - I'm so happy. 373 00:19:03,827 --> 00:19:05,660 - Uh, yeah, that's the drugs. 374 00:19:05,778 --> 00:19:07,829 - Then I want more. 375 00:19:07,947 --> 00:19:09,580 - [laughs] yeah, you see, 376 00:19:09,666 --> 00:19:10,648 it doesn't really work that way. 377 00:19:10,750 --> 00:19:12,333 First time's the best, and then, uh, 378 00:19:12,452 --> 00:19:13,918 you end up chasing that high forever, 379 00:19:14,003 --> 00:19:16,003 and you never catch it. 380 00:19:16,122 --> 00:19:18,506 - That's some bullshit. 381 00:19:18,625 --> 00:19:19,423 - Mm-hmm. - [laughs] 382 00:19:21,961 --> 00:19:23,294 - uh, you know, I, uh-- 383 00:19:23,379 --> 00:19:24,962 I know someone that can give you something else. 384 00:19:25,048 --> 00:19:27,465 Something that can make you happy forever. 385 00:19:27,550 --> 00:19:28,633 - How come you're not taking it? 386 00:19:30,637 --> 00:19:32,854 - 'cause it's, uh-- it's not for me. 387 00:19:32,972 --> 00:19:36,140 It only works for people like you. 388 00:19:36,226 --> 00:19:37,191 Artists. 389 00:19:37,310 --> 00:19:43,814 ♪ ♪ 390 00:19:43,900 --> 00:19:46,150 we've been waitin' half an hour. 391 00:19:46,236 --> 00:19:48,369 - I wanted to read this first. 392 00:19:48,488 --> 00:19:50,204 You have talent. 393 00:19:50,323 --> 00:19:52,373 - Thank you. - Took everything in me 394 00:19:52,492 --> 00:19:53,624 not to rub one out during that threesome 395 00:19:53,726 --> 00:19:57,044 with george and martha and ben franklin. 396 00:19:57,163 --> 00:19:58,629 - I've always found heavier-set men 397 00:19:58,715 --> 00:20:00,414 to be extremely attractive. 398 00:20:02,502 --> 00:20:04,886 - Mickey tell you what I'm offering? 399 00:20:05,004 --> 00:20:06,971 - Making all my dreams come true. 400 00:20:07,056 --> 00:20:07,972 I'm in. - You wanna know about 401 00:20:08,057 --> 00:20:09,223 the side effects? 402 00:20:09,342 --> 00:20:11,008 - I know I'm talented. 403 00:20:12,228 --> 00:20:15,479 - The pills create certain cravings. 404 00:20:15,565 --> 00:20:16,981 And they cause aggression 405 00:20:17,066 --> 00:20:19,684 even in the subjects with positive results. 406 00:20:19,769 --> 00:20:21,185 - I could use a little of that too. 407 00:20:21,271 --> 00:20:24,689 According to my husband. 408 00:20:24,774 --> 00:20:26,691 Please, I need this. 409 00:20:26,776 --> 00:20:30,912 ♪ ♪ 410 00:20:31,030 --> 00:20:32,530 - the effects are temporary. 411 00:20:34,617 --> 00:20:36,867 You're gonna have to keep taking them as it wears off. 412 00:20:36,953 --> 00:20:37,702 And you're gonna have to stick around 413 00:20:37,787 --> 00:20:40,705 and agree to let me study you. 414 00:20:40,790 --> 00:20:42,924 - Whatever it takes... 415 00:20:43,042 --> 00:20:45,876 ♪ ♪ 416 00:20:45,962 --> 00:20:48,379 to finding my destiny. 417 00:20:48,464 --> 00:20:54,885 ♪ ♪ 418 00:20:59,025 --> 00:21:01,091 [breathes shakily] 419 00:21:01,194 --> 00:21:07,865 ♪ ♪ 420 00:21:07,951 --> 00:21:08,699 [keys jangling] 421 00:21:08,785 --> 00:21:10,151 [lock clicks] 422 00:21:19,879 --> 00:21:21,796 [line rings] 423 00:21:21,914 --> 00:21:23,130 - you've reached ray. Leave a message. 424 00:21:23,249 --> 00:21:26,300 - Asshole. [beep] 425 00:21:26,419 --> 00:21:27,551 [sudden intense music] 426 00:21:27,637 --> 00:21:30,471 [gagging and spitting] 427 00:21:30,590 --> 00:21:33,474 [sinister music] 428 00:21:33,593 --> 00:21:39,597 ♪ ♪ 429 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,028 [music intensifies] 430 00:21:54,113 --> 00:22:01,168 ♪ ♪ 431 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:36,153 [laughing hysterically] 432 00:22:44,380 --> 00:22:45,913 - good morning. 433 00:22:48,718 --> 00:22:51,368 What's wrong with you? 434 00:22:51,471 --> 00:22:52,753 - I wrote a book last night. 435 00:22:52,839 --> 00:22:55,089 A whole book, and it's-- 436 00:22:55,174 --> 00:22:57,842 it's beautiful. 437 00:22:57,927 --> 00:22:58,843 - Bullshit. 438 00:22:58,928 --> 00:23:01,145 Let me see. 439 00:23:03,933 --> 00:23:06,517 You didn't write this. 440 00:23:06,602 --> 00:23:07,518 - What? 441 00:23:07,603 --> 00:23:08,686 Yes, I did. - You couldn't have. 442 00:23:08,771 --> 00:23:10,237 It's good. 443 00:23:11,190 --> 00:23:14,191 - I did write it! 444 00:23:14,277 --> 00:23:16,193 I went out and danced 445 00:23:16,279 --> 00:23:18,612 and took methamphetamine 446 00:23:18,698 --> 00:23:20,197 and met a chemist and had the time of my life! 447 00:23:20,283 --> 00:23:22,199 And then I came home, and I wrote this! 448 00:23:22,285 --> 00:23:24,368 Where the fuck were you? 449 00:23:24,454 --> 00:23:25,786 - I went to the dunes tour, 450 00:23:25,872 --> 00:23:27,788 and I got drunk, 451 00:23:27,874 --> 00:23:30,741 and I met a woman who doesn't dress like a schoolteacher, 452 00:23:30,843 --> 00:23:32,293 and I fucked her right there in the sand 453 00:23:32,378 --> 00:23:34,128 until we passed out. 454 00:23:34,213 --> 00:23:37,080 Then we woke up and fucked again. 455 00:23:37,183 --> 00:23:39,917 - [gasps] - now I'm gonna take a shower. 456 00:23:40,019 --> 00:23:41,084 I'm gonna pack my things. 457 00:23:41,187 --> 00:23:42,303 I'm gonna go over to the red inn. 458 00:23:42,388 --> 00:23:44,138 I'm gonna fuck her for a third time. 459 00:23:44,223 --> 00:23:44,972 Because this marriage... 460 00:23:45,057 --> 00:23:46,757 Is over. 461 00:23:46,859 --> 00:23:49,310 - [sobs] 462 00:23:49,395 --> 00:23:52,229 [heartbeat thumping] 463 00:23:52,315 --> 00:23:53,481 - what? 464 00:23:53,566 --> 00:23:54,565 You got something you wanna say? 465 00:23:54,650 --> 00:23:56,117 - [groans] 466 00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:58,285 [screams] 467 00:23:58,404 --> 00:23:59,737 - ah! 468 00:23:59,822 --> 00:24:03,124 [gagging] 469 00:24:03,242 --> 00:24:06,127 [tense music] 470 00:24:06,245 --> 00:24:09,630 ♪ ♪ 471 00:24:09,749 --> 00:24:13,083 [muffled screaming] 472 00:24:13,169 --> 00:24:16,086 - [slurping and grunting] 473 00:24:16,172 --> 00:24:18,422 [panting] 474 00:24:18,508 --> 00:24:22,092 ♪ ♪ 475 00:24:22,178 --> 00:24:25,095 - what was the feeling exactly? 476 00:24:25,181 --> 00:24:29,099 - I don't know. Rage? 477 00:24:29,185 --> 00:24:32,937 Like braveheart or a beast of the wild. 478 00:24:33,022 --> 00:24:35,272 But that's not what made me attack him. 479 00:24:35,358 --> 00:24:37,107 - What was it? 480 00:24:37,193 --> 00:24:39,860 - Thirst. 481 00:24:39,946 --> 00:24:43,113 I could smell his blood through his skin. 482 00:24:43,199 --> 00:24:45,282 I was gonna die if I didn't drink it. 483 00:24:45,368 --> 00:24:47,701 - Fascinating. 484 00:24:47,787 --> 00:24:49,954 Not surprising, but fascinating. 485 00:24:50,039 --> 00:24:51,338 - You knew this was going to happen? 486 00:24:51,457 --> 00:24:52,957 - [exhales sharply] 487 00:24:53,042 --> 00:24:55,125 after the rages, 488 00:24:55,211 --> 00:24:56,627 the apes would drink the blood of their kills. 489 00:24:56,712 --> 00:24:59,930 When we autopsied the ones before they drank, 490 00:25:00,016 --> 00:25:01,515 we noticed a depletion of sodium, potassium, 491 00:25:01,634 --> 00:25:04,768 calcium, and magnesium in their blood. 492 00:25:04,854 --> 00:25:07,605 I wasn't sure it'd have the same effect on humans, but... 493 00:25:07,690 --> 00:25:10,357 Makes sense that it would. 494 00:25:10,476 --> 00:25:11,859 - Am I going to have to keep drinking blood 495 00:25:11,978 --> 00:25:13,060 to keep writing like that? 496 00:25:15,531 --> 00:25:17,281 - Would that stop you from continuing to take the pills? 497 00:25:17,366 --> 00:25:23,704 ♪ ♪ 498 00:25:23,823 --> 00:25:26,707 what happened after you drank from your husband? 499 00:25:26,826 --> 00:25:31,729 - I, uh, sat down and... 500 00:25:31,831 --> 00:25:34,715 Wrote the first 50 pages of part two of my book. 501 00:25:34,834 --> 00:25:37,718 I didn't even care about ray. 502 00:25:37,837 --> 00:25:39,887 I just had to write. 503 00:25:40,006 --> 00:25:41,722 - First things first, 504 00:25:41,841 --> 00:25:43,390 you got to get rid of your husband's body. 505 00:25:43,509 --> 00:25:48,229 ♪ ♪ 506 00:25:48,347 --> 00:25:50,231 - come on. 507 00:25:50,349 --> 00:25:51,815 Mm. 508 00:25:51,901 --> 00:25:56,403 ♪ ♪ 509 00:25:56,522 --> 00:25:58,572 ah! 510 00:25:58,691 --> 00:26:00,574 ♪ ♪ 511 00:26:00,693 --> 00:26:03,327 no, no, no, no, no! Back, back, back. 512 00:26:03,412 --> 00:26:04,995 Jesus. 513 00:26:05,081 --> 00:26:06,113 Ew. 514 00:26:12,471 --> 00:26:14,037 - Did your hair all fall out on its own? 515 00:26:14,140 --> 00:26:15,639 - Most of it. 516 00:26:15,725 --> 00:26:17,007 I shaved the rest. 517 00:26:17,093 --> 00:26:19,876 Otherwise I'd look like riff raff from "rocky horror." 518 00:26:19,979 --> 00:26:21,312 - your skin is looking rather creamy. 519 00:26:21,397 --> 00:26:23,147 Probably a form of anemia. 520 00:26:23,232 --> 00:26:24,648 How's your temper? 521 00:26:24,734 --> 00:26:26,483 Have you shown any aggression towards anyone? 522 00:26:26,569 --> 00:26:28,485 - No. 523 00:26:28,588 --> 00:26:29,987 I'm a fucking buddhist. 524 00:26:30,089 --> 00:26:33,157 I wanna be like bono and use my music to help people. 525 00:26:33,259 --> 00:26:35,326 I need more pills. 526 00:26:35,411 --> 00:26:36,577 The dose you gave me must have been too low. 527 00:26:36,696 --> 00:26:40,831 I have never felt a jones like this before. 528 00:26:40,916 --> 00:26:43,667 - I told you, I set the protocol. 529 00:26:43,753 --> 00:26:45,753 And you don't get another pill until day five. 530 00:26:45,871 --> 00:26:47,004 It's day three. 531 00:26:47,089 --> 00:26:48,172 - What did you do to me? 532 00:26:48,257 --> 00:26:50,341 Why is this happening to me? 533 00:26:50,426 --> 00:26:51,342 Please, give me a fix. 534 00:26:51,427 --> 00:26:52,743 Just one more pill. 535 00:26:52,845 --> 00:26:55,179 - You're part of a very important study. 536 00:26:55,264 --> 00:26:57,514 And you volunteered for it. 537 00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:58,415 Honestly, I don't know what's happening to you 538 00:26:58,517 --> 00:26:59,916 or what comes next. 539 00:27:00,019 --> 00:27:02,085 All I know is, no more pills for two days. 540 00:27:02,188 --> 00:27:04,254 - And if I die before then? 541 00:27:04,357 --> 00:27:06,807 I'm freezing cold. I can't stop shivering. 542 00:27:06,892 --> 00:27:08,258 Is that supposed to happen? 543 00:27:08,361 --> 00:27:10,093 - It's October. 544 00:27:10,196 --> 00:27:13,096 You're wearing a light jacket. 545 00:27:13,199 --> 00:27:14,931 Go get yourself a proper fucking coat. 546 00:27:15,034 --> 00:27:21,071 ♪ ♪ 547 00:27:23,409 --> 00:27:23,957 [bell rings] 548 00:27:31,384 --> 00:27:33,283 - I'm diggin' the look. 549 00:27:33,386 --> 00:27:35,552 Vampire michael stipe. 550 00:27:35,638 --> 00:27:37,671 Or anorexic uncle fester? 551 00:27:40,559 --> 00:27:42,059 You want a tattoo? 552 00:27:42,144 --> 00:27:43,794 I do them in the back. 553 00:27:43,896 --> 00:27:45,462 I could give you bat wings 554 00:27:45,564 --> 00:27:47,848 or, like, a grim reaper dancing on your arm. 555 00:27:47,933 --> 00:27:48,849 - I need a coat. 556 00:27:48,934 --> 00:27:49,800 And I don't have a lot of money. 557 00:27:49,902 --> 00:27:51,352 - I got just the thing. 558 00:27:51,437 --> 00:27:53,303 ♪ ♪ 559 00:27:53,406 --> 00:27:54,805 - these look expensive. 560 00:27:54,907 --> 00:27:56,807 - They were, in the '80s. 561 00:27:56,909 --> 00:27:58,859 All the fashion gays from new york and boston 562 00:27:58,944 --> 00:28:02,863 came out here to let their dicks and rainbow flags fly. 563 00:28:02,948 --> 00:28:04,365 Then they all died and left behind closets 564 00:28:04,450 --> 00:28:05,616 full of this high-fashion stuff. 565 00:28:05,701 --> 00:28:08,035 When the straight yuppies moved into town, 566 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:11,038 they cleaned out the closets and donated all of it to us. 567 00:28:11,123 --> 00:28:15,459 I was hoping to sell a few for Halloween, but no takers. 568 00:28:15,544 --> 00:28:17,010 I'll basically give one to you if you take it off my hands. 569 00:28:20,466 --> 00:28:23,384 [ominous music] 570 00:28:23,469 --> 00:28:30,524 ♪ ♪ 571 00:28:37,283 --> 00:28:40,234 - [whispering indistinctly] 572 00:28:40,319 --> 00:28:47,458 ♪ ♪ 573 00:28:52,832 --> 00:28:54,832 you don't look well. 574 00:28:54,917 --> 00:28:57,668 Would you pray with me? 575 00:28:57,753 --> 00:28:59,253 - Yeah. 576 00:28:59,338 --> 00:29:04,174 - [praying in portuguese] 577 00:29:04,260 --> 00:29:08,395 ♪ ♪ 578 00:29:08,514 --> 00:29:12,349 - [breathing shallowly] 579 00:29:12,435 --> 00:29:15,853 ♪ ♪ 580 00:29:15,938 --> 00:29:18,856 [chaotic music] 581 00:29:18,941 --> 00:29:24,995 ♪ ♪ 582 00:29:26,615 --> 00:29:29,533 [slurping] 583 00:29:33,873 --> 00:29:34,705 - [roars] 584 00:29:34,790 --> 00:29:36,957 [children screaming] 585 00:29:37,042 --> 00:29:39,543 [dark music] 586 00:29:39,628 --> 00:29:42,796 ♪ ♪ 587 00:29:42,882 --> 00:29:45,215 - [distorted] awesome costume, dude. 588 00:29:45,301 --> 00:29:49,052 [laughter] 589 00:29:49,138 --> 00:29:56,193 ♪ ♪ 590 00:29:57,813 --> 00:29:58,695 [knocking] 591 00:30:01,734 --> 00:30:04,401 - the candy's in the-- 592 00:30:04,487 --> 00:30:05,786 [whispering] come in. 593 00:30:09,241 --> 00:30:09,573 [normally] what happened? 594 00:30:11,911 --> 00:30:13,460 It states in section four of the contract you signed 595 00:30:13,579 --> 00:30:14,795 to be a part of the study 596 00:30:14,914 --> 00:30:16,914 that you have complete confidentiality 597 00:30:16,999 --> 00:30:19,299 for anything you say in here. 598 00:30:19,418 --> 00:30:21,635 - I was in the cemetery, and I-- 599 00:30:21,754 --> 00:30:22,636 I don't know what happened. 600 00:30:22,755 --> 00:30:24,822 I'm a vegan. 601 00:30:24,924 --> 00:30:26,990 I don't even eat those impossible burgers, 602 00:30:27,092 --> 00:30:28,976 but the thirst for her was too much. 603 00:30:29,094 --> 00:30:29,810 - How much blood did you drink? 604 00:30:29,929 --> 00:30:31,762 - I don't fucking know! 605 00:30:31,864 --> 00:30:33,263 I killed her! 606 00:30:33,349 --> 00:30:36,149 She asked me to pray with her, and I killed her! 607 00:30:36,268 --> 00:30:37,434 - Did you feel anger, rage? 608 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,520 - Yes. Why? 609 00:30:39,605 --> 00:30:40,604 - [sighs] you drank the blood 610 00:30:40,689 --> 00:30:43,023 'cause the pills create a deficiency. 611 00:30:43,108 --> 00:30:45,776 You felt the rage because you now hate everyone. 612 00:30:45,878 --> 00:30:48,445 - Why? 613 00:30:48,547 --> 00:30:51,281 I told you, I'm a pacifist. 614 00:30:51,367 --> 00:30:51,982 - You hate everyone because you now know 615 00:30:52,084 --> 00:30:53,784 the truth about yourself. 616 00:30:53,886 --> 00:30:56,019 You're not talented. 617 00:30:56,121 --> 00:30:57,955 You don't have what it takes. 618 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,674 [somber music] 619 00:31:00,793 --> 00:31:03,343 - [crying] 620 00:31:03,462 --> 00:31:05,512 - the talented ones need the blood, 621 00:31:05,631 --> 00:31:06,797 but their rage comes from their arrogance 622 00:31:06,882 --> 00:31:08,799 and certainty that they're better than everyone. 623 00:31:08,884 --> 00:31:12,519 The rage of the untalented is much darker, more intense. 624 00:31:12,638 --> 00:31:15,305 You hate the world for giving you dreams that were too big. 625 00:31:17,643 --> 00:31:18,275 Back up, motherfucker. 626 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,277 - [growls] 627 00:31:20,362 --> 00:31:23,614 - never come back here again. 628 00:31:23,699 --> 00:31:27,034 Don't worry, I'm sure you'll have plenty of company soon. 629 00:31:27,152 --> 00:31:29,286 Soon as word gets out about what I'm sellin' here, 630 00:31:29,371 --> 00:31:30,704 every asshole whose mother told him he could be 631 00:31:30,823 --> 00:31:34,207 the next elvis or tyler perry 632 00:31:34,326 --> 00:31:36,043 gonna take a chance on that little black pill. 633 00:31:36,161 --> 00:31:38,295 Nine out of ten of 'em are gonna end up just like you. 634 00:31:38,380 --> 00:31:39,997 Now, get the fuck out my house. 635 00:31:40,082 --> 00:31:45,552 ♪ ♪ 636 00:31:45,671 --> 00:31:48,639 [intense music] 637 00:31:48,724 --> 00:31:52,142 ♪ ♪ 638 00:31:52,227 --> 00:31:55,062 - [retching] ugh. 639 00:31:55,180 --> 00:31:57,981 [groans] 640 00:31:58,067 --> 00:31:59,232 hey, dude. 641 00:31:59,351 --> 00:32:02,052 Never mix tequila and merlot. 642 00:32:03,522 --> 00:32:05,072 - [snarling] 643 00:32:05,190 --> 00:32:06,857 - [screams] 644 00:32:09,395 --> 00:32:11,878 [doleful music] 645 00:32:11,981 --> 00:32:16,883 ♪ ♪ 646 00:32:16,986 --> 00:32:19,219 - you wanna try that on? 647 00:32:19,321 --> 00:32:20,887 - I don't know, perhaps. 648 00:32:20,990 --> 00:32:23,890 I'm looking to create an entirely new closet, 649 00:32:23,993 --> 00:32:24,992 a whole new look. 650 00:32:25,077 --> 00:32:27,160 - New guy in your life? 651 00:32:27,262 --> 00:32:29,162 - Mm, no, I like to play the field, 652 00:32:29,248 --> 00:32:30,330 preferably with multiple players. 653 00:32:30,416 --> 00:32:31,665 - [chuckles] 654 00:32:31,750 --> 00:32:33,834 - I left my husband a few winters ago. 655 00:32:33,919 --> 00:32:35,452 Left him in pieces on the beach. 656 00:32:37,256 --> 00:32:39,089 Just kidding. 657 00:32:39,208 --> 00:32:41,675 - I killed my last boyfriend. 658 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,177 He could bang me pretty good, but he was boring as fuck. 659 00:32:44,263 --> 00:32:45,345 So I drank him dry and burned the body. 660 00:32:45,431 --> 00:32:47,681 - [laughs softly] 661 00:32:47,766 --> 00:32:49,582 - how long you been on the pill? 662 00:32:49,685 --> 00:32:51,418 - Two years. You? 663 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:52,686 - Couple of months. 664 00:32:52,771 --> 00:32:53,971 What's motivating the new look? 665 00:32:54,056 --> 00:32:55,689 - I always thought that a woman should pick a look 666 00:32:55,774 --> 00:32:58,191 before she turns 40 and stick with it. 667 00:32:58,277 --> 00:33:01,261 For men, it's 50. And I did that. 668 00:33:01,363 --> 00:33:03,430 But lately I've been thinking that that's a rule 669 00:33:03,532 --> 00:33:05,866 for people with no second act. 670 00:33:05,951 --> 00:33:07,701 I've published six "new york times" best sellers 671 00:33:07,786 --> 00:33:09,436 in the past two years, 672 00:33:09,538 --> 00:33:10,988 one that was turned into a film franchise. 673 00:33:11,073 --> 00:33:12,439 - [gasps] 674 00:33:12,541 --> 00:33:13,940 "the heart is the bitterest root," 675 00:33:14,043 --> 00:33:15,826 I love those movies. 676 00:33:15,911 --> 00:33:17,110 - What about you, dear? 677 00:33:17,212 --> 00:33:19,162 How does your little black pill-driven greatness 678 00:33:19,248 --> 00:33:21,114 express itself? 679 00:33:21,216 --> 00:33:22,115 - Tattoos. 680 00:33:22,217 --> 00:33:24,617 And these. 681 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,120 - [laughing] oh, my! How convenient. 682 00:33:27,222 --> 00:33:28,672 I must have a set! 683 00:33:28,757 --> 00:33:30,340 - I can arrange that. 684 00:33:30,426 --> 00:33:31,808 Step into my office. 685 00:33:33,395 --> 00:33:35,178 After, we can give you a wardrobe makeover. 686 00:33:35,264 --> 00:33:36,296 - Mm, I'm belle of the ball. 687 00:33:36,398 --> 00:33:38,982 [both chuckle] 688 00:33:39,601 --> 00:33:42,185 [dark music] 689 00:33:42,271 --> 00:33:48,191 ♪ ♪ 690 00:33:48,277 --> 00:33:51,644 [indistinct chatter, laughter] 691 00:33:51,747 --> 00:33:57,150 ♪ ♪ 692 00:33:57,252 --> 00:33:58,535 - $5 cover. 693 00:33:58,620 --> 00:34:00,820 It's drag night. We gotta pay the performers. 694 00:34:00,923 --> 00:34:05,709 ♪ ♪ 695 00:34:05,794 --> 00:34:06,993 - wanna check my id? 696 00:34:07,096 --> 00:34:09,996 - Nah. You're good. 697 00:34:10,099 --> 00:34:13,550 [crowd cheering] 698 00:34:13,635 --> 00:34:15,302 - thank you! We're gonna take a short break 699 00:34:15,387 --> 00:34:17,471 before our next performer! 700 00:34:17,556 --> 00:34:20,223 [applause] 701 00:34:20,309 --> 00:34:23,226 [thumping dance music playing] 702 00:34:23,312 --> 00:34:29,316 ♪ ♪ 703 00:34:29,401 --> 00:34:31,151 - drag is an art form. 704 00:34:31,236 --> 00:34:33,236 I am a professional. 705 00:34:33,322 --> 00:34:34,488 You three... 706 00:34:34,573 --> 00:34:36,573 Straight boys in bad wigs. 707 00:34:36,658 --> 00:34:38,408 [laughs] - pfft! 708 00:34:38,494 --> 00:34:40,160 - You know, men have been performing in women's clothing 709 00:34:40,245 --> 00:34:42,162 since the time of the greeks. 710 00:34:42,247 --> 00:34:44,081 You all just appropriated it for gay culture. 711 00:34:44,166 --> 00:34:46,750 - Speak for yourself, dude. 712 00:34:46,835 --> 00:34:48,919 I don't give two shits who's appropriate or not appropriate. 713 00:34:49,004 --> 00:34:51,421 All I know is, I can make more doin' this than painting houses 714 00:34:51,507 --> 00:34:53,590 or stealing from my grandmother. 715 00:34:53,675 --> 00:34:55,592 My problem with you is, 716 00:34:55,677 --> 00:34:57,094 you're the ugliest fuckin' woman I ever seen. 717 00:34:57,179 --> 00:35:01,598 - [coughs] and your drag name is awful. 718 00:35:01,683 --> 00:35:02,349 - Patty o'furniture. 719 00:35:02,434 --> 00:35:04,184 That's an awesome name. 720 00:35:04,269 --> 00:35:05,852 - And why in the hell do you think people 721 00:35:05,938 --> 00:35:07,771 want to be thinkin' of some suburban deck chair 722 00:35:07,856 --> 00:35:09,439 while you perform for them? 723 00:35:09,525 --> 00:35:11,108 Look at me! 724 00:35:11,193 --> 00:35:13,577 I'm crystal decanter. 725 00:35:13,695 --> 00:35:16,696 I ooze elegance and shine. 726 00:35:16,782 --> 00:35:17,697 I don't know why y'all are tryin' to read him 727 00:35:17,783 --> 00:35:19,199 when y'all are just as bad as he is, 728 00:35:19,284 --> 00:35:20,584 probably worse. 729 00:35:20,702 --> 00:35:23,086 - Next up, patty o'furniture. 730 00:35:23,205 --> 00:35:24,371 - Oh, fuck my life. 731 00:35:24,456 --> 00:35:26,706 - Don't even try to upstage me, asswipe. 732 00:35:29,211 --> 00:35:30,377 - [coughs] - what a loser. 733 00:35:30,462 --> 00:35:32,095 - Boo! 734 00:35:32,214 --> 00:35:34,097 - Break a nail, whore. - Yeah. 735 00:35:34,216 --> 00:35:35,549 - The only thing he's gonna break is his heels. 736 00:35:35,634 --> 00:35:39,553 - Loser. - Ugh, girrrl. 737 00:35:39,638 --> 00:35:41,721 ♪ ♪ 738 00:35:41,807 --> 00:35:44,524 [heart's "magic man" playing] 739 00:35:44,610 --> 00:35:47,777 [cheers and applause] 740 00:35:47,896 --> 00:35:51,448 ♪ ♪ 741 00:35:51,567 --> 00:35:52,616 - ♪ cold late night ♪ 742 00:35:52,734 --> 00:35:54,451 ♪ so long ago ♪ 743 00:35:54,570 --> 00:35:55,952 ♪ when I was not so strong, you know ♪ 744 00:35:56,071 --> 00:35:57,904 ♪ a pretty man came to me ♪ 745 00:35:57,990 --> 00:35:59,122 - boo, boo! - Awful! 746 00:35:59,241 --> 00:36:01,124 - ♪ never seen eyes so blue ♪ 747 00:36:01,243 --> 00:36:03,627 ♪ you know I could not run away, it seemed ♪ 748 00:36:03,745 --> 00:36:05,962 ♪ we'd seen each other in a dream ♪ 749 00:36:06,081 --> 00:36:07,631 ♪ seemed like he knew me ♪ 750 00:36:07,749 --> 00:36:12,252 ♪ he looked right through me, yeah ♪ 751 00:36:12,337 --> 00:36:13,753 - go, girlfriend! 752 00:36:15,424 --> 00:36:20,060 - ♪ "come on home, girl," he said with a smile ♪ 753 00:36:20,145 --> 00:36:22,145 ♪ "you don't have to love me yet ♪ 754 00:36:22,264 --> 00:36:23,480 ♪ let's get high awhile" ♪ 755 00:36:23,599 --> 00:36:24,898 - you suck! 756 00:36:24,983 --> 00:36:26,149 - ♪ but try to understand ♪ 757 00:36:26,268 --> 00:36:29,736 ♪ try to understand ♪ 758 00:36:29,821 --> 00:36:33,240 ♪ oh, oh-oh ♪ 759 00:36:33,325 --> 00:36:35,825 ♪ try ♪ 760 00:36:35,944 --> 00:36:39,162 ♪ try to understand ♪ 761 00:36:39,281 --> 00:36:41,748 ♪ try, try, try to understand ♪ 762 00:36:41,833 --> 00:36:44,317 - [laughs] - loser! 763 00:36:44,419 --> 00:36:46,336 - ♪ he's a magic man ♪ 764 00:36:46,455 --> 00:36:48,004 ♪ oh, yeah ♪ 765 00:36:48,123 --> 00:36:51,007 ♪ ooh ♪ 766 00:36:51,126 --> 00:36:55,679 ♪ he got the magic hands ♪ 767 00:36:55,797 --> 00:36:58,682 ♪ he's a magic man ♪ 768 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,101 ♪ yeah ♪ 769 00:37:01,186 --> 00:37:05,138 ♪ oh, oh ♪ 770 00:37:06,475 --> 00:37:09,359 [mournful piano music playing] 771 00:37:09,478 --> 00:37:15,482 ♪ ♪ 772 00:37:22,958 --> 00:37:23,957 - what is it? 773 00:37:24,042 --> 00:37:26,359 - Does it matter? 774 00:37:26,461 --> 00:37:28,662 Goes down easy and gets you high. 775 00:37:31,717 --> 00:37:33,967 - Uh-huh. 776 00:37:34,052 --> 00:37:36,970 [somber music] 777 00:37:37,055 --> 00:37:38,972 ♪ ♪ 778 00:37:39,057 --> 00:37:40,540 - you don't belong in here... 779 00:37:40,642 --> 00:37:43,376 Doing this... 780 00:37:43,478 --> 00:37:45,095 Dressed like that. 781 00:37:45,180 --> 00:37:47,213 I've got a nose for talent. 782 00:37:47,316 --> 00:37:49,716 Why is a young man of your gifts 783 00:37:49,818 --> 00:37:50,883 lip-synching in drag 784 00:37:50,986 --> 00:37:54,387 on the cock tip of cape cod in the winter? 785 00:37:54,489 --> 00:37:56,323 - I'm a playwright. 786 00:37:56,408 --> 00:37:58,658 I sweet-talked the owner of the playhouse in town 787 00:37:58,744 --> 00:38:00,727 into putting on one of my plays. 788 00:38:00,829 --> 00:38:02,562 I rented a place, I moved out here, 789 00:38:02,664 --> 00:38:06,065 I started casting, and then the guy just... 790 00:38:06,168 --> 00:38:07,734 Disappeared. 791 00:38:07,836 --> 00:38:08,901 Not a trace of him. 792 00:38:09,004 --> 00:38:10,737 - Oh. 793 00:38:10,839 --> 00:38:11,571 What'd he look like? 794 00:38:11,673 --> 00:38:14,174 - Like, six feet tall, chubby, 795 00:38:14,259 --> 00:38:17,410 kind of red face all the time. 796 00:38:17,512 --> 00:38:19,679 Why, have you seen him? 797 00:38:19,765 --> 00:38:21,581 [intense music] 798 00:38:21,683 --> 00:38:22,248 - [gagging] 799 00:38:22,351 --> 00:38:23,633 [muffled screaming] 800 00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,919 ♪ ♪ 801 00:38:27,022 --> 00:38:28,605 - no. 802 00:38:30,025 --> 00:38:32,475 - [sighs] 803 00:38:32,561 --> 00:38:35,762 I'm doin' this drag thing just to pay for food, 804 00:38:35,864 --> 00:38:37,063 pack of smokes. 805 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:39,599 I'm bad at it. 806 00:38:39,701 --> 00:38:41,601 I know I'm bad at it. 807 00:38:41,703 --> 00:38:45,071 I just feel like an engine that won't turn over. 808 00:38:45,157 --> 00:38:47,741 I just--I turn the key, and I click, click, click, 809 00:38:47,826 --> 00:38:51,077 and I can't catch. 810 00:38:51,163 --> 00:38:54,113 [ominous music] 811 00:38:54,216 --> 00:38:56,783 ♪ ♪ 812 00:38:56,885 --> 00:38:58,284 what's that? 813 00:38:58,387 --> 00:39:02,672 - It's your new starter switch. 814 00:39:02,758 --> 00:39:04,957 It's the highway to your true self. 815 00:39:05,060 --> 00:39:08,294 ♪ ♪ 816 00:39:08,397 --> 00:39:09,813 - fuck it. 817 00:39:14,236 --> 00:39:16,319 [exhales] 818 00:39:18,774 --> 00:39:20,690 [chaotic music] 819 00:39:20,776 --> 00:39:22,025 [piano notes play] 820 00:39:22,110 --> 00:39:23,276 [coughing] 821 00:39:23,362 --> 00:39:25,362 [gurgling] 822 00:39:25,447 --> 00:39:27,697 [music fades] 823 00:39:27,783 --> 00:39:30,083 [groans] 824 00:39:31,536 --> 00:39:34,454 [spits, groans] 825 00:39:34,539 --> 00:39:37,791 [unsettling music] 826 00:39:37,876 --> 00:39:39,542 what did you give me? 827 00:39:39,628 --> 00:39:42,962 - What do you feel? 828 00:39:43,048 --> 00:39:45,548 - Unstoppable. Unafraid. 829 00:39:45,634 --> 00:39:48,551 Furious. [inhales sharply] 830 00:39:48,637 --> 00:39:51,471 [gags] 831 00:39:51,556 --> 00:39:53,390 and starving. 832 00:39:53,475 --> 00:39:55,341 - Let's go get you fed 833 00:39:55,444 --> 00:39:57,677 and get a little revenge at the same time. 834 00:39:57,779 --> 00:40:00,063 ♪ ♪ 835 00:40:00,148 --> 00:40:00,897 - yeah. 836 00:40:00,982 --> 00:40:03,900 ♪ ♪ 837 00:40:03,985 --> 00:40:06,185 - all of these ladies have found themselves 838 00:40:06,288 --> 00:40:08,688 in a dead heat for first. 839 00:40:08,790 --> 00:40:10,240 - I would do so much better 840 00:40:10,325 --> 00:40:11,908 than all these bitches on this show. 841 00:40:11,993 --> 00:40:14,026 - Can we please watch something else? 842 00:40:14,129 --> 00:40:15,412 - I told you straight boys, 843 00:40:15,497 --> 00:40:18,415 if you want makeup tips from ms. Crystal, 844 00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:22,702 you pay for the pizza, and we watch what I wanna watch. 845 00:40:22,804 --> 00:40:23,536 - I kind of like this show. 846 00:40:23,638 --> 00:40:26,172 High fuckin' drama, you know? 847 00:40:26,258 --> 00:40:27,674 - Please put on a hockey game before I start singin' 848 00:40:27,759 --> 00:40:28,758 "the wizard of oz" and thinkin' about dick. 849 00:40:28,844 --> 00:40:33,179 [laughter] 850 00:40:33,265 --> 00:40:35,265 - can we help you? 851 00:40:35,350 --> 00:40:37,600 - If you're gonna make it in this business, 852 00:40:37,686 --> 00:40:39,602 you might want to camp it up a little bit more, sweetheart. 853 00:40:39,688 --> 00:40:41,354 Though I do like her wig. 854 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:44,574 - Oh, I'm not one of you. 855 00:40:44,693 --> 00:40:45,742 - [chuckles] - ugh. 856 00:40:45,861 --> 00:40:49,245 - Ugh, well, no wonder you have no sparkle. 857 00:40:49,364 --> 00:40:50,530 Gettin' advice from that sultan of snore. 858 00:40:50,615 --> 00:40:52,198 - Lock the door. 859 00:40:53,702 --> 00:40:54,868 [gunshot] - ah! 860 00:40:54,953 --> 00:40:56,286 - [shrieks] 861 00:40:56,371 --> 00:40:57,954 - [groans] 862 00:40:58,039 --> 00:40:59,789 [screaming] 863 00:40:59,875 --> 00:41:02,342 [gunshots] [all screaming] 864 00:41:06,548 --> 00:41:06,930 - [whimpering] 865 00:41:08,633 --> 00:41:10,550 retreat! 866 00:41:10,635 --> 00:41:15,305 ♪ ♪ 867 00:41:15,390 --> 00:41:15,472 - hiyah! 868 00:41:17,976 --> 00:41:18,808 Ugh. 869 00:41:18,894 --> 00:41:22,812 [panting] 870 00:41:22,898 --> 00:41:23,813 - you can't win 'em all. 871 00:41:23,899 --> 00:41:26,649 I'm full anyway. 872 00:41:26,735 --> 00:41:28,117 - What do we do now? 873 00:41:28,236 --> 00:41:29,953 - Now... 874 00:41:30,071 --> 00:41:31,237 We go write. 875 00:41:31,323 --> 00:41:36,075 ♪ ♪ 876 00:41:36,161 --> 00:41:38,795 - [panting, whimpering] 877 00:41:38,914 --> 00:41:45,502 ♪ ♪ 878 00:41:50,475 --> 00:41:53,393 [crying] 879 00:41:53,478 --> 00:41:55,345 okay, it's okay. [sniffles] 880 00:41:58,483 --> 00:41:59,983 okay. 881 00:42:00,101 --> 00:42:02,235 [screams]