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LOUD DRILLING | 0:00:13 | 0:00:16 | |
Chinaski! Hey! | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
Chinaski, come on out here! | 0:00:34 | 0:00:35 | |
You've got a driver's licence, don't you? | 0:00:38 | 0:00:40 | |
-Yeah. -I got a driver out sick today. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:42 | |
We got some rush orders that we need to get out right away. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
I need you to make these deliveries. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:46 | |
Hey! Chin... | 0:01:09 | 0:01:09 | |
Feeling bad? | 0:02:40 | 0:02:41 | |
I've felt better. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:45 | |
I've probably slept longer than you've lived. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:52 | |
Chinaski, you're fired! | 0:03:15 | 0:03:18 | |
Do you have a room? | 0:04:58 | 0:05:00 | |
It's 150 a week. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:03 | |
-All right. -Are you employed? | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
Self employed. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
May I ask what you do? | 0:05:09 | 0:05:11 | |
-I'm a writer. -Oh! Have you written books? | 0:05:11 | 0:05:17 | |
Well, I'm not ready for a novel yet. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
OK. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:25 | |
COUGHING | 0:06:11 | 0:06:15 | |
Now most guys think they know how to drive, but the fact is very few people know how to drive. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:29 | |
They just steer. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
Every day I see two, three people simply run through red lights like they didn't exist. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:37 | |
The lives people live are driving them crazy and their insanity comes out in the way they drive. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:43 | |
I'm not here to tell you how to live. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:45 | |
I'm here to teach you how to drive. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
Now, when is the only time a man could lose control of his cab and he won't be able to help it? | 0:06:48 | 0:06:53 | |
When I get a hard on? | 0:06:53 | 0:06:55 | |
Mendoza, if you can't drive with a hard on we can't use you. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:59 | |
Some of our best men drive with hard ons all day long, all night, too. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:03 | |
Now, come on, what is the only time a man can lose control of his cab and he won't be able to help it? | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
-Umm. -Yes, Chinaski? | 0:07:06 | 0:07:09 | |
Yeah, a man might lose control of his cab | 0:07:09 | 0:07:14 | |
when he sneezed. | 0:07:14 | 0:07:16 | |
That is correct. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:18 | |
All right, when you sneeze, what do you do? | 0:07:19 | 0:07:22 | |
-Are you Henry Chinaski? -Yes, sir. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:32 | |
Follow me. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:33 | |
Sit down. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:39 | |
We ran a check on you, Chinaski. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
You have 18 drunk and disorderly arrests and one for drunk driving. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:52 | |
-You lied to us. -Yeah, there were two for drunk driving. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:56 | |
You falsified your application. You're disqualified. | 0:07:56 | 0:08:01 | |
KNOCKING | 0:08:10 | 0:08:13 | |
Could you call me a cab? | 0:08:13 | 0:08:15 | |
As we live, we all get caught and torn by various traps. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:17 | |
Writing can trap you. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:19 | |
Some writers tend to write what has pleased their readers in the past. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:24 | |
They hear accolades and believe them. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:28 | |
There's only one final judge of writing and that is the writer. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:33 | |
When he is swayed by the critics, the editors, the publishers, the readers, then he's finished. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:41 | |
And, of course, when he's swayed with his fame and his fortune, | 0:09:41 | 0:09:45 | |
you can float him down the river with the turds. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
-A writer, huh? -Yes. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:53 | |
Are you sure? | 0:09:53 | 0:09:55 | |
No, I'm not. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:57 | |
Why do you want to work in a pickle factory? | 0:09:57 | 0:10:00 | |
It reminds me of my grandmother. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
It does? | 0:10:03 | 0:10:05 | |
She used to... | 0:10:05 | 0:10:07 | |
serve me pickles whenever I visited her. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:10 | |
What do you write? | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
Mostly short stories. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:16 | |
I'm halfway through a novel. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:18 | |
And what's it about? | 0:10:18 | 0:10:20 | |
Everything. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:22 | |
You mean, for instance, it's about cancer? | 0:10:22 | 0:10:26 | |
Yes. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:30 | |
How about my wife? | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
She's in there, too. | 0:10:33 | 0:10:35 | |
'I wrote three or four short stories a week and kept things in the mail. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:04 | |
'I imagined how the editors of the New Yorker must be reacting.' | 0:11:04 | 0:11:08 | |
Hey, here's another one of those things from that nut! | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
'I sent most of them to John Martin whose magazine, Black Sparrow, I admired.' | 0:11:13 | 0:11:19 | |
Chinaski! | 0:11:48 | 0:11:50 | |
Want to step in here for a minute? | 0:11:50 | 0:11:52 | |
Mr Gentry's a writer, too. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
I told him that you were a writer and he wanted to meet you. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:11 | |
You don't mind, do you? | 0:12:11 | 0:12:14 | |
I don't mind. | 0:12:14 | 0:12:15 | |
Mr Gentry's a friend of mine. | 0:12:19 | 0:12:22 | |
Do you mind if I leave? | 0:12:51 | 0:12:54 | |
OK. | 0:12:54 | 0:12:56 | |
'That scene in the office stayed with me. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:20 | |
'Those cigars, the fine clothes. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:23 | |
'I thought of good steaks, long rides up winding driveways that led to beautiful homes. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:31 | |
'Ease, trips to Europe, | 0:13:33 | 0:13:35 | |
'fine women.' | 0:13:35 | 0:13:37 | |
Chinaski, what are you doing? | 0:13:44 | 0:13:47 | |
Get back to work. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:49 | |
I'm going to get a drink. | 0:13:49 | 0:13:50 | |
-No, no, you can't get a drink. -What? | 0:13:50 | 0:13:53 | |
Come on, get back to work. | 0:13:53 | 0:13:54 | |
-Over here. -All right, all right. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:56 | |
Whoa! Hey! Hey! | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
Get off me! | 0:13:59 | 0:14:02 | |
Hey! Ach! Urgh! | 0:14:04 | 0:14:07 | |
-Are you OK? -I'm fine. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:17 | |
I don't need him. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:21 | |
'And then I met Jan. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:33 | |
'I bought her a drink and she gave me her phone number. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:41 | |
'Three days later, I moved into her apartment. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
'Jan had her 500 car. | 0:15:05 | 0:15:07 | |
'The big trick with that car was how to turn on the headlights. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:12 | |
'Of course, we had the advantage of broken springs. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:15 | |
'Jan was an excellent fuck. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:46 | |
'She had a tight pussy and she took it like it was a knife that was killing her.' | 0:15:46 | 0:15:51 | |
Hey, I want to know what time it is. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:54 | |
You said you'd fix the clock. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:57 | |
All right, let's see. | 0:15:57 | 0:15:59 | |
'I set the clock by the TV at midnight last night. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:18 | |
'We know that it gains 35 minutes every hour. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:23 | |
'It says 7.30pm right now, but we know that's not right because it's not dark enough yet. OK. | 0:16:23 | 0:16:29 | |
'That's seven and a half hours. | 0:16:31 | 0:16:34 | |
'Seven times 35 minutes. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:37 | |
'That's 245 minutes. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:42 | |
'One half of 35 is | 0:16:42 | 0:16:45 | |
'17 and one half. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:51 | |
'That gives us | 0:16:51 | 0:16:53 | |
'252 and one half minutes. | 0:16:53 | 0:16:59 | |
'OK, that's... | 0:16:59 | 0:17:02 | |
'four hours and 42 and one half minutes we owe them. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:06 | |
'So, we set the clock back to 5.47. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:09 | |
'That's it.' | 0:17:09 | 0:17:11 | |
It's 5.47pm. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:14 | |
It's dinner time and we don't have anything to eat. | 0:17:14 | 0:17:17 | |
Let's open another jug of wine. | 0:17:21 | 0:17:23 | |
Shall I make some pancakes? | 0:17:23 | 0:17:25 | |
I don't know if I could get another one of them down. | 0:17:25 | 0:17:28 | |
Oh, come on. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:30 | |
OK, put the pancakes on. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:32 | |
Oh, we're still out of butter. | 0:17:37 | 0:17:38 | |
Well, fry 'em dry again. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:42 | |
They will be crisp, real crisp. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:45 | |
That's OK, baby. | 0:17:45 | 0:17:47 | |
RATTLING AND CLANKING | 0:19:05 | 0:19:09 | |
What was that? | 0:19:09 | 0:19:12 | |
-Let's go! Everybody move it out to the hall. -What is that? | 0:19:14 | 0:19:17 | |
Anyone in there? | 0:19:39 | 0:19:41 | |
It's just the Fire Department. | 0:19:49 | 0:19:51 | |
Oh. | 0:19:51 | 0:19:52 | |
SIREN WAILS | 0:20:01 | 0:20:03 | |
'I finally got hired at a bicycle supply warehouse. | 0:20:14 | 0:20:18 | |
'I had to demean myself to get to get that one. | 0:20:18 | 0:20:22 | |
'I told them that I liked to think of my job as a second home.' | 0:20:22 | 0:20:27 | |
You got the horses? | 0:20:27 | 0:20:29 | |
Yeah. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:31 | |
-Mind if I look at your paper? -Sure. | 0:20:34 | 0:20:39 | |
My Boy Bobby oughta take the eighth. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
I know. They don't even have him on top. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:53 | |
-All the better. -What do you think he'll pay at? -About 9 to 2. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:58 | |
What time does the last race go out? | 0:21:03 | 0:21:05 | |
5.30. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:08 | |
-We get off at five. -We'll never make it. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
We can try. The racetrack's not too far. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
You want to come along? | 0:21:17 | 0:21:18 | |
Sure. | 0:21:18 | 0:21:20 | |
Keep your eye on the clock. We'll cut out at five to five. | 0:21:20 | 0:21:24 | |
See! Told you we'd make it! | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
My Boy Bobby to win. | 0:21:56 | 0:21:57 | |
Thank you. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:02 | |
Hey, My Boy Bobby's in the front! | 0:22:10 | 0:22:12 | |
He's in the lead! | 0:22:12 | 0:22:14 | |
We've hooked ourselves a winner. | 0:22:14 | 0:22:16 | |
Unless there's some big ass at the back of the pack. | 0:22:19 | 0:22:21 | |
Come on! Come on, Bobby! Come on! | 0:22:21 | 0:22:23 | |
Come on! Run! | 0:22:23 | 0:22:25 | |
Yes! Yes! | 0:22:26 | 0:22:27 | |
-We should've bet another 200 on that horse. -Ah, you're right! | 0:22:27 | 0:22:31 | |
Come on, let's go get a drink. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:33 | |
Excuse me. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:35 | |
'The next day at work, some of the other employees asked us if we would place bets for them.' | 0:22:41 | 0:22:47 | |
Hank, we have to take their bets. | 0:22:47 | 0:22:50 | |
Manny, those guys don't have any money. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:54 | |
All they've got is the coffee and chewing gum money that their wives give them | 0:22:54 | 0:22:58 | |
and we don't have time to waste at the two-dollar windows. | 0:22:58 | 0:23:01 | |
We're not going to bet their money, we're going to keep their money. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:05 | |
-Suppose they win? -They won't win. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
They always pick the wrong horse. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:12 | |
They have a way of always picking the wrong horse. | 0:23:12 | 0:23:16 | |
Suppose they bet our horse? | 0:23:16 | 0:23:19 | |
Then we know we got the wrong horse. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:21 | |
She's going to do it! I think she's going to do it! | 0:23:28 | 0:23:30 | |
Come on, Spitfire! Let's go! Go, Spitfire! Let's go! | 0:23:30 | 0:23:34 | |
Yes! Way to go! Great. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:38 | |
-You married, Manny? -No way. No. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:11 | |
-Women? -Sometimes. | 0:24:11 | 0:24:13 | |
-It never lasts. -What's the problem? | 0:24:13 | 0:24:17 | |
A woman is like a full-time job. | 0:24:17 | 0:24:20 | |
You have to choose your profession. | 0:24:20 | 0:24:22 | |
Yeah, I suppose there is an emotional drain. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:25 | |
Physical, too. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:26 | |
They wanna fuck night and day. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
Well, get one you like to fuck. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:34 | |
Yeah, but if you drink or gamble they think it's a putdown of their love. | 0:24:34 | 0:24:39 | |
Well, get ones who likes to drink, gamble and fuck. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:42 | |
Who wants a woman like that? | 0:24:42 | 0:24:44 | |
'I bought some expensive clothes and a good pair of shoes. | 0:24:50 | 0:24:54 | |
'The owner of the bike supply warehouse didn't look so powerful any more. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:59 | |
'Manny and I took a little longer with our lunches and came back smoking good cigars. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:06 | |
'The new life didn't sit well with Jan. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:09 | |
'She was used to her four fucks a day and also used to seeing me poor and humble.' | 0:25:09 | 0:25:14 | |
Mr Horse Player. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:27 | |
Mr Big Horse Player. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:30 | |
You know, when I first met you, I liked the way you walked across a room. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:36 | |
You didn't just walk across a room, you walked like | 0:25:36 | 0:25:39 | |
you were walking through walls, like you owned the place. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:41 | |
Like nothing mattered. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:43 | |
Oh, now you got a few bucks in your pocket, you're not the same any more. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:47 | |
You act like you're a dental student or a plumber. | 0:25:47 | 0:25:50 | |
Don't give me any shit about plumbers, Jan. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:53 | |
You haven't made love to me in two weeks. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:58 | |
Love takes many forms. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:00 | |
-Mine has been more subtle. -OK, you haven't fucked me in two weeks. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:04 | |
-Have some patience. In six months we'll be vacationing in Rome and Paris. -Look at you. | 0:26:04 | 0:26:10 | |
Pouring yourself that good whisky, letting me sit here drinking this rotgut wine. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:15 | |
You're Mr Big Time Horse Player. | 0:26:15 | 0:26:18 | |
I give you soul, I give you wisdom, I give you light and music and some laughter. | 0:26:18 | 0:26:26 | |
By the way, I am the world's greatest horse player. | 0:26:26 | 0:26:29 | |
Horseshit! | 0:26:29 | 0:26:31 | |
No, horse player. | 0:26:31 | 0:26:34 | |
'I understood too well that great lovers were always men of leisure. | 0:26:37 | 0:26:44 | |
'I fucked better as a bum than as a puncher of timeclocks.' | 0:26:44 | 0:26:47 | |
You know, I tried to make a woman out of you, but you're nothing but a goddamn whore. | 0:27:03 | 0:27:09 | |
If anybody here doesn't like what I just did, then say something! | 0:27:16 | 0:27:20 | |
Sit down, Chinaski. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:39 | |
You knew we were going to let you go. | 0:27:40 | 0:27:42 | |
Yeah, bosses are never hard to fathom. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:45 | |
You haven't been pulling your weight around here for over a month and you know it. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:48 | |
You know, a guy busts his damn ass and you don't even appreciate it. | 0:27:48 | 0:27:51 | |
You haven't been busting your ass, Chinaski. | 0:27:51 | 0:27:54 | |
I've given you my time, which is all I've got to give, | 0:27:54 | 0:27:58 | |
all any man has, for a pitiful six bucks an hour. | 0:27:58 | 0:28:01 | |
You remember you begged for this job. | 0:28:01 | 0:28:03 | |
You said your job was your second home. | 0:28:03 | 0:28:05 | |
I give you my time so you can live in your big house. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:08 | |
If anybody's lost anything on this deal, on this arrangement, I've been the loser. | 0:28:08 | 0:28:12 | |
-You understand? -All right, Chinaski. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:16 | |
-All right? -Yeah, just go. | 0:28:16 | 0:28:17 | |
Now listen, Mantz, I don't want any trouble about my unemployment payments. | 0:28:17 | 0:28:21 | |
You guys are always trying to cheat the working man out of his rights. | 0:28:21 | 0:28:25 | |
So, don't give me any trouble or I'll be back to see you. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:27 | |
You'll get your unemployment. Now get the hell out of here. | 0:28:27 | 0:28:30 | |
'I didn't see Manny again and I missed the trips to the track with him, | 0:28:34 | 0:28:40 | |
'but I had my winnings and the bookie money. I just sat around and Jan liked that. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:46 | |
'After two weeks I was on unemployment, and we relaxed and fucked and toured the bars. | 0:28:46 | 0:28:53 | |
'And every week I'd go down to the unemployment, stand in line and get my nice little check.' | 0:28:53 | 0:29:00 | |
Hank? | 0:29:03 | 0:29:04 | |
Love you. | 0:29:04 | 0:29:06 | |
A 10 try on the four with one and two. | 0:29:35 | 0:29:38 | |
'The racetrack crowd is the world brought down to size. | 0:29:43 | 0:29:47 | |
'Life grinding against death and losing. | 0:29:47 | 0:29:51 | |
'Nobody wins, finally. | 0:29:51 | 0:29:53 | |
'We're only seeking a reprieve, a moment out of the glare.' | 0:29:53 | 0:29:58 | |
-Sir, you're in our seats. -These seats aren't reserved. | 0:30:01 | 0:30:03 | |
There are no reserved seats in this section. | 0:30:03 | 0:30:07 | |
I know there are no reserved seats in this section, but it's a common courtesy. | 0:30:07 | 0:30:12 | |
You see, some people | 0:30:12 | 0:30:14 | |
get here early, poor people like you and me, | 0:30:14 | 0:30:17 | |
who can't afford reserved seats and they lay down newspapers to indicate that these seats are saved, | 0:30:17 | 0:30:24 | |
because if the poor aren't going to be decent with one another, nobody else | 0:30:24 | 0:30:29 | |
-is going to be. -I'm not poor. | 0:30:29 | 0:30:31 | |
If you can't be a gentleman, | 0:30:31 | 0:30:34 | |
at least don't be a hog. | 0:30:34 | 0:30:36 | |
Jan, sit down. | 0:30:36 | 0:30:38 | |
I'll stand. | 0:30:40 | 0:30:42 | |
Come on. Let's get a drink. | 0:31:01 | 0:31:03 | |
That man in our seats, he's got a nerve. | 0:31:33 | 0:31:35 | |
I don't like the guy. | 0:31:35 | 0:31:38 | |
He sure got your goat. | 0:31:38 | 0:31:40 | |
He was just a little guy. What was I supposed to do with him? | 0:31:40 | 0:31:43 | |
Oh, bullshit. If he'd been big you wouldn't have done anything either. | 0:31:43 | 0:31:47 | |
What you do for a living? | 0:32:05 | 0:32:07 | |
Real estate. | 0:32:07 | 0:32:08 | |
I make 500,000 a year. | 0:32:11 | 0:32:13 | |
Well, why don't you get yourself a reserved seat? | 0:32:15 | 0:32:17 | |
That's my prerogative. | 0:32:17 | 0:32:20 | |
You know, you have the nicest blue eyes. | 0:32:20 | 0:32:22 | |
Uh-huh. | 0:32:22 | 0:32:24 | |
You got a cigarette? | 0:32:24 | 0:32:25 | |
Pardon me, sir, but you're in my seat. | 0:32:33 | 0:32:35 | |
Yeah, what are you going to do about it? | 0:32:35 | 0:32:38 | |
Pardon me. | 0:33:00 | 0:33:02 | |
Come on, baby. | 0:33:04 | 0:33:05 | |
RETCHES | 0:33:38 | 0:33:40 | |
VOMITS LOUDLY | 0:33:43 | 0:33:45 | |
TOILET FLUSHES | 0:33:57 | 0:33:59 | |
VOMITS | 0:34:36 | 0:34:39 | |
TOILET FLUSHES | 0:34:53 | 0:34:56 | |
How do you feel? | 0:35:28 | 0:35:31 | |
I feel bad. | 0:35:31 | 0:35:33 | |
I want to be alone. | 0:35:35 | 0:35:36 | |
You don't have enough love. It's warped you. | 0:35:40 | 0:35:43 | |
People don't need love. | 0:35:46 | 0:35:47 | |
What they need is success of some form or another. | 0:35:49 | 0:35:52 | |
It can be love, but it doesn't have to be. | 0:35:52 | 0:35:57 | |
The Bible says "Love thy neighbour". | 0:36:01 | 0:36:04 | |
It could also mean leave them alone. | 0:36:07 | 0:36:10 | |
My half is yours. | 0:36:46 | 0:36:48 | |
It's another woman, isn't it? | 0:36:50 | 0:36:52 | |
No. | 0:36:53 | 0:36:55 | |
You don't love me any more? | 0:36:56 | 0:36:58 | |
Stop that shit, would you? | 0:36:58 | 0:37:00 | |
You're tired of fucking me, aren't you? | 0:37:02 | 0:37:06 | |
Hank, stay with me. | 0:37:12 | 0:37:15 | |
OK, fine. Here, take it. | 0:37:33 | 0:37:35 | |
You'll manage. | 0:37:49 | 0:37:51 | |
Hank. | 0:38:00 | 0:38:01 | |
'Even at my lowest times, I can feel the words bubbling inside of me, | 0:38:35 | 0:38:41 | |
'and I had to get the words down or be overcome by something worse than death. | 0:38:42 | 0:38:47 | |
'Words not as precious things, but as necessary things. | 0:38:47 | 0:38:51 | |
'Yet when I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, | 0:38:52 | 0:38:56 | |
'I simply read another writer and then I know I have nothing to worry about. | 0:38:57 | 0:39:03 | |
'My contest is only with myself, to do it right with power and force and delight and gamble.' | 0:39:05 | 0:39:13 | |
RHYTHM AND BLUES MUSIC | 0:39:25 | 0:39:29 | |
Yes, I'll have a Scotch, please. | 0:39:47 | 0:39:49 | |
Bartender, I'll have another one. | 0:40:14 | 0:40:18 | |
And get the little lady whatever she's having. | 0:40:18 | 0:40:21 | |
That drink was my last. | 0:40:35 | 0:40:38 | |
I'm broke. | 0:40:38 | 0:40:40 | |
Are you serious? | 0:40:44 | 0:40:46 | |
Do you have a place to stay? | 0:40:49 | 0:40:51 | |
No. | 0:40:51 | 0:40:53 | |
And you haven't got any money or anything to drink? | 0:40:53 | 0:40:57 | |
No. | 0:41:00 | 0:41:01 | |
Two Evan Williams, six pack of beer, two packs of cigarettes, | 0:41:02 | 0:41:08 | |
some chips, some mixed nuts, | 0:41:08 | 0:41:12 | |
some Alka-Seltzer. | 0:41:12 | 0:41:14 | |
And a good cigar. | 0:41:14 | 0:41:17 | |
-Cash or credit card? -Charge it to Pierre. | 0:41:17 | 0:41:20 | |
I'll have to phone. | 0:41:20 | 0:41:23 | |
Where are we going? | 0:41:24 | 0:41:26 | |
My place. | 0:41:26 | 0:41:28 | |
-It's OK. -Thank you. | 0:41:34 | 0:41:36 | |
GOES THROUGH DIFFERENT RADIO STATIONS | 0:41:36 | 0:41:40 | |
CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS | 0:41:40 | 0:41:43 | |
-You like this kind of music? -Yes. | 0:42:08 | 0:42:10 | |
Swell. | 0:42:15 | 0:42:16 | |
What? | 0:42:23 | 0:42:25 | |
You're great. You think you're hot shit. | 0:42:25 | 0:42:30 | |
-No. -Yes. | 0:42:30 | 0:42:32 | |
I can tell by the way you act. | 0:42:32 | 0:42:35 | |
I like you, though. | 0:42:35 | 0:42:36 | |
I liked you right away. | 0:42:38 | 0:42:40 | |
Hike up your skirt. | 0:42:41 | 0:42:43 | |
You like legs? | 0:42:45 | 0:42:48 | |
Yes. | 0:42:48 | 0:42:49 | |
Hey, you're not some kind of maniac, are you? | 0:42:52 | 0:42:55 | |
A guy's been picking up girls - | 0:42:55 | 0:42:56 | |
cuts crossword puzzles into their bodies with a penknife. | 0:42:56 | 0:43:00 | |
Well... | 0:43:03 | 0:43:04 | |
I write... | 0:43:04 | 0:43:06 | |
..but I'm not him. | 0:43:07 | 0:43:09 | |
And there are guys who fuck you and chop you into little pieces. | 0:43:14 | 0:43:19 | |
They find your ass in a drainpipe in the ocean... | 0:43:20 | 0:43:23 | |
A trashcan downtown. | 0:43:24 | 0:43:26 | |
I stopped doing that years ago. | 0:43:26 | 0:43:30 | |
DOORBELL RINGS | 0:44:14 | 0:44:16 | |
Stay back from the door. He's got a camera that lets him see who's at the door. | 0:44:18 | 0:44:22 | |
Let him just see me and when the buzzer sounds, you follow me in. | 0:44:22 | 0:44:26 | |
BUZZER | 0:44:27 | 0:44:29 | |
Sweetie! It's so good to see you. | 0:44:33 | 0:44:35 | |
Oh, Pierre! Hi! | 0:44:35 | 0:44:38 | |
How are you? | 0:44:41 | 0:44:43 | |
-Who's that guy? -Oh, I want you to meet a friend of mine. | 0:44:46 | 0:44:50 | |
-Hi. -Pierre, this is Henry Chinaski. | 0:44:50 | 0:44:54 | |
Good to know you, Pierre. | 0:44:55 | 0:44:57 | |
Come on in. | 0:44:57 | 0:44:59 | |
Thank you. You're so good, Pierre. | 0:44:59 | 0:45:01 | |
So good! | 0:45:01 | 0:45:03 | |
Hi, girls. Hey, this is Henry Chinaski. | 0:45:06 | 0:45:11 | |
-Henry, this is Grace and this is Jerry. -Hi, there. | 0:45:11 | 0:45:13 | |
-How are you doing? -Hello. | 0:45:13 | 0:45:15 | |
Help yourself. | 0:45:19 | 0:45:21 | |
So, what do you do? | 0:45:28 | 0:45:30 | |
-He's a writer. -Oh, I need somebody to do a libretto | 0:45:30 | 0:45:35 | |
for an opera I wrote. | 0:45:35 | 0:45:37 | |
It's called the Emperor of San Francisco. | 0:45:37 | 0:45:40 | |
Did you know there was a guy who claimed | 0:45:42 | 0:45:45 | |
he was the Emperor of San Francisco? | 0:45:45 | 0:45:47 | |
No, I didn't. | 0:45:47 | 0:45:49 | |
It's a real story. It's very interesting. | 0:45:49 | 0:45:53 | |
You look like you've been around. | 0:45:53 | 0:45:57 | |
You look like you've got class. | 0:45:57 | 0:46:00 | |
Would you like to hear some music from my opera? | 0:46:04 | 0:46:07 | |
Yes, I'd like that very much. | 0:46:10 | 0:46:14 | |
If it's OK with you. | 0:46:14 | 0:46:16 | |
Great. | 0:46:18 | 0:46:19 | |
-Yea! -Bravo. | 0:46:47 | 0:46:48 | |
Marvellous. | 0:46:49 | 0:46:51 | |
He's a tight son of a bitch. | 0:47:16 | 0:47:19 | |
He likes to take care of the girls in the bars who've no place to sleep, | 0:47:20 | 0:47:25 | |
but all he gives them is food and a bed. | 0:47:25 | 0:47:28 | |
Never any money. | 0:47:28 | 0:47:31 | |
And they only have the drinks when he's drinking. | 0:47:31 | 0:47:34 | |
Jerry got to him one night, though. | 0:47:36 | 0:47:40 | |
He was horny... | 0:47:40 | 0:47:41 | |
and he was chasing her around the table. | 0:47:42 | 0:47:46 | |
She said, "No, not unless you give me a thousand bucks a month for life." | 0:47:46 | 0:47:51 | |
He signed a piece of paper. | 0:47:56 | 0:47:59 | |
He gave her a thousand bucks a month. | 0:47:59 | 0:48:01 | |
Even after he dies, his family will have to pay her. | 0:48:02 | 0:48:06 | |
Jerry's his main girl, though. | 0:48:10 | 0:48:12 | |
What about you? | 0:48:17 | 0:48:20 | |
Not for a long time. | 0:48:22 | 0:48:24 | |
I like you. | 0:48:28 | 0:48:30 | |
-You do? -Yeah. | 0:48:34 | 0:48:36 | |
Watch, watch, watch... | 0:48:39 | 0:48:40 | |
Tomorrow, when he comes out with that sailor's cap on, | 0:48:40 | 0:48:45 | |
-with that captain's cap... -Uh huh? | 0:48:45 | 0:48:48 | |
It means we're going on his yacht. | 0:48:48 | 0:48:50 | |
Doctors made him get a yacht. | 0:48:51 | 0:48:53 | |
Is it a long one? | 0:48:55 | 0:48:58 | |
Sure. | 0:48:58 | 0:49:00 | |
We're going out on the yacht. | 0:49:10 | 0:49:13 | |
MUSIC PLAYS | 0:50:00 | 0:50:02 | |
We're going back. | 0:50:43 | 0:50:44 | |
What for? | 0:50:44 | 0:50:47 | |
Grace is having one of those moments. | 0:50:47 | 0:50:49 | |
She won't speak to me. | 0:50:49 | 0:50:51 | |
She just stands there staring at the water. | 0:50:51 | 0:50:54 | |
-I'm afraid she'll jump off the boat. She can't swim. -Give her 50 bucks. | 0:50:54 | 0:50:59 | |
No, we're going back. | 0:50:59 | 0:51:02 | |
This happens every time we try to go out. | 0:51:06 | 0:51:09 | |
Grace goes into one of her moods, | 0:51:11 | 0:51:14 | |
stands there staring at the ocean. She's never going to jump overboard. | 0:51:14 | 0:51:19 | |
She hates water! | 0:51:19 | 0:51:22 | |
'Pierre died shortly after that. | 0:51:27 | 0:51:30 | |
'Laura and I split up and I never saw any of them again.' | 0:51:30 | 0:51:35 | |
-Hi, mom. -Is that you? | 0:51:52 | 0:51:54 | |
Yeah. | 0:51:55 | 0:51:56 | |
I just need a place to sleep for a couple of days. | 0:51:56 | 0:51:59 | |
Your bedroom is always waiting. | 0:52:01 | 0:52:04 | |
Your father's home. | 0:52:04 | 0:52:07 | |
Thanks, Ma. | 0:52:14 | 0:52:15 | |
Hey, Dad. | 0:52:19 | 0:52:21 | |
Thanks. | 0:52:43 | 0:52:44 | |
You got a job? | 0:52:52 | 0:52:54 | |
No. | 0:52:54 | 0:52:56 | |
Any man who wants work can find work. | 0:52:57 | 0:53:00 | |
I suppose you're right. | 0:53:02 | 0:53:04 | |
I can hardly believe you're my son. | 0:53:06 | 0:53:08 | |
You don't have any ambition, you don't have any get up and go. | 0:53:09 | 0:53:13 | |
How the hell are you going to make it in this world? | 0:53:13 | 0:53:16 | |
Still think you're a writer? | 0:53:23 | 0:53:25 | |
I'm still writing. | 0:53:27 | 0:53:28 | |
You stay here, we'll charge you room and board plus laundry. | 0:53:36 | 0:53:39 | |
When you get a job | 0:53:39 | 0:53:41 | |
what you owe us we'll take out of your wages till you're paid up. | 0:53:41 | 0:53:45 | |
-You're drunk! -Yes. | 0:53:48 | 0:53:52 | |
Where do you get the money to drink? You don't have any money! | 0:53:52 | 0:53:56 | |
-I'll get a job. -How? | 0:53:56 | 0:53:58 | |
You know, you act as if I've murdered somebody. | 0:53:58 | 0:54:01 | |
It's just as bad. | 0:54:01 | 0:54:03 | |
Are you finished? | 0:54:09 | 0:54:10 | |
Thanks for the food, ma. | 0:54:13 | 0:54:16 | |
-You're not hungry? -No. | 0:54:16 | 0:54:17 | |
No, I'm good, thank you. | 0:54:17 | 0:54:20 | |
Hey, Robert, what do you say you and I go out | 0:54:42 | 0:54:45 | |
and have a few cocktails? | 0:54:45 | 0:54:47 | |
Go drinking in the middle of the week without a job? | 0:54:48 | 0:54:51 | |
Well, that's when you need a drink the most. | 0:54:51 | 0:54:55 | |
I'm warning you. | 0:54:56 | 0:54:57 | |
I also need a piece of ass. | 0:54:58 | 0:55:00 | |
What's he saying? | 0:55:00 | 0:55:02 | |
I said, | 0:55:04 | 0:55:05 | |
I also need a piece of ass. | 0:55:05 | 0:55:08 | |
Robert! | 0:55:08 | 0:55:09 | |
Now, you see the cartons? We have three different types, each one printed differently. | 0:55:38 | 0:55:43 | |
This is for our Super Durable Brake Shoe, | 0:55:43 | 0:55:45 | |
this is for our Super Brake Shoe, those are for our Standard Brake Shoe. | 0:55:45 | 0:55:49 | |
You run out, there's more here. And these are the brake shoes. | 0:55:49 | 0:55:52 | |
They all look the same. How do I tell them apart? | 0:55:52 | 0:55:55 | |
You don't, they're all the same. Just divide them into thirds. | 0:55:55 | 0:55:58 | |
When you're finished, come downstairs and we'll find something else for you. OK? | 0:55:58 | 0:56:03 | |
All right, when do I start? | 0:56:03 | 0:56:05 | |
You start now. | 0:56:05 | 0:56:06 | |
And absolutely no smoking. | 0:56:11 | 0:56:14 | |
Not up here. You have to smoke, you come downstairs, OK? | 0:56:14 | 0:56:17 | |
Gotcha. | 0:56:17 | 0:56:19 | |
DOOR CLOSES, ELEVATOR DESCENDS | 0:56:24 | 0:56:27 | |
'A poem is a city filled with streets and sewers. | 0:56:53 | 0:56:56 | |
'Filled with saints, heroes, beggars, madmen. | 0:56:56 | 0:57:01 | |
'Filled with banality and booze. | 0:57:01 | 0:57:04 | |
'Filled with rain and thunder and periods of drought. | 0:57:04 | 0:57:09 | |
'A poem is a city at war. | 0:57:09 | 0:57:11 | |
'It's a barber shop filled with cynical drunks. | 0:57:11 | 0:57:15 | |
'A poem is a city. | 0:57:15 | 0:57:17 | |
A poem is a nation. | 0:57:17 | 0:57:19 | |
'A poem is the world.' | 0:57:19 | 0:57:22 | |
I decided to look for Jan. | 0:57:25 | 0:57:28 | |
I toured the bars in our old neighbourhood looking for her. | 0:57:28 | 0:57:32 | |
Whitey Jackson, the bartender at the Pink Mule, told me | 0:57:32 | 0:57:36 | |
that she was working as a chambermaid in a downtown hotel. | 0:57:36 | 0:57:39 | |
Hey! | 0:57:59 | 0:58:01 | |
-Jan. -Jesus! I thought I'd never see you again. | 0:58:04 | 0:58:09 | |
Well, here I am. | 0:58:09 | 0:58:11 | |
Well, come on, let me look at you. | 0:58:16 | 0:58:18 | |
-You're thin, you've lost weight. -Well... | 0:58:20 | 0:58:24 | |
You're looking good. Are you alone? | 0:58:24 | 0:58:27 | |
Yeah. | 0:58:27 | 0:58:29 | |
-There's no-one else? -Nobody. You know I can't stand people! | 0:58:29 | 0:58:33 | |
Well, it's good to see you working. | 0:58:38 | 0:58:42 | |
Come on. | 0:58:44 | 0:58:46 | |
I'm embarrassed. | 0:58:59 | 0:59:02 | |
I love you, you idiot. | 0:59:04 | 0:59:06 | |
We fucked 800 times, so relax. | 0:59:06 | 0:59:08 | |
Do you like my legs? | 0:59:11 | 0:59:13 | |
Hell, yes. | 0:59:13 | 0:59:16 | |
Are you finished with your work? | 0:59:16 | 0:59:19 | |
-All but Mr Clarke's room. Mr Clarke doesn't care, he leaves me tips. -Oh. | 0:59:19 | 0:59:24 | |
I'm not doing anything, he just leaves me tips. | 0:59:24 | 0:59:30 | |
-Jan? -Yeah? | 0:59:33 | 0:59:35 | |
-I love you, baby. -Bastard. | 0:59:40 | 0:59:45 | |
When I came home one night, she had moved in with me. | 0:59:45 | 0:59:48 | |
I decided to clean up the apartment. | 1:00:05 | 1:00:08 | |
I thought, "I must be turning into a fag." | 1:00:08 | 1:00:11 | |
Where is she? Where is the bitch who cleaned the place, huh? | 1:00:32 | 1:00:37 | |
If I find her, I'm going to kill her, I swear. | 1:00:48 | 1:00:51 | |
You're going to pay for this, Chinaski! | 1:00:55 | 1:00:58 | |
OK? | 1:01:00 | 1:01:02 | |
'She was continually using our arguments to justify herself. | 1:01:14 | 1:01:19 | |
'It was just a cover for her own guilt. | 1:01:19 | 1:01:23 | |
'She'd go off with anyone she met in a bar | 1:01:23 | 1:01:26 | |
'and the lower and the dirtier he was, the better she liked it. | 1:01:26 | 1:01:30 | |
'She left and I got drunk for three days and three nights. | 1:01:34 | 1:01:38 | |
'When I sobered up, I knew my job was gone.' | 1:01:38 | 1:01:42 | |
Hello. | 1:01:49 | 1:01:51 | |
I was told you might be looking for reporters. | 1:01:51 | 1:01:54 | |
Please fill this out. | 1:01:54 | 1:01:55 | |
Bastard. | 1:02:28 | 1:02:30 | |
Apply this ointment to the invaded parts and wait 20 to 30 minutes before washing it off. | 1:02:37 | 1:02:42 | |
Under no circumstances leave it on longer than 30 minutes. | 1:02:42 | 1:02:47 | |
Thank you. | 1:02:47 | 1:02:49 | |
'Hell, 30 minutes? | 1:03:12 | 1:03:15 | |
'I'll leave it on all night and kill every one of these fuckers.' | 1:03:15 | 1:03:18 | |
Oh! | 1:03:28 | 1:03:29 | |
Oh! | 1:03:31 | 1:03:32 | |
Ah. Agh! | 1:03:38 | 1:03:41 | |
Oh. Oh! Shit! | 1:03:41 | 1:03:46 | |
Hank? | 1:03:49 | 1:03:51 | |
-You fucking whore! -What! | 1:03:51 | 1:03:53 | |
Look at what you've done to me. | 1:03:53 | 1:03:56 | |
God, what is it? | 1:03:56 | 1:03:57 | |
Oh, don't you know? Don't you know? | 1:03:57 | 1:04:00 | |
I haven't fucked anybody else. | 1:04:00 | 1:04:02 | |
I got it from you. You're a carrier. | 1:04:02 | 1:04:04 | |
-A disease ridden slut. -What? | 1:04:04 | 1:04:07 | |
Crabs, baby. You gave me the crabs. | 1:04:07 | 1:04:10 | |
-I don't have crabs. Geraldine must have them. -What? | 1:04:10 | 1:04:13 | |
I was staying at Geraldine's, sitting on a toilet. | 1:04:13 | 1:04:16 | |
Oh, don't give me that shit. You got it off a toilet seat? | 1:04:16 | 1:04:19 | |
-Get me a goddamn drink. -OK. | 1:04:20 | 1:04:22 | |
PHONE RINGS | 1:04:24 | 1:04:26 | |
Yes, what do you want? | 1:04:27 | 1:04:31 | |
Yes... | 1:04:31 | 1:04:33 | |
Yes... | 1:04:34 | 1:04:35 | |
As a reporter? | 1:04:36 | 1:04:38 | |
Not as a reporter. | 1:04:40 | 1:04:43 | |
What, today? | 1:04:43 | 1:04:44 | |
OK, thanks. | 1:04:46 | 1:04:48 | |
-Who was that? -I got a job. | 1:04:51 | 1:04:54 | |
I'll fix you up. | 1:04:54 | 1:04:56 | |
I can't wear pants. | 1:04:58 | 1:05:01 | |
-I'll wrap you up in gauze. -Do you think that's going to work? -Mm-hmm, I do. | 1:05:04 | 1:05:08 | |
-All right. Easy does it. -Mm-hmm. | 1:05:10 | 1:05:13 | |
OK. I'll put it right around. | 1:05:13 | 1:05:16 | |
Easy! | 1:05:16 | 1:05:19 | |
-Anybody ever tell you how funny you are? -No. | 1:05:22 | 1:05:24 | |
That's understandable. Now for a little tape. | 1:05:26 | 1:05:30 | |
OK? | 1:05:30 | 1:05:32 | |
Now, put your other leg up, lover. | 1:05:34 | 1:05:36 | |
-Never mind the romance. -OK, around your big fat thighs. | 1:05:36 | 1:05:40 | |
-Not as big as your big fat ass. -Now, now. Be nice, now. | 1:05:45 | 1:05:50 | |
Now for the balls, | 1:05:50 | 1:05:54 | |
your little red balls. Just in time for Christmas. | 1:05:54 | 1:05:56 | |
Wait a minute, what are you going to do to my balls? | 1:05:56 | 1:05:59 | |
-I'm gonna wrap them. -Isn't that dangerous? It could affect my tap dancing. | 1:05:59 | 1:06:03 | |
Oh, yeah, I'm going to wrap that around like that and tie it. I'm going to wrap them real nice. | 1:06:03 | 1:06:09 | |
-They're going to slip out. -No, they're in a cocoon. Real nice. | 1:06:09 | 1:06:13 | |
See? Now they're feeling better. | 1:06:13 | 1:06:15 | |
One more little bit of tape. | 1:06:15 | 1:06:20 | |
Hey, don't tape my balls to my asshole. | 1:06:20 | 1:06:23 | |
-That's the best place for them, baby. -Yeah. | 1:06:23 | 1:06:27 | |
You're as good as new. | 1:06:27 | 1:06:31 | |
Now, get up, walk around. | 1:06:31 | 1:06:34 | |
This is all right. | 1:06:49 | 1:06:51 | |
I feel like a eunuch... | 1:06:54 | 1:06:57 | |
..but this is all right. | 1:06:58 | 1:06:59 | |
Want some soft boiled eggs? | 1:07:00 | 1:07:02 | |
Sure, baby. | 1:07:02 | 1:07:04 | |
Call for help if you need to move the lift. | 1:07:10 | 1:07:12 | |
Remember, we're very proud of this guy. It's called Vision Of Peace. | 1:07:12 | 1:07:18 | |
'Why was I chosen to do this? | 1:07:46 | 1:07:48 | |
'Why couldn't I be inside, writing editorials about municipal corruption, | 1:07:50 | 1:07:56 | |
'give the readers my Vision Of Peace? | 1:07:56 | 1:07:59 | |
'Questions like these demand a deeper consideration.' | 1:08:01 | 1:08:05 | |
Superintendent Barnes, | 1:08:34 | 1:08:38 | |
buy you a beer? | 1:08:38 | 1:08:39 | |
You are fired, Mr Chinaski. | 1:08:40 | 1:08:43 | |
-Please return your uniform and clean out your locker. -Yes, sir. | 1:08:43 | 1:08:49 | |
DOOR OPENS | 1:08:52 | 1:08:54 | |
-Is that you, Hank? -Yeah, baby. | 1:08:56 | 1:08:58 | |
I got canned. | 1:09:08 | 1:09:10 | |
They caught me drinking on the job. | 1:09:12 | 1:09:15 | |
What about your cheque? | 1:09:15 | 1:09:16 | |
Funny, they didn't mention it. | 1:09:19 | 1:09:22 | |
You worked almost a full day. | 1:09:22 | 1:09:24 | |
They owe you wages. | 1:09:24 | 1:09:27 | |
Yes, they do. | 1:09:27 | 1:09:30 | |
Well, go get it. | 1:09:30 | 1:09:31 | |
As soon as the office opens. | 1:09:31 | 1:09:34 | |
OK. | 1:09:34 | 1:09:36 | |
Let's hit the market for some stew meat and vegetables | 1:09:56 | 1:10:00 | |
and then let's get a couple of bottles of really good French wine. | 1:10:00 | 1:10:03 | |
-Jan, they told me the cheque wasn't ready yet. -What?! | 1:10:03 | 1:10:08 | |
They can't... It's the law. | 1:10:08 | 1:10:10 | |
I don't know. They said it'd be ready tomorrow. | 1:10:10 | 1:10:13 | |
Oh, Christ! I've walked all this way in high heels... | 1:10:13 | 1:10:16 | |
-You look great, baby. -Yeah. | 1:10:16 | 1:10:18 | |
I'm not walkin'. No. | 1:10:33 | 1:10:35 | |
It pays to be a tough son of a bitch. | 1:11:21 | 1:11:24 | |
The world belongs to people with balls. | 1:11:24 | 1:11:27 | |
Just get the cheque, Daddy. | 1:11:27 | 1:11:28 | |
I'm Henry Chinaski. | 1:11:39 | 1:11:41 | |
-Yes? -Yes, I was here yesterday. | 1:11:42 | 1:11:46 | |
-Yes. -Right. And you told me my cheque would be ready today. | 1:11:46 | 1:11:52 | |
Oh. | 1:11:53 | 1:11:55 | |
That's right. | 1:11:55 | 1:11:56 | |
I'm sorry, Mr Chinaski, your cheque isn't here yet. | 1:12:03 | 1:12:07 | |
But you said it would be. | 1:12:07 | 1:12:08 | |
I'm sorry, sir, sometimes it takes a little longer for a payroll cheque to process. | 1:12:10 | 1:12:15 | |
Look, I want my cheque. | 1:12:15 | 1:12:16 | |
I'm sorry, sir. | 1:12:19 | 1:12:21 | |
You're not sorry. | 1:12:23 | 1:12:25 | |
You don't know what sorrow is. I do. | 1:12:25 | 1:12:28 | |
Now, I want to talk to your boss's boss now. | 1:12:30 | 1:12:33 | |
Mr Handler? A Mr Chinaski would like to see you | 1:12:41 | 1:12:44 | |
about a termination payroll cheque. | 1:12:44 | 1:12:47 | |
Right. | 1:12:49 | 1:12:51 | |
Room 309. | 1:12:57 | 1:12:59 | |
Thank you. | 1:12:59 | 1:13:02 | |
Me and my old lady have walked down here now two days running | 1:13:02 | 1:13:06 | |
just to be told that you don't have my cheque. | 1:13:06 | 1:13:09 | |
Now, you and I know that's pure crap. | 1:13:10 | 1:13:13 | |
Now, all I want to do is get my cheque and get drunk. | 1:13:17 | 1:13:20 | |
Now, that might not sound...noble, but it's my choice. | 1:13:21 | 1:13:29 | |
You got a smoke? | 1:13:32 | 1:13:33 | |
Thank you. | 1:13:51 | 1:13:52 | |
Miss Simms? | 1:14:02 | 1:14:05 | |
There's a cheque due - a Mr Henry Chinaski. | 1:14:05 | 1:14:09 | |
Yes, Henry Chinaski. | 1:14:09 | 1:14:12 | |
I want it down in five minutes. | 1:14:12 | 1:14:15 | |
Thank you. | 1:14:16 | 1:14:19 | |
Listen, John, I've got two years of journalism school | 1:14:21 | 1:14:26 | |
at Los Angeles City College. | 1:14:26 | 1:14:29 | |
You couldn't use a reporter, could you? | 1:14:29 | 1:14:31 | |
-Sorry, we're overstaffed now. -I see. | 1:14:31 | 1:14:37 | |
Your cheque will be downstairs. | 1:14:37 | 1:14:39 | |
Thank you. | 1:14:43 | 1:14:44 | |
You might as well not have any goddamn ears, | 1:15:05 | 1:15:07 | |
you never listen to me any more. | 1:15:07 | 1:15:09 | |
Well...that's because you keep saying the same damn thing over and over again. | 1:15:09 | 1:15:14 | |
OK, let's have a drink and talk about it. | 1:15:14 | 1:15:17 | |
You've had your ass up in the air ever since we got back together. | 1:15:20 | 1:15:24 | |
Shit. | 1:16:00 | 1:16:02 | |
Come on, let's face the obvious. | 1:16:04 | 1:16:08 | |
I don't need you. | 1:16:08 | 1:16:10 | |
You don't need me. | 1:16:13 | 1:16:14 | |
Yeah, I know. | 1:16:20 | 1:16:23 | |
'A week later, Jan moved out of my place and shacked up with some rich guy. | 1:16:49 | 1:16:54 | |
'After that, I couldn't pay the rent.' | 1:16:56 | 1:16:58 | |
-The landlord threw you out? -Yeah. | 1:17:10 | 1:17:14 | |
-Did you get the job? -No, they didn't want me. | 1:17:16 | 1:17:20 | |
-How come? -Well, I don't have an address. | 1:17:20 | 1:17:26 | |
Hank, I hate it when he fucks me. | 1:17:29 | 1:17:33 | |
Sure, babe. Take care. | 1:17:34 | 1:17:38 | |
This is for you. Got too small for him. | 1:17:40 | 1:17:42 | |
See you around, Hank. | 1:17:46 | 1:17:49 | |
You'll manage. | 1:17:58 | 1:18:00 | |
'Amazing how grimly we hold on to our misery. | 1:18:28 | 1:18:32 | |
'The energy we burn fuelling our anger. | 1:18:32 | 1:18:35 | |
'Amazing, how one moment we can be snarling like a beast, | 1:18:39 | 1:18:43 | |
'then, a few moments later, forgetting what or why. | 1:18:43 | 1:18:47 | |
'Not hours of this, or days, or months or years of this, | 1:18:47 | 1:18:53 | |
'but decades, lifetimes completely used up, | 1:18:53 | 1:18:56 | |
'given over to the pettiest rancour and hatred. | 1:18:56 | 1:19:00 | |
'Finally, there is nothing here for death to take away.' | 1:19:00 | 1:19:06 | |
All right, sit down and we'll see if anything comes in. | 1:19:36 | 1:19:39 | |
You look a little down in the mouth. | 1:19:52 | 1:19:55 | |
You all right? | 1:19:55 | 1:19:57 | |
I lost a woman. | 1:19:57 | 1:19:59 | |
Yeah, well, you'll have others. | 1:20:01 | 1:20:03 | |
You'll lose them, too. | 1:20:03 | 1:20:05 | |
Where do they go? | 1:20:06 | 1:20:08 | |
Try this. | 1:20:10 | 1:20:13 | |
-Ain't no women on Skid Row. -Thanks. | 1:20:13 | 1:20:16 | |
Don't let him see us drinking. That's the one thing he don't like. | 1:20:18 | 1:20:21 | |
Slow! | 1:20:23 | 1:20:25 | |
Wine gnats. | 1:20:34 | 1:20:36 | |
The sons of bitches are hooked. | 1:20:36 | 1:20:38 | |
They know what's good. | 1:20:38 | 1:20:40 | |
They drink to forget their woman. | 1:20:42 | 1:20:45 | |
Nah, they just drink. | 1:20:45 | 1:20:47 | |
-Oh, shit. -Aw, here he comes. | 1:20:49 | 1:20:51 | |
All right, all right, get out! | 1:20:51 | 1:20:54 | |
Get out! Get the hell out of here, you fucking winos! | 1:20:54 | 1:20:56 | |
Get outta here before I call the cops, both of you. | 1:20:56 | 1:20:59 | |
Buddy... | 1:20:59 | 1:21:01 | |
Let's go, both of you, outta here right now. Keep moving. | 1:21:01 | 1:21:05 | |
Get out of here. I'll call the cops, you goddamn degenerates. | 1:21:05 | 1:21:09 | |
Don't come back! | 1:21:09 | 1:21:11 | |
What? | 1:21:14 | 1:21:16 | |
This isn't a bar. | 1:21:16 | 1:21:17 | |
Sun's up. | 1:21:21 | 1:21:23 | |
Yeah. | 1:21:24 | 1:21:27 | |
Sun's up good. | 1:21:27 | 1:21:29 | |
Well... | 1:21:38 | 1:21:40 | |
I gotta get going. | 1:21:42 | 1:21:44 | |
See you. | 1:21:52 | 1:21:53 | |
So, what do I do with Chinaski's mail? | 1:22:15 | 1:22:18 | |
Oh, he's gone. Just give it to me. | 1:22:18 | 1:22:21 | |
-Have a nice day. -Hmm. | 1:22:21 | 1:22:23 | |
'Dear Mr Chinaski, we are returning these four stories, but we are keeping | 1:23:01 | 1:23:06 | |
My Beerdrunk Soul Is Sadder Than All The Dead Christmas Trees Of The World. | 1:23:06 | 1:23:10 | |
We've been watching you work for a long time and we are most happy to accept this story. | 1:23:10 | 1:23:16 | |
Sincerely, John Martin, Black Sparrow Press. | 1:23:16 | 1:23:19 | |
Hmm. | 1:23:19 | 1:23:21 | |
If you're going to try, go all the way. | 1:23:44 | 1:23:48 | |
Otherwise, don't even start. | 1:23:49 | 1:23:52 | |
This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs | 1:23:52 | 1:23:58 | |
and maybe your mind. | 1:23:58 | 1:24:00 | |
It could mean not eating for three or four days. | 1:24:00 | 1:24:04 | |
It could mean freezing on a park bench. | 1:24:04 | 1:24:06 | |
It could mean jail. | 1:24:06 | 1:24:08 | |
It could mean derision. | 1:24:08 | 1:24:10 | |
It could mean mockery. Isolation. | 1:24:10 | 1:24:12 | |
Isolation is the gift. | 1:24:15 | 1:24:18 | |
All the others are a test of your endurance, | 1:24:18 | 1:24:20 | |
of how much you really want to do it. | 1:24:20 | 1:24:23 | |
And you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds | 1:24:23 | 1:24:28 | |
and it will be better than anything else you can imagine. | 1:24:28 | 1:24:31 | |
If you're going to try, go all the way. | 1:24:35 | 1:24:38 | |
There is no other feeling like that. | 1:24:39 | 1:24:41 | |
You will be alone with the gods and the nights will flame with fire. | 1:24:41 | 1:24:47 | |
You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. | 1:24:47 | 1:24:51 | |
It's the only good fight there is. | 1:24:52 | 1:24:55 | |
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