WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.020 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.020 --> 00:00:03.090 align:middle line:84% I'm going to read The Black Velvet Girl. 00:00:03.090 --> 00:00:08.310 align:middle line:84% And this is kind of a playful bittersweet story. 00:00:08.310 --> 00:00:16.379 align:middle line:84% And the language that people speak in here-- 00:00:16.379 --> 00:00:20.040 align:middle line:90% the hoods, the mokes-- 00:00:20.040 --> 00:00:21.510 align:middle line:90% is Pidgin English. 00:00:21.510 --> 00:00:27.600 align:middle line:84% And Pidgin is a polyglot tongue, which is spoken in Hawaii. 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:30.870 align:middle line:84% Its base is English, but it's part Japanese, 00:00:30.870 --> 00:00:34.200 align:middle line:90% part Chinese, part Hawaiian. 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:36.840 align:middle line:90% So The Black Velvet Girl. 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:39.870 align:middle line:84% "Just after I vowed to be true to my wife, no more messing 00:00:39.870 --> 00:00:42.820 align:middle line:84% around, I go to a party at Olomana 00:00:42.820 --> 00:00:44.970 align:middle line:84% and get tangled up with the Black Velvet girl. 00:00:44.970 --> 00:00:47.880 align:middle line:90% You know the Black Velvet girl? 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:49.470 align:middle line:90% She's the one on the billboards. 00:00:49.470 --> 00:00:53.130 align:middle line:90% For the whiskey, Black Velvet. 00:00:53.130 --> 00:00:55.710 align:middle line:84% Anyway, I've got no business up at Olomana Golf Course, 00:00:55.710 --> 00:00:57.510 align:middle line:84% except Roy's going to hele-on up there 00:00:57.510 --> 00:01:00.240 align:middle line:84% to collect Sunshine, who does a cocktail number. 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:01.530 align:middle line:90% Roy is out of his room. 00:01:01.530 --> 00:01:02.850 align:middle line:90% Coming? 00:01:02.850 --> 00:01:05.720 align:middle line:84% I decide I'll ride along for the hell of it. 00:01:05.720 --> 00:01:07.890 align:middle line:84% Atuana, my wife, says, don't be too long, 00:01:07.890 --> 00:01:10.410 align:middle line:84% haole boy, I'm making something special. 00:01:10.410 --> 00:01:13.050 align:middle line:84% Back in a twinkling, I say, I'm yours forever. 00:01:13.050 --> 00:01:15.330 align:middle line:84% The pots are steaming away on all four burners. 00:01:15.330 --> 00:01:17.310 align:middle line:90% The wok gleams with peanut oil. 00:01:17.310 --> 00:01:21.600 align:middle line:84% The vegetables have been cut and chopped into elegant mounds. 00:01:21.600 --> 00:01:24.660 align:middle line:84% There's ginger here, green onions, sesame, soy, 00:01:24.660 --> 00:01:26.310 align:middle line:90% oyster sauce. 00:01:26.310 --> 00:01:28.710 align:middle line:84% The trade wind fills the kitchen, picks up my wife'a 00:01:28.710 --> 00:01:29.730 align:middle line:90% stewardess uniform. 00:01:29.730 --> 00:01:32.220 align:middle line:84% It floats in the wind on its hanger. 00:01:32.220 --> 00:01:36.960 align:middle line:84% After a day in the Hawaiian sky, Atuana is in one of my shirts 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:38.850 align:middle line:90% and a pair of cutoffs. 00:01:38.850 --> 00:01:41.610 align:middle line:84% Her long coltish legs are golden in the last sunlight 00:01:41.610 --> 00:01:43.060 align:middle line:90% and the kitchen window. 00:01:43.060 --> 00:01:45.660 align:middle line:84% She is a Hawaiian-Chinese Lauren Bacall. 00:01:45.660 --> 00:01:48.150 align:middle line:84% I am always struck anew by her elegance. 00:01:48.150 --> 00:01:50.640 align:middle line:90% Come on, says Roy. 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:51.810 align:middle line:90% Right, I say. 00:01:51.810 --> 00:01:55.005 align:middle line:84% I hesitate one moment more to admire her hands. 00:01:55.005 --> 00:01:56.580 align:middle line:84% They are the supple tapered hands 00:01:56.580 --> 00:01:59.280 align:middle line:84% of the Thai dancers on the Ramayana murals. 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:00.510 align:middle line:90% I kiss her fingers. 00:02:00.510 --> 00:02:01.920 align:middle line:90% I love you, I say. 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:03.390 align:middle line:90% Cut this shit, my wife says. 00:02:03.390 --> 00:02:05.730 align:middle line:84% I don't begrudge you a few drinks, just don't be long, 00:02:05.730 --> 00:02:06.230 align:middle line:90% tonight. 00:02:06.230 --> 00:02:07.920 align:middle line:90% I spark you later. 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:10.229 align:middle line:84% Outside, I pause for a second, gaze out 00:02:10.229 --> 00:02:13.980 align:middle line:84% at the beach, the ocean, Makapu falling into blue shadows. 00:02:13.980 --> 00:02:17.100 align:middle line:84% I hele-on, catching up with Roy as he 00:02:17.100 --> 00:02:19.260 align:middle line:84% pulls his rusted shit-bomb Rambler around 00:02:19.260 --> 00:02:20.640 align:middle line:90% between the houses. 00:02:20.640 --> 00:02:23.940 align:middle line:84% I move a surfboard out of the way, hop in, slam the door. 00:02:23.940 --> 00:02:25.860 align:middle line:84% When I slam the door, the rust flies 00:02:25.860 --> 00:02:28.200 align:middle line:84% and I spend the next few minutes blinking the flakes out 00:02:28.200 --> 00:02:30.660 align:middle line:84% of my eyes, spitting them out of my mouth 00:02:30.660 --> 00:02:35.070 align:middle line:84% as we hele-on up the K highway to Olomana. 00:02:35.070 --> 00:02:37.110 align:middle line:84% We walk into the clubhouse at Olomana 00:02:37.110 --> 00:02:39.570 align:middle line:84% and there are these big mother inflated plastic bottles 00:02:39.570 --> 00:02:42.180 align:middle line:84% hanging from the ceiling and standing on the corners. 00:02:42.180 --> 00:02:44.490 align:middle line:84% They are pale gold and say, Black Velvet. 00:02:44.490 --> 00:02:46.320 align:middle line:90% I squeeze one. 00:02:46.320 --> 00:02:50.970 align:middle line:84% As we head for the bar, we are intercepted by Sunshine. 00:02:50.970 --> 00:02:54.270 align:middle line:84% She holds up a loaded tray and says, have some Black Velvet, 00:02:54.270 --> 00:02:54.900 align:middle line:90% it's free. 00:02:54.900 --> 00:02:55.890 align:middle line:90% Promotional. 00:02:55.890 --> 00:02:58.950 align:middle line:84% She holds up the tray of Black Velvet and giggles. 00:02:58.950 --> 00:03:00.930 align:middle line:84% Roy and I look at each other, free? 00:03:00.930 --> 00:03:04.170 align:middle line:90% Shrug and start belting it down. 00:03:04.170 --> 00:03:07.860 align:middle line:84% Sunshine, who practices TM every morning on the beach at sunrise 00:03:07.860 --> 00:03:10.890 align:middle line:84% and who is always preaching the beauties of vegetarianism 00:03:10.890 --> 00:03:14.700 align:middle line:84% and informing us, all of us, Roy, Atuana, myself, 00:03:14.700 --> 00:03:17.070 align:middle line:84% how we have poisoned ourselves, giggles now 00:03:17.070 --> 00:03:19.620 align:middle line:84% because Black Velvet isn't natural either. 00:03:19.620 --> 00:03:22.950 align:middle line:84% It excites Sunshine, makes her nervous to see us poison 00:03:22.950 --> 00:03:27.390 align:middle line:84% ourselves with such joyful and reckless abandon. 00:03:27.390 --> 00:03:32.460 align:middle line:84% Her eyes, a murky yellow topaz, move back and forth between us. 00:03:32.460 --> 00:03:34.560 align:middle line:84% Then, secretively, she moves her head 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:37.740 align:middle line:84% toward a subdued mob of beefy guys in aloha shirts 00:03:37.740 --> 00:03:40.140 align:middle line:84% and white shoes huddled before the picture window. 00:03:40.140 --> 00:03:42.720 align:middle line:90% 00:03:42.720 --> 00:03:45.540 align:middle line:84% Beyond them, like the panorama of a Chinese screen, 00:03:45.540 --> 00:03:48.930 align:middle line:84% I can see the golf course, the twin peaks of Mount Olomana, 00:03:48.930 --> 00:03:51.480 align:middle line:84% the black cinder cones of the Koolaus, 00:03:51.480 --> 00:03:54.750 align:middle line:84% and the low winter rain clouds socked in against the Koolaus 00:03:54.750 --> 00:03:56.010 align:middle line:90% and Pali. 00:03:56.010 --> 00:03:59.200 align:middle line:84% Sunshine says in a breathless voice, 00:03:59.200 --> 00:04:00.900 align:middle line:84% it's the guys from the syndicate. 00:04:00.900 --> 00:04:05.160 align:middle line:84% Harry Chin, Talofa Talofa, Thunder Lono, Aku Kim, 00:04:05.160 --> 00:04:07.530 align:middle line:90% Vitamins Wong, Fat Sonny Ho. 00:04:07.530 --> 00:04:08.790 align:middle line:90% She knows them all. 00:04:08.790 --> 00:04:10.290 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:04:10.290 --> 00:04:15.180 align:middle line:84% When she is finished, Sunshine is flushed pink under her tan. 00:04:15.180 --> 00:04:17.730 align:middle line:84% Being around so much organized violence and crime, 00:04:17.730 --> 00:04:21.870 align:middle line:84% dormant now, but with a long past, simply saying their names 00:04:21.870 --> 00:04:24.270 align:middle line:90% turns her on. 00:04:24.270 --> 00:04:28.110 align:middle line:84% TM and vegetarianism cannot hold a candle to organized crime. 00:04:28.110 --> 00:04:29.760 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:04:29.760 --> 00:04:31.950 align:middle line:90% Roy says, Harry Chin? 00:04:31.950 --> 00:04:33.420 align:middle line:90% He looks at me. 00:04:33.420 --> 00:04:36.420 align:middle line:84% I look askance at Sunshine, but Sunshine only 00:04:36.420 --> 00:04:38.550 align:middle line:90% nods smugly, Harry Chin. 00:04:38.550 --> 00:04:41.580 align:middle line:90% Right over there. 00:04:41.580 --> 00:04:43.770 align:middle line:84% I say the Sunshine, I read yesterday 00:04:43.770 --> 00:04:46.530 align:middle line:84% in the Star Bulletin the cops picked up Harry Chin for income 00:04:46.530 --> 00:04:48.030 align:middle line:90% tax evasion. 00:04:48.030 --> 00:04:51.930 align:middle line:84% Sunshine, who doesn't read the newspapers because there's 00:04:51.930 --> 00:04:55.350 align:middle line:84% nothing in them anyway, but wars and politicians and all 00:04:55.350 --> 00:04:58.230 align:middle line:84% that crumbling capitalist degeneracy Maya 00:04:58.230 --> 00:05:00.940 align:middle line:84% And because that stuff would jam her TM transmission 00:05:00.940 --> 00:05:04.000 align:middle line:84% says, what's so bad about income tax evasion? 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:06.550 align:middle line:84% Roy says, it's not income tax evasion. 00:05:06.550 --> 00:05:09.390 align:middle line:84% Sunshine says, then why call it income tax evasion? 00:05:09.390 --> 00:05:11.890 align:middle line:84% Roy says, because that's the way the cops and syndicate play 00:05:11.890 --> 00:05:13.420 align:middle line:90% the game. 00:05:13.420 --> 00:05:16.060 align:middle line:84% What games, says Sunshine sulking. 00:05:16.060 --> 00:05:18.280 align:middle line:84% Roy looks at me, makes a funny helpless gesture 00:05:18.280 --> 00:05:20.440 align:middle line:90% with his hands. 00:05:20.440 --> 00:05:22.930 align:middle line:84% See sunshine, I say, it's just a polite way 00:05:22.930 --> 00:05:26.230 align:middle line:84% of saying the heat knows Harry Chin had Talofa Talofa dynamite 00:05:26.230 --> 00:05:30.280 align:middle line:84% Chocolate Joe Hondo's Cadillac with Chocolate Joe in it. 00:05:30.280 --> 00:05:32.887 align:middle line:90% But they can't prove it yet. 00:05:32.887 --> 00:05:34.345 align:middle line:84% So they call it income tax evasion. 00:05:34.345 --> 00:05:37.210 align:middle line:90% 00:05:37.210 --> 00:05:39.610 align:middle line:84% I recall the picture on yesterday's front page. 00:05:39.610 --> 00:05:42.280 align:middle line:84% The exploded white Caddy, the crumpled hood hanging down out 00:05:42.280 --> 00:05:44.470 align:middle line:90% of a palm tree. 00:05:44.470 --> 00:05:46.930 align:middle line:84% Sunshine says breathlessly, well, maybe they 00:05:46.930 --> 00:05:49.180 align:middle line:84% were in jail yesterday, but they're out on bail today. 00:05:49.180 --> 00:05:51.340 align:middle line:90% 200,000 she says. 00:05:51.340 --> 00:05:54.220 align:middle line:84% Roy pastes up a weekly advertising rag, The Windward 00:05:54.220 --> 00:05:58.930 align:middle line:84% Shopper, has splotches of rubber cement on his Hush puppies, 00:05:58.930 --> 00:06:01.330 align:middle line:84% and takes home a cool one 110 a week. 00:06:01.330 --> 00:06:04.300 align:middle line:90% I think that's after taxes. 00:06:04.300 --> 00:06:06.100 align:middle line:84% We don't say any more so Sunshine 00:06:06.100 --> 00:06:09.500 align:middle line:84% says, I don't care what they've done, look at them. 00:06:09.500 --> 00:06:10.450 align:middle line:90% You can see yourself. 00:06:10.450 --> 00:06:11.680 align:middle line:90% They love to laugh and drink. 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:13.210 align:middle line:90% They've got the aloha spirit. 00:06:13.210 --> 00:06:14.830 align:middle line:90% They're all good guys. 00:06:14.830 --> 00:06:16.840 align:middle line:84% Every time I go over there, they're all smiles. 00:06:16.840 --> 00:06:19.510 align:middle line:90% They tip me $5 every time. 00:06:19.510 --> 00:06:21.820 align:middle line:84% Sunshine reaches into her pocket and pulls out 00:06:21.820 --> 00:06:24.760 align:middle line:90% a huge wad of crumpled fives. 00:06:24.760 --> 00:06:27.730 align:middle line:84% That Talofa, he's cute as a baby. 00:06:27.730 --> 00:06:29.170 align:middle line:90% Roy and I look at each other. 00:06:29.170 --> 00:06:33.040 align:middle line:84% The syndicate is not noted for being charitable organization. 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:35.620 align:middle line:84% Roy reaches back and nervously smooth the elastic 00:06:35.620 --> 00:06:37.780 align:middle line:90% on his ponytail. 00:06:37.780 --> 00:06:41.440 align:middle line:84% Something passes between them, and Sunshine 00:06:41.440 --> 00:06:44.920 align:middle line:84% says, petulant and stubborn, I'm not giving it back, Roy. 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:46.180 align:middle line:90% Any of it. 00:06:46.180 --> 00:06:47.620 align:middle line:90% We have some more Black Velvet. 00:06:47.620 --> 00:06:52.390 align:middle line:84% Then Sunshine leans between Roy and myself, so close this time, 00:06:52.390 --> 00:06:54.550 align:middle line:84% that I can smell the herbal essence cream rinse 00:06:54.550 --> 00:06:55.180 align:middle line:90% in her hair. 00:06:55.180 --> 00:06:56.690 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:06:56.690 --> 00:07:00.190 align:middle line:84% She whispers, Harry Chin digs the Black Velvet girl. 00:07:00.190 --> 00:07:01.930 align:middle line:90% She's over there. 00:07:01.930 --> 00:07:04.360 align:middle line:84% Sunshine adds begrudgingly, the Black Velvet girl 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:08.740 align:middle line:84% is beautiful in a plastic kind of way. 00:07:08.740 --> 00:07:11.770 align:middle line:84% Roy measures the distance to the door and says, let's hele-on. 00:07:11.770 --> 00:07:14.060 align:middle line:84% Sunshine says, oh, can't we stay a little longer? 00:07:14.060 --> 00:07:15.340 align:middle line:90% Do you have to be such a snob? 00:07:15.340 --> 00:07:18.160 align:middle line:84% You know, maybe Talofa's one of those guys who's acting 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:20.530 align:middle line:84% mean because everybody treats him mean. 00:07:20.530 --> 00:07:22.135 align:middle line:90% Roy says, maybe. 00:07:22.135 --> 00:07:24.760 align:middle line:84% Yeah, and maybe you and Talofa, once you got to know each other 00:07:24.760 --> 00:07:26.440 align:middle line:90% could be great friends. 00:07:26.440 --> 00:07:27.970 align:middle line:90% Maybe. 00:07:27.970 --> 00:07:30.280 align:middle line:84% And how do you guys know they blew up old whosey face's 00:07:30.280 --> 00:07:33.760 align:middle line:84% stupid Cadillac, because the stupid paper said so? 00:07:33.760 --> 00:07:35.710 align:middle line:84% It wasn't just a Cadillac, Roy says. 00:07:35.710 --> 00:07:36.610 align:middle line:90% What's a Cadillac? 00:07:36.610 --> 00:07:37.900 align:middle line:90% Sunshine says. 00:07:37.900 --> 00:07:41.348 align:middle line:84% Chocolate Joe was in the Cadillac. 00:07:41.348 --> 00:07:42.640 align:middle line:90% That shuts her up for a minute. 00:07:42.640 --> 00:07:45.280 align:middle line:84% Then she says, well, how do you know that Talofa did it? 00:07:45.280 --> 00:07:47.230 align:middle line:90% Were you there? 00:07:47.230 --> 00:07:50.590 align:middle line:84% I recall the other picture in the Star Bulletin. 00:07:50.590 --> 00:07:53.110 align:middle line:84% Talofa walking between two Nisei detectives. 00:07:53.110 --> 00:07:56.110 align:middle line:84% The pictures captioned, Talofa Talofa in custody 00:07:56.110 --> 00:07:58.060 align:middle line:90% maintains innocence. 00:07:58.060 --> 00:08:00.370 align:middle line:84% And in quotes, "I have not done nothing, 00:08:00.370 --> 00:08:03.720 align:middle line:84% please address a lot of questions to my lawyer." 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:08.500 align:middle line:84% Finally, I say, in honesty in fairness to Talofa Talofa we 00:08:08.500 --> 00:08:09.940 align:middle line:90% don't know for sure he did it. 00:08:09.940 --> 00:08:11.080 align:middle line:90% Yet. 00:08:11.080 --> 00:08:13.060 align:middle line:84% A man is innocent until proven guilty. 00:08:13.060 --> 00:08:15.310 align:middle line:84% Sunshine smiles at me and giggles. 00:08:15.310 --> 00:08:18.363 align:middle line:84% But I told Atuana I'd be right back. 00:08:18.363 --> 00:08:20.530 align:middle line:84% Sunshine says, oh pooh, have some more Black Velvet. 00:08:20.530 --> 00:08:23.380 align:middle line:90% There's plenty of time. 00:08:23.380 --> 00:08:25.360 align:middle line:84% I stare at the glasses of Black Velvet. 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:26.440 align:middle line:90% It's free. 00:08:26.440 --> 00:08:29.740 align:middle line:84% I see Roy might dig another drink too. 00:08:29.740 --> 00:08:32.440 align:middle line:84% And looking across the room at the wall syndicate beef, 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:35.110 align:middle line:84% I realize I have not yet caught a glimpse of the Black Velvet 00:08:35.110 --> 00:08:36.820 align:middle line:90% girl. 00:08:36.820 --> 00:08:40.090 align:middle line:90% I am just a little curious. 00:08:40.090 --> 00:08:41.919 align:middle line:90% One last drink, I say. 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:44.127 align:middle line:90% Then we go, says Roy. 00:08:44.127 --> 00:08:46.210 align:middle line:84% We're drinking up when there's a stir and suddenly 00:08:46.210 --> 00:08:49.840 align:middle line:84% just like that, the wall of Aloha shirts part. 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:52.120 align:middle line:84% And there is the Black Velvet girl set like a jewel 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:54.370 align:middle line:90% amongst the syndicate beef. 00:08:54.370 --> 00:08:56.470 align:middle line:84% Any of Harry Chin lieutenants who are not out 00:08:56.470 --> 00:08:58.120 align:middle line:84% pistol whipping up pimp or bookie, 00:08:58.120 --> 00:08:59.980 align:middle line:84% beating a call girl who stepped out of line, 00:08:59.980 --> 00:09:02.770 align:middle line:84% collecting on a cockfight bet, wiring up a car, 00:09:02.770 --> 00:09:04.420 align:middle line:84% or screwing on a telescopic sight 00:09:04.420 --> 00:09:06.670 align:middle line:84% are here gaping at the Black Velvet girl. 00:09:06.670 --> 00:09:09.290 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:09:09.290 --> 00:09:09.790 align:middle line:90% 00:09:09.790 --> 00:09:11.800 align:middle line:84% The overhead spot hits her blonde hair. 00:09:11.800 --> 00:09:13.570 align:middle line:84% Her shoulders are creamy and smooth. 00:09:13.570 --> 00:09:16.270 align:middle line:84% The black velvet dress is like the backdrop 00:09:16.270 --> 00:09:18.940 align:middle line:90% for the Hope Diamond. 00:09:18.940 --> 00:09:22.750 align:middle line:84% The Black Velvet girl is the collective genius incarnate 00:09:22.750 --> 00:09:25.570 align:middle line:84% of a corporation of overpaid, tanned, 00:09:25.570 --> 00:09:29.470 align:middle line:84% and pressured ad executives with incipient heart conditions. 00:09:29.470 --> 00:09:32.890 align:middle line:84% The best the organization has to dish out. 00:09:32.890 --> 00:09:34.460 align:middle line:90% The syndicate loves her. 00:09:34.460 --> 00:09:36.640 align:middle line:84% They know the goods when they see it. 00:09:36.640 --> 00:09:38.320 align:middle line:84% They give way, parting before her 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:39.880 align:middle line:90% like the waters of the Red Sea. 00:09:39.880 --> 00:09:41.920 align:middle line:90% She is coming toward us. 00:09:41.920 --> 00:09:44.920 align:middle line:84% She looks at Roy in such a way that Sunshine takes hold of Roy 00:09:44.920 --> 00:09:46.225 align:middle line:90% at the elbow with both hands. 00:09:46.225 --> 00:09:47.987 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:09:47.987 --> 00:09:49.570 align:middle line:84% Then the Black Velvet girl looks at me 00:09:49.570 --> 00:09:51.190 align:middle line:84% in such a way I take hold of myself 00:09:51.190 --> 00:09:52.510 align:middle line:90% at the elbow with one hand. 00:09:52.510 --> 00:09:55.990 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:09:55.990 --> 00:09:57.670 align:middle line:90% I see Harry Chin over there. 00:09:57.670 --> 00:09:58.930 align:middle line:90% Is he in love? 00:09:58.930 --> 00:10:02.380 align:middle line:84% The syndicate looks wistfully after the Black Velvet girl. 00:10:02.380 --> 00:10:04.780 align:middle line:84% If they were Ohio State fraternity boys, 00:10:04.780 --> 00:10:06.790 align:middle line:84% they would break into song and serenade her. 00:10:06.790 --> 00:10:08.440 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:11.320 align:middle line:84% A song in four-part harmony full of awakened longing, 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:13.120 align:middle line:90% melancholy, and love. 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:15.460 align:middle line:84% As it is without the numbers of Halewa State 00:10:15.460 --> 00:10:18.490 align:middle line:84% Prison under their chins, they seem a little lost, perhaps 00:10:18.490 --> 00:10:20.950 align:middle line:90% forlorn. 00:10:20.950 --> 00:10:24.460 align:middle line:84% They gaze wistfully after her at the closing door wahines 00:10:24.460 --> 00:10:27.280 align:middle line:90% before their eyes light on us. 00:10:27.280 --> 00:10:33.820 align:middle line:84% I feel Talofa's eyes wiring me up with a bundle of dynamite. 00:10:33.820 --> 00:10:35.620 align:middle line:84% Thunder measuring me with sartorial 00:10:35.620 --> 00:10:37.390 align:middle line:84% gaze to see if he can fit my body 00:10:37.390 --> 00:10:40.720 align:middle line:84% into the trunk of a stolen '58 Impala 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:44.650 align:middle line:84% without first having to chop off my legs. 00:10:44.650 --> 00:10:46.180 align:middle line:90% Oh, it is time to go. 00:10:46.180 --> 00:10:48.460 align:middle line:84% But here comes the Black Velvet girl again back 00:10:48.460 --> 00:10:50.260 align:middle line:90% from the wahines. 00:10:50.260 --> 00:10:55.030 align:middle line:84% The dress is a silhouette, a blind spot, zone 10. 00:10:55.030 --> 00:10:56.800 align:middle line:90% Something drops from her hand. 00:10:56.800 --> 00:10:58.330 align:middle line:90% Then she's across the room. 00:10:58.330 --> 00:11:02.920 align:middle line:84% The aloha shirts close back around her. 00:11:02.920 --> 00:11:05.650 align:middle line:84% I lean down to pick up whatever it is she dropped. 00:11:05.650 --> 00:11:08.890 align:middle line:84% Roy says, I wouldn't do that if I were you, man. 00:11:08.890 --> 00:11:10.690 align:middle line:84% It's a neatly folded paper towel. 00:11:10.690 --> 00:11:11.260 align:middle line:90% I open it. 00:11:11.260 --> 00:11:11.860 align:middle line:90% Handwriting. 00:11:11.860 --> 00:11:14.710 align:middle line:90% Sunshine says, what is it? 00:11:14.710 --> 00:11:15.640 align:middle line:90% I read. 00:11:15.640 --> 00:11:17.800 align:middle line:84% "The window is too small, dress too tight. 00:11:17.800 --> 00:11:18.487 align:middle line:90% I can't fit. 00:11:18.487 --> 00:11:19.570 align:middle line:90% Please get me out of here. 00:11:19.570 --> 00:11:22.330 align:middle line:84% Can you meet me on the 18th hole and do you have a car?" 00:11:22.330 --> 00:11:25.753 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:11:25.753 --> 00:11:27.220 align:middle line:90% 00:11:27.220 --> 00:11:29.215 align:middle line:90% Roy says, we do not have a car. 00:11:29.215 --> 00:11:32.090 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:11:32.090 --> 00:11:32.590 align:middle line:90% 00:11:32.590 --> 00:11:34.240 align:middle line:90% Sunshine says, sure we do. 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:36.280 align:middle line:84% The 18th hole is the one out near the beach. 00:11:36.280 --> 00:11:37.510 align:middle line:90% Roy says, don't point. 00:11:37.510 --> 00:11:40.810 align:middle line:84% Sunshine says, it's a message in a bottle. 00:11:40.810 --> 00:11:42.940 align:middle line:90% Roy says, let's hele-on. 00:11:42.940 --> 00:11:46.270 align:middle line:90% I said, let's consider this. 00:11:46.270 --> 00:11:47.920 align:middle line:90% It's a human distress call. 00:11:47.920 --> 00:11:49.870 align:middle line:84% We can't just leave her to Harry Chin. 00:11:49.870 --> 00:11:53.180 align:middle line:90% Roy says, yes we can. 00:11:53.180 --> 00:11:54.470 align:middle line:90% Roy and I stare at each other. 00:11:54.470 --> 00:11:56.200 align:middle line:84% He searches my face and shakes his hand. 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:57.520 align:middle line:90% He's known me a long time. 00:11:57.520 --> 00:11:58.630 align:middle line:90% Yes we can. 00:11:58.630 --> 00:12:01.420 align:middle line:84% He repeats a little more emphatically. 00:12:01.420 --> 00:12:04.780 align:middle line:84% I look across the room, I want to get closer, a little closer 00:12:04.780 --> 00:12:06.100 align:middle line:90% to the Black Velvet girl. 00:12:06.100 --> 00:12:08.650 align:middle line:84% Even if only to help her get away. 00:12:08.650 --> 00:12:10.030 align:middle line:90% Roy says, boat's leaving. 00:12:10.030 --> 00:12:10.960 align:middle line:90% Now. 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:13.420 align:middle line:90% Wait, I say. 00:12:13.420 --> 00:12:16.570 align:middle line:84% Roy shakes his head, nope, pulling up the gangplank. 00:12:16.570 --> 00:12:17.800 align:middle line:90% Wait a second, I say. 00:12:17.800 --> 00:12:19.210 align:middle line:90% I head for the kane's. 00:12:19.210 --> 00:12:21.790 align:middle line:84% With shaking hands I tear the note into tiny pieces 00:12:21.790 --> 00:12:24.010 align:middle line:90% and flush it down the toilet. 00:12:24.010 --> 00:12:25.300 align:middle line:90% Destroy the evidence. 00:12:25.300 --> 00:12:27.130 align:middle line:84% When I get back, the tray of Black Velvet 00:12:27.130 --> 00:12:28.300 align:middle line:90% is there alone on a chair. 00:12:28.300 --> 00:12:31.450 align:middle line:90% Roy and sunshine are gone. 00:12:31.450 --> 00:12:33.820 align:middle line:84% I realized all I really want to do 00:12:33.820 --> 00:12:35.560 align:middle line:90% is touch the black velvet dress. 00:12:35.560 --> 00:12:37.700 align:middle line:90% Just once. 00:12:37.700 --> 00:12:40.540 align:middle line:84% I am staked out at a neutral table staring drunkenly 00:12:40.540 --> 00:12:44.650 align:middle line:84% between the aloha flower backs of Thunder and Talofa, 00:12:44.650 --> 00:12:46.560 align:middle line:90% Sumo wrestler backs. 00:12:46.560 --> 00:12:48.850 align:middle line:84% When Talofa, acting on his gangster third eye 00:12:48.850 --> 00:12:50.500 align:middle line:84% backs up soft and swift, the way you 00:12:50.500 --> 00:12:53.260 align:middle line:84% back-peddle a surfboard to carve a bottom turn. 00:12:53.260 --> 00:12:57.280 align:middle line:84% I look up into his ripe mango colored face. 00:12:57.280 --> 00:12:58.480 align:middle line:90% He is not cute as a baby. 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:00.550 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:13:00.550 --> 00:13:02.650 align:middle line:90% It is Gauguin gone wrong. 00:13:02.650 --> 00:13:03.160 align:middle line:90% He says-- 00:13:03.160 --> 00:13:06.220 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:13:06.220 --> 00:13:08.080 align:middle line:90% 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:11.600 align:middle line:84% He says, what you want haole shark bait? 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:12.100 align:middle line:90% Nothing. 00:13:12.100 --> 00:13:12.340 align:middle line:90% Nothing. 00:13:12.340 --> 00:13:12.840 align:middle line:90% Nothing. 00:13:12.840 --> 00:13:13.900 align:middle line:90% I blurt. 00:13:13.900 --> 00:13:15.790 align:middle line:84% Then completely rattled I hear myself blurt, 00:13:15.790 --> 00:13:17.320 align:middle line:84% if I'm haole shark bait so is she. 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:20.440 align:middle line:84% I point nervously at the Black Velvet girl. 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:23.710 align:middle line:84% I see the White Cadillac Coupe de Ville of Chocolate Joe Hondo 00:13:23.710 --> 00:13:25.060 align:middle line:90% exploding in Talofa's eyes. 00:13:25.060 --> 00:13:28.120 align:middle line:90% 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:30.880 align:middle line:84% Talofa clinks the ice in his glass. 00:13:30.880 --> 00:13:33.730 align:middle line:90% The glass is tiny in his hand. 00:13:33.730 --> 00:13:37.540 align:middle line:84% He says in a faraway voice, you shark bait, she shark bait, 00:13:37.540 --> 00:13:38.560 align:middle line:90% me shark bait. 00:13:38.560 --> 00:13:40.690 align:middle line:90% We all shark bait, shark bait. 00:13:40.690 --> 00:13:44.320 align:middle line:84% Hele-on, haole boy, before it too late. 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:47.830 align:middle line:84% The aloha shirts part to receive Talofa. 00:13:47.830 --> 00:13:51.430 align:middle line:84% I see the Black Velvet girl, she's looking right at me. 00:13:51.430 --> 00:13:52.990 align:middle line:90% No car, I lip. 00:13:52.990 --> 00:13:56.200 align:middle line:84% Man, I want to touch that black velvet dress so bad. 00:13:56.200 --> 00:13:57.970 align:middle line:84% Thunder and Vitamins Wong merrily 00:13:57.970 --> 00:14:00.820 align:middle line:84% start barking each other over the heads with those big mother 00:14:00.820 --> 00:14:03.820 align:middle line:84% plastic bottles of Black Velvet, ey, Tundah. 00:14:03.820 --> 00:14:06.400 align:middle line:84% And I decide, Talofa has a point, black velvet 00:14:06.400 --> 00:14:12.040 align:middle line:84% dress or no, girl in distress or no, it is time to hele-on home. 00:14:12.040 --> 00:14:16.090 align:middle line:84% I grab a last glance off the tray on the way out. 00:14:16.090 --> 00:14:17.815 align:middle line:84% It's almost dark in the parking lot. 00:14:17.815 --> 00:14:19.690 align:middle line:84% The flickering drive-in screen up on the Pali 00:14:19.690 --> 00:14:23.200 align:middle line:84% glows a pale ghost in the bellies of the clouds. 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:26.140 align:middle line:84% 200 odd years ago the victorious Kamahameha 00:14:26.140 --> 00:14:28.660 align:middle line:84% drove a load of defeated warriors over those cliffs 00:14:28.660 --> 00:14:30.580 align:middle line:84% to their deaths in the rock below, 00:14:30.580 --> 00:14:32.530 align:middle line:90% then crowned himself King. 00:14:32.530 --> 00:14:34.720 align:middle line:84% Shitty, I guess, but what was he supposed to do, 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:36.340 align:middle line:90% invite them home to dinner. 00:14:36.340 --> 00:14:38.920 align:middle line:84% The moon tumbles out of the clouds, lights the fairway, 00:14:38.920 --> 00:14:40.850 align:middle line:90% disappears. 00:14:40.850 --> 00:14:43.570 align:middle line:84% I'm wandering drunkenly through the parking lot, 00:14:43.570 --> 00:14:45.820 align:middle line:84% bouncing off the tail fins of the affluent, 00:14:45.820 --> 00:14:48.220 align:middle line:84% breathing in the fresh air and plumeria, 00:14:48.220 --> 00:14:50.860 align:middle line:84% slowly returning to my senses when I see 00:14:50.860 --> 00:14:54.160 align:middle line:90% a shadow move between the cars. 00:14:54.160 --> 00:14:57.520 align:middle line:84% I take a last belt of my drink and toss the glass on the lawn. 00:14:57.520 --> 00:15:00.400 align:middle line:90% It bounces without a sound. 00:15:00.400 --> 00:15:05.080 align:middle line:84% The blond hair, the black velvet dress and the underwater light. 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:07.720 align:middle line:84% I glance back at the clubhouse and move toward her. 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:09.700 align:middle line:90% No car, I whisper. 00:15:09.700 --> 00:15:11.500 align:middle line:90% She looks around nervously. 00:15:11.500 --> 00:15:12.520 align:middle line:90% I can't help it, I say. 00:15:12.520 --> 00:15:13.390 align:middle line:90% I'm hitching myself. 00:15:13.390 --> 00:15:14.290 align:middle line:90% Roy took the car. 00:15:14.290 --> 00:15:18.640 align:middle line:90% 00:15:18.640 --> 00:15:20.260 align:middle line:90% It's Harry Chin she says. 00:15:20.260 --> 00:15:22.150 align:middle line:90% He scares me. 00:15:22.150 --> 00:15:23.620 align:middle line:90% I know what you mean, I say. 00:15:23.620 --> 00:15:25.420 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:15:25.420 --> 00:15:26.750 align:middle line:90% Then I can't help myself. 00:15:26.750 --> 00:15:29.620 align:middle line:84% I reach out and touch the black velvet dress. 00:15:29.620 --> 00:15:31.660 align:middle line:90% Jesus, I say. 00:15:31.660 --> 00:15:34.480 align:middle line:84% That's exactly what Harry Chin did. 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:37.060 align:middle line:90% Harry Chin did that? 00:15:37.060 --> 00:15:37.960 align:middle line:90% First thing. 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:39.820 align:middle line:84% I touch the black velvet dress again. 00:15:39.820 --> 00:15:40.990 align:middle line:90% Oh, Jesus. 00:15:40.990 --> 00:15:42.190 align:middle line:90% Can you help me? 00:15:42.190 --> 00:15:42.820 align:middle line:90% Got to. 00:15:42.820 --> 00:15:43.750 align:middle line:90% Do you mind hitching? 00:15:43.750 --> 00:15:45.760 align:middle line:90% No. 00:15:45.760 --> 00:15:48.760 align:middle line:84% She turns loses her balance slightly stumbling against me. 00:15:48.760 --> 00:15:51.010 align:middle line:84% I put my arm around her waist to steady her, 00:15:51.010 --> 00:15:52.090 align:middle line:90% just as I hear voices. 00:15:52.090 --> 00:15:52.630 align:middle line:90% I turn. 00:15:52.630 --> 00:15:53.140 align:middle line:90% Talofa. 00:15:53.140 --> 00:15:54.130 align:middle line:90% Thunder. 00:15:54.130 --> 00:15:56.470 align:middle line:90% In the doorway pointing at me. 00:15:56.470 --> 00:15:57.250 align:middle line:90% Run, she says. 00:15:57.250 --> 00:15:57.850 align:middle line:90% Run. 00:15:57.850 --> 00:16:01.120 align:middle line:84% She's out here boss with the shark bait haole. 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:03.725 align:middle line:90% Run, she says. 00:16:03.725 --> 00:16:06.100 align:middle line:84% I see the white shoes start to flicker in the pale light. 00:16:06.100 --> 00:16:06.790 align:middle line:90% Man, I run. 00:16:06.790 --> 00:16:07.660 align:middle line:90% They're coming right at me. 00:16:07.660 --> 00:16:08.320 align:middle line:90% I run between them. 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:09.160 align:middle line:90% Get going the other way. 00:16:09.160 --> 00:16:09.670 align:middle line:90% They whirl. 00:16:09.670 --> 00:16:11.110 align:middle line:84% Talofa grabs the back of my shirt. 00:16:11.110 --> 00:16:12.370 align:middle line:90% I scream howl blurt. 00:16:12.370 --> 00:16:13.630 align:middle line:90% I didn't do nothing. 00:16:13.630 --> 00:16:16.392 align:middle line:84% As the back of my shirt shreds off in Talofa's hand and I fly. 00:16:16.392 --> 00:16:18.100 align:middle line:84% They're pouring out of the clubhouse now. 00:16:18.100 --> 00:16:21.310 align:middle line:84% Vitamins Wong, Fat Sonny Ho, Aku Kim. 00:16:21.310 --> 00:16:24.940 align:middle line:84% It's the Black Velvet girl with the fucking fucker. 00:16:24.940 --> 00:16:26.520 align:middle line:84% I'm on the fairway and I'm running. 00:16:26.520 --> 00:16:28.500 align:middle line:84% I run right out of my Nanakuli suedes. 00:16:28.500 --> 00:16:29.760 align:middle line:90% My shirt's torn off. 00:16:29.760 --> 00:16:30.930 align:middle line:90% Man, I'm running barefoot. 00:16:30.930 --> 00:16:34.740 align:middle line:84% Behind me I can hear Thunder and Talofa puffing. 00:16:34.740 --> 00:16:35.460 align:middle line:90% I run, where? 00:16:35.460 --> 00:16:36.360 align:middle line:90% For the beach. 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:38.070 align:middle line:90% I see ironwood trees coming up. 00:16:38.070 --> 00:16:39.120 align:middle line:90% I dive into the trees. 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:40.230 align:middle line:90% The branches whip my face. 00:16:40.230 --> 00:16:42.400 align:middle line:84% I stumble barefoot on roots sprawl flat on my face. 00:16:42.400 --> 00:16:42.900 align:middle line:90% Get up. 00:16:42.900 --> 00:16:44.850 align:middle line:90% Stumble out onto the beach. 00:16:44.850 --> 00:16:46.680 align:middle line:84% The roar of the surf rises to meet me. 00:16:46.680 --> 00:16:49.410 align:middle line:84% I stagger into the surf, stumble, get up, stumble again. 00:16:49.410 --> 00:16:52.650 align:middle line:84% And finally dive into the black water thinking vaguely, man, 00:16:52.650 --> 00:16:55.620 align:middle line:84% these Polynesians were so good natured before we showed up. 00:16:55.620 --> 00:16:59.340 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:16:59.340 --> 00:17:01.742 align:middle line:84% When I surface I see white shoes running, 00:17:01.742 --> 00:17:03.200 align:middle line:84% then walking up and down the beach. 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:07.700 align:middle line:84% Finally several cigarettes glowing in a circle. 00:17:07.700 --> 00:17:09.710 align:middle line:84% I work my way down the beach staying offshore. 00:17:09.710 --> 00:17:12.470 align:middle line:84% And when the last cigarette has dropped to the sand, 00:17:12.470 --> 00:17:13.640 align:middle line:90% I get in where I can touch. 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:15.020 align:middle line:84% The moon comes out of the clouds. 00:17:15.020 --> 00:17:16.160 align:middle line:90% I see no one on the beach. 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:19.040 align:middle line:84% Hiding in the trees I watch a while longer. 00:17:19.040 --> 00:17:23.450 align:middle line:84% Work my way further down and finally wade ashore. 00:17:23.450 --> 00:17:25.819 align:middle line:84% Though it will be miles, take hours, 00:17:25.819 --> 00:17:27.800 align:middle line:84% I decide to stay close to the water 00:17:27.800 --> 00:17:29.360 align:middle line:90% and follow the beach home. 00:17:29.360 --> 00:17:31.310 align:middle line:90% Safer, I hope. 00:17:31.310 --> 00:17:33.120 align:middle line:84% At least I'll get there in one piece. 00:17:33.120 --> 00:17:34.620 align:middle line:84% Though when I think about how pissed 00:17:34.620 --> 00:17:38.120 align:middle line:90% Atuana will be at the other end. 00:17:38.120 --> 00:17:41.330 align:middle line:90% I start the long walk home. 00:17:41.330 --> 00:17:44.060 align:middle line:84% For some reason I kept thinking about Maz. 00:17:44.060 --> 00:17:46.820 align:middle line:84% Maz and I had been at it hot and heavy until Atuana. 00:17:46.820 --> 00:17:49.010 align:middle line:84% Then I started sneaking around on Maz, 00:17:49.010 --> 00:17:51.680 align:middle line:90% finally fading altogether. 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:53.007 align:middle line:90% One day, not too long ago. 00:17:53.007 --> 00:17:53.840 align:middle line:90% I'm happily married. 00:17:53.840 --> 00:17:56.690 align:middle line:84% Maz shows up at the building site. 00:17:56.690 --> 00:17:57.910 align:middle line:90% We're roofing condos. 00:17:57.910 --> 00:17:59.660 align:middle line:84% I'm looking down from the roof and there's 00:17:59.660 --> 00:18:02.720 align:middle line:84% Maz in a bikini standing among the building debris. 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:04.820 align:middle line:90% She's smiling up at me. 00:18:04.820 --> 00:18:07.670 align:middle line:84% Except for the rumble of a cement mixer, all hammers stop, 00:18:07.670 --> 00:18:08.730 align:middle line:90% the roofs fall silent. 00:18:08.730 --> 00:18:11.990 align:middle line:84% The whole crew looks down at Maz. 00:18:11.990 --> 00:18:13.940 align:middle line:90% There are some whistles. 00:18:13.940 --> 00:18:17.270 align:middle line:84% Maz is what can only be described as a lush body. 00:18:17.270 --> 00:18:19.205 align:middle line:84% I'm sorry, but that's the way it is, lush. 00:18:19.205 --> 00:18:20.510 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:18:20.510 --> 00:18:22.220 align:middle line:84% Though she's been to the legislature 00:18:22.220 --> 00:18:24.350 align:middle line:84% to testify in discrimination against women 00:18:24.350 --> 00:18:27.440 align:middle line:84% she doesn't seem to mind the whistles. 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:29.270 align:middle line:84% She points at a rolled beach mat-- 00:18:29.270 --> 00:18:31.760 align:middle line:84% she points her rolled beach mat up at me. 00:18:31.760 --> 00:18:33.350 align:middle line:90% Her eyes are greenish blue. 00:18:33.350 --> 00:18:34.640 align:middle line:90% The color of the ocean. 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:36.650 align:middle line:90% Time for a beer after work? 00:18:36.650 --> 00:18:37.190 align:middle line:90% Married man. 00:18:37.190 --> 00:18:40.550 align:middle line:84% I hesitate, but no harm in a beer for old time's sake. 00:18:40.550 --> 00:18:42.890 align:middle line:90% Sure, I say, real cheerful. 00:18:42.890 --> 00:18:45.620 align:middle line:90% Think you can find your way? 00:18:45.620 --> 00:18:47.510 align:middle line:84% She doesn't wait for an answer but turns 00:18:47.510 --> 00:18:50.090 align:middle line:84% and picks her way back through the building debris. 00:18:50.090 --> 00:18:52.790 align:middle line:84% I watch her so does everyone else. 00:18:52.790 --> 00:18:55.160 align:middle line:90% Maz has one unusual feature. 00:18:55.160 --> 00:18:58.850 align:middle line:84% Her back has a slight curve to one side right above her hip. 00:18:58.850 --> 00:19:01.970 align:middle line:84% It makes a kind of upside-down question mark. 00:19:01.970 --> 00:19:03.150 align:middle line:90% I love my wife. 00:19:03.150 --> 00:19:05.240 align:middle line:84% I once fought her old boyfriend, an airline pilot. 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:06.080 align:middle line:90% He picked the fight. 00:19:06.080 --> 00:19:08.030 align:middle line:90% He came looking for me. 00:19:08.030 --> 00:19:09.650 align:middle line:84% And he picked the fight and we fought 00:19:09.650 --> 00:19:11.108 align:middle line:84% on the lawn of what had started out 00:19:11.108 --> 00:19:14.390 align:middle line:84% to be a quiet party until we were both covered with blood. 00:19:14.390 --> 00:19:17.360 align:middle line:84% Well, none of that's necessary for me to say I love my wife. 00:19:17.360 --> 00:19:21.170 align:middle line:84% But I found my way to Maz's a few times. 00:19:21.170 --> 00:19:23.810 align:middle line:84% One afternoon, my wife had been driving by Maz's, quite 00:19:23.810 --> 00:19:25.880 align:middle line:84% by accident, and caught sight of my truck parked 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:30.530 align:middle line:84% under an African violet tree in full bloom. 00:19:30.530 --> 00:19:32.345 align:middle line:84% I got that later from the neighbor kids. 00:19:32.345 --> 00:19:35.090 align:middle line:90% 00:19:35.090 --> 00:19:37.430 align:middle line:84% Inside all I heard was a crash, which 00:19:37.430 --> 00:19:39.235 align:middle line:84% made my heart pound so hard that Maz 00:19:39.235 --> 00:19:40.610 align:middle line:84% had lifted her head from my chest 00:19:40.610 --> 00:19:42.585 align:middle line:84% and looked at me in wide-eyed alarm. 00:19:42.585 --> 00:19:44.585 align:middle line:84% Jesus Christ, what's the matter with your heart? 00:19:44.585 --> 00:19:47.180 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:19:47.180 --> 00:19:48.500 align:middle line:90% Nothing. 00:19:48.500 --> 00:19:50.000 align:middle line:84% You're too young for a heart attack. 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:51.020 align:middle line:90% I wouldn't want you to die here. 00:19:51.020 --> 00:19:53.030 align:middle line:84% I'd have a hell of a time getting you dressed and dropped 00:19:53.030 --> 00:19:53.660 align:middle line:90% off somewhere. 00:19:53.660 --> 00:19:56.238 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:19:56.238 --> 00:19:56.780 align:middle line:90% Yeah, I know. 00:19:56.780 --> 00:19:58.880 align:middle line:90% I'm not going to check out, Maz. 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:02.650 align:middle line:84% When I walked out to my truck it was with no sense of surprise 00:20:02.650 --> 00:20:06.797 align:middle line:84% more with a sense of déja vu, that I'd seen my claw hammer 00:20:06.797 --> 00:20:08.630 align:middle line:84% sticking through the windshield of my truck. 00:20:08.630 --> 00:20:10.370 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:20:10.370 --> 00:20:12.840 align:middle line:90% Of course, I said out loud. 00:20:12.840 --> 00:20:15.715 align:middle line:90% I deserve this, I said. 00:20:15.715 --> 00:20:17.090 align:middle line:84% A couple of kids were watching me 00:20:17.090 --> 00:20:20.930 align:middle line:84% from the other side of a low picket fence. 00:20:20.930 --> 00:20:23.120 align:middle line:90% Did you see what happened? 00:20:23.120 --> 00:20:23.900 align:middle line:90% They had. 00:20:23.900 --> 00:20:25.280 align:middle line:90% Can you tell me? 00:20:25.280 --> 00:20:25.940 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:20:25.940 --> 00:20:27.830 align:middle line:84% They could tell me that a beautiful lady, 00:20:27.830 --> 00:20:32.570 align:middle line:84% a tall, a stewardess had driven by, slammed on her brakes, 00:20:32.570 --> 00:20:36.260 align:middle line:84% backed up suddenly, walked into the middle of the street. 00:20:36.260 --> 00:20:37.950 align:middle line:84% Looked at the White bungalow over there 00:20:37.950 --> 00:20:40.520 align:middle line:84% and looked at the truck, and done the job on the windshield. 00:20:40.520 --> 00:20:42.020 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:20:42.020 --> 00:20:43.468 align:middle line:90% I looked over at Maz's. 00:20:43.468 --> 00:20:44.510 align:middle line:90% What could she have seen. 00:20:44.510 --> 00:20:45.427 align:middle line:90% I checked the windows. 00:20:45.427 --> 00:20:48.320 align:middle line:84% A lot, a hell of a lot if we've been walking around. 00:20:48.320 --> 00:20:49.460 align:middle line:90% Had we been walking around? 00:20:49.460 --> 00:20:50.630 align:middle line:90% Couldn't remember. 00:20:50.630 --> 00:20:52.942 align:middle line:90% I went back into Maz's. 00:20:52.942 --> 00:20:54.650 align:middle line:84% Maz had showered, and dressed, and looked 00:20:54.650 --> 00:20:55.700 align:middle line:90% very cool and elegant. 00:20:55.700 --> 00:20:57.740 align:middle line:84% She was sitting on a high back wicker chair. 00:20:57.740 --> 00:20:59.180 align:middle line:90% She was smoking a cigarette. 00:20:59.180 --> 00:21:00.350 align:middle line:90% I slumped in a chair. 00:21:00.350 --> 00:21:01.710 align:middle line:90% She crossed her legs. 00:21:01.710 --> 00:21:05.210 align:middle line:84% Maz, did you hear a crash before? 00:21:05.210 --> 00:21:06.410 align:middle line:90% No, but I wasn't listening. 00:21:06.410 --> 00:21:08.180 align:middle line:84% I was busy if you haven't forgotten. 00:21:08.180 --> 00:21:09.770 align:middle line:84% Oh, I was too, Maz, but I heard it. 00:21:09.770 --> 00:21:12.020 align:middle line:90% My truck, my windshield, Maz. 00:21:12.020 --> 00:21:13.400 align:middle line:90% My wife. 00:21:13.400 --> 00:21:15.290 align:middle line:84% She made a funny kind of move with her head 00:21:15.290 --> 00:21:16.370 align:middle line:90% and pursed your lips. 00:21:16.370 --> 00:21:17.750 align:middle line:90% She had on a thin-- 00:21:17.750 --> 00:21:19.340 align:middle line:90% she had on thin silver earrings. 00:21:19.340 --> 00:21:23.345 align:middle line:84% Finally, she said, it serves you right you bastard. 00:21:23.345 --> 00:21:25.730 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:21:25.730 --> 00:21:28.280 align:middle line:84% I would have done the same thing. 00:21:28.280 --> 00:21:29.990 align:middle line:90% You would have? 00:21:29.990 --> 00:21:31.490 align:middle line:90% You're damn right. 00:21:31.490 --> 00:21:33.470 align:middle line:90% Maz will you make me a drink? 00:21:33.470 --> 00:21:34.788 align:middle line:90% Make your own drink. 00:21:34.788 --> 00:21:35.330 align:middle line:90% You're right. 00:21:35.330 --> 00:21:38.030 align:middle line:90% Absolutely right, I will. 00:21:38.030 --> 00:21:40.070 align:middle line:84% I started to push myself up out of the chair, 00:21:40.070 --> 00:21:41.960 align:middle line:84% stared at the rumpled bed, fell back. 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:44.420 align:middle line:84% Maz regarded me sadly for a moment. 00:21:44.420 --> 00:21:45.560 align:middle line:90% Stay there, I'll make it. 00:21:45.560 --> 00:21:46.550 align:middle line:90% She brought the drink. 00:21:46.550 --> 00:21:47.810 align:middle line:90% Here, she said softly. 00:21:47.810 --> 00:21:50.122 align:middle line:90% You are a big bastard. 00:21:50.122 --> 00:21:51.830 align:middle line:84% I know, Maz, but it's not what you think. 00:21:51.830 --> 00:21:54.800 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:21:54.800 --> 00:21:57.080 align:middle line:90% What is it then? 00:21:57.080 --> 00:21:58.910 align:middle line:90% I don't know, really, honest. 00:21:58.910 --> 00:22:01.910 align:middle line:84% And if I'm a bastard you would have done the same thing, Maz. 00:22:01.910 --> 00:22:02.600 align:middle line:90% She nodded. 00:22:02.600 --> 00:22:04.580 align:middle line:90% What's going on? 00:22:04.580 --> 00:22:05.210 align:middle line:90% She shrugged. 00:22:05.210 --> 00:22:08.295 align:middle line:84% I like you even though you are a bastard and you are. 00:22:08.295 --> 00:22:09.920 align:middle line:84% It's not what you think, I said weakly. 00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:12.615 align:middle line:90% Not at all what you think. 00:22:12.615 --> 00:22:14.240 align:middle line:84% On the way home I'd been given a ticket 00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:15.920 align:middle line:84% for driving a defective motor vehicle. 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:17.810 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:22:17.810 --> 00:22:19.340 align:middle line:84% With the ticket still in my hands, 00:22:19.340 --> 00:22:21.320 align:middle line:84% picking glass splinters out of my crotch. 00:22:21.320 --> 00:22:23.930 align:middle line:84% I climbed the back stairs and hesitated. 00:22:23.930 --> 00:22:25.910 align:middle line:90% No, it wasn't what she thought. 00:22:25.910 --> 00:22:27.500 align:middle line:90% What it was I didn't know. 00:22:27.500 --> 00:22:30.830 align:middle line:84% But before getting married, I'd sneak around on Maz. 00:22:30.830 --> 00:22:33.440 align:middle line:84% Now I was sneaking around on my wife to see Maz. 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:36.740 align:middle line:90% But it wasn't what she thought. 00:22:36.740 --> 00:22:38.210 align:middle line:90% I walked into the kitchen. 00:22:38.210 --> 00:22:41.630 align:middle line:90% My wife had been standing there. 00:22:41.630 --> 00:22:43.220 align:middle line:84% She's always a little more beautiful 00:22:43.220 --> 00:22:45.770 align:middle line:90% than I can really believe. 00:22:45.770 --> 00:22:47.090 align:middle line:90% I saw her and froze. 00:22:47.090 --> 00:22:49.370 align:middle line:84% No, no, it's not what you think, I said. 00:22:49.370 --> 00:22:51.230 align:middle line:90% I love you. 00:22:51.230 --> 00:22:53.720 align:middle line:84% Her eyes had been flat and hot with hurt and fury. 00:22:53.720 --> 00:22:56.240 align:middle line:84% You have funny ways of showing it. 00:22:56.240 --> 00:22:58.550 align:middle line:84% Sunshine was standing in the door with a towel turban 00:22:58.550 --> 00:22:59.370 align:middle line:90% on her head. 00:22:59.370 --> 00:23:00.620 align:middle line:90% She had just washed her hair. 00:23:00.620 --> 00:23:03.500 align:middle line:90% She was always washing her hair. 00:23:03.500 --> 00:23:05.180 align:middle line:90% I looked at her and she giggled. 00:23:05.180 --> 00:23:08.360 align:middle line:84% I tried to smile at my wife, a nervous smile. 00:23:08.360 --> 00:23:10.490 align:middle line:84% So nervous it turned into a laugh. 00:23:10.490 --> 00:23:12.290 align:middle line:84% My wife let out a strange scream. 00:23:12.290 --> 00:23:14.900 align:middle line:90% And it's funny too, you shit. 00:23:14.900 --> 00:23:16.395 align:middle line:90% If it feels good, do it. 00:23:16.395 --> 00:23:18.770 align:middle line:84% Any woman who shows any interest in you at all and you're 00:23:18.770 --> 00:23:19.400 align:middle line:90% hooked, anyone. 00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:20.780 align:middle line:90% You're a pushover and easy lay. 00:23:20.780 --> 00:23:22.280 align:middle line:84% Don't you know anything about women. 00:23:22.280 --> 00:23:24.710 align:middle line:84% Maz, she was just trying to see if she could get you back. 00:23:24.710 --> 00:23:25.700 align:middle line:90% You're a pushover. 00:23:25.700 --> 00:23:26.990 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:23:26.990 --> 00:23:29.750 align:middle line:84% Sunshine had stood in the doorway, the loom behind her, 00:23:29.750 --> 00:23:32.270 align:middle line:84% eyes wide, face flushed under the tan 00:23:32.270 --> 00:23:34.460 align:middle line:84% till Roy's hand had risen above her shoulder, 00:23:34.460 --> 00:23:38.120 align:middle line:84% pulled her back into the room and closed the door. 00:23:38.120 --> 00:23:40.410 align:middle line:84% Then my wife had burst into tears. 00:23:40.410 --> 00:23:42.230 align:middle line:84% I crossed the room, put my arms around her. 00:23:42.230 --> 00:23:43.310 align:middle line:90% She'd thrown them off. 00:23:43.310 --> 00:23:44.240 align:middle line:90% Get away from me. 00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:46.700 align:middle line:84% I can still smell her goddamn perfume, you bastard. 00:23:46.700 --> 00:23:49.220 align:middle line:84% I'd fallen to her feet, grabbed her ankles kissed her feet, 00:23:49.220 --> 00:23:50.990 align:middle line:84% and she'd stumbled slightly against the stove. 00:23:50.990 --> 00:23:53.540 align:middle line:84% I'd held on to her feet mumbling apologies, kissing her feet 00:23:53.540 --> 00:23:56.990 align:middle line:84% until she'd said between sobs, oh for Christ's sake get up. 00:23:56.990 --> 00:23:59.572 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:23:59.572 --> 00:24:01.530 align:middle line:84% Then she cursed me for a while in pidgin, which 00:24:01.530 --> 00:24:04.770 align:middle line:90% was language of her childhood. 00:24:04.770 --> 00:24:09.030 align:middle line:84% I went on walking down the beach toward home. 00:24:09.030 --> 00:24:11.100 align:middle line:84% If I could map my body like the world, 00:24:11.100 --> 00:24:14.730 align:middle line:84% or a satellite photo of Mars, or some solar system, then 00:24:14.730 --> 00:24:17.190 align:middle line:84% that part of me beyond perversity, cussedness, 00:24:17.190 --> 00:24:19.590 align:middle line:84% and lechery, those uncharted tropical islands, 00:24:19.590 --> 00:24:21.720 align:middle line:84% mute continents, faraway planets. 00:24:21.720 --> 00:24:23.550 align:middle line:84% Those parts of me which are always 00:24:23.550 --> 00:24:26.190 align:middle line:84% lighting the fuse in a yin yang fuck up, 00:24:26.190 --> 00:24:28.380 align:middle line:84% then there would be a region, the kind of place 00:24:28.380 --> 00:24:30.900 align:middle line:84% some wonderful hack like Edgar Rice Burroughs 00:24:30.900 --> 00:24:33.720 align:middle line:84% would describe as a lost continent or forbidden planet. 00:24:33.720 --> 00:24:35.700 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:24:35.700 --> 00:24:37.260 align:middle line:84% The air of the lost continent would 00:24:37.260 --> 00:24:39.960 align:middle line:84% echo with mysterious drums, and jungle chatter, 00:24:39.960 --> 00:24:42.450 align:middle line:84% and be stained with violent sunsets. 00:24:42.450 --> 00:24:45.045 align:middle line:84% The forbidden planet would have no atmosphere whatsoever, 00:24:45.045 --> 00:24:46.710 align:middle line:90% a close horizon. 00:24:46.710 --> 00:24:48.510 align:middle line:84% And if it were in National Geographic, 00:24:48.510 --> 00:24:50.400 align:middle line:84% there would be a caption with some phrases 00:24:50.400 --> 00:24:54.000 align:middle line:84% like, with no atmosphere the sky is the eternal night of space 00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:55.570 align:middle line:90% itself. 00:24:55.570 --> 00:24:57.360 align:middle line:84% Which would be which, the lost continent, 00:24:57.360 --> 00:25:00.090 align:middle line:84% the forbidden planet, I don't know. 00:25:00.090 --> 00:25:03.450 align:middle line:84% But there is one part of me which wants in, wants out. 00:25:03.450 --> 00:25:04.110 align:middle line:90% Out of what? 00:25:04.110 --> 00:25:05.370 align:middle line:90% Out to where I can't say. 00:25:05.370 --> 00:25:06.270 align:middle line:90% It just wants out. 00:25:06.270 --> 00:25:09.360 align:middle line:84% The feeling is in block caps, I got to get out. 00:25:09.360 --> 00:25:10.950 align:middle line:90% Out. 00:25:10.950 --> 00:25:13.950 align:middle line:84% Probably the forbidden planet would be out. 00:25:13.950 --> 00:25:16.950 align:middle line:84% Then, once I am out, away, extricated, on the lam, 00:25:16.950 --> 00:25:20.190 align:middle line:84% I become forlorn, morose, feeling sorry for myself. 00:25:20.190 --> 00:25:22.120 align:middle line:90% I want in or in again. 00:25:22.120 --> 00:25:24.120 align:middle line:84% I don't care at all what I have to do to get in, 00:25:24.120 --> 00:25:25.590 align:middle line:90% or in again, or back in again. 00:25:25.590 --> 00:25:27.043 align:middle line:90% I just want in at all costs. 00:25:27.043 --> 00:25:29.085 align:middle line:84% I know that this time in again will be different. 00:25:29.085 --> 00:25:32.190 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:25:32.190 --> 00:25:35.070 align:middle line:84% But of course, once I'm in or in again, 00:25:35.070 --> 00:25:37.320 align:middle line:84% the whole cycle of lapses and I start scheming ways 00:25:37.320 --> 00:25:38.520 align:middle line:90% to get out or out again. 00:25:38.520 --> 00:25:39.757 align:middle line:90% Oh, out was really great. 00:25:39.757 --> 00:25:40.590 align:middle line:90% Those were the days. 00:25:40.590 --> 00:25:41.430 align:middle line:90% That was the time. 00:25:41.430 --> 00:25:44.280 align:middle line:90% The only place to be, et cetera. 00:25:44.280 --> 00:25:47.070 align:middle line:84% In the meantime, the process of getting from out to 00:25:47.070 --> 00:25:49.722 align:middle line:84% in and in to out is wearing and it is hard on the body, 00:25:49.722 --> 00:25:51.180 align:middle line:84% hard on the feet, hard on the hide. 00:25:51.180 --> 00:25:54.040 align:middle line:84% Everyone only sees you in between, 00:25:54.040 --> 00:25:55.860 align:middle line:90% which is an inexplicable state. 00:25:55.860 --> 00:25:58.470 align:middle line:84% You become a bastard, target for invective's of all kinds. 00:25:58.470 --> 00:26:01.200 align:middle line:84% Moreover, in between is hard on the spirit. 00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:05.160 align:middle line:84% None of my quick spun theologies work. 00:26:05.160 --> 00:26:08.010 align:middle line:84% And most of all it is hard and sometimes dangerous, 00:26:08.010 --> 00:26:11.370 align:middle line:84% this mysterious from in to out, and out to in. 00:26:11.370 --> 00:26:13.560 align:middle line:84% Just getting from one to the other and arriving, 00:26:13.560 --> 00:26:16.830 align:middle line:90% hello again, safely. 00:26:16.830 --> 00:26:19.555 align:middle line:84% More and further, it is hard on my wife when I have to get out. 00:26:19.555 --> 00:26:21.930 align:middle line:84% It is hard on people like Maz when I have to get back in. 00:26:21.930 --> 00:26:24.720 align:middle line:84% But then when I am finally with Maz, and the out of Maz 00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:26.220 align:middle line:84% has become in and now my wife is out 00:26:26.220 --> 00:26:28.030 align:middle line:84% and I have to get out or get back out, 00:26:28.030 --> 00:26:30.810 align:middle line:84% then it is hard on Maz, my wife, myself. 00:26:30.810 --> 00:26:32.970 align:middle line:84% And tonight thinking about the Black Velvet girl 00:26:32.970 --> 00:26:34.380 align:middle line:90% it could have cost me my life. 00:26:34.380 --> 00:26:37.440 align:middle line:84% Yes, and again, I see the Gauguin gone wrong face 00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:41.190 align:middle line:84% of Talofa flashing by me in the pale light of the parking lot. 00:26:41.190 --> 00:26:43.980 align:middle line:84% Feel the shirt choke my neck before it shreds. 00:26:43.980 --> 00:26:46.920 align:middle line:84% See Chocolate Joe's Cadillac starting to explode. 00:26:46.920 --> 00:26:49.950 align:middle line:90% 00:26:49.950 --> 00:26:52.380 align:middle line:84% When I finally spot the house behind the ironwood's 00:26:52.380 --> 00:26:54.810 align:middle line:90% I think maybe I am wrong. 00:26:54.810 --> 00:26:56.790 align:middle line:84% Even though it is midnight, maybe Atuana 00:26:56.790 --> 00:26:58.800 align:middle line:84% will just think I missed my ride home with Roy 00:26:58.800 --> 00:27:01.200 align:middle line:84% and she'll have dinner waiting in the oven. 00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:03.085 align:middle line:84% And after it will go up to the tower room 00:27:03.085 --> 00:27:04.710 align:middle line:84% and lie in each other's arms and listen 00:27:04.710 --> 00:27:07.650 align:middle line:84% to the palm fronds clicking in the wind, after all, 00:27:07.650 --> 00:27:10.470 align:middle line:90% I haven't really done anything. 00:27:10.470 --> 00:27:12.960 align:middle line:90% Yes, that's the way it will be. 00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:14.940 align:middle line:84% Everything's going to be OK, I say. 00:27:14.940 --> 00:27:17.040 align:middle line:84% I tell myself as I walk in from the beach. 00:27:17.040 --> 00:27:19.860 align:middle line:84% Pick my way through the litter of broken surfboards, junk 00:27:19.860 --> 00:27:22.680 align:middle line:84% cars, and poi dogs snoozing under the stars. 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:25.530 align:middle line:84% Sure, right-o, I say, as I swing on the rusting banister 00:27:25.530 --> 00:27:30.240 align:middle line:84% and climb spiral stone stairs to the back door. 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:32.730 align:middle line:84% Three steps below the back door, I abandoned optimism 00:27:32.730 --> 00:27:34.710 align:middle line:84% and hit the deck dropping to my hands and knees 00:27:34.710 --> 00:27:36.002 align:middle line:90% and crawling up the last steps. 00:27:36.002 --> 00:27:38.820 align:middle line:90% 00:27:38.820 --> 00:27:40.560 align:middle line:90% I stretch my neck up and around. 00:27:40.560 --> 00:27:41.790 align:middle line:90% I peer in the door. 00:27:41.790 --> 00:27:44.130 align:middle line:84% First thing that hits me is the scorched smell. 00:27:44.130 --> 00:27:46.320 align:middle line:84% Then the water and tracks on the floor. 00:27:46.320 --> 00:27:49.650 align:middle line:84% I peer through the kitchen into Roy's room. 00:27:49.650 --> 00:27:53.100 align:middle line:84% Sunshine is sitting over her loom big as a baby grand piano. 00:27:53.100 --> 00:27:55.350 align:middle line:84% Roy behind her smoking a cigarette 00:27:55.350 --> 00:27:59.010 align:middle line:84% and staring at a Japanese glass ball hanging in the window. 00:27:59.010 --> 00:28:01.980 align:middle line:84% Roy, what reserve, what composure. 00:28:01.980 --> 00:28:03.600 align:middle line:90% Sunshine is weaving. 00:28:03.600 --> 00:28:04.680 align:middle line:90% Her hands are flying. 00:28:04.680 --> 00:28:06.150 align:middle line:84% Her feet are working the treadles, 00:28:06.150 --> 00:28:07.530 align:middle line:90% the shuttles are whirring. 00:28:07.530 --> 00:28:09.450 align:middle line:84% Sunshine's hair is hanging in her eyes. 00:28:09.450 --> 00:28:11.190 align:middle line:84% Her forehead glistens with sweat. 00:28:11.190 --> 00:28:14.070 align:middle line:84% Incense is smoking up beside the loom. 00:28:14.070 --> 00:28:18.120 align:middle line:84% Sunshine's eyes are yellow, flat, and impenetrable. 00:28:18.120 --> 00:28:21.520 align:middle line:84% Roy holds a cigarette like some vestigial organ in his fingers, 00:28:21.520 --> 00:28:23.280 align:middle line:84% which extend like the paw of a raccoon 00:28:23.280 --> 00:28:25.470 align:middle line:90% about to rinse something. 00:28:25.470 --> 00:28:27.780 align:middle line:84% Sunshine is feeding all kinds of shin 00:28:27.780 --> 00:28:30.960 align:middle line:84% into the loom from a pile on the floor, pieces of driftwood, 00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:35.430 align:middle line:84% rags, twists of cloth, an old bikini top. 00:28:35.430 --> 00:28:37.140 align:middle line:90% She's after texture. 00:28:37.140 --> 00:28:40.410 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:28:40.410 --> 00:28:41.850 align:middle line:90% 00:28:41.850 --> 00:28:44.700 align:middle line:84% Behind her, previous hangings cover the walls. 00:28:44.700 --> 00:28:47.250 align:middle line:84% They are like animals or cuddly protozoa, 00:28:47.250 --> 00:28:50.040 align:middle line:84% like faces that can almost say something. 00:28:50.040 --> 00:28:53.210 align:middle line:84% I ease back out the door, stand up, and walk in. 00:28:53.210 --> 00:28:55.770 align:middle line:90% The loom goes on whirring. 00:28:55.770 --> 00:28:57.890 align:middle line:90% Roy's eyes don't flicker. 00:28:57.890 --> 00:29:00.980 align:middle line:84% I know, and Roy knows I know that he is watching me 00:29:00.980 --> 00:29:02.810 align:middle line:90% out of the corner of his eye. 00:29:02.810 --> 00:29:04.700 align:middle line:84% The loom stops for a moment, Sunshine 00:29:04.700 --> 00:29:08.270 align:middle line:84% moves her head toward me, but doesn't look. 00:29:08.270 --> 00:29:11.750 align:middle line:90% The pot-- the loom starts again. 00:29:11.750 --> 00:29:13.460 align:middle line:84% The pots are welded to the burners. 00:29:13.460 --> 00:29:17.450 align:middle line:84% The bottoms black and crusted with fossilized vegetables. 00:29:17.450 --> 00:29:20.120 align:middle line:84% There's the knife stabbed in the wall. 00:29:20.120 --> 00:29:22.370 align:middle line:84% I wander through the smoky guts of the house, 00:29:22.370 --> 00:29:24.950 align:middle line:84% shouting my wife's name from room to room. 00:29:24.950 --> 00:29:26.840 align:middle line:90% I get halfway up to the tower. 00:29:26.840 --> 00:29:28.850 align:middle line:90% The silence is too much. 00:29:28.850 --> 00:29:30.703 align:middle line:84% Back in the kitchen Roy and Sunshine 00:29:30.703 --> 00:29:32.120 align:middle line:84% are standing shoulder to shoulder, 00:29:32.120 --> 00:29:35.330 align:middle line:84% American Gothic harbingers of the news. 00:29:35.330 --> 00:29:36.110 align:middle line:90% Roy says it. 00:29:36.110 --> 00:29:37.910 align:middle line:90% She left. 00:29:37.910 --> 00:29:39.650 align:middle line:90% Sunshine blushes. 00:29:39.650 --> 00:29:41.540 align:middle line:84% Roy says, there was a fire in the tower. 00:29:41.540 --> 00:29:44.210 align:middle line:84% The firemen got it before the flames spread. 00:29:44.210 --> 00:29:46.460 align:middle line:84% It doesn't look too bad just scorched part of one wall 00:29:46.460 --> 00:29:50.660 align:middle line:84% burned a hole in the mattress and another in the roof. 00:29:50.660 --> 00:29:52.850 align:middle line:84% Roy anticipates my next question. 00:29:52.850 --> 00:29:54.920 align:middle line:84% The guys next door were burning some stuff. 00:29:54.920 --> 00:29:58.670 align:middle line:84% The firemen thinks some of it floated up through the windows. 00:29:58.670 --> 00:30:00.770 align:middle line:84% Sunshine goes out for a minute and I say to Roy, 00:30:00.770 --> 00:30:02.062 align:middle line:90% why did you leave me like that. 00:30:02.062 --> 00:30:02.690 align:middle line:90% I was coming. 00:30:02.690 --> 00:30:04.145 align:middle line:90% Roy shrugs, no you weren't, man. 00:30:04.145 --> 00:30:05.120 align:middle line:90% I saw you face. 00:30:05.120 --> 00:30:09.110 align:middle line:84% You weren't coming and I figured it wasn't a healthy place. 00:30:09.110 --> 00:30:10.610 align:middle line:90% You were right about that. 00:30:10.610 --> 00:30:13.580 align:middle line:84% Tell me one thing Roy, what did you see in my face? 00:30:13.580 --> 00:30:16.220 align:middle line:84% Roy shrugs, that you weren't coming. 00:30:16.220 --> 00:30:19.265 align:middle line:84% I mean was it an in look or an out look? 00:30:19.265 --> 00:30:22.130 align:middle line:90% 00:30:22.130 --> 00:30:23.510 align:middle line:90% Roy looks at me. 00:30:23.510 --> 00:30:25.310 align:middle line:90% In or out? 00:30:25.310 --> 00:30:26.610 align:middle line:90% Forget it. 00:30:26.610 --> 00:30:28.610 align:middle line:84% I look around the kitchen and start cleaning up. 00:30:28.610 --> 00:30:29.930 align:middle line:90% Roy gives me a hand. 00:30:29.930 --> 00:30:32.330 align:middle line:84% The loom is whirring in the next room. 00:30:32.330 --> 00:30:33.230 align:middle line:90% We mop and scrub. 00:30:33.230 --> 00:30:34.430 align:middle line:90% I throw out two of the pots. 00:30:34.430 --> 00:30:35.330 align:middle line:90% The wok is baked. 00:30:35.330 --> 00:30:36.950 align:middle line:90% I debate, then throw it out. 00:30:36.950 --> 00:30:40.160 align:middle line:90% Roy says, it was an in look. 00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:42.530 align:middle line:90% I think about it, in look. 00:30:42.530 --> 00:30:44.150 align:middle line:84% Roy clears his throat, hesitates. 00:30:44.150 --> 00:30:45.530 align:middle line:90% We go on mopping. 00:30:45.530 --> 00:30:48.500 align:middle line:90% Roy says, maybe it was an-- 00:30:48.500 --> 00:30:49.490 align:middle line:90% the loom stops. 00:30:49.490 --> 00:30:51.530 align:middle line:90% We look toward the bedroom door. 00:30:51.530 --> 00:30:55.250 align:middle line:84% Roy drops his voice, maybe it was an out look. 00:30:55.250 --> 00:30:56.630 align:middle line:90% We look at each other and nod. 00:30:56.630 --> 00:31:00.500 align:middle line:90% The loom starts whirring again. 00:31:00.500 --> 00:31:02.180 align:middle line:90% The tower room isn't too bad. 00:31:02.180 --> 00:31:03.560 align:middle line:84% There's water all over the floor. 00:31:03.560 --> 00:31:05.102 align:middle line:84% Smoke is still heavy in the air and I 00:31:05.102 --> 00:31:08.870 align:middle line:84% can look up through a poka in the roof and see the stars. 00:31:08.870 --> 00:31:10.190 align:middle line:90% But it's not that bad. 00:31:10.190 --> 00:31:12.620 align:middle line:90% I head down for a shower. 00:31:12.620 --> 00:31:14.990 align:middle line:84% Sunshine is just stepping out of the bathroom. 00:31:14.990 --> 00:31:18.050 align:middle line:84% She has the towel turbine around her head and smells of Jean 00:31:18.050 --> 00:31:19.130 align:middle line:90% Naté. 00:31:19.130 --> 00:31:20.330 align:middle line:90% The mirror is steamed up. 00:31:20.330 --> 00:31:23.210 align:middle line:84% The entire bathroom is dripping with condensed steam. 00:31:23.210 --> 00:31:25.190 align:middle line:84% Clouds of steam rise off Sunshine 00:31:25.190 --> 00:31:26.780 align:middle line:90% meeting the cooler night air. 00:31:26.780 --> 00:31:29.840 align:middle line:84% When the vegetarian goes in for a shower it's for keeps. 00:31:29.840 --> 00:31:32.660 align:middle line:84% As though she is entering a time warp, a space capsule. 00:31:32.660 --> 00:31:34.655 align:middle line:84% This time she will alter her chemistry. 00:31:34.655 --> 00:31:37.640 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:39.770 align:middle line:90% She stops in the bathroom door. 00:31:39.770 --> 00:31:42.570 align:middle line:84% I can't squeeze by so I cut my engine by two thirds 00:31:42.570 --> 00:31:43.790 align:middle line:90% then full stop. 00:31:43.790 --> 00:31:46.940 align:middle line:84% The bath towel slipped so I can see the top of her nipple. 00:31:46.940 --> 00:31:50.390 align:middle line:84% She says in a whisper, what happened up there? 00:31:50.390 --> 00:31:51.200 align:middle line:90% Where? 00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:51.830 align:middle line:90% Olomana? 00:31:51.830 --> 00:31:53.480 align:middle line:90% With the Black Velvet girl? 00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:54.950 align:middle line:90% Oh, everything. 00:31:54.950 --> 00:31:56.750 align:middle line:90% Sunshine looks at my shoulders. 00:31:56.750 --> 00:31:59.330 align:middle line:84% I shake my head, you won't be able to see anything, 00:31:59.330 --> 00:31:59.885 align:middle line:90% it's no use. 00:31:59.885 --> 00:32:01.010 align:middle line:90% She didn't leave any marks. 00:32:01.010 --> 00:32:03.500 align:middle line:84% I told her I was married and so she was careful. 00:32:03.500 --> 00:32:04.610 align:middle line:90% But she did other things. 00:32:04.610 --> 00:32:07.190 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:32:07.190 --> 00:32:09.950 align:middle line:84% Sunshine purses her lips as though to say something. 00:32:09.950 --> 00:32:11.210 align:middle line:90% Her eyes fasten on me. 00:32:11.210 --> 00:32:13.430 align:middle line:84% She purses her lips and swallows. 00:32:13.430 --> 00:32:14.480 align:middle line:90% I whisper. 00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:15.412 align:middle line:90% Don't even ask. 00:32:15.412 --> 00:32:17.120 align:middle line:84% The Black Velvet girl doesn't leave marks 00:32:17.120 --> 00:32:18.950 align:middle line:90% but she can do fantastic things. 00:32:18.950 --> 00:32:21.560 align:middle line:84% Things you can't imagine with her fingers and lips, 00:32:21.560 --> 00:32:22.610 align:middle line:90% and her teeth. 00:32:22.610 --> 00:32:24.530 align:middle line:90% I click my teeth together. 00:32:24.530 --> 00:32:27.250 align:middle line:84% Sunshine reaches numbly for the towel, stares at me. 00:32:27.250 --> 00:32:28.250 align:middle line:90% I click my teeth at her. 00:32:28.250 --> 00:32:32.000 align:middle line:84% She makes a faint whimpering sound turns and quickly tracks 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:33.590 align:middle line:90% across the kitchen to Roy's. 00:32:33.590 --> 00:32:36.350 align:middle line:90% I hear the door slam. 00:32:36.350 --> 00:32:38.960 align:middle line:84% I sprawl on the shower and lie under the steam, 00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:40.910 align:middle line:84% get out, spray my feet with mercurochrome 00:32:40.910 --> 00:32:42.950 align:middle line:84% and notice the bruises starting to come 00:32:42.950 --> 00:32:46.310 align:middle line:84% into my body, especially around my neck where my shirt jerked, 00:32:46.310 --> 00:32:48.260 align:middle line:84% and puzzle my face in the mirror. 00:32:48.260 --> 00:32:48.920 align:middle line:90% In or out? 00:32:48.920 --> 00:32:51.410 align:middle line:90% I ask the steamy reflection. 00:32:51.410 --> 00:32:53.750 align:middle line:90% I can't tell. 00:32:53.750 --> 00:32:55.330 align:middle line:84% When I step out of the bathroom I 00:32:55.330 --> 00:32:58.490 align:middle line:84% hear a strangled cry coming through the poka to Roy's room. 00:32:58.490 --> 00:33:00.590 align:middle line:84% Like a chicken getting its neck wrung and singing 00:33:00.590 --> 00:33:03.200 align:middle line:90% an aria at the same time. 00:33:03.200 --> 00:33:04.760 align:middle line:90% The vegetarians love ecstasies. 00:33:04.760 --> 00:33:10.320 align:middle line:84% I hobble quickly up to the tower room and out of earshot. 00:33:10.320 --> 00:33:13.970 align:middle line:84% I fall on a smoky mattress, I'm almost asleep. 00:33:13.970 --> 00:33:15.980 align:middle line:84% Reach over to hug my wife, not there. 00:33:15.980 --> 00:33:17.240 align:middle line:90% I doze. 00:33:17.240 --> 00:33:19.850 align:middle line:84% The trade wind funnels through the jealousies, the windows, 00:33:19.850 --> 00:33:21.530 align:middle line:90% the lampshade knocks, knocks. 00:33:21.530 --> 00:33:24.140 align:middle line:84% The stars drift through the hole in the roof. 00:33:24.140 --> 00:33:27.140 align:middle line:84% Then the sun is in my eyes and I'm late as hell for work 00:33:27.140 --> 00:33:28.700 align:middle line:90% I hobble, stiff, and sore. 00:33:28.700 --> 00:33:29.990 align:middle line:90% Downstairs, no one at home. 00:33:29.990 --> 00:33:31.400 align:middle line:90% Everyone at work. 00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:33.200 align:middle line:84% I'm at the refrigerator when I hear a shoe 00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:34.370 align:middle line:90% scuff on the back stairs. 00:33:34.370 --> 00:33:37.790 align:middle line:84% Atuana, I turn and there are two huge guys wearing down 00:33:37.790 --> 00:33:40.850 align:middle line:84% turned sailor hats over lurk-some eyes. 00:33:40.850 --> 00:33:43.190 align:middle line:84% They look like packaged hams wrapped in Lucky You Live 00:33:43.190 --> 00:33:44.720 align:middle line:90% Hawaii and Luau feet T-shirts. 00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:46.340 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:33:46.340 --> 00:33:46.970 align:middle line:90% Talofa Talofa. 00:33:46.970 --> 00:33:47.580 align:middle line:90% I jump. 00:33:47.580 --> 00:33:48.080 align:middle line:90% Freeze. 00:33:48.080 --> 00:33:48.890 align:middle line:90% The gun is in his hand. 00:33:48.890 --> 00:33:49.390 align:middle line:90% Freeze. 00:33:49.390 --> 00:33:50.120 align:middle line:90% I freeze. 00:33:50.120 --> 00:33:51.050 align:middle line:90% Talofa. 00:33:51.050 --> 00:33:52.100 align:middle line:90% No, not Talofa. 00:33:52.100 --> 00:33:53.180 align:middle line:90% I his cousin, Aloha. 00:33:53.180 --> 00:33:55.130 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:33:55.130 --> 00:33:56.297 align:middle line:90% Aloha, I didn't do anything. 00:33:56.297 --> 00:33:57.797 align:middle line:84% It was the Black Velvet girl's idea. 00:33:57.797 --> 00:33:59.100 align:middle line:90% I never laid a hand on her, I-- 00:33:59.100 --> 00:34:02.910 align:middle line:84% Aloha says, we're looking for a Patsy Sakamoto, 00:34:02.910 --> 00:34:04.560 align:middle line:84% he escaped prison three days ago. 00:34:04.560 --> 00:34:05.580 align:middle line:90% Robbed one bank already. 00:34:05.580 --> 00:34:07.413 align:middle line:84% We got reports he'd been hiding around here. 00:34:07.413 --> 00:34:08.730 align:middle line:90% Mind if we look? 00:34:08.730 --> 00:34:10.590 align:middle line:90% I'm not hiding anyone anywhere. 00:34:10.590 --> 00:34:12.330 align:middle line:84% Maybe he come in without you knowing. 00:34:12.330 --> 00:34:13.199 align:middle line:90% You're cops. 00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:14.610 align:middle line:90% Aloha, flashes his badge. 00:34:14.610 --> 00:34:17.429 align:middle line:90% Help yourself, I say. 00:34:17.429 --> 00:34:20.520 align:middle line:84% Aloha and his partner guns drawn, sneak from room to room. 00:34:20.520 --> 00:34:21.870 align:middle line:90% Yank open closet doors. 00:34:21.870 --> 00:34:23.550 align:middle line:84% Cover each other while they kick closets 00:34:23.550 --> 00:34:27.330 align:middle line:84% and kick clothes in the closet, poke behind the shower curtain. 00:34:27.330 --> 00:34:28.920 align:middle line:90% Then we're back in the kitchen. 00:34:28.920 --> 00:34:30.520 align:middle line:90% Know Patsy Sakamoto? 00:34:30.520 --> 00:34:31.020 align:middle line:90% Sure. 00:34:31.020 --> 00:34:32.853 align:middle line:84% He used to hang out with the guys next door. 00:34:32.853 --> 00:34:33.820 align:middle line:90% Hapa haole guy. 00:34:33.820 --> 00:34:34.320 align:middle line:90% Right. 00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:36.150 align:middle line:90% He armed and dangerous. 00:34:36.150 --> 00:34:37.710 align:middle line:90% Spot Patsy no approach him. 00:34:37.710 --> 00:34:39.480 align:middle line:90% Just give us a call, yeah? 00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:42.659 align:middle line:90% And keep that door locked. 00:34:42.659 --> 00:34:43.719 align:middle line:90% Then they're gone. 00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:46.260 align:middle line:84% In the yard I see similar beefy vice squad 00:34:46.260 --> 00:34:49.830 align:middle line:84% guys gents slipping out from behind trees, stepping 00:34:49.830 --> 00:34:51.520 align:middle line:90% warily out from behind cars. 00:34:51.520 --> 00:34:54.239 align:middle line:90% They've got shotguns. 00:34:54.239 --> 00:34:56.370 align:middle line:84% So I'm later still for work, but finally I'm 00:34:56.370 --> 00:34:58.770 align:middle line:84% in the truck, brown bag and thermos on the seat. 00:34:58.770 --> 00:35:02.640 align:middle line:84% I reach for the key, pump the gas and freeze. 00:35:02.640 --> 00:35:05.850 align:middle line:84% I detached my fingers from the ignition key. 00:35:05.850 --> 00:35:06.540 align:middle line:90% Chocolate Joe. 00:35:06.540 --> 00:35:09.970 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:35:09.970 --> 00:35:10.950 align:middle line:90% 00:35:10.950 --> 00:35:13.290 align:middle line:90% I sit a long time. 00:35:13.290 --> 00:35:15.060 align:middle line:90% I reach for the ignition key. 00:35:15.060 --> 00:35:16.860 align:middle line:90% I look at my face in the mirror. 00:35:16.860 --> 00:35:18.510 align:middle line:90% In or out look, I can't tell. 00:35:18.510 --> 00:35:20.610 align:middle line:90% I can't turn the key. 00:35:20.610 --> 00:35:25.020 align:middle line:84% I decided to raise the hood, dispel all unreasonable fears. 00:35:25.020 --> 00:35:27.927 align:middle line:84% But when I go to lift the hood I think maybe 00:35:27.927 --> 00:35:29.010 align:middle line:90% that's where they get you. 00:35:29.010 --> 00:35:29.980 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:35:29.980 --> 00:35:32.220 align:middle line:84% It blows when you lift the hood or if you 00:35:32.220 --> 00:35:33.970 align:middle line:84% see nothing you hop back and turn the key, 00:35:33.970 --> 00:35:35.570 align:middle line:90% and then it blows. 00:35:35.570 --> 00:35:38.520 align:middle line:84% Suddenly I see my truck with all of its panels and compartments, 00:35:38.520 --> 00:35:41.160 align:middle line:84% and think Talofa Talofa, demolition expert. 00:35:41.160 --> 00:35:43.140 align:middle line:84% I'd have to dismantle my whole truck 00:35:43.140 --> 00:35:45.750 align:middle line:84% and even then I couldn't be sure. 00:35:45.750 --> 00:35:48.570 align:middle line:84% I get my tools out and hele-on over to the K highway. 00:35:48.570 --> 00:35:51.153 align:middle line:90% I start hitching. 00:35:51.153 --> 00:35:52.320 align:middle line:90% It's hot and bright up here. 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:54.903 align:middle line:84% Everyone's hammering and there's the noise inside and outside. 00:35:54.903 --> 00:35:56.670 align:middle line:84% The rumble of Jets taking off and climbing 00:35:56.670 --> 00:35:58.410 align:middle line:90% fills the air overhead. 00:35:58.410 --> 00:36:02.190 align:middle line:84% We're still roofing condos for the aspiring middle class. 00:36:02.190 --> 00:36:04.230 align:middle line:84% I see the silver flashes rumbling off 00:36:04.230 --> 00:36:07.020 align:middle line:84% from Maui and Kauai and think of my wife sealed up 00:36:07.020 --> 00:36:09.750 align:middle line:84% inside the belly of the pressurizing cabin. 00:36:09.750 --> 00:36:12.630 align:middle line:84% Her ears popping while she smiles 00:36:12.630 --> 00:36:16.380 align:middle line:84% at the tourists in matching aloha shirts and muumuus. 00:36:16.380 --> 00:36:18.900 align:middle line:84% The newlywed couple from Des Moines, 00:36:18.900 --> 00:36:21.960 align:middle line:84% the nearly dead septuagenarians from Omaha or Topeka. 00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:25.020 align:middle line:84% She smiles her beautiful smile while inside in her guts 00:36:25.020 --> 00:36:28.590 align:middle line:84% she is bearing my beastly behavior, my inconstancy 00:36:28.590 --> 00:36:29.970 align:middle line:90% and flux. 00:36:29.970 --> 00:36:32.490 align:middle line:84% She bears up under the dull witted flirtations, 00:36:32.490 --> 00:36:35.280 align:middle line:84% the pawings and maulings, the stewardess jokes, air pockets, 00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:36.960 align:middle line:90% turbulence, spilled drinks. 00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:39.000 align:middle line:84% Old Filipino plantation workers trying 00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:42.060 align:middle line:84% to open the windows for some air. 00:36:42.060 --> 00:36:43.800 align:middle line:84% She climbs against the aisle steepened 00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:45.150 align:middle line:90% and by take off and climb. 00:36:45.150 --> 00:36:47.610 align:middle line:84% Her body is punished by the cabin pressurization 00:36:47.610 --> 00:36:49.770 align:middle line:90% and depressurization. 00:36:49.770 --> 00:36:51.870 align:middle line:84% Her ears are destroyed by the constant thunder 00:36:51.870 --> 00:36:53.700 align:middle line:90% of the engines on takeoff. 00:36:53.700 --> 00:36:56.370 align:middle line:84% All day she's like some angelic Sisyphus 00:36:56.370 --> 00:36:59.550 align:middle line:84% who climbs through the sky only to come home to me. 00:36:59.550 --> 00:37:01.590 align:middle line:90% I am her reward. 00:37:01.590 --> 00:37:05.160 align:middle line:84% I go on roofing feeling both rotten and tender. 00:37:05.160 --> 00:37:07.650 align:middle line:84% On the way home I stop off for a cold six pack 00:37:07.650 --> 00:37:11.220 align:middle line:84% and there's the Black Velvet girl on display in the window. 00:37:11.220 --> 00:37:14.010 align:middle line:84% I stand gazing at her for a long time. 00:37:14.010 --> 00:37:16.770 align:middle line:84% Back home I get in my truck take hold of the ignition key 00:37:16.770 --> 00:37:18.900 align:middle line:84% but it's no dice, I can't turn it. 00:37:18.900 --> 00:37:21.930 align:middle line:90% I sit-in the cabin and sweat. 00:37:21.930 --> 00:37:24.960 align:middle line:84% Finally, I get out and close the door carefully. 00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:25.710 align:middle line:90% No one's home. 00:37:25.710 --> 00:37:27.610 align:middle line:84% So I take my six pack out to the beach, 00:37:27.610 --> 00:37:30.120 align:middle line:84% throw myself on the ocean and then wander down to the woods 00:37:30.120 --> 00:37:31.650 align:middle line:90% at the end of the beach. 00:37:31.650 --> 00:37:33.810 align:middle line:84% I'm sitting there when I hear a voice behind me. 00:37:33.810 --> 00:37:35.700 align:middle line:90% Ey, bro, got a beer. 00:37:35.700 --> 00:37:38.040 align:middle line:90% I turn, it's Patsy Sakamoto. 00:37:38.040 --> 00:37:38.850 align:middle line:90% I freeze. 00:37:38.850 --> 00:37:41.790 align:middle line:84% I don't know whether I should show I recognize him or not. 00:37:41.790 --> 00:37:43.272 align:middle line:90% He's in tank top, and shorts. 00:37:43.272 --> 00:37:44.730 align:middle line:84% And he sure doesn't look dangerous. 00:37:44.730 --> 00:37:48.510 align:middle line:84% So I say, how's it, Patsy, help yourself. 00:37:48.510 --> 00:37:50.010 align:middle line:90% He recognizes me and sits down. 00:37:50.010 --> 00:37:52.593 align:middle line:84% We have a couple and then I say they were looking for you down 00:37:52.593 --> 00:37:54.090 align:middle line:90% at my house this morning. 00:37:54.090 --> 00:37:56.040 align:middle line:90% What are you doing down here? 00:37:56.040 --> 00:37:58.530 align:middle line:84% Come for a look at the ocean that's all. 00:37:58.530 --> 00:38:00.030 align:middle line:84% So we drink and look at the ocean. 00:38:00.030 --> 00:38:02.430 align:middle line:84% And then Patsy gets up, looks around, waves to me, 00:38:02.430 --> 00:38:04.620 align:middle line:90% and slips back into the woods. 00:38:04.620 --> 00:38:06.540 align:middle line:84% Back at home I call around for my wife 00:38:06.540 --> 00:38:09.120 align:middle line:90% but no one knows where she is. 00:38:09.120 --> 00:38:10.980 align:middle line:84% Every morning I get up, get in the truck, 00:38:10.980 --> 00:38:12.480 align:middle line:90% take hold of the key, freeze. 00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:16.260 align:middle line:84% Get out, hitchhike, to Hawaii Kai. 00:38:16.260 --> 00:38:18.790 align:middle line:84% Now that Atuana is gone I can do whatever I want. 00:38:18.790 --> 00:38:21.340 align:middle line:84% So after work I hitchhike into Maz's a few times and we mess 00:38:21.340 --> 00:38:21.840 align:middle line:90% around. 00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:23.820 align:middle line:84% One night we get kind of loaded and she decides 00:38:23.820 --> 00:38:25.200 align:middle line:90% she wants to paint my body. 00:38:25.200 --> 00:38:27.330 align:middle line:84% So she paints me a dusky yellow orange. 00:38:27.330 --> 00:38:28.680 align:middle line:90% Paints black spots on me. 00:38:28.680 --> 00:38:29.730 align:middle line:90% I say, what is this shit. 00:38:29.730 --> 00:38:30.840 align:middle line:90% But then I get into it. 00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:31.860 align:middle line:90% I paint her all over. 00:38:31.860 --> 00:38:34.320 align:middle line:84% Paint her nipples into flaming suns with smiles on them 00:38:34.320 --> 00:38:35.940 align:middle line:90% and planets revolving around. 00:38:35.940 --> 00:38:36.930 align:middle line:90% It's not enough. 00:38:36.930 --> 00:38:37.450 align:middle line:90% Not enough. 00:38:37.450 --> 00:38:38.160 align:middle line:90% We get drunker. 00:38:38.160 --> 00:38:39.690 align:middle line:90% It's almost dark outside. 00:38:39.690 --> 00:38:41.610 align:middle line:84% The African violet trees blooming. 00:38:41.610 --> 00:38:44.310 align:middle line:84% We climb up the side of her bungalow up to the roof, 00:38:44.310 --> 00:38:45.840 align:middle line:84% and with a beach umbrella we take 00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:49.260 align:middle line:84% hold of the stem with both hands and jump off the roof. 00:38:49.260 --> 00:38:50.340 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:38:50.340 --> 00:38:51.870 align:middle line:90% Land heavily on the grass. 00:38:51.870 --> 00:38:55.230 align:middle line:84% I go on drinking from a bottle on the grass. 00:38:55.230 --> 00:38:58.290 align:middle line:84% Later come to as a jet rumbles low over the trees. 00:38:58.290 --> 00:38:59.490 align:middle line:90% Red lights flashing. 00:38:59.490 --> 00:39:00.270 align:middle line:90% Passed out again. 00:39:00.270 --> 00:39:01.950 align:middle line:84% Wake up covered with mosquito bites. 00:39:01.950 --> 00:39:04.770 align:middle line:84% The sound of Maz down on all fours vomiting in the bushes. 00:39:04.770 --> 00:39:08.130 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:39:08.130 --> 00:39:09.570 align:middle line:90% 00:39:09.570 --> 00:39:11.910 align:middle line:84% Then it is in the paper about Patsy Sakamoto. 00:39:11.910 --> 00:39:13.620 align:middle line:84% The pictures of the ambulance attendants 00:39:13.620 --> 00:39:16.590 align:middle line:84% lifting his body onto a stretcher. 00:39:16.590 --> 00:39:18.510 align:middle line:84% They'd cornered him in a house up in Kaneohe. 00:39:18.510 --> 00:39:20.010 align:middle line:84% He wouldn't surrender so they'd said 00:39:20.010 --> 00:39:22.200 align:middle line:84% at least let the girls come out, we won't hurt them. 00:39:22.200 --> 00:39:23.603 align:middle line:90% So Patsy's girls had come out. 00:39:23.603 --> 00:39:25.770 align:middle line:84% Then his buddy had gone in trying to convince Patsy, 00:39:25.770 --> 00:39:27.330 align:middle line:90% it was no use. 00:39:27.330 --> 00:39:28.710 align:middle line:90% But Patsy wouldn't give up. 00:39:28.710 --> 00:39:31.410 align:middle line:84% He had shot it out and died in a hail of gunfire. 00:39:31.410 --> 00:39:33.570 align:middle line:84% That's the way they'd said it in the Star Bulletin. 00:39:33.570 --> 00:39:35.460 align:middle line:90% A hail of gunfire. 00:39:35.460 --> 00:39:37.590 align:middle line:84% There was going to be a grand jury investigation 00:39:37.590 --> 00:39:39.865 align:middle line:84% though because one story had it that Patsy had tried 00:39:39.865 --> 00:39:42.240 align:middle line:84% to surrender, but the police had gone in to nail him once 00:39:42.240 --> 00:39:43.500 align:middle line:90% and for all. 00:39:43.500 --> 00:39:45.750 align:middle line:84% Patsy had a long record and the police 00:39:45.750 --> 00:39:48.270 align:middle line:84% felt he was making them look like turkeys. 00:39:48.270 --> 00:39:50.670 align:middle line:84% A few days later I read the grand jury investigation 00:39:50.670 --> 00:39:51.540 align:middle line:90% had been quashed. 00:39:51.540 --> 00:39:54.600 align:middle line:90% There would be no investigation. 00:39:54.600 --> 00:39:56.430 align:middle line:84% Sunshine is in the kitchen saying, guess 00:39:56.430 --> 00:39:58.230 align:middle line:90% who I heard from today? 00:39:58.230 --> 00:40:00.510 align:middle line:90% I can't even begin to guess. 00:40:00.510 --> 00:40:01.230 align:middle line:90% Guess. 00:40:01.230 --> 00:40:02.700 align:middle line:90% Henry Kissinger. 00:40:02.700 --> 00:40:05.490 align:middle line:84% No, the Black Velvet girl, Sunshine says in a rush. 00:40:05.490 --> 00:40:08.190 align:middle line:84% She's just come back from a whirlwind promo tour. 00:40:08.190 --> 00:40:11.910 align:middle line:84% Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, the Philippines. 00:40:11.910 --> 00:40:13.062 align:middle line:90% How did she look? 00:40:13.062 --> 00:40:13.770 align:middle line:90% I didn't see her. 00:40:13.770 --> 00:40:14.760 align:middle line:90% She was on the phone. 00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:17.370 align:middle line:84% She wanted to know where she could find you. 00:40:17.370 --> 00:40:18.210 align:middle line:90% You didn't tell her? 00:40:18.210 --> 00:40:19.560 align:middle line:90% Sure, she sounds nice. 00:40:19.560 --> 00:40:21.630 align:middle line:90% Guess who else I heard from? 00:40:21.630 --> 00:40:23.520 align:middle line:90% The Maharishi. 00:40:23.520 --> 00:40:25.830 align:middle line:90% No, Talofa Talofa. 00:40:25.830 --> 00:40:26.730 align:middle line:90% Talofa? 00:40:26.730 --> 00:40:27.397 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:40:27.397 --> 00:40:29.730 align:middle line:84% They didn't like what happened that night with the Black 00:40:29.730 --> 00:40:30.300 align:middle line:90% Velvet girl. 00:40:30.300 --> 00:40:32.383 align:middle line:84% They wanted to know where they could find you too. 00:40:32.383 --> 00:40:34.440 align:middle line:90% You didn't tell them? 00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:36.388 align:middle line:84% Nope, I said, I didn't even know you. 00:40:36.388 --> 00:40:38.430 align:middle line:84% What did you do that night anyway that everyone's 00:40:38.430 --> 00:40:39.150 align:middle line:90% looking for you? 00:40:39.150 --> 00:40:39.870 align:middle line:90% Nothing. 00:40:39.870 --> 00:40:41.520 align:middle line:90% Sunshine flushes. 00:40:41.520 --> 00:40:43.380 align:middle line:90% Nothing, I'll bet. 00:40:43.380 --> 00:40:46.448 align:middle line:84% Talofa didn't try to rough you up or anything, did he? 00:40:46.448 --> 00:40:47.490 align:middle line:90% Sunshine raised her hand. 00:40:47.490 --> 00:40:48.900 align:middle line:90% Oh, pooh, Talofa? 00:40:48.900 --> 00:40:49.680 align:middle line:90% He's a sweetie. 00:40:49.680 --> 00:40:50.415 align:middle line:90% He tipped me $5. 00:40:50.415 --> 00:40:53.113 align:middle line:84% You know what the Black Velvet girl said? 00:40:53.113 --> 00:40:55.530 align:middle line:84% She said she might be able to get me one of those dresses. 00:40:55.530 --> 00:40:58.290 align:middle line:84% How do you think I'd look in a Black Velvet dress? 00:40:58.290 --> 00:40:59.360 align:middle line:90% Sensational. 00:40:59.360 --> 00:41:01.110 align:middle line:84% Suddenly I run to the window and look out. 00:41:01.110 --> 00:41:04.040 align:middle line:84% What kind of car does Talofa drive anyway? 00:41:04.040 --> 00:41:04.540 align:middle line:90% Talofa? 00:41:04.540 --> 00:41:06.610 align:middle line:90% A silver Grand Prix. 00:41:06.610 --> 00:41:07.860 align:middle line:90% Oh, you mean did he follow me? 00:41:07.860 --> 00:41:10.080 align:middle line:90% He went out to play golf. 00:41:10.080 --> 00:41:12.450 align:middle line:84% He's got those cute red golf pants. 00:41:12.450 --> 00:41:15.270 align:middle line:84% What'd you do that night, anyway? 00:41:15.270 --> 00:41:16.920 align:middle line:90% Nothing, I'm telling you. 00:41:16.920 --> 00:41:18.120 align:middle line:90% Nothing, I'll bet. 00:41:18.120 --> 00:41:19.650 align:middle line:90% Sunshine giggles. 00:41:19.650 --> 00:41:22.080 align:middle line:84% When my wife appears in the doorway the next afternoon 00:41:22.080 --> 00:41:26.040 align:middle line:84% I forget Maz, the Black Velvet girl, the syndicate, the cops. 00:41:26.040 --> 00:41:27.210 align:middle line:90% Atuana is tan. 00:41:27.210 --> 00:41:28.560 align:middle line:90% She's wearing a new dress. 00:41:28.560 --> 00:41:31.440 align:middle line:84% A pikake lei, a white shell necklace, 00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:34.740 align:middle line:84% a gold chain on her glowing skin. 00:41:34.740 --> 00:41:36.030 align:middle line:90% The trade wind lifts her hair. 00:41:36.030 --> 00:41:38.940 align:middle line:84% The sun turns her eyes a warm golden color. 00:41:38.940 --> 00:41:41.170 align:middle line:84% As always I'm aware of her long slim legs. 00:41:41.170 --> 00:41:43.630 align:middle line:84% She walks in and sits down on the stool and looks at me. 00:41:43.630 --> 00:41:44.970 align:middle line:90% Hey, How's it. 00:41:44.970 --> 00:41:46.620 align:middle line:90% You look good, haole boy. 00:41:46.620 --> 00:41:47.310 align:middle line:90% So do you. 00:41:47.310 --> 00:41:48.480 align:middle line:90% Where have you been. 00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:49.980 align:middle line:90% I took some time off. 00:41:49.980 --> 00:41:53.040 align:middle line:84% Had some leave so caught a fight over the big island 00:41:53.040 --> 00:41:55.020 align:middle line:84% and went up to Kamuela with some of the girls. 00:41:55.020 --> 00:41:55.560 align:middle line:90% Had a ball. 00:41:55.560 --> 00:41:57.420 align:middle line:90% Visited some friends of Penny's. 00:41:57.420 --> 00:42:00.150 align:middle line:84% Went horseback riding, swimming, went to the Parker Ranch 00:42:00.150 --> 00:42:02.220 align:middle line:84% one night for steaks and cocktails. 00:42:02.220 --> 00:42:04.290 align:middle line:90% It was great. 00:42:04.290 --> 00:42:05.880 align:middle line:84% Before I can say a word she says, 00:42:05.880 --> 00:42:08.955 align:middle line:84% and I thought about you lover boy. 00:42:08.955 --> 00:42:11.580 align:middle line:84% I don't know what happened that night and I don't want to know. 00:42:11.580 --> 00:42:14.730 align:middle line:84% Maybe I had caused the first suspicion and maybe not. 00:42:14.730 --> 00:42:18.000 align:middle line:84% But let's just forget it all, put it in the past, 00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:20.160 align:middle line:84% and start over from right now, OK? 00:42:20.160 --> 00:42:22.980 align:middle line:90% That includes Maz, OK? 00:42:22.980 --> 00:42:24.060 align:middle line:90% Man, what relief. 00:42:24.060 --> 00:42:24.780 align:middle line:90% What a woman. 00:42:24.780 --> 00:42:26.220 align:middle line:90% We hug, and kiss, and make up. 00:42:26.220 --> 00:42:28.170 align:middle line:84% Atuana hangs a gold chain around my neck 00:42:28.170 --> 00:42:31.980 align:middle line:84% with the Chinese character for good luck on it. 00:42:31.980 --> 00:42:34.050 align:middle line:84% We hug, and kiss, and stumble up the tower room 00:42:34.050 --> 00:42:36.870 align:middle line:90% in each other's arms. 00:42:36.870 --> 00:42:39.000 align:middle line:84% My wife and I are lying quietly together looking 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:42.750 align:middle line:84% at each other's eyes, and at last all is calm and peaceful. 00:42:42.750 --> 00:42:44.757 align:middle line:84% The sun is slanting in over the Koolaus 00:42:44.757 --> 00:42:45.840 align:middle line:90% and through the jalousies. 00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:49.410 align:middle line:84% The doves are cooing in the palms around the house. 00:42:49.410 --> 00:42:52.290 align:middle line:84% Then sunshine is calling from the foot of the stairs, someone 00:42:52.290 --> 00:42:53.205 align:middle line:90% here to see you. 00:42:53.205 --> 00:42:59.050 align:middle line:90% 00:42:59.050 --> 00:43:01.270 align:middle line:84% Before I have a chance to yell don't let anyone up, 00:43:01.270 --> 00:43:02.140 align:middle line:90% I hear footsteps. 00:43:02.140 --> 00:43:04.420 align:middle line:84% I grabbed my shorts, my wife her muumuu. 00:43:04.420 --> 00:43:07.280 align:middle line:84% The golden head appears at the top of the stairs. 00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:12.040 align:middle line:84% She's wearing black velvet hot pants and black velvet blouse. 00:43:12.040 --> 00:43:14.470 align:middle line:84% She smiles and says, I just wanted to thank you. 00:43:14.470 --> 00:43:16.600 align:middle line:84% She was holding two half gallons of Black Velvet 00:43:16.600 --> 00:43:18.760 align:middle line:84% and has a kimono draped over one arm. 00:43:18.760 --> 00:43:19.840 align:middle line:90% She sees my wife. 00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:20.800 align:middle line:90% Looks startled. 00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:23.380 align:middle line:84% Says, oh, I didn't mean to interrupt. 00:43:23.380 --> 00:43:24.677 align:middle line:90% But now my wife is up. 00:43:24.677 --> 00:43:27.010 align:middle line:84% She's standing in the middle of the bed with their hands 00:43:27.010 --> 00:43:28.030 align:middle line:90% on her hips. 00:43:28.030 --> 00:43:29.320 align:middle line:90% Oh, that's quite all right. 00:43:29.320 --> 00:43:30.760 align:middle line:84% Come in and make yourself at home. 00:43:30.760 --> 00:43:32.770 align:middle line:90% Can I get you anything? 00:43:32.770 --> 00:43:34.720 align:middle line:84% Sunshine appears at the top of the stairs. 00:43:34.720 --> 00:43:36.490 align:middle line:90% Her murky topaz eyes are wide. 00:43:36.490 --> 00:43:38.968 align:middle line:90% She is drinking it all in. 00:43:38.968 --> 00:43:40.510 align:middle line:84% The Black Velvet girl says to my wife 00:43:40.510 --> 00:43:42.130 align:middle line:90% I just wanted to thank him. 00:43:42.130 --> 00:43:43.840 align:middle line:90% My wife says, I'll bet you did. 00:43:43.840 --> 00:43:44.530 align:middle line:90% Don't mind me. 00:43:44.530 --> 00:43:45.100 align:middle line:90% Go ahead. 00:43:45.100 --> 00:43:48.250 align:middle line:84% The Black Velvet girl says, but he was only trying to help. 00:43:48.250 --> 00:43:51.610 align:middle line:84% My wife's eyes are narrow and flat with fury. 00:43:51.610 --> 00:43:53.140 align:middle line:90% I'll bet he was. 00:43:53.140 --> 00:43:54.405 align:middle line:90% I didn't do anything, I say. 00:43:54.405 --> 00:43:55.780 align:middle line:84% My wife snatches for the necklace 00:43:55.780 --> 00:43:56.980 align:middle line:90% and pops it off my neck. 00:43:56.980 --> 00:43:59.200 align:middle line:84% Now you're bringing them into the house. 00:43:59.200 --> 00:44:00.250 align:middle line:90% No, not true. 00:44:00.250 --> 00:44:01.150 align:middle line:90% Our bed. 00:44:01.150 --> 00:44:02.170 align:middle line:90% No. 00:44:02.170 --> 00:44:03.192 align:middle line:90% My wife is off the bed. 00:44:03.192 --> 00:44:04.900 align:middle line:84% She dives for the bottles of Black Velvet 00:44:04.900 --> 00:44:07.480 align:middle line:84% and throws them one after the other out the window. 00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:09.730 align:middle line:90% The Black Velvet girl says, no. 00:44:09.730 --> 00:44:10.810 align:middle line:90% My wife belts me. 00:44:10.810 --> 00:44:12.220 align:middle line:90% She can really punch. 00:44:12.220 --> 00:44:14.500 align:middle line:84% She was once challenged to fight, fought, and beat up 00:44:14.500 --> 00:44:16.750 align:middle line:84% the toughest Samoan tita at Aiea High School, 00:44:16.750 --> 00:44:19.030 align:middle line:90% and that's saying something. 00:44:19.030 --> 00:44:21.920 align:middle line:84% She belts me and I see black and sparks for a second. 00:44:21.920 --> 00:44:24.460 align:middle line:84% That's what it is, sparks, not stars. 00:44:24.460 --> 00:44:26.170 align:middle line:84% The Black Velvet girl grabs my wife. 00:44:26.170 --> 00:44:27.760 align:middle line:84% My wife belts the Black Velvet girl. 00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:29.680 align:middle line:84% Jesus, Atuana, don't hurt her, I yell. 00:44:29.680 --> 00:44:32.230 align:middle line:84% She's got 20 corporation lawyers behind her. 00:44:32.230 --> 00:44:34.448 align:middle line:84% I try to separate my wife and the Black Velvet girl 00:44:34.448 --> 00:44:35.740 align:middle line:90% and get clawed by both of them. 00:44:35.740 --> 00:44:40.510 align:middle line:84% I back off, push past the vegetarian, and run downstairs. 00:44:40.510 --> 00:44:41.950 align:middle line:84% The Black Velvet girl and my wife 00:44:41.950 --> 00:44:43.210 align:middle line:90% curse and snarl at each other. 00:44:43.210 --> 00:44:45.040 align:middle line:90% Then follow. 00:44:45.040 --> 00:44:47.180 align:middle line:84% Maz appears as I reached the kitchen. 00:44:47.180 --> 00:44:49.600 align:middle line:84% She is at the back door with her beach mat, a picnic 00:44:49.600 --> 00:44:51.010 align:middle line:90% basket, and a six pack. 00:44:51.010 --> 00:44:54.610 align:middle line:84% She looks flushed and relaxed from the beach in the afternoon 00:44:54.610 --> 00:44:55.180 align:middle line:90% sun. 00:44:55.180 --> 00:44:55.750 align:middle line:90% Maz. 00:44:55.750 --> 00:44:56.920 align:middle line:90% She smiles at me. 00:44:56.920 --> 00:44:58.100 align:middle line:90% I run toward her. 00:44:58.100 --> 00:45:00.677 align:middle line:84% She drops the picnic basket and opens her arms. 00:45:00.677 --> 00:45:02.260 align:middle line:84% I duck under her arms, push her aside, 00:45:02.260 --> 00:45:03.968 align:middle line:84% just as my wife and the Black Velvet girl 00:45:03.968 --> 00:45:06.490 align:middle line:90% reached the kitchen. 00:45:06.490 --> 00:45:09.340 align:middle line:84% Maz takes a look at the Black Velvet girl on my wife. 00:45:09.340 --> 00:45:10.690 align:middle line:90% They take a look at Maz. 00:45:10.690 --> 00:45:11.620 align:middle line:90% Maz get's the picture. 00:45:11.620 --> 00:45:13.703 align:middle line:84% My wife and the Black Velvet girl get the picture. 00:45:13.703 --> 00:45:15.880 align:middle line:84% Maz throws the picnic basket after me. 00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:17.870 align:middle line:84% Sandwiches, olives, cookies, and cakes, 00:45:17.870 --> 00:45:19.720 align:middle line:84% napkins, forks, knives, and spoons 00:45:19.720 --> 00:45:22.360 align:middle line:84% unfurl in the air above my head like a banner. 00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:25.900 align:middle line:84% I stumble down to my track, jump in, there is the ignition key. 00:45:25.900 --> 00:45:29.267 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:45:29.267 --> 00:45:31.910 align:middle line:90% 00:45:31.910 --> 00:45:33.675 align:middle line:84% Maz, my wife, the Black Velvet girl 00:45:33.675 --> 00:45:35.300 align:middle line:84% are charging down the stairs hanging on 00:45:35.300 --> 00:45:37.160 align:middle line:84% to each other's shirts, muumuus, blouses. 00:45:37.160 --> 00:45:38.660 align:middle line:84% The vegetarian is right behind them. 00:45:38.660 --> 00:45:39.680 align:middle line:90% I don't care. 00:45:39.680 --> 00:45:41.055 align:middle line:90% I yell get back. 00:45:41.055 --> 00:45:41.930 align:middle line:90% But they keep coming. 00:45:41.930 --> 00:45:43.760 align:middle line:84% The ignition key is between my fingers. 00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:44.330 align:middle line:90% Get back. 00:45:44.330 --> 00:45:44.840 align:middle line:90% This is it. 00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:47.190 align:middle line:90% I scream, goodbye kingdom come. 00:45:47.190 --> 00:45:49.550 align:middle line:84% It will be a mass consummation, a sati, 00:45:49.550 --> 00:45:52.490 align:middle line:84% a gangster dynamite orgasm mass rub-out. 00:45:52.490 --> 00:45:53.900 align:middle line:90% Chocolate Joe, I scream. 00:45:53.900 --> 00:45:55.430 align:middle line:90% Chocolate Joe I see your eyes. 00:45:55.430 --> 00:45:56.810 align:middle line:90% I turn the key. 00:45:56.810 --> 00:45:59.000 align:middle line:84% The truck kicks over either in this life, 00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:00.980 align:middle line:84% or the illusion of this life, the afterlife, 00:46:00.980 --> 00:46:02.120 align:middle line:90% or a new incarnation. 00:46:02.120 --> 00:46:04.365 align:middle line:84% Whatever it is there is no Chocolate Joe. 00:46:04.365 --> 00:46:05.240 align:middle line:90% The view is the same. 00:46:05.240 --> 00:46:08.420 align:middle line:84% Here comes my wife, Maz, and the Black Velvet girl running 00:46:08.420 --> 00:46:11.030 align:middle line:84% after the truck as I back up, carve a turn in the sand 00:46:11.030 --> 00:46:13.100 align:middle line:84% and fishtail it out for the street. 00:46:13.100 --> 00:46:14.600 align:middle line:84% I come shooting out of the driveway, 00:46:14.600 --> 00:46:16.002 align:middle line:84% still fishtailing, gaining speed, 00:46:16.002 --> 00:46:17.960 align:middle line:84% cut another turn almost piling up into a silver 00:46:17.960 --> 00:46:19.760 align:middle line:84% Grand Prix parked across the street. 00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:23.480 align:middle line:84% [LAUGHTER] As I miss the car by inches 00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:25.160 align:middle line:84% I get a good look at the gents inside. 00:46:25.160 --> 00:46:26.450 align:middle line:90% Aloha shirts, beef. 00:46:26.450 --> 00:46:30.320 align:middle line:84% They have been watching a white Jaguar, black interior Honolulu 00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:33.945 align:middle line:84% license plate Velvet parked near my mailbox. 00:46:33.945 --> 00:46:36.320 align:middle line:84% As I take off down the street I see the Black Velvet girl 00:46:36.320 --> 00:46:37.310 align:middle line:90% jump in the White Jag. 00:46:37.310 --> 00:46:38.720 align:middle line:84% A minute later my wife shoots out 00:46:38.720 --> 00:46:39.970 align:middle line:90% of the driveway in her T Bird. 00:46:39.970 --> 00:46:42.380 align:middle line:84% I see Maz's bear up VW fall in line. 00:46:42.380 --> 00:46:44.160 align:middle line:84% Just as I turn the corner, the Grand Prix 00:46:44.160 --> 00:46:45.740 align:middle line:90% flashes in behind Maz. 00:46:45.740 --> 00:46:48.020 align:middle line:84% I tear out onto the K highway, the caravan 00:46:48.020 --> 00:46:49.070 align:middle line:90% spaces out behind me. 00:46:49.070 --> 00:46:49.820 align:middle line:90% I floor it. 00:46:49.820 --> 00:46:51.410 align:middle line:90% We're up to Makapu in no time. 00:46:51.410 --> 00:46:52.520 align:middle line:90% Now down at Sandy beach. 00:46:52.520 --> 00:46:54.195 align:middle line:90% The usual traffic jam. 00:46:54.195 --> 00:46:56.570 align:middle line:84% I jump up onto the shoulder disappear in a cloud of dust, 00:46:56.570 --> 00:46:58.130 align:middle line:90% fly out. 00:46:58.130 --> 00:47:00.925 align:middle line:84% Behind me the White Jag, Maz's VW, my wife's T Bird, 00:47:00.925 --> 00:47:03.050 align:middle line:84% and the Grand Prix all come bumping out of the dust 00:47:03.050 --> 00:47:04.430 align:middle line:90% more or less in that order. 00:47:04.430 --> 00:47:06.950 align:middle line:84% At Hawaii Kai, I run two lights, fly through Kahala, 00:47:06.950 --> 00:47:08.210 align:middle line:90% get on and off the highway. 00:47:08.210 --> 00:47:10.485 align:middle line:84% And next thing I know, I'm on Black Point Road heading 00:47:10.485 --> 00:47:12.860 align:middle line:84% for Diamond Head, and I realize that my mother and father 00:47:12.860 --> 00:47:14.180 align:middle line:90% live on this street. 00:47:14.180 --> 00:47:15.097 align:middle line:90% I spot the house. 00:47:15.097 --> 00:47:17.180 align:middle line:84% They have a high hedge, a long driveway, and maybe 00:47:17.180 --> 00:47:19.340 align:middle line:84% I can tuck in, and everyone will pass. 00:47:19.340 --> 00:47:21.840 align:middle line:84% I hang one into the driveway almost lose it in to the hedge. 00:47:21.840 --> 00:47:24.410 align:middle line:84% Just shoot down under the palms and into the garage jump 00:47:24.410 --> 00:47:27.140 align:middle line:84% out, and yank down the door with a bang. 00:47:27.140 --> 00:47:29.510 align:middle line:84% I hot foot it into the house, explode through the door 00:47:29.510 --> 00:47:30.230 align:middle line:90% into the kitchen. 00:47:30.230 --> 00:47:31.730 align:middle line:84% My mother is standing by the counter 00:47:31.730 --> 00:47:33.410 align:middle line:90% with flour, eggs, butter. 00:47:33.410 --> 00:47:34.670 align:middle line:90% She's making a cake. 00:47:34.670 --> 00:47:37.670 align:middle line:84% On the counter she has her book on TM. 00:47:37.670 --> 00:47:38.810 align:middle line:90% Then the sun is slant-- 00:47:38.810 --> 00:47:40.460 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:47:40.460 --> 00:47:42.195 align:middle line:84% The sun is slanting into the kitchen. 00:47:42.195 --> 00:47:43.070 align:middle line:90% Everything is golden. 00:47:43.070 --> 00:47:44.180 align:middle line:90% The barometer says, fair. 00:47:44.180 --> 00:47:46.197 align:middle line:84% My mother says, hello, calm down, son. 00:47:46.197 --> 00:47:47.780 align:middle line:84% Have a glass of milk and some cookies. 00:47:47.780 --> 00:47:50.650 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:47:50.650 --> 00:47:51.640 align:middle line:90% No time, mom. 00:47:51.640 --> 00:47:54.370 align:middle line:84% Through the kitchen window I see my father bent over his putter. 00:47:54.370 --> 00:47:55.240 align:middle line:90% I run to the window. 00:47:55.240 --> 00:47:56.260 align:middle line:90% He strokes the ball. 00:47:56.260 --> 00:47:58.330 align:middle line:84% I follow its course through the cool green grass. 00:47:58.330 --> 00:47:58.990 align:middle line:90% Right into the cup. 00:47:58.990 --> 00:47:59.490 align:middle line:90% I whirl. 00:47:59.490 --> 00:48:01.150 align:middle line:90% Mom, I might have some company. 00:48:01.150 --> 00:48:03.692 align:middle line:84% Atuana and some of her friends if they show up, tell them I'm 00:48:03.692 --> 00:48:04.368 align:middle line:90% not here. 00:48:04.368 --> 00:48:06.160 align:middle line:84% My mother hands me some cookies on a plate. 00:48:06.160 --> 00:48:08.140 align:middle line:90% No time, mom. 00:48:08.140 --> 00:48:08.770 align:middle line:90% No time? 00:48:08.770 --> 00:48:10.165 align:middle line:90% You're young, take your time. 00:48:10.165 --> 00:48:16.790 align:middle line:90% 00:48:16.790 --> 00:48:18.335 align:middle line:84% She shoves some cookies into my hand 00:48:18.335 --> 00:48:20.210 align:middle line:84% as I hear a screech of tires in the driveway. 00:48:20.210 --> 00:48:22.490 align:middle line:84% I sprint down the hall, duck into my old bedroom, 00:48:22.490 --> 00:48:26.120 align:middle line:84% and dive, squeeze, ooze like a Dali watch under my bed. 00:48:26.120 --> 00:48:28.580 align:middle line:90% My old baseball glove in here. 00:48:28.580 --> 00:48:30.140 align:middle line:84% A clamor of voices in the kitchen. 00:48:30.140 --> 00:48:30.800 align:middle line:90% More voices. 00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:31.850 align:middle line:90% Deeper voices. 00:48:31.850 --> 00:48:33.890 align:middle line:84% Then footsteps running from room to room. 00:48:33.890 --> 00:48:35.480 align:middle line:90% Suddenly loud in my room. 00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:36.410 align:middle line:90% Around the bed. 00:48:36.410 --> 00:48:37.130 align:middle line:90% Shoes feet. 00:48:37.130 --> 00:48:38.330 align:middle line:90% All kinds of shoes and feet. 00:48:38.330 --> 00:48:41.330 align:middle line:84% Bare feet, sandals, sneaks, wingtips, white shoes. 00:48:41.330 --> 00:48:43.400 align:middle line:84% My wife and Maz grab hold of my feet 00:48:43.400 --> 00:48:45.620 align:middle line:90% drag me out from under the bed. 00:48:45.620 --> 00:48:46.640 align:middle line:90% I grab hold of a leg. 00:48:46.640 --> 00:48:49.820 align:middle line:84% My mother and the Black Velvet girl yank at one of my arms. 00:48:49.820 --> 00:48:51.650 align:middle line:84% There seems to be no order, allegiance, 00:48:51.650 --> 00:48:53.630 align:middle line:90% or affinity to the yanking. 00:48:53.630 --> 00:48:54.710 align:middle line:90% I hang on to the bed. 00:48:54.710 --> 00:48:55.820 align:middle line:90% Enough, I shout. 00:48:55.820 --> 00:48:57.680 align:middle line:84% My pants start to tear up the crotch. 00:48:57.680 --> 00:48:59.630 align:middle line:84% Then Talofa, Thunder, and Aku pile in. 00:48:59.630 --> 00:49:01.970 align:middle line:84% They grab the Black Velvet girl who kicks and flails. 00:49:01.970 --> 00:49:04.310 align:middle line:84% Things start getting knocked over. 00:49:04.310 --> 00:49:06.110 align:middle line:84% My father wanders in with his putter. 00:49:06.110 --> 00:49:08.330 align:middle line:90% What the hell is going on here. 00:49:08.330 --> 00:49:09.553 align:middle line:90% Oh, dad, you wouldn't know. 00:49:09.553 --> 00:49:11.720 align:middle line:84% I look up at him through the kicking and scratching. 00:49:11.720 --> 00:49:12.230 align:middle line:90% Dad. 00:49:12.230 --> 00:49:12.500 align:middle line:90% Dad. 00:49:12.500 --> 00:49:13.375 align:middle line:90% How have you done it? 00:49:13.375 --> 00:49:16.670 align:middle line:84% A life lived guilt free without the taint of suspicion. 00:49:16.670 --> 00:49:20.390 align:middle line:84% The tearing of my crotch sets up a soft counter melody 00:49:20.390 --> 00:49:21.470 align:middle line:90% against the screaming. 00:49:21.470 --> 00:49:22.280 align:middle line:90% Mom, I shout. 00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:23.330 align:middle line:90% How did he do it? 00:49:23.330 --> 00:49:25.340 align:middle line:84% I look up at my wife, who is yanking at my leg. 00:49:25.340 --> 00:49:26.870 align:middle line:84% Don't you know how to treat a wife? 00:49:26.870 --> 00:49:30.920 align:middle line:84% Atuana, it's not what you think, I shout. 00:49:30.920 --> 00:49:33.530 align:middle line:84% Atuana curses me in pidgin, heaving at my leg. 00:49:33.530 --> 00:49:35.000 align:middle line:90% I hang on to the bed. 00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:37.610 align:middle line:84% The Black Velvet girl is getting dragged toward the door 00:49:37.610 --> 00:49:39.980 align:middle line:84% by Talofa, Thunder, and Aku, and suddenly the women 00:49:39.980 --> 00:49:41.300 align:middle line:90% see what's up, let out a shout. 00:49:41.300 --> 00:49:42.410 align:middle line:90% They won't get her. 00:49:42.410 --> 00:49:45.350 align:middle line:84% And letting go of me fall on Talofa, Thunder, and Aku, 00:49:45.350 --> 00:49:48.170 align:middle line:84% who, confused, duck, and let go of the Black Velvet girl. 00:49:48.170 --> 00:49:50.377 align:middle line:84% I crawl naked between the legs and thread my way 00:49:50.377 --> 00:49:51.835 align:middle line:84% through the door and down the Hall. 00:49:51.835 --> 00:49:54.810 align:middle line:84% As I reached the front door, Talofa, Thunder and Aku 00:49:54.810 --> 00:49:55.850 align:middle line:90% stampede past me. 00:49:55.850 --> 00:49:57.770 align:middle line:84% I get up and stumble out after them. 00:49:57.770 --> 00:49:59.390 align:middle line:90% The women are right behind us. 00:49:59.390 --> 00:50:01.170 align:middle line:84% Outside there are cars all over the lawn, 00:50:01.170 --> 00:50:03.212 align:middle line:84% they block the garage, spill out on the driveway, 00:50:03.212 --> 00:50:04.670 align:middle line:90% and into the street. 00:50:04.670 --> 00:50:07.490 align:middle line:84% Talofa, Thunder, and Aku hotfoot it for the Grand Prix. 00:50:07.490 --> 00:50:09.530 align:middle line:84% My shorts torn off, naked, I run after them. 00:50:09.530 --> 00:50:11.240 align:middle line:90% The women are right behind us. 00:50:11.240 --> 00:50:13.820 align:middle line:84% Talofa, Thunder, and Aku pile in the Grand Prix. 00:50:13.820 --> 00:50:15.200 align:middle line:90% I pile in on top of them. 00:50:15.200 --> 00:50:17.900 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:50:17.900 --> 00:50:18.860 align:middle line:90% It's a bum moment. 00:50:18.860 --> 00:50:22.100 align:middle line:90% 00:50:22.100 --> 00:50:23.990 align:middle line:84% Talofa is even bigger than he looks. 00:50:23.990 --> 00:50:25.430 align:middle line:90% He is not cute as a baby. 00:50:25.430 --> 00:50:28.490 align:middle line:84% He looks down at me, his eyelids droop. 00:50:28.490 --> 00:50:31.150 align:middle line:84% I'm not a stutterer but I start stuttering. 00:50:31.150 --> 00:50:32.150 align:middle line:90% I didn't do nothing man. 00:50:32.150 --> 00:50:32.480 align:middle line:90% I swear. 00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:32.960 align:middle line:90% I swear. 00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:33.650 align:middle line:90% I never touched her. 00:50:33.650 --> 00:50:33.920 align:middle line:90% All right. 00:50:33.920 --> 00:50:34.400 align:middle line:90% I touched her. 00:50:34.400 --> 00:50:34.730 align:middle line:90% Once. 00:50:34.730 --> 00:50:35.275 align:middle line:90% No, twice. 00:50:35.275 --> 00:50:35.900 align:middle line:90% Just the dress. 00:50:35.900 --> 00:50:37.563 align:middle line:90% I didn't do nothing, man. 00:50:37.563 --> 00:50:39.230 align:middle line:84% Talofa says, I didn't do nothing either. 00:50:39.230 --> 00:50:42.660 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:50:42.660 --> 00:50:43.640 align:middle line:90% 00:50:43.640 --> 00:50:44.910 align:middle line:90% The women are getting closer. 00:50:44.910 --> 00:50:46.160 align:middle line:90% There is murder in their eyes. 00:50:46.160 --> 00:50:48.577 align:middle line:84% The driver raises his head, looks in the rear view mirror. 00:50:48.577 --> 00:50:51.230 align:middle line:84% Ey, Talofa, who the fuck a fucking fucker 00:50:51.230 --> 00:50:53.040 align:middle line:90% and what you like me do? 00:50:53.040 --> 00:50:55.190 align:middle line:84% Talofa's eyes droop in appraisal. 00:50:55.190 --> 00:50:57.860 align:middle line:84% He puts his gangster third eye on me like a laser. 00:50:57.860 --> 00:50:59.000 align:middle line:90% I'm naked as a baby. 00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:01.340 align:middle line:90% I blurt, I didn't do nothing. 00:51:01.340 --> 00:51:03.860 align:middle line:84% One of the women hits the Grand Prix with a croquet mallet. 00:51:03.860 --> 00:51:04.360 align:middle line:90% Talofa-- 00:51:04.360 --> 00:51:06.310 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:51:06.310 --> 00:51:08.660 align:middle line:84% Talofa, slams the door as the women surround the car, 00:51:08.660 --> 00:51:10.580 align:middle line:84% yank the door handles, pummel the windows. 00:51:10.580 --> 00:51:12.560 align:middle line:84% Talofa says to the driver, hit it bro. 00:51:12.560 --> 00:51:13.730 align:middle line:90% He with us. 00:51:13.730 --> 00:51:15.110 align:middle line:90% He hits it. 00:51:15.110 --> 00:51:16.790 align:middle line:90% The women fly back from the car. 00:51:16.790 --> 00:51:20.300 align:middle line:84% We lay rubber a mile long and get the hell out of there." 00:51:20.300 --> 00:51:21.200 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:51:21.200 --> 00:51:24.550 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:51:24.550 --> 00:51:48.000 align:middle line:90%