(sounds of a brown paper bag crumpling)
OkOh: So you're a vegetarian.
Antonio: Ah, yes.
OkOh: So you only eat vegetables.
Antonio: Ah, no.
OkOh: Do you eat bread?
Antonio: Yes.
OkOh: Ok, great. So you eat bread and vegetables and maybe fruit.
Antonio: Yes.
OkOh: Do you eat fish?
Antonio: Yes.
OkOh: Steak?
Antonio: No.
OkOh: Um, you're reading a book called "The Hippos are Boiled" or something or other.
Antonio: Yes.
OkOh: What's, ah, what's that book about?
Antonio: Um, vegetarianism
OkOh: Is it really?
Antonio: No.
OkOh: Oh (pause) what is it about? (long pause) Really, I wanna know! Who wrote it?
(laughter around the lunch table)
Antonio: It's about uh, it was written by William Burroughs and um, Jack Kerouac.
OkOh: Oh, right.
Antonio: And it's . . .
OkOh: It's like a murder mystery.
Antonio: . . .it is a murder story, I don't know if it's so much a mystery, because basically one guy was being sort of followed around by this other guy and all of a sudden one day he decided to kill him (pause) and he told William Burroughs and uh, and Jack Kerouac, which made them accomplices sort of in the uh, the uh. . .
OkOh: Murder?
Antonio: . . . murder.
OkOh: (mouth full of food) no kidding.
Antonio: Yeah.
OkOh: (mouth still full of food) Did they go to trial?
Antonio: They did not go to trial but I don't know the end of the story at that point, I haven't gotten that far.
OkOh: I see.
Antonio: The way they wrote this book, this is before they were sort of famous writers, the way that they wrote this book was that they wrote alternating chapters.
OkOh: Oh. . . (sandwich bag paper sounds). . . can you really tell?
Antonio: yeah
(snickering)
Antonio: 'cause it's from their own perspective, it's all like first person.
OkOh: Right right right.
Antonio: So it's like. . .
OkOh: So there's definitely a difference.
Antonio: There's a marked. . .well. . . no . . . except that they do make comments about each other which is kind of funny.
OkOh: (mouth full of food) Snide comments?
Antonio: Yeah, it doesn't seem like William Burroughs liked Jack Kerouac.
(Laughter around the lunch table.)
OkOh: Ok! well, um,
Antonio: Thank you.
OkOh: How do you feel about the portrait I drew of you?
Antonio: Um, I only saw it for a fleeting moment.
OkOh: mmm (nodding of head, mouth full of food)
Antonio: It seemed, uh, accurate.
OkOh: Ok.
Antonio: Did you hit record?
(microphone switches off)
The Antonio Sanchez/Alex Casimir/Todd Stewart surf film "The Surf Magazines Don't talk About Lapsed Catholics" will be screening at Zebulon this coming Saturday. For details, click here.
3 comments:
How would someone living in Seattle view this film?
short of flying to zebulon?
i never knew one could put a laugh track into writting. or people laugh at things that aren't funny at your lunch table.
Well, there were only a few of us there. and it was all about timing and facial expression, you know, the funny bits where there was laughing. So, um yeah, I mean I tried to capture all that in the transcription and in the portrait, which is pretty funny itself.
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