(Unlikely Echoes Of Georgia and Alfred)
(sounds of rustling papers)Marina: Can I put my hand on my face?
Ok Oh: No, no. well, sure, why not? I mean, you can do whatever you want to do. Just don't move too much. . .
(Robinson makes a yelping noise, hands something to Marina.)
Marina: Thanks.
Ok Oh: I don't know where to start with you, I've never tried to draw you before.
Marina: You haven't ever?
Ok Oh: I don't think so. Have I?
Marina: Because I'm mysterious.
Ok Oh: Maybe. Maybe that's it.
Marina: Mm hmm. I'm going to stare at all the scars on your face.
(Robinson makes some sort of noise, rustling noises)
Ok Oh: Robinson you can't mess me up here.
Marina: This is a very important sitting.
Ok Oh: You are not allowed to mess me up, and you are not allowed to give smoldering looks because it doesn't really come across.
Marina: But it will in the interview.
Ok Oh: Oh right, we're interviewing...
Marina: . . .and that's all that counts.
Ok Oh: Right.
Marina: My words against you.
Ok Oh: Well, we're recording so we'll be able to tell for posterity. . .you know. . .exactly what transpired.
(Robinson yalps)
Marina: Who won?
Ok Oh: Who won the interview?
(laugher)
Marina: I did. I can tell already.
Ok Oh: Yeah, I know. You always win. Oh yeah so what, wait, I uh, I really um just want to get, um, what did uh, Cathy say to you today?
Marina: I'm not going to say that on tape.
Ok Oh: What do you mean you're not going to say that on tape?
Marina: Because I'm shy.
Ok Oh: No you're not.
Marina: I am, about that kind of thing (laughing)
(Robinson laughs)
Ok Oh: You're talking to me.
Marina: Well I wasn't being recorded.
(Robinson makes another indiscernible vocal noise)
Ok Oh: No, you weren't being recorded.
Marina: Ask me another question.
Ok Oh: Ask you another question.
Marina: Are you going to truncate this interview?
Ok Oh: Truncate it?
Marina: Yeah.
Ok Oh: No, it's gonna go as long as it needs to go.
Marina: Ok.
Ok Oh: Why, do you think it should be truncated?
Marina: No, I haven't heard the whole thing yet.
Ok Oh: Well. . .
Marina: I mean, you are an editor. . .as a living.
Ok Oh: Well, not that kind of editor.
Marina: A truncating editor? (laughing)
Ok Oh: Well. . . yeah. . .I like to let things go on and on maybe that why. . .
Marina: You just like. . .
Ok Oh: . . . I'm not a very good editor.
Marina: . . .to expand things?
Ok Oh: I try to create new. . . this is a terrible drawing.
(laughter)
Marina: I look like a monkey.
Ok Oh: You kind of do look like a monkey. It's Miel's fault, he kept getting in the way.
Marina: You are going to put that picture of me up and like. . .like. . ."My wife, Kokina." (laughing)
Ok Oh: Kokina?
Marina: Like Koko.
Ok Oh: Like Koko.
Marina: You can call me Kokette.
Ok Oh: That's funny. It's probably because you're. . . I'm using the wrong pen. . .
Marina: Oh babe, you should not use the wrong pen.
Ok Oh: And Miel keeps bumping my hand.
(Robinson exclaims something)
Marina: Well, I'm not really sure how I feel about that photo.
Ok Oh: It's terrible.
Marina: I look quite masculine (laughing)
(laughter)
Marina: What does your wife look like? Well, this is more or less a representation of her. . .
Ok Oh: (from across the room) alright, ok I'm getting another pen. . .
Marina: . . .just add some black fur to her, that's basically what she looks like.
Ok Oh: Ok let me try something, I don't like drawing on this paper either, I'm going to draw on this paper.
Marina: No hand.
Ok Oh: No hand, yeah, yeah ok, let's see, look at me straight on, don't ever look at the paper.
Marina: Sorry.
Ok Oh: Ever.
(Robinson yells "face!")
Marina: Oooh is that a threat?
Ok Oh: It's a, it's a promise.
Marina: A contribution?
Ok Oh: uh yes, what?
Marina: I don't know.
Ok Oh: You really don't make sense.
(Robinson pounds on the table, says something unintelligible)
Ok Oh: Don't look at the paper!
Marina: I'm not looking at the paper!
Ok Oh: You just looked at the paper.
Marina: You're accusing things of me. You are becoming paranoid in your old age.
(Robinson bangs on a glass)
Ok Oh: Maybe it's really hard for me to draw you because I'm like. . .
(Robinson, "pee pee pee pee")
Marina: Robinson, enough.
(Robinson, "pee pee pee")
Ok Oh: He doesn't like it when it's just you and me talking without him.
Marina: No he feels very jealous and threatened.
Ok Oh: Yeah. Maybe, maybe I just don't have a good time drawing you because. . . I just like, you know. . .you have a certain DON'T LOOK AT THE PAPER!
Marina: OH! I did do it that time!
Ok Oh: I know!
Marina: Because really, in truth, you don't like to objectify me.
Ok Oh: I know, it's really hard, see? That's bad too. This pen is running out of ink.
Marina: That's (pause) that's not good.
Ok Oh: (from across the room) I have a new tact, ok ready? (rummaging through a drawer) I'm going to do this a whole different way.
Marina: Why don't you come up with a new style of drawing?
Ok Oh: Shhh.
Marina: Ooh, I like it, dark, fat sharpie.
(Robinson making some sort of commotion)
Ok Oh: Robinson!
Marina: Mielio!
Ok Oh: Ok keep. . .
Marina: Pretend there's a wall here
Ok Oh: keep looking. . .
Marina: . . .there's a wall right here, it's made out of glass. . .
(Robinson coughing)
Marina: and if you touch it, it will shatter into a million little pieces of sugar, and then you'll have sugar all over you and it will get sticky I'll have to clean it up. So let's just pretend that there's a glass wall here, made out of sugar, double pane thick, that's it, put your arm down.
(Robinson "pee pee!")
Marina: It's pretty strong, it's fortified.
Ok Oh: Whoah, you can't do that, you gotta look. . .
Marina: So sorry.
(Robinson, "oh no. . peeee, pee pee")
Marina: Miel, other side, that's a wall.
(Robinson whispers "pee pee")
Ok Oh: Ok. There it is. My wife.
(Robinson yells)
Ok Oh: That's it.
Marina: Oh my.
Ok Oh: Is that the end of the interview?
Marina: Yeah.
Ok Oh: Ok.
(microphone switches off)
1 comment:
Man, I miss Marina.
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