We Blew It Man

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“I dated a druggy in College,” she said.
“You dated a lot of losers in College.”
“I dated a lot,” she said…
“A lot of losers.”
“A lot of boys.”
“….I don’t want to know,” he said.
“Then shut up,” she said. “I was going to say, you know, that he seemed like the most brilliant guy. Everyone said so. He was like this hippy lit crit guru guy… always talking about the most brilliant things.”
“So why didn’t you marry Mr. Brilliant?” he said.
“That’s just it… I hardly ever smoked weed. My parents put the guilt trip on me and it mostly made me fall asleep anway. I liked coffee and cigarettes and whiskey… Bogart and Bacall more than Lennnon and McCartney, but I did take acid with him once and we went to see Kubrick’s 2001.”
“Really… that must have been intense.”
“I ended up under a chair screaming… I thought I was going to fall into space and suffocate. It was very disturbing. He was no help.”
“Who, the brilliant guy?”
“Yeah… he just kept laughing at me… and saying, ‘Wait till you see what comes next.’ I would have gone mad if it weren’t for the interior design of the thing.”
“What?”
”There was just so many great sixties modern chairs in that movie…Here I am cowering under some dumb fold up chair and I see all these gorgeous chairs on screen, you know andI start questioning the chair I’m under….’Why are you so ugly?’ The Kubrick chairs just had such great chairness about them…. somehow they looked modern and dated all at the same time and I really thought that they’d look so cute in my apartment and it made me realize that the movie was just a movie and not actual space trying to suck my breath out…I though,’Where could I buy those chairs?’”
”So your shopping addiction saved you from drug addiction?”
”More or less . I mean it was the trigger that knocked me out of the hallucination and back into reality… I could see that the movie was just a big painting that moves and plays music; it was beautiful and it couldn’t hurt me and once I saw it like that, I got up from under the chair and just watched the movie and thought how great it would look hanging on my wall next to all those cute modern chairs.”

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“Is that what broke you and Mr. Brilliant up? ”
”Not really. I mean, I will say, you can sort of judge a man’s mate potential by how well he baby-sits someone who’s tripping balls, but no… We went out for a couple of months after that. It was when I went to Thanksgiving at his house and because he was home, he didn’t smoke weed for about two days and I suddenly realized that he was the most boring guy on earth… You know? Maybe it was just that he was stoned and I wasn’t that made him seem so brilliant. I realized that if I was stoned, he’d probably be saying the dullest stoned shit ever…”
“Yeah I’ve smoked with people like that… you get a running commentary on the absurdly obvious… The sun is yellow….Oh and dude a lemon is yellow…and that’s why they call it a lemon yellow sun…”
“Exactly,” she said. “But with Nicaragua and capitalism and the dialectics of syntax mixed in and so when we got back to campus I started smoking pot with him for a couple of weeks as an experiment and I swear to god everything out of his mouth was so painfully obvious that his face turned into an ugly troll mask and even when I stopped smoking again, he was wearing this ugly mask of the dullest man on earth… so it was over between us.”
He smiled, “How did you tell him… how did you get away from the troll?”
“Oh, that’s the best part. I quoted the end of Easy Rider: We blew it, man.”
“You’re kidding me? How’d he take it?”
“He said it was the saddest line in late twentieth century culture and left the room… He was very dramatic about it: You know that is the single saddest line in late twentieth certury cultural discourse. Fare well And that was all he said. He said Fare well, or maybe Fair the Well and turned around and left the room.”
“He was doing Dylan,” he sneered.
“Maybe… Fare the well, he said and we didn’t talk untill some time in the next term when he was ecstatically fucked up in some frat basement of all places and he told me that I was the most brilliant and beautiful of all the girls he’d ever dated… and I have to say he’d fucked about half of the English and Semitotics majors so I took it as a compliment… He wen’t on and on about Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper and blah blah blah… I mean the man was dull.”
“He was trying to seduce you again… drunken nostalgia fuck. He probably thought it was your favorite movie.”
“Maybe but, you know… Troll mask.”
He made a troll face at her.
“Why do all the men I fuck belong under a bridge?” She stage whispered and suddenly they both smelled a pungent odor of marijuana that filled the room like an echo of their conversation.
“It is sort of legal here, you know?,” he said.
“Really?” she said and they both drank more beer.
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This calligraphy (“heart” which I only now realize matches the big orange heart – Flukes!) fromgundunasu u zeneize Sort of reminds me of the Boink 2K Three Eyed Smiley Face collaboration with CMIII