Hard Luck Love Song

Jesse?

- Hey. - How can I help you?

Well... I'm looking for a room.

Weird, terrifying, nightmarish...

Look at this studio

filled with glamorous prizes.

Thank you.

So, tonight, the soup du jour is cream of broccoli.

I'll have the plain omelette.

Tomatoes instead of potatoes, and wheat toast.

That it?

Hold the chicken salad.

What?

Yeah, just the omelette and coffee.

Fuck.

Hey, man.

Afraid of trampolines. That's bullshit. Bullshit.

I don't know why,

but I just don't like the taste of peacocks.

Bullshit. Fuck off!

Other people's clothes.

Hey, bro, can you spare me some change?

I'll get you on the way back, man.

Holy shit.

Big night, huh?

Living the dream, my friend.

That is gonna be 12.57.

Oh, look at you.

They make these things more colorful and pretty

every year, don't they?

Nothing prettier.

You know, I found it blowing up against a fence line

of that vacant lot out there.

Is that right? Well, lucky you, huh?

- Here you go. - All right.

Yeah, man. Stay safe out there.

Thanks.

Hey, dude, you come back.

Yeah, I said I would, man.

Here.

Oh, man. Thank you.

You're welcome.

Here.

- Oh, yeah. - Come on.

Man, thanks for coming back, huh?

- I said I would, man. Here. - Oh, that's right.

Dude, thanks.

Oh!

You look after yourself, all right?

All right.

- Thanks, man. - Yeah, man.

Fuck!

Okay.

That is one pretty stick you got there, boy.

Yeah, thanks. I just got it last week.

Got tired of playing with old bar cues, I guess.

You play a lot, do you?

Not as much as I'd like.

You know, I came third at a local tourney once,

uh, back home, but that was years ago.

You know, I'm no slouch myself.

You wanna put a little money on this?

Money?

Yeah, you know, sweeten it up a little bit.

I guess I... I don't not gamble.

How about, let's do 40 bucks?

I could go 40.

All right then, 40 it is.

Fuck, that should've gone in.

Shit.

Shit. Fuck.

Two games, 80.

You wanna double this again?

Let's do it.

Fuck.

Shit.

Good game, man.

- For me. - Yeah.

You wanna go again? One more? Two hundred?

Sure thing. You're like an atm.

Thanks, man.

Yeah, whatever.

Yeah.

Fucking magician. Fires it up in the last two games.

Let me guess.

I'm supposed to ask you for one more game, double or nothing?

Wow, I mean, we could do that. But we're even now,

so we can quit.

You're good, man. I'll give you that.

No dice, hermano.

That's your call.

You ought to be careful though.

Some guys aren't as sweet and gentle as me.

Mr. Romance.

You hustle the wrong dude in this part of town,

they find little parts of you up and down the highway.

Hustle?

No, man. You got me all wrong.

It's all copacetic. No hard feelings.

Listen, looking for some real action?

Safer?

There's this thing tomorrow, over at Broadway social.

Oh, yeah. Broadway, yeah, right off canyon, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hundred dollar buy in,

30 or 40 guys, winner-take-all.

Forty guys?

Sometimes it's more.

All right. All right.

Well, thanks, man.

Good luck.

Want tacos?

This is tripe, corn...

- Ah, man, it smells good. - It is good, bro.

Yeah, let's... Whatever you think.

Whatever you think, man. I'll follow you.

What's your favorite?

- Huh? - Ah, thanks, man.

Mm-hmm.

All right.

- Hi. - How you doin'?

- Okay. - It's o... okay if I sit?

These are tostadas.

That looks good.

Tostadas. Yeah.

- Tos... tostadas. - It has the meat.

Okay. Bye.

I... can I give you a hug?

- Huh? - Give you a hug.

Hug.

He wants to give you a hug.

- No, no, no. - No hug?

This, this one's the, the tongue.

Mm-hmm.

Tongue, yeah. What's th... the tongue from?

I'm gonna do it.

Oh.

- Good? - Yeah.

Mm.

Who's this peckerwood?

So, we got the house rules on the board over here.

It's single elimination until the finals.

The finals is best two out of three.

So keep the action moving, okay?

You in? You in?

I'm in.

Hundred bucks, player.

Jesse.

Good luck.

You ready to rumble, young blood?

Yes, sir.

All right then.

You rack 'em up, we'll lag for the break.

May the best man win.

Well, I'm hoping it's me. But I have been wrong before.