Permanent Collection

You hate breakfast.

It's one of the worst things about you.

- Do you want to take the bridge or the tunnel?

It doesn't matter.

Tunnel's quicker.

Well, then take the tunnel.

Are you sure?

Sure about what?

There's a toll on the tunnel.

I feel like you should probably take

whichever one you feel is best.

We'll take whatever's cheapest.

We're not in a hurry.

But we are in a hurry.

We're not in a hurry.

- Highway looks to be pretty jammed.

- Is there an alternative to taking the highway?

Local roads.

Right.

- Yeah, I don't think we should be taking the local roads.

I don't think we should this much

of a conversation with the cab driver.

- Your first day back in town and you call me for this?

Can you get it?

Yeah, I got it.

All right, all right, oh my God.

Up, up, up.

Oh my God.

Fuck.

Oh, be careful.

Jesus Christ.

God.

Fuck.

I'm gonna hurl.

Damn it.

Okay, watch your feet.

Picture broke, there's glass all over your feet.

You know that scene in mission impossible

where he breaks the light bulbs

so he can hear people coming up the stairs?

Well this reminds me of that.

All right.

Come on.

It's a good scene.

All right, just wait.

So what happened to Lizzy anyway?

She disappeared.

What do you mean she disappeared?

She disappeared, disappeared, or Lizzy disappeared?

Well I don't mean she disappeared

like she's on the side of a milk carton.

She's just took off, she's gone.

We're not together anymore.

Sorry to hear that.

Come on, let's go.

Ready?

Yeah, I guess.

One, two, three.

Hold on, fuck, hold on.

Oh shit.

What?

I think I broke the step.

Holy fucking shit.

What's goin on man?

Oh man.

Back from the dead.

You're looking good.

Oh, you know, I try.

Still bringing in the crowds I see.

You set him up?

You know it.

He's picking up Brunches for us.

No shit?

Yeah.

What kind of music you gonna play?

I have no idea.

I do appreciate the gig.

No problem.

Cheers, welcome back.

- We're literally, always hiring for Brunch.

- By the way, you staying at that place over there?

Good for you, I bet your glad you didn't

sell that place as a fucking lottery ticket.

- You should see the futon he's just put in.

It's gorgeous.

Come on, let's do another round.

What, I haven't seen you guys in years,

we can't do hammer times back to back to back about it?

Come on.

- Ah fuck it, all right, all right, all right.

I'm no bitch, let's do it.

I haven't done back to backs in years.

- I can't go fucking drinking like this.

You're a fucking bitch.

And you just a kid, you know that right?

Oh fuck.

I actually know these things!

- I know fucking more than you'll ever know,

you don't get to play the smart card

just cause you're older than me, asshole.

I don't have fucking time for this shit,

I have better shit to think about.

Yeah, like what?

Like, like.

Like what, what better

shit do you have to think about?

- High minded shit, I don't fucking know.

Euthanasia, women's rights.

Listen to yourself, the other night

when we were talking politics you thought

I said that you run Cointreau, like it's something

you put in a fucking margarita.

All yours Clark Kent!

Are you okay?

Yeah fine.

What was that all about?

I fucked him too good.

Yeah, I hate it when I do that.

Come on, let's do a shot.

Nah, I don't really do shots.

What, just do one shot.

Fine, only if it's vodka though.

- Yeah, we're not drinking vodka, whisky.

Oh shit.

We should go do something fun right now.

Everyone just drinks in this city,

but it's a big city you know?

We should go do something.

Like what?

Go look at the statue of Liberty?

There's nothing to do here.

And it's 6:00 AM.

So?

That's a pretty cool statue.

I mean, aside from the historical part, it's pretty neat.

I wish something like that,

some big statement were made just for me.

Like the Taj Mahal or something.

I don't know.

You know what I mean?

- You ever hear of a thing called the Cardiff giant?

No.

- It's this famous thing in upstate New York,

this guy made a fake skeleton of a giant

and then charged people admission to look at it.

Somehow this thing swept the nation.

People were coming in covered wagons just to see it.

He made so much money that PT. Barnum

made a replica of the fake skeleton,

charged admission to look at that,

huge lawsuit for infringement

which Barnum ended up winning

because it turns out you can't make a forgery

of something that's already fake.

I think about that whenever I look at stuff like this.

The Statue of Liberty doesn't make me feel anything.

It's just a giant lady holding a torch.

I kind of like it.

Hey, can you please take your shoes off?

No matter how ridiculous they are.

I love these shoes.

You want a drink?

Mmhm.

You play the guitar?

I used to.

You good?

No, not really.

I just rip off Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits

- Leonard Cohen wrote that Jeff Buckley song, right?

- Just please don't ever say that to me again.

Have you ever even seen anybody do a shot before?

I haven't seen any of these.

Really?

Not even metropolitan?

Don't do that thing.

Don't act like it's Citizen Kane,

just cause I haven't seen it yet.

- I didn't act like it was Citizen Kane.

Have you heard of any of those?

Did you just move here?

To New York?

No, I just moved back.

The old come and go.

- No, I never wanted to leave in the first place.

I lived here for 10 years.

Does that really mean eight?

Everyone always rounds up.

How old are you?

19 and three quarters.

I don't know why I said that.

I don't usually do that.

I'm 19, almost 19.

Almost 19?

Oh my God.

Fuck.

God damn it.