Learn to Swim

Thank you, we're Deux Soleil.

Selma Torres, everyone.

Cuلnto tiempo?

Hey, sax man, can you play me something?

Woman in crowd: Bonita!

Selma: Ay, que gracias.

Truth as heavenly as you can find.

This harvest is a-plenty.

There's no reaping what you sowed on my time.

See, we flow together like water.

Saturated with truck oil.

Cars passing on a summer evening.

We crash fast, glances grasping.

Onto pieces of identity, wrapped in human truths.

I see you, I see you, I see you.

I see you, I see you, I see you.

Heart strings exist to be pulled.

We rely on fate, but where do I lead

and where do you go the moment you say...

Selma: And then you said what you said,

and I said what I said, and he said what he said!

Oh, thank you.

June: That's what. She needs more than that.

All: Ooooh!

- Dezi: Finish that. - Okay.

- Thank you. - Dezi: All right, ladies.

fellas, to big brass and big health,

and one day not getting paid in tens and twenties.

Group: Tens and twenties!

June: Except, you know...

strippers get paid in tens and twenties

and they're doing just fine.

Trying to quit the band, June?

Oh, that's what I need to do tonight.

Dance, come on! June, baby, are you in?

No, no, no, no, no.

-Oh, come on! - I can't, I can't, I can't.

- I gotta handle something. - What's his name?

Thanks, Selma. Fucking incredible set tonight.

Appreciate you coming back at the end there.

Selma: Thank you, Sid.

I've gotta take care of the door, kids.

Dezi: Yeah, that's how it's done.

- Charlie, baby. - Yeah?

Please?

I got kids.

- What, they don't drink? - No, not yet.

Charlie: You know what?

Liz got the babies tonight.

Dezi let's reach. You know Latinas love the dark mans!

I'm gonna drop these two cases by Ricky's, man.

- Selma: And then you're down? - Charlie: Eh?

- Hermana! - Jesse: Hey, mami!

How is your night?

Tips are shitty, but what can you do?

Ayuda mi!

Can I get you guys something to drink?

- Selma: Yes please. - Jesse: Okay, always yes.

Got something special for y'all.

Oooh! Okay, okay, I see you.

Jesse: How's the night been?

- All right. - Jesse: Yeah?

Do a little bit of dancing?

Yeah, did you see him out there? He's got moves.

Jesse: Yeah, you got the one-two.

The one-two step.

Bartender: I like that.

- Salud. - Salud.

Mm-mm.

This isn't the cheap shit, this is the good stuff.

You don't shoot it, you sip it.

El Dorado is the good shit.

Oh! El Dorado is the good shit.

You got a lot to teach him.

Jesse: Okay. sounds good, mami.

Y'all roommates?

I need air, I'm going for a smoke.

Jesse: All right.

So, what's your story?

- My story? - Yeah.

- Long story. - Oh yeah?

Mm-hm.

I know you musician types.

- Oh yeah, you do, eh? - I do.

No need to tell my story, then.

That's the cheap shit. You can shoot it.

You know she left, right?

She's not coming back.

Sid : Can you come up in my headphones?

Yeah.

Dentist: The tooth is abscessed.

When the soft tissue inside the tooth dies,

it can create an infection, as it has in your case.

The discomfort you're feeling

is the infection moving into the bone.

So now what?

Dentist: Well, hopefully we can save the tooth

but I won't really be able to tell

until the inflammation subsides.

Worst case scenario, we'll just do an extraction.

Take-- take it out?

Yeah. What are the next few days looking like for you?

I can do whenever.

All right, well, front desk will schedule you in,

and in the meantime, I'll write you a prescription

for some antibiotics.

It should help cut the infection

and reduce some of that swelling.

Anything for the pain?

Dentist: Aspirin should tide you over.

It gets pretty sensitive, you know, when I touch it.

Just Aspirin.

Clerk: Periapical abscess removal?

Yeah, that's the one.

Clerk: You like mornings or evenings?

Mornings.

Bring this to the pharmacy downstairs,

they'll validate parking.

Friday, 10 am.

And if you need anything until then,

my number is at the bottom.

Your number?

Our number. At the office.

Sid: Help you, cuz?

Yeah, cuz, what's good?

Dezi: Y'all stalking me now?

Who the hell is "Y'all?"

How about "Nice to see ya, cuz. How you been?"

- My bad. - So, how you been?

- I been living. - Yeah.

Yeah, we all been living.

You been playing?

No, just trying to stay low--

'Cause you know there's a showcase

we've gotta crush this weekend.

Yeah, yeah, you know my phone been fucked up.

Sid: Fucked up for what, like a year now?

Yo, this remote "one-note here, one-note there" shit

ain't gonna work. Guy's gotta eat, you know,

And I know you could use some paper too.

You guys have the sets. And I got a thing.

- Oh, you got a thing? - Yeah.

- Solo now? - Something like that.

But you see this though? I don't play.

- All right, cool. - Yeah.

We'll be at the spot around seven.

Charlie: Hey! The Doctor is here! my guy.

- Sid: My guy. - You look good.

Long time.

You remember Nia, right? Cut the record back in July--

Yeah, I do.

All right, let's start back from the course.

Dez will find us. You know what to do.

Whose arrangement is this?

Um, it's the one you sent.

There are no vocals on this track, why is she singing?

- We threw it back in there. - I see that, but why?

'Cause it's a part of the gig,

they wanna hear a song with some vocals on it.

We've got vocals, just don't have her vocals.

It's fine.

Let's just start back from the chorus.

Nia, count us in.

Three, four.

I'm out.

Server: Can I get you anything else?

No thanks.

Charlie: All right, so one am hits, right?

We're done. Food coma. Nothing is happening.

Desi here throws on a track.

Craziest mix I've ever heard. Incredible.

Where he put the keys and then layered in the voice?

Phew! That's why we call him the Doctor, you know?

Jesse: That's why you call him the Doctor.

Everyone else just calls him Dezi.

Sid: Facts.

So how long has it been, then?

Charlie: Um, three years me and Sid,

about a year and a half with Dez,

and June whenever she'll have us.

You should let him put his paws on your EP.

Charlie: Yes. - I don't know.

What is your experience with Latin jazz, Doctor?

Prescribe me something.

I dunno, I think you got it sorted out.

You know, with the feature the label got you on,

with the artist whose name we shall not speak.

You mean Drizz?

Don't trip, you guys thought it was fire.

It's nice, you know, to be heard,

but I want more.

I don't wanna just be the pretty girl

singing traditional Bolero. I want beyond features.

That's why this EP that I'm trying to do is so important.

Yeah, shit. All we do is features.

But that's why we want to set up this tour, right?

We're gonna find the right city along the way.

I mean, look at Maple Leaf Band.

New Orleans, Tuesday nights only.

- Paid! - Paid.