1 00:00:32,660 --> 00:00:34,730 Mr. Chinaski! 2 00:00:34,940 --> 00:00:37,850 Get over here! 3 00:00:39,660 --> 00:00:42,170 - You've got a drivers license? - Yes. 4 00:00:42,380 --> 00:00:47,570 One driver's sick. We've got some rush orders. You need to make the deliveries. 5 00:01:09,820 --> 00:01:11,810 Hi, Chi...! 6 00:02:41,660 --> 00:02:44,810 Feeling bad? 7 00:02:45,020 --> 00:02:48,370 I've felt better. 8 00:02:48,580 --> 00:02:54,010 I've probably slept longer than you've lived. 9 00:03:17,020 --> 00:03:20,290 Chinaski, you're fired. 10 00:04:59,700 --> 00:05:02,130 Do you have a room? 11 00:05:02,340 --> 00:05:05,610 - It's $150 a week. - All right. 12 00:05:05,820 --> 00:05:10,290 - Are you employed? - Self employed. 13 00:05:10,500 --> 00:05:14,930 - May I ask what you do? - I'm a writer. 14 00:05:16,140 --> 00:05:18,890 Have you written books? 15 00:05:19,100 --> 00:05:22,490 I'm not ready for a novel... yet. 16 00:05:24,420 --> 00:05:26,850 OK. 17 00:06:25,660 --> 00:06:30,970 Most guys think they know how to drive. But in fact very few know how. 18 00:06:31,180 --> 00:06:33,370 They just steer. 19 00:06:33,580 --> 00:06:38,520 Every day I see 2-3 people run through red lights like they didn't exist. 20 00:06:38,740 --> 00:06:44,210 The lives people live drive them crazy, and it comes out in the way they drive. 21 00:06:44,420 --> 00:06:49,850 I'm not here to tell you how to live. I'm here to teach you how to drive. 22 00:06:50,060 --> 00:06:53,810 When can a man lose control over his cab? 23 00:06:54,020 --> 00:06:56,930 When I get a hard on? 24 00:06:57,140 --> 00:07:00,450 If you can't drive with a hard on we can't use you. 25 00:07:00,660 --> 00:07:04,810 Some of our best men drive with a hard on all day long. 26 00:07:05,020 --> 00:07:09,050 When can one lose control and not be able to help it? 27 00:07:09,260 --> 00:07:11,370 Chinaski? 28 00:07:11,580 --> 00:07:17,530 A man might lose control over his cab when he sneezed. 29 00:07:17,740 --> 00:07:20,410 Correct. 30 00:07:20,620 --> 00:07:23,850 When you sneeze what do you do? 31 00:07:30,860 --> 00:07:33,420 - Are you Henry Chinaski? - Yes, sir. 32 00:07:33,620 --> 00:07:36,450 Follow me. 33 00:07:39,180 --> 00:07:41,850 Sit down. 34 00:07:44,460 --> 00:07:48,330 We ran a check on you. 35 00:07:48,540 --> 00:07:54,880 You have 18 drunk and disorderly arrests. And one for drunk driving. 36 00:07:55,100 --> 00:08:01,130 - There were two for drunk driving. - You lied to us. You're disqualified. 37 00:08:15,060 --> 00:08:18,370 Could you call me a cab? 38 00:09:12,780 --> 00:09:18,090 As we live we all get caught and by various traps. 39 00:09:18,300 --> 00:09:21,130 Writing can trap you. 40 00:09:21,340 --> 00:09:25,970 Some tend to write what has pleased their readers in the past. 41 00:09:26,180 --> 00:09:29,570 They hear accolades and believe them. 42 00:09:29,780 --> 00:09:35,010 There is only one final judge of writing and that is the writer. 43 00:09:35,220 --> 00:09:42,410 When he is swayed by the critics, the editors, the readers, he is finished. 44 00:09:42,620 --> 00:09:46,450 And when he's swayed with his fame - 45 00:09:46,660 --> 00:09:50,650 - you can float him down the river with the turds. 46 00:09:51,860 --> 00:09:54,420 - A writer? - Yes. 47 00:09:54,620 --> 00:09:58,050 - Are you sure? - No. 48 00:09:58,260 --> 00:10:01,250 Why do you want to work in a pickle factory? 49 00:10:01,460 --> 00:10:06,250 - It reminds me of my grandmother. - It does? 50 00:10:06,460 --> 00:10:12,490 She used to serve me pickles whenever I visited her. 51 00:10:12,700 --> 00:10:17,930 - What do you write? - Mostly short stories. 52 00:10:18,140 --> 00:10:22,450 - I'm half way through a novel. - What's it about? 53 00:10:22,660 --> 00:10:27,410 - Everything. - It's for instance about cancer? 54 00:10:29,300 --> 00:10:31,890 Yes. 55 00:10:32,100 --> 00:10:35,330 How about my wife? 56 00:10:35,540 --> 00:10:39,690 She's in there too. 57 00:11:00,620 --> 00:11:03,180 I wrote 3-4 short stories a week. 58 00:11:03,380 --> 00:11:09,090 I imagined how the editors in The New Yorker must be reacting. 59 00:11:09,300 --> 00:11:13,210 Hey, here's another one from that nut! 60 00:11:14,820 --> 00:11:20,450 I sent most of them to John Martin. I admired his magazine, Black Sparrow. 61 00:11:49,780 --> 00:11:53,890 Chinaski? You want to step in here for a minute? 62 00:12:02,580 --> 00:12:05,370 Mr. Gentry is a writer too. 63 00:12:08,540 --> 00:12:14,410 I told him that you were a writer and he wanted to meet you. Do you mind? 64 00:12:14,620 --> 00:12:18,160 I don't mind. 65 00:12:20,940 --> 00:12:24,290 Mr. Gentry is a friend of mine. 66 00:12:53,420 --> 00:12:56,370 Do you mind if I leave? 67 00:12:56,580 --> 00:12:59,650 OK. 68 00:13:18,580 --> 00:13:25,410 The scene in the office stayed with me. Those cigars the fine clothes... 69 00:13:25,620 --> 00:13:27,770 I thought of good stakes. 70 00:13:27,980 --> 00:13:33,170 Long rides up winding driveways that led to beautiful homes. 71 00:13:33,380 --> 00:13:37,000 Ease. Trips to Europe. 72 00:13:37,220 --> 00:13:40,450 Fine women. 73 00:13:46,940 --> 00:13:50,970 Chinaski, what are you doing? Get back to work, your shift's not over. 74 00:13:51,180 --> 00:13:55,570 - I need a drink. - No, no. Get back to work. 75 00:13:55,780 --> 00:13:57,650 Over here. 76 00:14:02,460 --> 00:14:04,690 Get off me! 77 00:14:09,620 --> 00:14:12,130 No! 78 00:14:16,540 --> 00:14:20,050 - You OK? - I'm fine. 79 00:14:20,260 --> 00:14:22,720 I don't need this! 80 00:14:33,540 --> 00:14:37,490 Then I met Jan. 81 00:14:37,700 --> 00:14:42,370 I bought her a drink and she gave me her phone number. 82 00:14:42,580 --> 00:14:46,730 Three days later I moved into her apartment. 83 00:15:05,260 --> 00:15:09,210 Jan had a 500-dollar car. 84 00:15:09,420 --> 00:15:13,120 The big trick was how to turn on the headlights. 85 00:15:13,340 --> 00:15:17,730 Of course we had the advantage of broken springs. 86 00:15:44,540 --> 00:15:47,450 Jan was an excellent fuck. 87 00:15:47,660 --> 00:15:52,930 She had a tight pussy. And she took it like it was a knife killing her. 88 00:15:53,140 --> 00:15:56,010 I want to know what time it is! 89 00:15:56,220 --> 00:15:59,330 You said you'd fix the clock. 90 00:15:59,540 --> 00:16:02,530 All right, let's see... 91 00:16:15,020 --> 00:16:19,690 We set the clock by the TV at midnight last night. 92 00:16:19,900 --> 00:16:24,490 We know that it gains 35 minutes every hour. 93 00:16:24,700 --> 00:16:29,970 It says 7:30 p.m. But that's not right because it's not dark yet. 94 00:16:32,780 --> 00:16:35,340 That's 71/2 hours. 95 00:16:35,540 --> 00:16:38,850 Seven times 35 minutes... 96 00:16:39,060 --> 00:16:43,890 That's 245 minutes. 97 00:16:44,100 --> 00:16:48,370 One half of 35 is... 98 00:16:48,580 --> 00:16:52,730 171/2. 99 00:16:52,940 --> 00:16:55,010 It gives us... 100 00:16:55,220 --> 00:17:00,690 2521/2 minutes. 101 00:17:00,900 --> 00:17:07,410 That's four hours and 421/2 minutes we owe them. 102 00:17:07,620 --> 00:17:12,130 So we set the clock back to 5:47. That's it. 103 00:17:12,340 --> 00:17:15,650 It's 5:47. 104 00:17:15,860 --> 00:17:20,250 It's dinner time and we don't have anything to eat. 105 00:17:22,540 --> 00:17:26,930 Let's open another jug of wine. Should I make some pancakes? 106 00:17:27,140 --> 00:17:31,370 I don't know if I can get another one of them down. 107 00:17:31,580 --> 00:17:35,250 Okay, put the pancakes on. 108 00:17:38,380 --> 00:17:41,330 We're still out of butter. 109 00:17:41,540 --> 00:17:46,370 - Well, fry them dry again. - They'll be crisp. Real crisp. 110 00:17:46,580 --> 00:17:50,200 It's okay, baby. 111 00:19:11,300 --> 00:19:14,410 What was that? 112 00:19:17,100 --> 00:19:19,850 What is that? 113 00:19:42,580 --> 00:19:45,610 Is anyone in there? 114 00:19:48,420 --> 00:19:50,930 Everybody out! 115 00:19:51,140 --> 00:19:55,370 It's just the fire department. 116 00:20:15,900 --> 00:20:19,970 I finally got hired at a Bicycle Supply Warehouse. 117 00:20:20,180 --> 00:20:23,330 I had to demean myself to get that one. 118 00:20:23,540 --> 00:20:28,370 I told them that I liked to think of my job as a second home. 119 00:20:28,580 --> 00:20:30,930 You play the horses? 120 00:20:31,140 --> 00:20:33,930 Yeah. 121 00:20:34,140 --> 00:20:37,970 Mind if I look at your paper? 122 00:20:38,180 --> 00:20:41,050 Sure. 123 00:20:49,300 --> 00:20:55,090 - My Boy Bobby ought to take the eight. - And they don't even have him on top. 124 00:20:55,300 --> 00:20:58,090 - All the better. - What do you think he'll pay? 125 00:20:58,300 --> 00:21:01,170 About 9 to 2. 126 00:21:04,940 --> 00:21:09,130 - What time does the last race go off? - 5:30. 127 00:21:09,340 --> 00:21:12,570 - We get off at 5:00. - We'd never make it. 128 00:21:12,780 --> 00:21:16,650 We can try. The racetrack's not too far. 129 00:21:18,180 --> 00:21:21,530 - Want to come along? - Sure. 130 00:21:21,740 --> 00:21:25,010 We'll cut out at five to five. 131 00:21:39,500 --> 00:21:41,930 See, I told you we'd make it! 132 00:21:54,980 --> 00:21:58,850 $200 on My Boy Bobby to win. 133 00:22:11,780 --> 00:22:15,610 My Boy Bobby's in the front. He's in the lead! 134 00:22:15,820 --> 00:22:19,170 We've hooked ourselves a winner! 135 00:22:20,220 --> 00:22:23,610 Unless some big-ass closer comes out of the back of the pack. 136 00:22:23,820 --> 00:22:26,120 Come on, Bobby! 137 00:22:26,340 --> 00:22:31,570 - Yes! - We should have bet another $200. 138 00:22:31,780 --> 00:22:35,290 Come on, let's go get a drink. 139 00:22:42,020 --> 00:22:47,810 The next day some of the others asked if we would place bets for them. 140 00:22:48,020 --> 00:22:52,170 Hank, we have to take their bets. 141 00:22:52,380 --> 00:22:55,330 Manny, those guys haven't got any money. 142 00:22:55,540 --> 00:22:59,320 Only the coffee and chewing gum money that their wives give them. 143 00:22:59,540 --> 00:23:03,130 We can't waste time at the 2-dollar windows. 144 00:23:03,340 --> 00:23:07,810 We're not going to bet their money, we're going to keep their money. 145 00:23:08,020 --> 00:23:11,170 - Suppose they win? - They won't. 146 00:23:11,380 --> 00:23:16,320 They have a way of always picking the wrong horse. 147 00:23:17,740 --> 00:23:21,090 Suppose they bet our horse? 148 00:23:21,300 --> 00:23:24,450 Then we know we've got the wrong horse. 149 00:23:29,140 --> 00:23:32,410 I think she's going to do it. 150 00:23:32,620 --> 00:23:35,850 Go, Spitfire! 151 00:23:36,060 --> 00:23:38,890 Yes! Way to go! 152 00:24:08,940 --> 00:24:12,640 - You married, Manny? - No way. 153 00:24:12,860 --> 00:24:14,770 - Women? - Sometimes. 154 00:24:14,980 --> 00:24:18,600 - But it never lasts. - What's the problem? 155 00:24:18,820 --> 00:24:23,010 A woman is like a full-time job. 156 00:24:23,220 --> 00:24:27,530 - I suppose there is an emotional drain. - Physical too. 157 00:24:27,740 --> 00:24:31,570 They want to fuck night and day. 158 00:24:31,780 --> 00:24:35,930 Well. Get one you like to fuck. 159 00:24:36,140 --> 00:24:40,890 Yes, but if you drink or gamble they think it's a put down of their love. 160 00:24:41,100 --> 00:24:44,290 Get one who likes to drink, gamble and fuck. 161 00:24:44,500 --> 00:24:48,280 Who wants a woman like that? 162 00:24:52,060 --> 00:24:55,600 I bought some expensive clothes and shoes. 163 00:24:55,820 --> 00:25:00,450 The owner of the Warehouse didn't look so powerful anymore. 164 00:25:00,660 --> 00:25:03,930 Manny and I took a little longer with our lunches - 165 00:25:04,140 --> 00:25:10,210 - and came back smoking cigars. The new life didn't sit well with Jan. 166 00:25:10,420 --> 00:25:16,130 She was used to her four fucks a day and seeing me poor and humble. 167 00:25:26,860 --> 00:25:30,330 Mr. Horseplayer! 168 00:25:30,540 --> 00:25:33,530 Mr. Big Horseplayer! 169 00:25:33,740 --> 00:25:37,610 I used to like the way you walked across the room. 170 00:25:37,820 --> 00:25:43,850 Like you were walking through walls. Like nothing mattered. 171 00:25:44,060 --> 00:25:48,570 Now you've got a few bucks in your pocket, you're not the same anymore. 172 00:25:48,780 --> 00:25:51,810 You act like you're a dental student or a plumber. 173 00:25:52,020 --> 00:25:55,250 Don't give me any shit about plumbers. 174 00:25:57,180 --> 00:26:02,250 - We haven't made love in two weeks. - Love takes many forms. 175 00:26:02,460 --> 00:26:05,970 You haven't fucked me in two weeks. 176 00:26:06,180 --> 00:26:11,090 Have some patience. In six months we'll be vacationing in Rome, in Paris. 177 00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:16,890 Look at you! Pouring yourself that good whiskey and letting me drink this crap. 178 00:26:17,100 --> 00:26:21,650 - Mr. Big-Time Horseplayer! - I give you soul. 179 00:26:21,860 --> 00:26:26,490 I give you wisdom and light and music and some laughter! 180 00:26:26,700 --> 00:26:30,400 By the way, I am the world's greatest horseplayer. 181 00:26:30,620 --> 00:26:32,650 Horseshit! 182 00:26:32,860 --> 00:26:36,290 No, horseplayer! 183 00:26:39,780 --> 00:26:44,800 I understood too well that great lovers were always men of leisure. 184 00:26:45,020 --> 00:26:49,690 I fucked better as a bum than as a puncher of time clocks. 185 00:27:00,420 --> 00:27:03,770 - I've always wanted to go there. - It's quite nice, actually. 186 00:27:05,220 --> 00:27:10,410 I tried to make a woman out of you, but you're nothing but a whore! 187 00:27:17,660 --> 00:27:22,780 If anybody here doesn't like what I just did, then say something! 188 00:27:39,060 --> 00:27:44,330 Sit down, Chinaski. You knew we were going to let you go. 189 00:27:44,540 --> 00:27:49,660 - Bosses are never hard to fathom. - You've been slacking for over a month. 190 00:27:49,860 --> 00:27:55,050 - I've been busting my ass! - No you haven't! 191 00:27:55,260 --> 00:27:58,570 I've given you my time. 192 00:27:58,780 --> 00:28:02,690 For pitiful $6 an hour. 193 00:28:02,900 --> 00:28:06,730 Remember, you begged for this job. 194 00:28:06,940 --> 00:28:14,570 I give you my time, so you can live in your big house. I've been the loser. 195 00:28:14,780 --> 00:28:18,730 - You understand? - All right, Chinaski. Just go. 196 00:28:18,940 --> 00:28:22,690 Listen, Mantz. I don't want any trouble about my unemployment payments. 197 00:28:22,900 --> 00:28:28,410 You guys are always trying to cheat the working man out of his rights. 198 00:28:28,620 --> 00:28:33,050 You'll get your unemployment. Now get the hell out of here! 199 00:28:36,260 --> 00:28:40,730 I didn't see Manny again, and I missed the trips to the track with him. 200 00:28:40,940 --> 00:28:44,890 But I had my winnings and the bookie money. 201 00:28:45,100 --> 00:28:48,090 I just sat around and Jan liked that. 202 00:28:48,300 --> 00:28:51,970 After two weeks I was on unemployment. 203 00:28:52,180 --> 00:28:55,290 We relaxed and fucked and toured the bars. 204 00:28:55,500 --> 00:29:00,690 Every week I'd go down, stand in line and get my check. 205 00:29:03,980 --> 00:29:06,280 Hank? 206 00:29:06,500 --> 00:29:09,810 I love you. 207 00:29:37,340 --> 00:29:41,730 Here's a ten-dollar try on the four with one and two. 208 00:29:45,260 --> 00:29:49,290 The racetrack crowd is the world brought down to size. 209 00:29:49,500 --> 00:29:52,450 Life grinding against death and losing. 210 00:29:52,660 --> 00:29:57,010 Nobody wins finally, we're only seeking a reprieve. 211 00:29:57,220 --> 00:30:00,170 A moment out of the glare. 212 00:30:02,140 --> 00:30:07,890 - Sir, you're in our seats. - There are no reserved seats here. 213 00:30:08,100 --> 00:30:12,690 I know. But it's a common courtesy. 214 00:30:12,900 --> 00:30:16,600 Some people get her early. 215 00:30:16,820 --> 00:30:20,850 Poor people, like you and me, who can't afford reserved seats. 216 00:30:21,060 --> 00:30:24,840 They lay down newspapers to indicate that these seats are saved. 217 00:30:25,060 --> 00:30:30,490 If the poor aren't decent with one another nobody else is going to be. 218 00:30:30,700 --> 00:30:33,130 I am not poor. 219 00:30:33,340 --> 00:30:37,690 If you can't be a gentleman, at least don't be a hog. 220 00:30:37,900 --> 00:30:40,770 Jan, sit down. 221 00:30:40,980 --> 00:30:43,850 I'll stand. 222 00:30:51,620 --> 00:30:54,690 Come on four. 223 00:31:01,940 --> 00:31:05,090 Let's get a drink. 224 00:31:34,860 --> 00:31:37,530 That man in our seats, he's got nerve. 225 00:31:37,740 --> 00:31:41,330 - I don't like the guy. - He sure got your goat. 226 00:31:41,540 --> 00:31:44,850 He was just a little guy. 227 00:31:45,060 --> 00:31:49,650 If he'd been big you wouldn't have done anything either. 228 00:32:06,740 --> 00:32:08,530 What do you do for a living? 229 00:32:08,740 --> 00:32:14,450 Real estate. I make 500000 a year. 230 00:32:14,660 --> 00:32:18,530 Then why don't you get yourself a reserved seat? 231 00:32:18,740 --> 00:32:21,610 That's my prerogative. 232 00:32:21,820 --> 00:32:25,010 You know, you have the nicest blue eyes. 233 00:32:25,220 --> 00:32:28,170 You got a cigarette? 234 00:32:34,980 --> 00:32:40,170 - Pardon me, but you are in my seat. - And what are you going to do about it? 235 00:33:01,780 --> 00:33:04,450 Pardon me. 236 00:33:04,660 --> 00:33:07,410 Come on, baby. 237 00:35:30,260 --> 00:35:32,690 How do you feel? 238 00:35:32,900 --> 00:35:35,850 I feel bad. 239 00:35:36,980 --> 00:35:39,930 I want to be alone. 240 00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:46,250 You don't have enough love. It's warped you. 241 00:35:47,700 --> 00:35:54,650 People don't need love. They need success of some form or another. 242 00:35:56,340 --> 00:36:00,370 It can be love but it doesn't have to be. 243 00:36:02,820 --> 00:36:05,810 The Bible says:'Love thy neighbor.' 244 00:36:08,060 --> 00:36:12,010 That could also mean: Leave him alone. 245 00:36:47,900 --> 00:36:50,650 One half is yours. 246 00:36:52,020 --> 00:36:55,720 - It's another woman, isn't it? - No. 247 00:36:57,820 --> 00:37:02,490 - You don't love me anymore. - Stop that shit, would you? 248 00:37:04,500 --> 00:37:08,330 You're tired of fucking me. 249 00:37:12,820 --> 00:37:16,490 Hank, stay with me. 250 00:37:34,620 --> 00:37:37,210 Here, take it. 251 00:37:50,140 --> 00:37:52,890 You'll manage. 252 00:38:00,980 --> 00:38:03,770 Hank... 253 00:38:36,940 --> 00:38:42,450 Even at my lowest times I can feel the words bubbling inside of me. 254 00:38:42,660 --> 00:38:44,450 I had to get them down - 255 00:38:44,660 --> 00:38:48,490 - or be overcome by something worse than death. 256 00:38:48,700 --> 00:38:54,130 Words, not as precious things but as necessary things. 257 00:38:54,340 --> 00:38:58,290 Yet, when I begin to doubt my ability to work the word - 258 00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:04,370 - I simply read another writer and I know I have nothing to worry about. 259 00:39:06,100 --> 00:39:10,090 My contest is only with myself, to do it right. 260 00:39:10,300 --> 00:39:12,810 With power and force. 261 00:39:13,020 --> 00:39:16,010 And delight and gamble. 262 00:39:49,340 --> 00:39:52,090 I'll have a scotch, please. 263 00:40:16,060 --> 00:40:19,130 Bartender, I'll have another one. 264 00:40:20,940 --> 00:40:25,290 And get the little lady whatever she's having. 265 00:40:37,020 --> 00:40:41,050 That drink was my last. I'm broke. 266 00:40:45,340 --> 00:40:48,050 Are you serious? 267 00:40:49,940 --> 00:40:54,490 - Do you have a place to stay? - No. 268 00:40:54,700 --> 00:40:59,290 And you haven't got any money, or anything to drink? 269 00:41:01,020 --> 00:41:03,370 No. 270 00:41:03,580 --> 00:41:09,410 Two Evan Williams, a six-pack of beer, two packs of cigarettes, 271 00:41:09,620 --> 00:41:14,530 some chips, some mixed nuts, some alka-seltzer, 272 00:41:14,740 --> 00:41:18,250 and a good cigar. 273 00:41:18,460 --> 00:41:22,290 - Cash or credit card? - Charge it to Pierre. 274 00:41:22,500 --> 00:41:25,410 I'll have to phone. 275 00:41:25,620 --> 00:41:29,850 - Where are we going? - My place. 276 00:41:35,380 --> 00:41:38,330 - It's okay. - Thank you. 277 00:42:09,100 --> 00:42:12,880 - Do you like this kind of music? - Yes. 278 00:42:16,500 --> 00:42:19,250 Swell. 279 00:42:24,780 --> 00:42:26,850 What? 280 00:42:27,060 --> 00:42:31,090 You think your great. 281 00:42:31,300 --> 00:42:33,890 No. 282 00:42:34,100 --> 00:42:36,730 Yes. I can tell by the way you act. 283 00:42:36,940 --> 00:42:39,890 I like you tough. 284 00:42:40,100 --> 00:42:42,970 I liked you right away. 285 00:42:43,180 --> 00:42:46,850 Hike up your skirt. 286 00:42:47,060 --> 00:42:51,170 - You like legs? - Yes. 287 00:42:53,700 --> 00:42:58,560 You're not some maniac? There's a guy who's been picking up girls. 288 00:42:58,780 --> 00:43:04,880 Cuts crossword puzzles into their bodies with a pen knife. 289 00:43:06,660 --> 00:43:11,410 I write, but I'm not him. 290 00:43:16,260 --> 00:43:21,170 Then there are guys who fuck you and chop you into little pieces. 291 00:43:21,380 --> 00:43:24,770 They find your ass in a drainpipe. 292 00:43:24,980 --> 00:43:28,520 And your tit in a trash can downtown. 293 00:43:28,740 --> 00:43:33,050 I stopped doing that, years ago. 294 00:44:19,860 --> 00:44:23,370 Stay back from the door. He's got a camera. 295 00:44:23,580 --> 00:44:28,440 Let him just see me. When the buzzer sounds you follow me in. 296 00:44:34,660 --> 00:44:38,440 - Sweetie, so good to see you! - Pierre, hi! 297 00:44:43,540 --> 00:44:46,530 How are you? 298 00:44:48,020 --> 00:44:53,170 - Who's that guy? - I want you to meet a friend of mine. 299 00:44:53,380 --> 00:44:56,850 Pierre, this is Henry Chinaski. 300 00:44:57,060 --> 00:45:00,810 - Good to know you, Pierre. - Come on in. 301 00:45:01,020 --> 00:45:05,810 Thank you. You're so good, Pierre. 302 00:45:08,140 --> 00:45:12,610 Hi girls. This is Henry Chinaski. 303 00:45:12,820 --> 00:45:16,360 Henry, this is Grace and Jerry. 304 00:45:21,380 --> 00:45:24,370 Help yourself. 305 00:45:29,540 --> 00:45:33,770 - So, what do you do? - He's a writer. 306 00:45:33,980 --> 00:45:38,570 I need somebody to do a libretto for an opera I wrote. 307 00:45:38,780 --> 00:45:42,930 It's called The Emperor of San Francisco. 308 00:45:43,140 --> 00:45:48,690 Did you know there was one who claimed he was the Emperor of San Francisco? 309 00:45:48,900 --> 00:45:53,890 - No, I didn't. - It's a real story. 310 00:45:54,100 --> 00:45:57,640 You look like you've been around. 311 00:45:57,860 --> 00:46:01,210 You look like you've got class. 312 00:46:05,660 --> 00:46:10,010 Would you like to hear some music from my opera? 313 00:46:12,300 --> 00:46:17,450 Yes, I'd like that very much, if it's OK with you? 314 00:46:19,020 --> 00:46:21,730 Great. 315 00:47:18,460 --> 00:47:21,570 He's a tight son of a bitch. 316 00:47:21,780 --> 00:47:26,490 He likes to take care of the girls in the bars who have no place to sleep. 317 00:47:26,700 --> 00:47:29,810 All he gives them is food and a bed. 318 00:47:30,020 --> 00:47:32,730 Never any money. 319 00:47:32,940 --> 00:47:37,010 And they only have drinks when he's drinking. 320 00:47:38,460 --> 00:47:41,730 Jerry got to him one night, though. 321 00:47:41,940 --> 00:47:44,210 He was horny. 322 00:47:44,420 --> 00:47:47,610 He was chasing her around the table. 323 00:47:47,820 --> 00:47:50,120 She said 'no'. 324 00:47:50,340 --> 00:47:54,530 'Not unless you give me a thousand bucks a month for life! ' 325 00:47:56,940 --> 00:48:00,450 He signed a piece of paper. 326 00:48:00,660 --> 00:48:04,200 That he has to pay her $1000 a month. 327 00:48:04,420 --> 00:48:09,280 Even after he dies his family will have to pay her. 328 00:48:11,580 --> 00:48:15,490 Jerry is his main girl, though. 329 00:48:18,580 --> 00:48:21,690 What about you? 330 00:48:23,180 --> 00:48:26,410 Not for a long time. 331 00:48:30,340 --> 00:48:33,410 I like you. 332 00:48:35,500 --> 00:48:38,610 You do? 333 00:48:40,900 --> 00:48:47,050 Watch tomorrow. If he comes out with that sailor's cap on, - 334 00:48:47,260 --> 00:48:52,730 - that means that we're going out on his yacht. 335 00:48:52,940 --> 00:48:56,890 Doctors made him get a yacht. 336 00:48:57,100 --> 00:48:59,930 Is it a long one? 337 00:49:00,140 --> 00:49:02,810 Sure. 338 00:49:11,900 --> 00:49:14,610 We're going out on the yacht. 339 00:50:45,020 --> 00:50:48,290 - We're going back. - What for? 340 00:50:48,500 --> 00:50:55,250 Grace is having one of those moments. She's just staring at the water. 341 00:50:55,460 --> 00:50:59,370 I'm afraid she'll jump off the boat. She can't swim. 342 00:50:59,580 --> 00:51:04,130 - Just give her 50 bucks! - No. We're going back. 343 00:51:07,580 --> 00:51:11,650 This happens every time we go out. 344 00:51:13,620 --> 00:51:18,450 Grace goes into one of her moods and stands there staring at the ocean. 345 00:51:18,660 --> 00:51:21,890 She's never going to jump overboard. 346 00:51:22,100 --> 00:51:25,210 She hates water! 347 00:51:32,220 --> 00:51:37,410 Laura and I split up and I never saw any of them again. 348 00:51:53,780 --> 00:51:56,370 - Hey, mom. - Is that you? 349 00:51:56,580 --> 00:51:58,290 Yeah. 350 00:51:58,500 --> 00:52:02,330 I just need a place to sleep for a couple of days. 351 00:52:02,540 --> 00:52:06,240 Your bedroom is always waiting. 352 00:52:07,460 --> 00:52:10,210 Your father is home. 353 00:52:15,940 --> 00:52:18,770 Thanks, mom. 354 00:52:20,540 --> 00:52:23,330 Hey, dad. 355 00:52:44,940 --> 00:52:47,450 Thanks. 356 00:52:54,260 --> 00:52:56,770 You got a job? 357 00:52:56,980 --> 00:52:58,770 No. 358 00:52:58,980 --> 00:53:02,520 Any man who wants work can find work. 359 00:53:02,740 --> 00:53:07,050 Suppose you're right. 360 00:53:07,260 --> 00:53:10,250 I can hardly believe you're my son. 361 00:53:10,460 --> 00:53:14,240 You don't have any ambition. 362 00:53:14,460 --> 00:53:18,050 How the hell are you going to make it in this world? 363 00:53:25,860 --> 00:53:28,570 Still think you're a writer? 364 00:53:28,780 --> 00:53:30,890 I am still writing. 365 00:53:37,420 --> 00:53:41,170 If you stay here I'll charge you room and board plus laundry. 366 00:53:41,380 --> 00:53:46,400 When you get a job, what's yours we take out of your wages till you're paid up. 367 00:53:50,380 --> 00:53:52,330 You're drunk! 368 00:53:52,540 --> 00:53:57,250 - Yes. - Where do you get the money to drink? 369 00:53:57,460 --> 00:54:00,490 - I'll get a job. - How? 370 00:54:00,700 --> 00:54:05,250 - You act as if I had murdered somebody. - It's just as bad! 371 00:54:10,580 --> 00:54:12,690 Are you finished? 372 00:54:15,140 --> 00:54:17,700 Thanks for the food, mom. 373 00:54:17,900 --> 00:54:22,330 - You're not hungry? - No. I'm good, thank you. 374 00:54:43,300 --> 00:54:48,210 Robert, how about you and I go out and have a few cocktails? 375 00:54:48,420 --> 00:54:52,970 Drinking in the middle of the week without a job? 376 00:54:53,180 --> 00:54:57,130 That's when you need a drink the most. 377 00:54:57,340 --> 00:54:59,410 I am warning you! 378 00:54:59,620 --> 00:55:04,250 - I also need a piece of ass. - What's he saying? 379 00:55:05,460 --> 00:55:09,240 I said, I also need a piece of ass. 380 00:55:40,340 --> 00:55:43,450 We have three different types of cartons. 381 00:55:43,660 --> 00:55:48,130 This is for our Super Durable Brake Shoe. This for our Super Brake Shoe. 382 00:55:48,340 --> 00:55:53,490 And this is for our Standard Brake Shoe. And here are the brake shoes. 383 00:55:53,700 --> 00:55:57,240 - How do I tell them apart? - You don't. 384 00:55:57,460 --> 00:55:59,920 Just divide them into thirds. 385 00:56:00,140 --> 00:56:04,210 When you've finished we'll find something else. 386 00:56:04,420 --> 00:56:08,370 - When do I start? - Now. 387 00:56:13,780 --> 00:56:19,770 And absolutely no smoking up here. If you have to smoke, come downstairs. 388 00:56:55,060 --> 00:56:58,530 A poem is a city filled with streets and sewers. 389 00:56:58,740 --> 00:57:03,530 Filled with saints, heroes, beggars, madmen. 390 00:57:03,740 --> 00:57:06,570 Filled with banality and booze. 391 00:57:06,780 --> 00:57:10,650 Filled with rain and thunder and periods of drought. 392 00:57:10,860 --> 00:57:13,240 A poem is a city at war. 393 00:57:13,460 --> 00:57:17,130 It's a barbershop filled with cynical drunks. 394 00:57:17,340 --> 00:57:19,450 A poem is a city. 395 00:57:19,660 --> 00:57:23,530 A poem is a nation. A poem is the world. 396 00:57:27,020 --> 00:57:29,650 I decided to look for Jan. 397 00:57:29,860 --> 00:57:33,530 I toured the bars in our old neighborhood looking for her. 398 00:57:33,740 --> 00:57:36,730 The bartender at the Pink Mule - 399 00:57:36,940 --> 00:57:41,880 - told me that she was working as a chambermaid in a downtown hotel. 400 00:58:00,620 --> 00:58:03,770 Hank! 401 00:58:06,220 --> 00:58:08,090 Jan. 402 00:58:08,300 --> 00:58:11,730 I thought I'd never see you again! 403 00:58:11,940 --> 00:58:14,610 Well, here I am. 404 00:58:17,460 --> 00:58:20,970 Let me look at you. 405 00:58:21,180 --> 00:58:24,330 You're thin. You've lost weight. 406 00:58:25,980 --> 00:58:28,440 You're looking good. 407 00:58:28,660 --> 00:58:31,370 - Are you alone? - Yes. 408 00:58:31,580 --> 00:58:33,880 - There's no one else? - Nobody. 409 00:58:34,100 --> 00:58:38,210 You know I can't stand people. 410 00:58:38,420 --> 00:58:42,690 Well, good to see you working. 411 00:58:45,260 --> 00:58:48,090 Come on. 412 00:59:01,980 --> 00:59:07,490 - I'm embarrassed. - I love you, you idiot. 413 00:59:07,700 --> 00:59:11,530 We've fucked 800 times, so relax. 414 00:59:12,740 --> 00:59:16,810 - Still like my legs? - Hell yes. 415 00:59:17,020 --> 00:59:20,250 Have you finished with your work? 416 00:59:20,460 --> 00:59:25,290 All but Mr. Clark's room. He doesn't care. He leaves me tips. 417 00:59:25,500 --> 00:59:29,810 I'm not doing anything. He just leaves me tips. 418 00:59:34,500 --> 00:59:37,210 Jan? 419 00:59:41,540 --> 00:59:44,770 I love you, baby. 420 00:59:44,980 --> 00:59:47,170 Bastard. 421 00:59:47,380 --> 00:59:52,320 When I came home one night, she had moved in with me. 422 01:00:06,540 --> 01:00:10,130 I decided to clean up the apartment. 423 01:00:10,340 --> 01:00:14,490 I thought I must be turning into a fag. 424 01:00:33,620 --> 01:00:36,130 Where is she? 425 01:00:36,340 --> 01:00:40,530 Where is the bitch who cleaned the place? 426 01:00:49,300 --> 01:00:53,930 If I find her, I'm going to kill her. I swear. 427 01:00:57,900 --> 01:01:01,930 You're going to pay for this, Chinaski. 428 01:01:15,740 --> 01:01:21,130 She was continually using our arguments to justify herself. 429 01:01:21,340 --> 01:01:24,450 It was just a cover for her own guilt. 430 01:01:24,660 --> 01:01:28,010 She'd go off with anyone she met in a bar. 431 01:01:28,220 --> 01:01:32,000 And the lower and the dirtier he was the better she liked it. 432 01:01:36,060 --> 01:01:40,130 She left and I got drunk for three days and three nights. 433 01:01:40,340 --> 01:01:45,050 When I sobered up I knew my job was gone. 434 01:01:51,500 --> 01:01:56,620 Hello? I was told you might be looking for reporters. 435 01:01:56,820 --> 01:01:59,770 Please fill this out. 436 01:02:30,300 --> 01:02:33,330 Bastard! 437 01:02:38,820 --> 01:02:43,730 Apply this ointment to the invaded parts an wash off after 20-30 minutes. 438 01:02:43,940 --> 01:02:48,880 Under no circumstances leave it on longer than 30 minutes. 439 01:02:49,100 --> 01:02:51,050 Thank you. 440 01:03:12,900 --> 01:03:15,810 Hell! 30 minutes? 441 01:03:16,020 --> 01:03:20,880 I'll leave it on all night and kill every one of these fuckers. 442 01:03:46,700 --> 01:03:49,330 Shit! 443 01:03:50,620 --> 01:03:52,410 Hank? 444 01:03:52,620 --> 01:03:55,450 - You fucking whore! - What? 445 01:03:55,660 --> 01:03:58,850 - Look what you've done to me! - What is it? 446 01:03:59,060 --> 01:04:01,650 Don't you know? 447 01:04:01,860 --> 01:04:08,450 I haven't fucked anybody else! I got it from you. You're a diseased ridden slut! 448 01:04:08,660 --> 01:04:11,370 Crabs, baby! You gave me crabs. 449 01:04:11,580 --> 01:04:14,650 No. Geraldine must have them. 450 01:04:14,860 --> 01:04:18,560 I was sitting on her toilet. 451 01:04:18,780 --> 01:04:21,930 You got it off a toilet seat? 452 01:04:22,140 --> 01:04:25,450 Give me a goddamn drink. 453 01:04:30,420 --> 01:04:32,530 What do you want? 454 01:04:32,740 --> 01:04:34,450 Yes? 455 01:04:35,860 --> 01:04:38,010 Yes? 456 01:04:38,220 --> 01:04:41,130 As a reporter? 457 01:04:41,340 --> 01:04:44,530 Not as a reporter? 458 01:04:44,740 --> 01:04:47,610 Today? 459 01:04:47,820 --> 01:04:50,650 Okay. Thanks. 460 01:04:52,020 --> 01:04:54,650 Who was that? 461 01:04:54,860 --> 01:04:58,890 - I got a job. - I'll fix you up. 462 01:05:00,260 --> 01:05:03,530 I can't wear pants. 463 01:05:05,860 --> 01:05:10,290 - I'll rap you up in gauze. - Will that work? 464 01:05:12,180 --> 01:05:15,930 Easy does it. 465 01:05:16,140 --> 01:05:20,850 - Put it right around... - Easy. 466 01:05:23,020 --> 01:05:26,640 - Anybody tell you how funny you are? - No. 467 01:05:26,860 --> 01:05:29,970 That's understandable. 468 01:05:30,180 --> 01:05:33,800 Now, for a little tape. 469 01:05:35,580 --> 01:05:41,210 - Put the other leg up, lover. - Never mind the romance. 470 01:05:41,420 --> 01:05:46,090 Around your big fat thighs. 471 01:05:46,300 --> 01:05:50,490 - Not as big as your big fat ass. - No, no, be nice now. 472 01:05:52,180 --> 01:05:57,930 Now the balls. Your little red balls. Just in time for Christmas. 473 01:05:58,140 --> 01:06:01,170 - What will you do with my balls? - Rap them. 474 01:06:01,380 --> 01:06:05,290 It might affect my tap-dancing. 475 01:06:05,500 --> 01:06:10,930 - Wrap that around like that and tie. - They'll slip out. 476 01:06:11,140 --> 01:06:14,450 In a cocoon. Real nice. 477 01:06:17,620 --> 01:06:22,610 That's better. A little bit of tape. 478 01:06:22,820 --> 01:06:27,650 - Don't tape my balls to my asshole. - That's the best place for them, baby. 479 01:06:29,420 --> 01:06:32,370 You're as good as new. 480 01:06:32,580 --> 01:06:35,810 Get up and walk around. 481 01:06:51,860 --> 01:06:55,640 This is all right! 482 01:06:55,860 --> 01:06:58,970 I feel like a eunuch, 483 01:06:59,180 --> 01:07:02,490 but this is all right. 484 01:07:02,700 --> 01:07:06,570 - Want some soft boiled eggs? - Sure, baby. 485 01:07:11,740 --> 01:07:14,300 Call for help if you need to move the lift. 486 01:07:14,500 --> 01:07:18,690 We're very proud of this guy. It's called 'Vision of Peace'. 487 01:07:47,580 --> 01:07:51,280 Why was I chosen to do this? 488 01:07:51,500 --> 01:07:54,290 Why couldn't I be inside writing editorials 489 01:07:54,500 --> 01:07:58,170 about municipal corruption? 490 01:07:58,380 --> 01:08:02,250 Give the readers my vision of peace. 491 01:08:02,460 --> 01:08:06,970 Questions like these demanded deeper consideration. 492 01:08:37,340 --> 01:08:41,810 Superintendent Barnes. Can I buy you a beer? 493 01:08:42,020 --> 01:08:48,490 You are fired, Mr. Chinaski. Return your uniform and clean out your locker. 494 01:08:48,700 --> 01:08:51,530 Yes, sir. 495 01:08:57,180 --> 01:09:00,450 - Is that you, Hank? - Yeah, baby. 496 01:09:10,620 --> 01:09:13,330 I got canned. 497 01:09:13,540 --> 01:09:16,410 Caught me drinking on the job. 498 01:09:16,620 --> 01:09:19,490 What about your check? 499 01:09:19,700 --> 01:09:23,850 Funny, they didn't mention it. 500 01:09:24,060 --> 01:09:28,210 You worked almost a full day. They owe you wages. 501 01:09:28,420 --> 01:09:31,410 Yes, they do. 502 01:09:31,620 --> 01:09:36,480 We go get it, as soon as the office opens. 503 01:09:36,700 --> 01:09:39,330 Okay. 504 01:09:59,020 --> 01:10:04,410 Let's hit the marked for some stewed meat and vegetables and French wine. 505 01:10:04,620 --> 01:10:09,810 - They old me the check wasn't ready. - What? It's the law. 506 01:10:11,180 --> 01:10:14,650 They said it would be ready tomorrow. 507 01:10:14,860 --> 01:10:18,690 Christ, I've walked all this way in high heels! 508 01:10:18,900 --> 01:10:22,650 You look great, baby. 509 01:11:23,380 --> 01:11:28,050 It pays to be a tough son of a bitch. The world belongs to people with balls. 510 01:11:28,260 --> 01:11:31,050 Just get the check, daddy. 511 01:11:40,620 --> 01:11:43,730 I'm Henry Chinaski. 512 01:11:43,940 --> 01:11:47,560 - Yes? - I was here yesterday. 513 01:11:47,780 --> 01:11:50,370 Yes? 514 01:11:50,580 --> 01:11:54,850 You told me my check would be ready today. 515 01:11:55,060 --> 01:11:58,680 - Oh. - That's right. 516 01:12:04,980 --> 01:12:08,760 I'm sorry. Your check isn't here yet. 517 01:12:08,980 --> 01:12:11,850 But you said it would be. 518 01:12:12,060 --> 01:12:16,250 I'm sorry. Sometimes it takes a little longer. 519 01:12:16,460 --> 01:12:19,570 I want my check! 520 01:12:21,100 --> 01:12:24,330 I'm sorry, sir. 521 01:12:24,540 --> 01:12:26,970 You're not sorry. 522 01:12:27,180 --> 01:12:31,890 You don't know what sorrow is. I do. 523 01:12:32,100 --> 01:12:36,130 I want to talk to your boss's boss. Now! 524 01:12:42,380 --> 01:12:43,930 Mr. Handler? 525 01:12:44,140 --> 01:12:49,570 A Mr. Chinaski would like to see you about a termination payroll check. 526 01:12:51,220 --> 01:12:53,570 Right. 527 01:12:58,620 --> 01:13:01,180 Room 309. 528 01:13:01,380 --> 01:13:03,450 Thank you. 529 01:13:03,660 --> 01:13:07,850 Me and my old lady walked down here now, two days running - 530 01:13:08,060 --> 01:13:12,450 - just to be told that you don't have my check. 531 01:13:12,660 --> 01:13:16,850 Now, you and I know that's pure crap. 532 01:13:18,100 --> 01:13:22,730 All I want to do is get my check and get drunk. 533 01:13:22,940 --> 01:13:27,530 That may not sound noble. 534 01:13:27,740 --> 01:13:32,010 But it's my choice. 535 01:13:34,100 --> 01:13:37,490 You got a smoke? 536 01:13:52,180 --> 01:13:54,850 Thank you. 537 01:14:04,340 --> 01:14:06,450 Miss Simms? 538 01:14:06,660 --> 01:14:11,210 There's a check due to Mr. Henry Chinaski. 539 01:14:11,420 --> 01:14:16,360 Yes. Henry Chinaski. I want it down in five minutes. 540 01:14:17,820 --> 01:14:20,010 Thank you. 541 01:14:23,700 --> 01:14:29,450 Listen, John, I've got two years of journalism at L. A. City College. 542 01:14:30,740 --> 01:14:35,930 - You couldn't use a reporter? - Sorry, we're overstaffed now. 543 01:14:36,140 --> 01:14:39,050 I see. 544 01:14:39,260 --> 01:14:42,330 Your check will be downstairs. 545 01:14:44,380 --> 01:14:47,170 Thank you. 546 01:15:06,940 --> 01:15:11,770 You might as well not have any ears. You never listen to me anymore. 547 01:15:11,980 --> 01:15:15,850 That's because you keep repeating yourself. 548 01:15:16,060 --> 01:15:20,050 Let's have a drink and talk about it. 549 01:15:22,300 --> 01:15:26,170 You've had your ass up in the air ever since we got back together. 550 01:16:02,460 --> 01:16:04,840 Shit. 551 01:16:06,500 --> 01:16:09,490 Let's face the obvious: 552 01:16:09,700 --> 01:16:15,610 I don't need you and you don't need me. 553 01:16:21,580 --> 01:16:25,450 Yeah. I know. 554 01:16:51,060 --> 01:16:56,770 A week later Jan moved out and shacked up with some rich guy. 555 01:16:56,980 --> 01:17:01,450 After that I couldn't pay the rent. 556 01:17:12,620 --> 01:17:17,610 - The landlord threw you out? - Yeah. 557 01:17:17,820 --> 01:17:20,450 Did you get the job? 558 01:17:20,660 --> 01:17:24,280 - No. They didn't want me. - Why not? 559 01:17:24,500 --> 01:17:28,250 I don't have an address. 560 01:17:30,660 --> 01:17:35,330 Hank, I hate it when he fucks me. 561 01:17:35,540 --> 01:17:39,730 Sure, baby. Take care. 562 01:17:41,540 --> 01:17:45,370 This is for you. It got too small for him. 563 01:17:48,700 --> 01:17:51,530 See you around, Hank. 564 01:17:59,860 --> 01:18:02,690 You'll manage. 565 01:18:29,580 --> 01:18:33,360 Amazing, how grimly we hold onto our misery. 566 01:18:33,580 --> 01:18:37,890 The energy we burn fueling our anger. 567 01:18:40,940 --> 01:18:44,850 Amazing, how one moment we can be snarling like a beast, - 568 01:18:45,060 --> 01:18:49,010 - then a few moments later forgetting what or why. 569 01:18:49,220 --> 01:18:53,530 Not hours or days or months or years, - 570 01:18:53,740 --> 01:18:58,570 - but decades, lifetimes completely used up - 571 01:18:58,780 --> 01:19:02,810 - given over to the pettiest rancor and hatred. 572 01:19:03,020 --> 01:19:08,610 Finally there is nothing here for death to take away. 573 01:19:38,540 --> 01:19:42,650 Sit down and we'll see if anything comes in. 574 01:19:54,580 --> 01:19:58,930 You look a little down in the mouth. You all right? 575 01:19:59,140 --> 01:20:02,410 I lost a woman. 576 01:20:02,620 --> 01:20:07,850 You'll have others. And you'll lose them too. 577 01:20:08,060 --> 01:20:11,530 Where do they go? 578 01:20:11,740 --> 01:20:16,730 Try this. Ain't no women on skid row. 579 01:20:19,460 --> 01:20:24,650 Don't let him see us drinking. That's the one thing he don't like. 580 01:20:24,860 --> 01:20:27,890 Keep it low. 581 01:20:35,780 --> 01:20:38,890 - Wine gnats. - Sons of bitches are hooked. 582 01:20:39,100 --> 01:20:43,130 They know what's good. 583 01:20:43,340 --> 01:20:47,040 They drink to forget their women. 584 01:20:47,260 --> 01:20:50,690 They just drink. 585 01:20:50,900 --> 01:20:53,690 - Oh, shit. - Here he comes! 586 01:20:53,900 --> 01:20:57,930 All right! Get out, you winos! 587 01:20:58,140 --> 01:21:01,210 Get out before I call the cops! 588 01:21:03,900 --> 01:21:07,290 Let's go! Get out of here! 589 01:21:07,500 --> 01:21:12,690 Out! I call the cops, you god damn degenerates! And don't come back! 590 01:21:15,860 --> 01:21:19,930 What? This isn't a bar! 591 01:21:23,420 --> 01:21:26,170 Sun's up. 592 01:21:26,380 --> 01:21:29,850 Yeah, the sun's up good. 593 01:21:44,060 --> 01:21:46,930 Well, I got to get going. 594 01:21:53,380 --> 01:21:55,570 See you. 595 01:22:16,940 --> 01:22:19,890 So, what do I do with Chinaski's mail? 596 01:22:20,100 --> 01:22:23,130 He's gone. Just give it to me. 597 01:22:23,340 --> 01:22:25,970 Have a nice day. 598 01:23:02,660 --> 01:23:04,210 Dear Mr. Chinaski. 599 01:23:04,420 --> 01:23:08,330 We are returning four stories, but keeping My Beerdrunk Soul - 600 01:23:08,540 --> 01:23:11,890 "- is Sadder Than All the Dead Christmas Trees of the World. 601 01:23:12,100 --> 01:23:17,330 We have been watching your work and are happy to accept this story. 602 01:23:17,540 --> 01:23:21,930 Sincerely, John Martin, Black Sparrow Press. 603 01:23:46,100 --> 01:23:50,570 If you are going to try, go all the way. 604 01:23:50,780 --> 01:23:53,610 Otherwise don't even start. 605 01:23:53,820 --> 01:23:58,610 This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. 606 01:23:58,820 --> 01:24:01,450 And maybe your mind. 607 01:24:01,660 --> 01:24:05,050 It could mean not eating for three or four days. 608 01:24:05,260 --> 01:24:08,010 It could mean freezing on a park bench. 609 01:24:08,220 --> 01:24:11,010 It could mean jail. 610 01:24:11,220 --> 01:24:15,210 It could mean mockery, isolation. 611 01:24:17,340 --> 01:24:22,650 Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance. 612 01:24:22,860 --> 01:24:29,650 Of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it, despite rejection. 613 01:24:29,860 --> 01:24:33,730 And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. 614 01:24:36,620 --> 01:24:41,250 If you're going to try, go all the way. 615 01:24:41,460 --> 01:24:45,930 There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. 616 01:24:46,140 --> 01:24:48,930 And the nights will flame with fire. 617 01:24:49,140 --> 01:24:52,530 You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. 618 01:24:52,740 --> 01:24:57,760 It's the only good fight there is. 619 01:25:04,940 --> 01:25:07,320 English subtitles: Trine Borg www.rdwsubs.com