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There's no line right now if you want to get another

I didn't know we were getting drunk tonight

I'm getting drunk tonight

You're more than welcome to join in

You can blog hung over, you know?

Maybe we should just go

I don't know I thought we could dance

Don't you think that sounds fun?

Do you not want to be here anymore?

I could text some people

Can I finish my drink at least?

I'm gonna go get your coat

I just wish they would respond

They said the notification date for accepted prose was noon today

Fuck

I'm trying to figure out a good way

to describe Berlin in under 140 characters

For the Internet?

No, for right now

We're taken

I'd hope so

Leah, this is Beau We've been dating for one year and three months

So this is the famous Leah

Do I curtsy now?

You'd have to stand up to do that

Mmm

Well, I was living in Europe

There's a party at a friend of a friend of Amy's

If you do decide to stay, my friend Dan just ordered a lot of coke

Really?

Hmm

I guess we're staying now

21 miles

That's how far the city is

Google maps

Siri

Wait, really?

No No

Erin, actually Erin Bower

First and last

I like that

Paul Chen

For real?

Oh, I'm... I'm sorry That was rude

I didn't mean this to be an interrogation

I... It's not like I...

I do... I do know who you are

I mean, I've heard your name around a lot, I guess I...

I haven't read your book, but...

I mean, I... I want to

I've... I've heard it's really, really great

Can I start over?

I didn't mean to convey displeasure to you by frowning like that It's just...

I had a reading earlier and I took a few bars of...

Yeah It's put me in a weird mood

That's okay I'm, like, always in a weird mood

Huh Seems like we can come to some kind of understanding

I'll draw up the deal memo

My secretary will fax it to you

What are the terms?

Quite favorable

Oh

Hello

No, I think you have the wrong number

It's a... It's a joke

No one called me

No...

You're always vanishing -Oh, please

What? No

Did I make you angry?

It was good to meet you, Erin I'm gonna head back inside

Yeah Um...

Uh, have your secretary drop off the deal memo

Oh, yeah Yeah I'll have it notarized ASAP

I'd really like that Okay

What?

Is he from a magazine?

Beau, slow down!

Beau, slow...

Beau! Beau... Beau, please slow down

Beau, please!

Can you...

Can you... Can you tell me what's going on? I mean,

you're acting bizarre all night

I'm on drugs

Oh, was it worth it?

Are you having fun?

You should sleep at your place tonight

I can't have this conversation right now

I'm way too fucked up

Why does it feel like if I go now, things are gonna be over?

Maybe they are

What... Are you...

Are you breaking...

Are you breaking up with me?

No Just...

Felt like that's what I was supposed to say there

Are you fucking serious? Oh, my...

Fucking asshole! Erin! Please...

Uh, these need to be cataloged

Guy who dropped them off said one or two are first editions

Okay, I'm on it

Is this any good?

Oh Uh...

Actually, I was thinking we could book him in for a reading

He's been doing a bunch around the city

You know him?

Well, not super well, but he's a friend

Huh

Hey, uh...

Erin, I've been meaning to talk to you about something

Okay

Things, um... Things have been tight lately

Uh, long and short is, I can't afford to keep everyone on full-time

I'm gonna have to cut your hours a bit

I'm sorry

It's... It's fine

I mean, more time to write, right?

Waking up at 3:00 am

I wonder if it can really be possible

that I've gone through 25 years of my life now

without forming a truly genuine connection to another person

The kind of connection where you know instantly

what that other person is thinking at any given moment,

and where that horrible, mysterious gulf between the two of you

is permanently bridged

The dissolution of subject-object connection

The way you know what they'll say in telekinetic advance

The way a writer knows her character's next desire she must repress

Her unpublished need still met

A finger

Key

Connection

Muscle memory

Muscle memory

Muscle memory

There were times when his memory

like an external hard drive that had been taken from him

and hidden inside an unwieldy series of cardboard boxes

Or placed at the end

of a long and dark and messy corridor

Required much more effort than he felt

motivated to exert

simply to locate

In fact,

he felt increasingly unmotivated

to exert any effort towards anything

Any questions?

Uh, can you hear me?

Yeah Good

Do you even know how to grow mushrooms?

Mushrooms?

Yeah, in your book you take mushrooms

Do you know how to grow them, sir?

Not really

I have a problem with you

Classifying your books as fiction when they're obviously about you,

doesn't that make it a memoir?

If I wrote a memoir,

I would call it my memoir

I also would write

"I think" before every sentence

You can't pretend something is fiction

Either it's based on your experience or it's not

But why can't he?

He's the one who writes it, right?

You saved me

I am forever in your debt

Are people at your readings always this weird?

Yes That's why I have to take sedatives before them

Uh, you're on drugs at all of your readings?

Do you want some?

I think it's cool you work in a bookstore

Is that a sentence from your memoir?

It's a hyperlink to the question of,

"What else do you do when you're not in this bookstore?"

I write Well, blog

God, that's embarrassing to tell you

What's it called? Mmm

Here It's, uh... It's on Tumblr

Um, can you hold this?

"I don't want to sleep but I don't know what I'm waiting for"

That's a nice name

Modern

Actually, I already knew about it

I googled you

You googled me?

Paul! Yo

We met a couple months ago

Kyle's friend Calvin

Oh, yeah Calvin

Um, anyway, I, uh... I didn't know you were a writer

But, uh, my girlfriend, Mag... Maggie...

Maggie... Maggie is a big fan of your books

And so we came out,

and I was like, "Oh, fuck, it's Paul"

So, yeah

I read all your books

when I was in San Francisco two years ago

I was really manic They helped

Um, I told all my friends

that, uh, I had this feeling when I came here,

um, we're gonna meet and become friends

Okay, baby, don't

Anyway, um, I was wondering if maybe you wanna come tonight,

uh, to my parents' mansion in Jersey I'm having some friends over

Your parents' mansion?

Yeah Like a really big house

There's a foyer

-Do you want to go to a mansion in New Jersey? -Oh, I don't know I can't...

We... We... We can drive We have a car

Um, well, Calvin can drive I can't drive

-Actually, it's a really funny story -Maggie, don't do that

When I was in San Francisco and I was manic,

and I stole my ex-boyfriend's ca... Um... Okay, don't

Yeah Yeah You should come

Okay

Do you mind signing this?

Maggie...

I don't sign that book anymore

Oh

Do you have a pen? Always

I almost thought you were gonna pull out a computer

And I was surprised it was actually a pen

You're so funny

Maggie, we went to a book-signing

That's a much more perfect time...

I have a surprise for you

What?

What's this?

I got it from your store

You bought it for me?

They probably don't pay you enough You're owed a gift

Oh Oh, you...

Do you accept?

I accept

Are you sure you want to?

I don't wanna be

corrupting an innocent or anything

Oh, no You... You are

You definitely are

Here

It's good shit My friend, Jasper,

makes it on his houseboat in Red Hook

Hmm

Mags?

Yes

Yes

I'm really glad you guys came

How long have you been dating?

Oh, we're not... We're not dating

Really?

Really seemed like you were?

And what about... What about you guys?

Oh, yeah We've been dating for two years,

but we haven't had sex in four months

Maggie...

Is it weird we're here?

Why would it be weird?

I wanted to put my hand on your leg just now

Why didn't you?

Now I did

Do you wanna go for a walk?

Have you tried acid before?

Only once

And, um...

I rode around on a Toronto City bus for five hours

Beau and I do drugs sometimes, but it doesn't always feel the same with him

Beau is that guy at the party, right?

Yeah

Um, I was gonna

call him my boyfriend, but I don't think that's true anymore

-We don't have to talk about it if you don't want... -Oh, no, no, no

It's just, um, in a process of...

Recontextualizing? Reconstituting

Renewing?

Hey, look We're in sync

When I was in fifth grade,

I used to wear purple and put glitter on my eyes every Friday,

because I thought that...

...if the aliens came, they'd see me and they'd just...

They'd just, like, take me away

That's neutrally good

Can I tweet that?

But I... I...

I said it I'll just save it to drafts

Let me think about it

Where'd you think they'd take you?

Just away

Anywhere

Um, when I was in the fifth grade,

I was on a plane...

and I... I saw this brown dot

I thought it was a UFO

Um...

I think, at first, I was aware that I was faking it,

but I think

I convinced myself so hard

that I made myself forget that part

Did you tell anyone you saw a UFO?

I didn't care if anyone knew

I was just like, "I saw a UFO"

I was extremely bored back then I was like a bored robot

Hey, where you going?

Hey, wait Wait

I'm sorry I just...

I had, like, this crazy

rush of emotions, and it's just like...

Being here with you is...

-I don't know how to talk to you -Okay Okay

I mean, you're just like an idea You're not...

Okay Okay Just... Just... Just breathe

Okay? Just breathe So weird

-Just breathe in Breathe Breathe in -So weird

Okay

In In So weird

Out

-Is that better? -You think... You think I'm crazy

You...

Sometimes, I wonder what the point is

Will anyone give a shit in five years?

In two?

There's a project I've wanted to do for a while

Basically, I would

document everything that happened to me

Uh, livestream it,

or maybe just record it and edit it later

Make a movie about life

Wow

Just, like, a collection of unrelated scenes

But I never started

I think I might be more likely

to complete it if...

If someone else did it with me

Me? Yeah

It would just be our lives, but we film it

Okay

Just pretend like it's not there

Okay

You don't have to

No, if... If you want to,

I want to Yes

Greetings

So, what scenes is our movie going to have?

First is "Heroin" We inject each other with heroin

Then work on...

Then we work on stuff on our laptop

Have you ever been in love?

Um... Or, no, okay, "Cocaine"

We go to nightclubs and bars

with no other plan other than to snort cocaine every 15 minutes

That's great

Do you ever feel like you're a robot?

Like you're just on autopilot?

More than me feeling like a robot,

I feel like everyone around me is one and I'm the only one who isn't

Do you think I'm a robot?

Check this box to prove you're not a robot

You come up with one

Um... How about "Or Something"?

You know, if you were a robot, you'd do it

If you were a robot, you'd do it

Power down

We say "or something"

hundreds of times in a montage

sometimes with context

to convey a wide range of meaning

"Or something?"

Do you have an example?

I'm tired of your uncertainty

in specifying commitment or something

I like it

Are you afraid of dying?

I honestly don't care if I die

Really? It's fine if I die

Life won't matter after I'm dead

What about drugs in terms of your life?

I think it's sustainable as long as I'm healthy

I don't do drugs very often

But it feels okay with you Like we aren't...

...using them wrong

I don't normally do drugs often either

I've never done drugs two days in a row

Unless you count prescription drugs

Then I've done drugs lots of days in a row

Do you ever feel like it just sucks to live in the world?

What do you mean?

Like, I don't feel like the world

can provide us with enough to satisfy us

I think the world's good enough,

on average

I haven't killed myself

If I killed myself,

I could say the world is bad

because I would have evidence

Sometimes, I even think I'm happy

Like, a good level of happy?

Like more of a flat line

Hey!

Hey, Erin

I thought that was you

How have you been?

I'm okay

Well, look, I know that it's a Sunday,

but, uh, Daniel's throwing a party tonight

I told Beau, but he said that you guys weren't really, like, talking

You're talking to Beau now?

What happened with you guys?

It's nothing We're just on a hiatus

You should come

It'll be, like, so good for you

I was thinking of reorganizing my closet

There's this video I saw online... Fuck!

Oh, my God Okay

God, it's everywhere now

Life is hard

I gotta go, uh, but you should come

Yeah I'll try to make it

Peace!

Stealing alcohol?

You scared me Can I ask you something?

Without you getting offended

Okay

How are you holding up?

You're looking a little frayed

I'm fine

Just asking just to make sure that you're okay

Breakups can be difficult

What?

You know,

I actually thought you were gonna say something nice

Maybe you were going to act like a human

But now what? You're fucking Leah

Leah's just a friend

You know what?

I'm seeing someone too now It'd be rude not to tell you

He's a writer Semi-famous

He's been called "the voice of his generation"

I don't want to do this with you

You know,

I'm making my own movie now

It's a documentary

About what?

My burgeoning new relationship

Your burgeoning new relationship?

Yeah

Can I just give you a hug?

Only if it's a platonic hug

Wait

You saw Beau yesterday?

Yeah

He, um...

He told me that he wanted to hang out again,

but I said I was doing other things

Do you think you'll talk to him again?

Probably not

I have a surprise for you

Really? Yeah

It's MDMA

You bought me ecstasy?

My mom keeps sending me these panicked emails about

all the drugs she thinks I'm taking because of stuff I posted online

"I don't understand why you must reject me with your terrible behavior

"When I send you an email I would like you to respond to it

"Your father may continue to unblinkingly support you,

"but I see what you post on your web feeds

"Actions speak louder than words

"It doesn't matter to you whether you have a mother or not"

-Do you feel bad reading that... -While I'm on drugs?

No No, I just feel like

she's ruining the drugs

My dad used to, like, smoke weed

and make me smoke weed with him every night

I used to really sad about it

but he'd just get mad if he didn't smoke

Yeah

I don't want her to feel like she's failed as a parent,

but I don't really want to respond to her emails either

We used to have these crazy screaming fights

What about?

When I was in high school, I used to think the only

solution to the anxiety I was feeling all the time

would be for me... For her

to create all these rules and punishments

that went way beyond reasonable

To take my control away

She didn't get it She...

I wanted to punish her back for not understanding me

You know, they moved here so I could become a...

A doctor or a lawyer

Or something else immigrants want their American kids to be,

but then I told them I wanted to be a writer

You know, when I was in college, they...

They gave up and went back to Taiwan

You don't think they went back to Taiwan because of you, do you?

It was part of it Yeah

After that period,

I decided it was just easier for me to be emotionless

More like I was when I was a kid

How much more?

A lot

Can I read you something I wrote?

"They walked arm in arm down the street

"Reality had taken on the look of a children's storybook

"Joanna asked Alex if he'd ever been in love

"Alex thought about it for a moment

"A light blinked on and off in the sky

"He imagined being taken up to the UFO

"and bathed in the radiant glow

"of a many-tentacled synthetic examination probe

"Maybe that was what love felt like"

I wanna go somewhere with you

We could fly somewhere We could go to Niagara Falls

If I go to Niagara, I would peak on ecstasy

in a one size too large rain slicker

while the boat takes you under the water

That's too cliched

I would sit at a high stakes poker table

in an Indian casino wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap,

smoke a cigarette... Better...

Then say, "Too rich for my blood, baby"

We could get married at one of the stupid chapels

There's a lot of ions in the water

So it's really romantic

Ah, this is what the universe created, after whatever billion years

How do you feel?

A little depleted What?

Kinda tired

You should not have even started feeling it yet

-What? -Wait, we only took the MDMA, like, 20 minutes ago

Mmm, I forgot

Oh

I thought maybe the drugs were fake

You see, when God is working, a prophet is not a preacher

They speak from the mouth of God

and He said, "How you will know my prophets?"

He said, "You will know them by their works"

So, I have to show you the proof that his here is made by God himself

You see, when God is using you, it's different from you in your normal body

He take you out of you and He control your mind

And He control your thinking

And you will hear His voice talking to you from the heaven

Praise the Lord

And this symbol here represents the sun

This one right here

Everywhere you go in the world, you see the same sun

Hallelujah

Two options I'd like to discuss with you,

just so you're informed of all the services we have here

We have an extensive list Are you aware of our packages?

There's The Lovers The Hot Night, The Honeymooners

The Aloha Special The Portuguese Wedding The Liberace

The Viva Niagara Yeah, that one

Ah, Viva Niagara

That is a Elvis-themed wedding, tailored to the Niagara Falls experience

Then there's the matter of the witness

Do I look like a pineapple You'll be needing a witness

If you don't have a witness, one can be provided for you Jose!

His fee is $50 You may film Jose

-Jose's often filmed for a lot of ceremonies -Say hi

Oh, good That's good

And don't forget to tip your witness

Come on, it's time to go

Hi, come on Let's go

We're gonna get you married now

Here we go, honey There's Paul right there waiting for you

Paul, how are you?

-I believe you know this girl -What?

All right, I want you to get up there

Great, great

Well, guys, here we are in beautiful Niagara Falls,

ready to join you two in beautiful marriage

Now, marriage is a beautiful bond that grows and grows and grows

And as you grow, you share

You share your lives together

You share times together You even share with Elvis

Uh... Paul, I'm only joking

You know what, kids? Let's get started

Paul, please place the ring on Erin's finger

The ring? The ring

The ring? The ring

The ring You got a ring, didn't you?

No You didn't get ring?

-No -You know what? It doesn't matter

We're gonna start off like this

Paul, I want you to look in Erin's eyes,

and say, "Erin I take you to be my beautiful wife

"in sickness and in health, for rich or for poorer,

"till death do us part"

Erin...

Say it

I take you, uh...

Hey, you know what, Paul? Don't worry about it

We get the gist We get the gist

Okay We got it Erin, look into Paul's eyes and repeat after me

"Paul, I take you to be my beautiful husband..."

I take you, Paul, to be my husband...

"In sickness and in health"

In sickness and in health

"For richer or for poorer" For richer or for poorer

"I'll always be your teddy bear"

Teddy bear

"Never give you cause to have suspicious mind"

Never have you... suspicious mind

By the power vested in me,

I now pronounce you husband and wife

Paul, you may kiss your beautiful bride

Little more, you got it

Little more

Oh!

Dance with each other

So good

♪ I always believed

♪ That love lasts forever

♪ Like a force of nature

♪ And when I saw you

♪ You were soft as a teardrop

♪ Strong as a flood

♪ But I was falling for you

♪ Falling for you

Dance with your wife

♪ So I kissed you again

♪ At the rainbow's end ♪

Hold my hand! Hold my hand!

What's that?

It comes with the package

Comes with the package Just smile

Smile Just smile

Married!

Married!

Married!

It tickles

Yes, married

I don't know, like, a week

We're in Niagara Falls

Um...

Uh-huh

Uh-huh

Okay Yeah, yeah, okay, okay Call me back later

Yeah, no It's good

It's okay

What happened? Um...

Uh...

My parents called I told them we got married

What did they say?

Um...

My mom had a heart attack

Jesus, Paul

Is she okay? Yeah Mmm-hmm

No, they want to fly us out to Taipei

to see her and for a honeymoon

Um...

It's two-for-one

Um...

Wow

Are you okay? So you'll come?

Of course

Are you sure? Uh, absolutely

Absolutely

Sometimes, you say yes to things you don't wanna do

just because you're in a... Your "yes" phase

What... That's not true

Like when?

Sometimes, I feel like I make you do more drugs than you wanna do

Sometimes, I don't wanna do the drugs but then

I convince myself and usually it's a good idea

-Are you convincing yourself right now? -No, no

I'm not I promise you

I want to come, okay? I promise you I really do

Babe I wanna come

I promise

Can you think of a new word for computer than computer?

I don't know

I don't think my question makes sense

Maybe there can't be a new word for the same word

Maybe

Sorry

I'll let you sleep

Hi, Mr Chen I'm Erin It's so nice to meet you

Thank you both for coming Come in, come in

It's kind of heavy

Erin It's so nice to meet you

How are you feeling? Old

You put sugar in your tea?

You're not supposed to use sugar after a heart attack

I think it'd be best if no one uses sugar, not just people in recovery

You look tired I'm all right

I'm taking Erin sightseeing tomorrow

We'll be in my room Come on

Uh, we can make breakfast

No, we'll be fine She wants to eat local food

Um...

I think my mom put them in here to make me use less drugs

There's so many You look so cute

Look at you

It makes me uncomfortable

Why?

You look so happy in them

I would be uncomfortable seeing that many of anyone's face

Paul...

Have you seen this app?

It calculates how many times you're gonna see your parents before they die

You put in where they live, and where you live, and their ages

God, that's so morbid

I got six for my dad, but my mom's heart condition gave her two

Put that away

Okay

All right, they're leaving Let's take them

I still can't get them open

It's a thing

The laptop

This and the writing are connected for me

Okay?

It's a good thing we came

There is this app I wanna show you

It calculates... Paul Bye

I feel like my mom knew we were on drugs

Uh, she seems nice I wanna get to know her better

I feel like we're deceiving her

I wonder what it's gonna be like for us, two weeks here

Do you think she likes me?

Yeah, I can tell she likes you

Um, I just think she thinks about drugs a lot

Is she addicted?

Wildly

Do you ever have to distract yourself from us?

Um...

In other relationships, I use food or drugs to console myself

But, um...

That's not us, so that's good

Well, we... We do use drugs

But not to console ourselves

I think the thing that really matters to me the most

is just not getting fixated on things neurotically

What kinds of things?

Anything

With my first boyfriend, Kent,

he used to go down on me and then we'd do it missionary style

It just got really boring really fast

Beau and I had a lot of sex

What?

Sometimes, it felt like he was having sex with himself

How did that make you feel?

People have different priorities in relationships

I don't think sex is a big thing for me

Train's coming

Hey, what's going on?

What's wrong?

Let me know what's wrong I don't know, I just...

Huh?

I feel like I'm an insane person

Hey, you I'm so sad

Your serotonin receptors are just misfiring, okay?

I know

You're right You're right

You're right You're right

I don't wanna do any readings while I'm here

The advance on my last book was large for a writer my age

This place is beautiful

Yeah, I used to come here with my mom and her sister when I was really little

I have these strange, disconnected memories

that feel really religious

I don't know if I could feel that way about something

It's supposed to represent the light of wisdom

What's up?

Nothing Nothing, it's fine

Really?

I just think my body is all out of whack from the flying

I think

And the drugs?

Yeah, and the drugs

Okay

Did they have a bathroom?

Oh, yeah

I remember going to Epcot as a kid,

and, uh, this show said that families were going to have two robot dogs

and a robot maid,

and live in self-sustaining underwater spheres by, like, 2008

Technology doesn't have that kind of wonder for me anymore

It's, like, some day, the universe

is just going to be a computer

And we're all pawns in the universe's grand plan to become a computer

And life is just a cosmic replay

That seems kind of paranoid

I mean, you can't just opt out of day-to-day experience

That would be stupid

Being studied by millions of entities a billion years from now

Can I tell you something that's been on my mind?

Yeah

You, kind of, speak to your mom like she's a kid

I mean...

I was surprised I've never heard you talk like that

It used to be much worse

I'm just saying, okay?

You're going to be fine

Yes?

We should take a lot of MDMA tonight so we don't fight

Cool

So what's the plot of Taipei's Most Michelin-Starred Restaurant?

We'll improvise it Are you feeling your MDMA?

I'm feeling things big-time

One big-time style, please!

Let's go!

Okay Use the NPR voice Don't smile

We're here in the flagship world's

first four-star Michelin restaurant

in beautiful Taipei, Taiwan

Let me do it Let me do it

This is the first four-star Michelin restaurant in the world

They had a grand opening tasting menu of fish patties

It's been said that

he's actually the rightful founder of this place

Someone stole his idea, now he comes and eats here every night,

and weeps in the toilet

Over there is an installation art piece

-meant to represent world peace -Fantastic

This is where the district managers hold their weekly meetings

This little lady,

she's been Employee of the Month 36 months running,

since she was four years old!

Amazing!

And him?

This little bad boy? He's the next candidate for the new chicken sandwich

You could be eating him next month, folks

We'll miss you

Fantastic!

It took them five whole years to photoshop this

They had to wait for Adobe to answer a question that they had

on their message board

It's the mother brain

Skype Skype?

Vacation Oh

Vacation Skype

Vacation Vacation Skype

Oh, it's depleted

Hey, can I ask you a question?

Uh, yeah

Um, did you take a pregnancy test?

Did you go through the trash?

It was just in there

Well, then you'll see that I'm not pregnant

I think it was just the drugs

Do you think you should be on birth control?

I don't like how I feel on it

Doesn't matter to me if I come somewhere else or use a condom

Okay

I just feel like if I was pregnant,

we'd both be on the same page

Um, can you explain about the page?

Paul...

I mean, I just... We got married

Yeah, for the movie

Look, I just feel we got in over our...

Hey, Erin, wait! Wait

No, Erin, wait, wait! That not what I meant

Well, then, what did you mean? What do you think all of this is?

Hey, no, okay You're my wife This means a lot to me

I don't want to lose you

Do you think I want a kid right now?

You always talk to me like I'm not in control of my life

Fuck! What are you talking about?

Erin... I said let go of me!

Okay, no, hold on I said let go!

I'm not doing this with you while we're on molly

I'm sorry if I ruined our evening

I was... I was enjoying it

So was I

Are we okay?

I'm sorry I shouldn't have yelled

Everything just got really confusing, really fast

It's just, like, a really fast, generalized sadness

Try to be happy

I'm worried I'm broken

You're gonna have to replace me with a newer model

And it's just really weird

doing this every night while we're here with your family

I'm a tourist here, too Sure Sure

I's true So it's not just you

I'm gonna go back and go to bed

Could you not touch my stuff?

Okay I'm sorry

I feel like you're not respecting my space

Your space?

Hey, can we talk about this?

Hello?

What?

What's happening here?

What's happening? Get off of this

Don't grab things from me

Why won't you listen to me?

I am

You're not

You're just multitasking me like another device

That's not true

This isn't me This is...

I can't control my emotions and my circuits are all

misfiring I just...

Maybe I...

Maybe I need to go on medication

It's not good for you

Well, how do you know?

You could become dependent Did you read that somewhere?

No Well, then, how do you know?

I just don't wanna fight with you

I think I need to...

I think I need to spend tomorrow alone Is that okay?

Paul spoke about how, eventually, the universe will just be a computer,

which I'll also be a part of

From that computer's perspective,

it won't even matter if I'm never a famous writer,

or am too anxious to communicate with the world around me,

or have no friends

Everything will make a, sort of, monochromatic sense

Everything will be equal

You should sleep before you travel

Oh, I'm...

I'm not tired

You and Paul always stay up late at the computer, I suppose

Yeah, we're making a project Did he tell you about it?

There've been many projects

I never understand this videoing

It's like a movie, but real

"Real," yes

I'm sorry we didn't get to spend more time with each other

Maybe next time

Good night

It's been very nice having you both here

Thank you for hosting us

Please!

Needs pepper

Yeah

Thank you

Hello, everyone!

Um...

I'm Erin, and I wanted to talk to you about today

Um, well... Today has been...

I was thinking of re-organizing my apartment

and I just thought there might be something in that for people,

like, re-organizing your apartment for a life of isolation

I am just thinking about apartments, and solitude and...

I just feel like, in each successive phase of your life,

you should reorganize

Oh, hold on a second

Whoa...

I came to get some stuff

Yeah, I'm really busy

You can't just turn up That's not how it works

You have to text first

I'm gonna see Calvin and Maggie

at Birdy's, tonight

You should come

I don't think that's a good idea

Yeah

I'm going... Bye

-Wait Hold on, wait What about my stuff? -Okay, fine

There's just too much pressure to be depressed

I don't know what you're talking about

As a writer

Is there anything I can do to help?

No

No, I don't think so

Is there anything I can do to help our relationship?

Is that still what we're calling it?

We are still married

I just don't want to tell anyone what to do

Least of all, you

You wouldn't be, you'd just be answering my question

Do you ever feel like

you're relating to someone else,

but really, you're just relating to yourself?

Was Taipei really that bad?

Terrible

Paul told me he enjoyed it

Really?

I mean, you could get a divorce

Why did we even get married?

Why did you get married?

To piss off my mom

Oh, yeah, actually?

No Oh

No, not really

Explain this to me again

We take them, but we don't talk

We only communicate non-verbally

Not talking, I think, is the kind of communication that will help us

What are you thinking about?

What are you thinking about? Paul, we're not talking

No Oh, no, this isn't what I...

This isn't what I expected at all

Oh, I can't breathe

Oh, God, please Oh, God

I think I overdosed I overdosed!

Paul, you can't overdose on mushrooms

Oh, God Okay

Erin, Erin, you have to console me

Erin, you have to console me

Hey, you have to console me

You have to console me Please

Please, you have to console me

You have to console me!

But you're just a projection You're just a projection!

Oh, my God, you're just a projection

Why'd you let us do this?

It was your idea

You should have never let us do this

Am I going insane?

It took them five whole years to Photoshop this

They had to wait for Adobe to answer a question that they had on their message board

It's the mother brain

You don't have to

No, if... If you want to,

I want to Yes

Morning

You know what?

I'm happy I'm alive

I deleted it

Deleted what? I deleted our footage

I'm sorry I just...

I really wanted it to work

But we didn't back it up Why?

I know, it's just me

I'm talking about the footage

It was something we made together

We don't have to stay married

It's not that easy Why not?

There's so much out there

There's so many places to go

So much to see

And I just don't wanna wake up one day

and realize that it's too late

I want you to know that I tried

I did I really, really... I really tried

I'm trying to find the words

It's so hard to describe

It's this movement...

That's the word That word

It's "movement"

What?

I'm just...

I'm trying to work out where I am,

and I haven't found that out yet

I gotta go I'm sorry

Erin, wait