Do you have any idea what they were arguing about do you speak English yeah no I'm sorry
my Germany is not very good
have you ever heard that as couples get older they lose their ability to hear
each other no well supposedly men lose their ability to a higher pitch sounds
and women eventually lose hearing on the low end I guess they sort of nullify
each other or something I guess nature's way of allowing couples to grow old
together without killing each other what are you reading
how about you
um
look I was thinking about going to the lounge car sometime soon would you like to come with me
yeah okay
so how do you speak such good English I went to school for a [?] in Los Angeles yeah it's fine here
yeah it's good I spent some time in London
uh how do you speak such good English me I'm American you're American yeah are you sure yeah
no I'm joking I knew you were American and of course you don't speak any other language right
yeah yeah yeah I get it I get it so I'm the crude dumb vulgar American and doesn't speak any other languages who has no culture right but I tried I took French for four years in high school when I first got to Paris I stood in line at the metro station I was practicing
and be a civil play and be a civil play and I get up there and I look at this woman and my mind goes completely blank and I start saying I listen I need a ticket to get to um you know so anyway
great um so where are you headed
well back to Paris um my class start next week
now you're still in [?] where do you go
yeah la sorbonne you know
yeah sure
yeah you coming from Budapest
yeah I was visiting my grandmother
uh how's she
she's okay
she's all right
she's fine
how about you where are you going
uh I'm going to Vienna
Vienna what's there
I have no idea I'm flying out of there tomorrow
huh you're on holiday
uh
uh I don't really know what I'm on
okay
I'm just uh I'm just traveling around
I've been riding the trains for the past two three weeks
mm-hmm you were visiting friends or just on your own
uh yeah you know I had a friend in Madrid but um
Madrid that's nice
yeah I got one of those Uriel passes is what I did
that's great
so has this trip around Europe been good for you?
yeah sure yeah it's been um it sucked
you know
what?
no it hasn't
it's had its um
I'll tell you you know
sitting you know for weeks on end looking out the [?]
has actually been kind of great
what do you mean?
well uh you know friends
you have ideas that you ordinarily wouldn't have
what kind of ideas?
you want to hear one?
yeah tell me
all right
uh I have this idea
okay
for a television show
some friends of mine
are these cable [?] producers
do you know what that is?
cable access
um
I don't know
anybody can produce a show real cheap
and they have to put it on
right?
and I have this idea
for this show that would last 24 hours a day
for a year straight
right?
what you do is you get
uh 365 people
from uh cities
all over the world
to do these 24 hour documents
of real time
right?
capturing life as it's lived
um
you know it would start
with uh
a guy waking up in the [?]
and uh
you know taking a long shower
um
eating a little breakfast
making a little coffee
you know
and uh
reading the paper
wait wait
all this mundane boring thing
everybody has to do
every day of their fucking life
I was gonna say the poetry
of day-to-day life
but you know
you say it the way you say it
I'll say the way I say it
I like that
but no listen
think about it like this
who's gonna wanna watch this?
well alright
think about it like this
why is it that a dog
you know
sleeping in the sun
is so [?]
you know
it is
it's beautiful
you know
but a guy
standing in a bank machine
trying to take some money out
looks like a complete [?]
so it's like a national
geographic program
but on people
yeah
hmm
what do you think?
yeah I can
I can
I can see it
like 24 boring hours
sorry
and like
a three minute sex scene
where he falls asleep
right after
no?
yeah you know
and I mean
I mean that would be
a great episode
yeah
people would talk
about that episode
I mean
you and your [?]
could do one in Paris
if you wanted to
I mean
I don't know
the key
the key
the thing that kind of
wants me
is uh
is the distribution
you know
I mean
getting these tapes
from town to town
city to city
so that it would play
continuously
because it'd have to play
all the [?]
or else
just
wouldn't work
thank you
thanks