2000-10-09

play.
joint rotation: jeff to britt to kaite to jai to jeff.
britt: "Jeff, you seem like the type of person who listens to NPR. Did you hear the piece on the American concept of freedom and how radical a concept it is when it was played yesterday?" >> author sidenote, britt is a girl jai had an obsessively giddy sexual affair with last april.
Kaite: "I love this picture of jai. Isn't this picture of jai good? Goddamn, she's so photogenic. Jai, you are beautiful."
Jai: stoned, silent and observing, inhaling deep drags from joint.
Jeff: "No, actually I didn't hear that interview, but it's interesting you should bring it up. It reminds me of...." (And off he goes into library of stored memories to visit the land of sublime reminisces.)
Britt: "So, Jeff, is there any way I could buy some..." Meanwhile Kaite takes further incriminating photos of friends smoking marijuana.

rewind, 1 1/2 hour. Jeff's dining room. play.
Kristine: "Kaite, y'wanna play this game on the computer with me? I have all the answers memorized so I'm going to beat you every time!!" (She didn't really say that, I'm just filling in what she neglected to say.) >> Author Sidenote: Kristine is Jeff's granddaughter.
Kaite: "Jeff, here's the soap and the William S. Burroughs CD you wanted back. I'm sorry, I forgot to bring the National Geographic. Wow, what are you listening to? Oooh, Renaissance-ish music. Did I ever tell you about the Medieval Christmas music we listened to on the car ride to church when I was a little kid..."
Jeff: "No, but did I tell you that when I met my first wife, the two albums that were consistently on my turntable were these two albums of Renaissance and Medieval dance music?"
Kaite: "Actually, yes."
Kristine: bored, waiting by the computer, waiting for Kaite to finish talking with Jeff and to come and play with Kristine.

fast foward 15 min. Jeff's office. play.
Kaite: "Jeff! She's beating me by 11 points. Hey, do you mind if I light this joint?"
Kristine: giggling at the sight of 21 year old girl get her ass kicked on a computer game by a 13 year old girl.
Jeff: "No, go right ahead."
Kaite: lighting joint and passing to Jeff. "Did I ever tell you about COSI? I used to go there all the time. It was my favorite museum as a kid."
Somewhere in the middle of this mess, our adult hero and heroine find themselves in the middle of some really deep conversation about... (jeff, fill me in here) ...anyway, so we quit playing the game, talked for 15 minutes, and thoroughly annoyed Kristine.

fast foward 45 min. play.
Jai calls. Britt and Jai are coming over.

fast forward 1 hr. Jeff's Living room. play.
Jai and Britt and Kaite all pile into Britt's car, leaving Jeff happy and Kristine annoyed with pot-smoking adults. 30 polaroids, taken mostly by Kaite, are scattered on the floor. Candle wax, incense and pot are in the air.

fast forward 5 min. Linder front porch. play.
Josh: "Wait a second you guys," he says as he opens the front door, "I'm going to go outside to talk Kaite into going to the party.... (I heard that.) So, Kaite, are you coming to the party or not?"
Kaite: "I have to be at work tomorrow at 7! I have to get up 6:30!! I can't!"
Josh: "Come on. It will be fun. Come for an hour. Leave early. Come come come."

fast forward 1 min. Kaite and Beth's room. play.
Kaite: putting on silk long johns and hat and gloves as fast as she can.

fast foward 15 min. U of M Central Campus. Diag. play.
A group of 15 Linderites and friends trollops across the campus en route to Stevens House Party. People paired off in twos talking about something, anything. Clara and Jesse making strange jokes about something gay-male-related. The rest I know not.
Kaite: walking in front of the group. Walking behind the group. Walking mostly fast, sometimes slow. Extreeeeeeeemely stoned. Not paying attention to anyone. Aware that housemates are right near, but would like them to be right gone. Freaking out over and over and over again about the trees on campus. "Ooooooh. Look at the lighthing the way that tree is lighted. And the branches. Ooooh, look at That tree... Oooooh, look at THAT tree!"

fast foward 10 min. Stevens House Party. play.
People everywhere, falling off the front porch like roaches. Indoors: people dancing in living room to Lauryn Hill. Ben is seen. "Hi Ben, how are you?" Students crowd the way to the beer keg, give menacing, dangerous and lustful glances. Who is the girl with the short curly hair? "Where's the keg? Oh, there it is."
Kaite: filling cup. filling Clara's cup.

fast foward 5 min. Stevens House party, backyard. play.
Beth, Kaite, Mark huddle outside.
Kaite: "I'm not a people person. I don't want to be around all these people."
Beth: "Yeah me too. I'm not one for parties."
Mark: "Agreed."

fast foward 15 min. backyard. play.
Josh, Mark, Eric, Beth, Kaite, Rachel, and anonymous male crowd in circle. Josh filling pipe with pot. Josh lighting pipe. Josh passing pipe around.
Josh: coughing. "This is good pot."
Eric: coughing.
Mark: coughing. "This is actually only the second time I've ever smoked. I'm not very good with this stuff."
Beth: passes.
Rachel: "I have this medicine that I take that is supposed to be bad to mix with pot, that's why I haven't smoked since I started taking this medicine. It's for some hormone thing.. Yeah, so I've never actually been stoned before. I guess tonight maybe something will happen, seeing as it will probably react with the medicine."
Kaite: thinking in head: "God, these people do not know how to smoke pot. They're all coughing. They're all novices. What's wrong with these people? God, I hate people. Aren't people my age supposed to know how to smoke pot?"
Anonymous guy: does not cough.

fast foward 5 min. alley behind Steven's house. play.
Kaite: talking out loud to herself, singing Doors songs, walking alone, observing the apartment complexes, expensive cars parked, people in well lit apartment complexes probably paid for by parents, while being cut off from the rest of humanity and probably themselves... >> soon, Kaite is found in front of the house, on the steps listening to Clara and Jesse's strange jokes.
Clara: "Kaite! I think tonight is the night that I'm actually going to get drunk!"
Kaite: "Whoa. Way to go Clara."

fast foward 5 min. Steven's front porch. play.
Kaite: standing alone next to pillar, next to the couches, looking at all the people. What a relief to be at a party full of normal people. Looking around. Glance at guy. Guy silently moves his body from place where Kaite saw him to 1 foot away from Kaite. in head: "Augh, I hate men. Does this look like a meat market to you? Huh? Just because I looked at you doesn't mean I'm interested in you." rolling eyes. Suddenly, a band of six rich-ish, shallow-ish looking people comes up to the house. in head: "What are they doing here? They don't belong here. They look like sorority people." Scratching head. As soon as they go in, they come out, pile onto the sidewalk, and give everyone on the front porch dirty looks.

fast forward. 5 min. Steven's front lawn. play.
Kaite: "I'm gonna go. I've had enough."
Beth: "You're leaving? Can I come with you?"
Mark: joins the group. Triad walks home in relative quiet. Of course, Kaite wasn't particularly paying attention to conversation, mostly just to trees.

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