August Page #3

What do you actually do, Tom?

Excuse me?

You, Landshark,

what do you do?

David!

I'm serious. I was there last Friday.

Where was I?

How would I know

where was I?

I dropped something

off for Joshua and...

you know what I saw?

You know what I saw?

Oreos. You know me,

Tom, I see it, I say it.

What I saw was a whole bunch of kids,

bright young kids, they're

all just sitting around.

When they got

tired of sitting,

which was more

often than not,

they'd get up, go to the

kitchen and eat some Oreos.

Then they'd go back to their

desk, a cute little desk from Ikea.

Am I correct? And they'd play

solitaire on their computers.

Now you correct

me if I'm wrong.

It's a long day,

I give you that.

Ten in the morning

till ten at night,

seven days

a week, but...

why the hell would somebody

give you a million dollars

just to watch you sit

around and eat some Oreos?

Dad, add some zeroes.

Add two zeroes and that's

what we're talking about.

Just because you take your

failure and call it success

doesn't mean you can take my

success and call it failure.

Tom!

I'm not finished yet.

Tom, I do not Like

where this is going!

I was saying something

and I wasn't finished.

Do you want to hear

what I have to say?

Do you want to f***ing

hear what I have to say?

He just does

not get it!

What did you want? You

wanted to change the world!

Stop the war! Poetry must

be made by all! Right?

I've seen

the bookshelves!

I grew up with them! Cinderblocks

and five copies of Soul oNice.

You wanted to change the world,

and what did you settle for? Tenure?

You wanted to

change the world?

Well, we're changing it. Tiananmen

Square? That was the fax machine.

Think what we'll have

now that we have the Web.

Your guy,

what's his name?

The guy you did

the seminar on?

McLuhan? Global

Village, right?

Well, we're out there

making it every day

while you puff up, all smug

and proud and self-satisfied!

And then it's like go tell the

maid to go dust the Goddard posters.

I'm leaving now.

No Mom,

I'm leaving.

Hi.

Hi.

You look, um,

vaguely familiar,

have we met before?

I don't think so.

Don't, Tom.

I've gotta work.

When do you

get out of here?

You mind if I wait?

It's a free country.

Maybe we can get a bit to

eat when you're finished.

I'm broke.

I'll take a number

five and a number eight,

and he'll have...

Let me take you

someplace nice.

a number 11. Wasn't that

the one you used to get?

The babaganush, right?

Just this once.

Yeah, he'll take number

Thank you.

So, how are you?

How have you been?

Good, yeah.

Everything's good.

Um, work is good. Landshark

is doing great, so...

Work great, how's

everything else?

Is there

something else?

How are

your parents?

How about you?

How was Barcelona?

Oh, it... it was amazing.

Incredible. I mean,

the people and the culture, the

architecture, it was just... fantastic.

And the program

was really great, too.

And I got to stay on to the

end of July as an apprentice.

Sarah, what

happened with us?

Come on,

Tom. Don't.

I was, um, working for

this firm that was designing

like this massive

public housing project.

But with these really

beautiful structures,

and, um,

and they were incorporating all of

these sustainable design concepts...

Stop it, Tom.

Stop what?

You're doing

that thing.

What thing?

You know what

you're doing.

So, thank

you for dinner.

It was, um,

it's good

to see you.

It's good to

see you too.

I missed you.

Tom.

Sarah.

Sarah.

What is this?

It's nice to see you, thank

you for a lovely evening?

Is that really

what this is?

I can't.

Okay.

It's just that...

it's okay.

I get it.

I'm okay.

Hey man.

Hey!

What's up?

Whatchall looking at?

What's so funny?

We're studying

our screen saver.

It's really interesting.

I like the logo.

Oh yeah.

Yeah, f*** y'all.

F*** Company? You guys are

wasting your time on F*** Company?

You're wasting

Your company time...

They have this countdown.

Our capitalization,

our outflows. Burn rate.

How many days till it all runs out.

Yeah? What

do they say?

Three weeks.

F*** that noise. Come

on, get back to work.

Get back to work, come

on, come on, come on!

Ooh.

Car's here, Tom.

Car?

Car to the Center.

Car as in town car.

He forgot. I betcha he forgot.

Forgot what?

The e-Symposium?

That's next week.

This is next week.

And I'm gonna

assume, Tom,

that the reason

you look like sh*t

is because you were up all

night working on your speech.

Come on.

In 1997, Landshark

was two brothers and a dirty

old office down In the Bowery.

Today, hundreds of

employees In eight cities...

Don't forget

to mention me.

Us. You won't f*** 'em now, will you?

Now, they're

stock's a little bit down,

but they're not. While other

companies are laying people off,

they're actually hiring. You know

the man I'm about to Introduce.

Mr. Tom Sterling.

Yeah, Tom,

go get them!

Thank you, Jason.

I mean it.

Really.

It's great to be here.

We get invited to these things

all the time but we never go.

But... this one is special.

Because of you. Because of

Jason.

Because of the free shrimp.

Shrimp. Pigs

in a blanket.

Those tiny little caviar

things on little crackers.

But you didn't come to

hear me talk about snacks.

You came because...

we are at the forefront of a revolution.

A revolution In technology

but also a revolution...

You probably know

what I was gonna say,

so f*** that sh*t.

What I mean is,

If I say what you already

know what I'm gonna say,

then it's like the hamster scurries

and scurries and the wheel spins and,

at the end of the day, we're

all still in the cage, right?

So,

instead of that

prepared sh*t,

I'm just gonna tell

you what's in my heart.

You know what the problem is with the...

with, I don't even know what

to call it, with "our thing?"

The problem is, w-

what are we doing?

Are we making the world

a less sucky place?

Or more sucky? How are we

everyday Impacting the suckage?

My mom and dad

were right.

It pains me to say it but

they were right when they said

that those who make half a

revolution only dig their own grave.

Is that what we're making

here? Half a revolution?

What the Net is

supposed to do,

what new broadband

is supposed to do,

what digital whatever is supposed

to do is increase freedom!

Is increase choice!

But what are we offering

in the way of choice?

AOL or EarthLink?

Gates or Ellison?

Miller Light

or Coors?

Gore or Bush?

B2B or not B2B?

We make money.

Tons of it.

We help big greedy

advertising agencies

sell the useless products

of massive morally corrupt

multinational corporations.

We advise them on how

to aggregate eyeballs,

Have you ever seen the

beginning of Chien Andalou?

You know, with the eyeball

and the straight razor?

'Cause pretty much

that's what we do.

F*** you, Tom.

Okay, okay, f*** me. F*** me.

But what I'm telling you is

the truth, and you know it.

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