Calico Skies Page #3

say something to me?

[Man] Chow.

F***ing a**holes.

Hang on a second.

- Hi.

- Hi.

I'm the new guy.

Yeah, close the door,

come on in.

(dramatic music)

(groaning)

(car beeping)

(dramatic music)

(knocking on door)

Rosa, really, wow,

I couldn't be luckier.

What're you doing here?

I almost gave up

seeing you alive.

Well when you give

up on your expectations

amazing things can happen,

you know?

- Look at you.

- Huh, what?

Leave me alone,

what are you trying to,

what do you want me to do?

I don't know, clean

your house for instance.

I don't want to.

Do something fun once

in a while, date someone.

I date somebody new

every week.

- Yeah we all know you do it.

- Huh?

I really don't understand

what you find in women

you have to pay for.

I really don't,

other than a good sweat,

and you can always

go to the gym for that.

But there's only one pore

I'd like to have sweat into,

I mean sweat.

I'm gonna make some tea.

(laughing)

(sighing)

So what now, we just sit

here ignoring each other?

I don't know, what

do you want me to say?

Something, anything,

just let it out already.

F*** you.

Well some elaboration

wouldn't hurt.

If I weren't your sister,

I'd be jealous.

[Phoenix] But you are.

(laughing)

You know Phoen?

Everybody happens to take

a break once in a while,

but a six year break

isn't a break.

Staring, that's your plan.

Come on, come on.

I don't have any plans,

I don't make plans, I

don't have any plans okay?

You know,

I worry for you, Phoen.

Stop it.

You know what

you remind me of?

What?

That ridiculous trophy

on your bookshelf.

You know what I'm talking about.

Who the hell cares

about a second place

you snagged in a ski

race when you were 14.

Goddamn it Phoen you're 40 and

you're living in the desert.

You won thousands

of other rewards.

- No one cares.

- I know.

- If you don't care.

- That's not true.

I'm sure that's the one thing

you dust around here

on a regular basis.

You're making as much sense

as that stupid statuette.

I'm gonna go, okay?

[Phoenix] Okay.

(moaning on computer)

(sighing)

(moaning on computer)

[Man On TV] Long ago,

long before the silly bacon

in everything fad got started

people actually made bacon

at home.

It's not that hard to do

and it can produce some

superior quality bacon.

Making bacon at home isn't

going to save you a lot of money

and it's probably not

gonna make anything

any more healthy than

what you get in the store

but it will be delicious.

(car pulling up)

(doors opening and closing)

(thudding)

(dramatic music)

Since I started working here

every man in this county

has hit on me.

Took two months to see

the color of your eyes.

When I care about

something, I take my time.

About something, or someone?

(dramatic music)

(rock music)

(suspenseful music)

(laid back music)

Almost.

That one was good.

Excuse me what do you mean?

- It was good.

- Yeah.

I threw it all the way over

there next to the target,

- all that way.

- You made it there.

I mean, I just...

What, you think

I should keep practicing?

I think maybe you do.

Well I'll show you.

- Darn I gotta keep practicing.

- Let's go, let's quit.

(laughing)

Yeah.

(laughing)

You know, today made me

think of a good story.

You want to hear it?

Okay, so a truck driver

turns on the radio

and he hears the news of

an 18 wheeler speeding

the wrong way

on the same freeway he's on.

Well it's amazing what

crazy does he thinks.

Okay so as he's driving

he suddenly has to swivel

to the right

to avoid a truck and

then quickly steers left

to avoid another one, and

once more to the right

and left, right, left,

right, left, left.

So he turns the radio off

and he grumps,

"The hell just one,

there are hundreds."

(laughing)

I got it, that's a hard one.

It's a hard one,

it's so funny.

Well you know, sometimes I

feel like that driver too.

[Phoenix] Ariel.

Yeah?

(distant arguing)

Hey Danny, hey,

what're you doing?

Hi, hi.

Huh, how're you doing?

Hey, you know when I was

a little boy like you

I'd come up here every

summer with my parents

and spend the summer with them.

Yeah, every summer, yeah.

Oh, you see that bush over

there, right over there.

You know when you sit over

there the wind makes this noise

where the only thing you

can hear is the desert.

It's really cool.

[Luigi] What can I say,

I feel like I'm in a cage.

Have I ever told you

not to do something ever?

It's my secret spot,

it was my secret spot.

- Hi Phoenix.

- Oh, hey Charlotte.

What's up, you okay?

Yeah, I'm just, you know.

I gotta,

you know what Charlotte

actually, I'm not okay.

I haven't been okay

for a long time,

I'm not okay at all.

You know what Luigi,

it's none of my business

but you made it my business

when you f***ed up

my nice walk home.

Now here's what I think,

here's my suggestion,

you have to stop whining,

crying and blaming others

for what you are frightened

to do, you have to stop.

Do you understand?

Or you're just gonna disappear,

trust me.

Oh Danny by the way, you're

not intolerant to sh*t.

It's something

some doctor told her.

(wind blowing)

Come on.

Hey wait, hey,

what're you doing?

Delivering your mail, sir.

- Okay, what about Ariel?

- Who?

What do you mean? Who?

Ariel, what about Ariel?

I'm asking you a question,

what about Ariel, Ariel!

What?

(wind blowing)

(crying)

Doing this to me?

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Innocence, connivance,

complicity, sunbathing in the shadow.

Nomad on the river, let it be,

stay focused, stay focused.

Biologic, technologic

organic, artificial, gold.

Poetry, no results, no results.

(knocking on door)

(groaning)

Hey.

Hey.

Wow.

- Did I wake you?

- No, I mean no.

I've thought about it.

I thought about it, you know?

About what?

I think we should just leave.

You know,

life doesn't last forever

and we're not exactly teenagers.

I think here the water

is too shallow.

Ducks don't float.

F*** it, we should just go.

(laughing)

I know I sound like I'm crazy.

(laughing)

I know it sounds f***ing crazy,

you barely know who I am.

Your name is Phoenix,

Phoenix Anderton,

you're 43 years old, you

have a passion for espresso

and practically an obsession

I would say for Alka-Seltzer.

You,

play the guitar, but from

what I can hear outside

you don't tune it that much.

And you check the mail a lot,

especially the second

Wednesday of every month.

Why, I have yet to figure out.

And you,

well you,

when you touch yourself,

you use the internet like

everybody else, but at the very end

you just gaze off

into the distance.

It's something

that I find very sweet.

(laughing)

Wow.

I mean yeah you do it in

the middle of the living room.

I happened to be

standing outside once.

Once?

Once or twice.

[Phoenix]

Well, you're full of sh*t.

Four times.

(laughing)

When you end up delivering

mail to a village

of 300 souls the day is long.

I was the most talented,

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