Hello I Am David!

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[David playing the piano fast]

[humming]

[muttering indistinctly]

No structure, no structure.

[muttering indistinctly]

[ends by playing loudly]

[loud applause]

[melancholic piano music]

[David humming]

I'm David, I'm playing a concert tonight

and the next day. It's my birthday.

65... 65 in a couple of days.

[muttering]

...how things are going out there.

[Gillian] Isn't that a great place

to jump up and down, David?

And all the sunshine coming

through in the afternoon.

[David] That's true. It feels nice

with the sunshine here.

[David continues to mutter]

Trust, trust! Have trust.

I've got an important concert to play now.

[muttering indistinctly]

People come in all shapes and sizes.

Hello, hello, hello, I'm David.

Hello, darling.

There's some tea over there. Can I have

some for my pocket? The chai, the tea.

-Tea, yes?

-For my pocket. Can I? Thank you.

[continues muttering]

D'you want to go and look at

the view a bit more? Come on.

Things are better now.

[muttering]

You want to dance alone?

-No, you can't dance alone.

-Aww, but you can.

Can we dance alone? Can you dance alone?

Well, but don't you need people?

Don't you need each other?

[continues muttering]

[soft piano music playing]

[music changes to orchestra]

[piano becomes louder]

[melodic piece playing]

Gosh, this reminds me...

1997, and...

-remember when we went to Canada?

-The snowstorm, yes.

-Canada? Yeah, of course I do.

-And no, we drove...

we drove from New York up to, uh...

-To Montreal, wasn't it?

-Montreal.

-The roof of the world.

-And remember all the--

Yes, and the taxi driver who didn't

stop talking, who chatted and chatted.

That's right, yes.

So if you'd like to give me your rubbish?

[Gillian exhales loudly]

[Gillian] All the poor people on the bus

have come for a lovely bus tour.

It's an atmospheric sort of a...

Well it's quite atmospheric.

But I wouldn't want to live in it.

Not, me.

I'd rather have-- I'll have sunshine.

Hello, what's your name?

Sophia? Hello. Are you from here?

Oh, good.

-Hello. Who's this?

-Hello.

Aida. Are you from here?

-Yes.

-Oh good.

Tazin? Oh, hello, Tazin!

-What's your name? Victoria?

-Victoria.

Would that be English? Well anyway...

-Oh, it depends I guess.

-That's all right I guess.

David.

Oh, hello, David.

-You from here?

-Yeah, Sweden.

-Oh, good. Sweden?

-Yes.

[applause inside]

[applause continues]

[speaking inaudibly over the applause]

[starts playing a few keys softly]

[speaking inaudibly throughout]

[music softly fading]

[seagulls chirping]

Being an astrologer,

and my astrology colleagues in Sydney,

all knew that someone very important

was going to come into my life.

So each time I came back from a cruise,

they said to me, "Have you met him yet?"

Uhh...

So when I got on the plane to go to--

let's see-- November of '83,

I just knew intuitively that something

momentous was going to happen in my life.

So... because of the

understanding of astrology.

I was able to...

embrace the situation

without fear or trepidation, because...

I knew that the dear planet Jupiter

conjuncting my Sun was bringing

a very important relationship

into my life.

And so when people say how could you

have possibly made this decision.

I just knew it was the right one.

And that is huge blessing in life.

To know with certainty what you're

doing, that is your right path.

[Gillian] It wasn't one that I would

necessarily have chosen,

I mean David had $200, a cane basket

and a worn out radio...

when we decided to live together.

So it wasn't a materialistic

decision at all.

It was at a friend's house.

And he said to me,

"I'm about to introduce you to the most

unforgettable person I've ever met."

And in walked David,

he'd just got out of the swimming pool

so he was dripping...

wet all over the carpet.

He rushed up to me and

gave me a very wet kiss,

and said, "Hello, Gillian,

I'm so pleased to...

[blabbers]

-...you're going to hear me play?"

-[blabbers]

And I said, "Yes, David, I'm going to

come and hear you play."

And so, that night I went to the...

to the wine bar where he was playing...

smoking his cigarettes while he's playing.

Coffee cups around the piano.

But I just heard the

most incredible, passionate

and spontaneous playing.

And then the next morning he came around--

again for swim, and he asked

me to marry him.

So I hadn't even known him 24 hours.

You know, I didn't quite say yes then,

it took...

a little while longer to get around to it.

[Gillian] I knew when I made

the commitment to him,

it had to be for life, it wasn't going

to be a trial run... to see how we got on.

David was very fragile,

when I met him, emotionally.

Not physically-- He's strong as an ox.

Every night, before we

go to sleep, we just say...

how grateful we are...

I think, one of the secrets of life,

is to be grateful.

Because then your heart is open,

and you're expressing gratitude.

And so you're allowing

the beauty of love and life

to flow into you.

I think the world is bit light

on gratitude at the moment and...

uh, the people who don't experience

gratitude are the losers.

[seagulls chirping]

Goodness me, it's 12:20!

And I don't know where David's gone.

You can see him?

Oh I know we ever won't lose him.

He'll always come back.

[soft music playing]

Oh yeah, just the camera recording

this trip. Don't worry about it.

Thank you, darling. Yeah, yeah. Very nice.

Thank you, darling. He's very warm

and friendly and he's very kind.

Time, time, time is money.

All that money. It's your money.

Is that bread?

Oh, it's "Brot, Brot."

Thank you. It's all planned.

What's the plan? Being impatient! Bye bye.

She's very nice.

D'you want me to walk round here?

Keep walking?

[up-tempo music continues playing]

Darling, what have you--

Oh, that's all right, he said yes.

He said yes, he said yes.

He said what?

[muttering]

He said yes. Falki said yes.

I won't even imagine

But it's pulling your jacket.

Well, can I hold it?

It's my panty, isn't it!

Like at the "scareport."

Like the check at the airport.

Giving us a full body search.

-[Gillian] Full body search.

-[Gillian laughing]

They did that to me, didn't they?

Okay.

[Nils] October, 1986.

I came to the concert...

[muttering indistinctly]

And David came outside,

and asked me if I could

give him a cigarette.

-At that time--

-He was still smoking!

He was still smoking. It was very

close to when he stopped actually.

Stopped one month maybe later

when he went back to Australia.

Where he lived then...

He asked me which--

Who I was. I said I was

a pianist. And uh...

He asked me which piano company I played

and I mentioned like four,

five at the starting...

And it turned out-- He said to me,

he played exact same five.

I said to him...

I think that's very strange of me that

a foreign person who'd come from Australia

and we played exactly

the same five concerts.

And later on I learned that it was

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