[Hilarie and Nicholas in restaurant]
Hilarie Burton: Hi guys! Hilarie, hanging out here with Nick. Kelly operating the camera. Wave Kelly. Can you wave? Can you put your hand in front of the camera? [Kelly waves hand in front of camera] Oh, look, there he is! [laughs] We are hanging out in the balcony of the Phoenix Café, having our weekend meeting, over French toast, and… [looks at Nick] what did you have?
Nicholas Gray: I had eggs benedict.
HB: Gorgeous. There is a flautist playing, which makes everything feel really surreal, and beautiful.
NG: And it’s an amazing word, flautist.
HB: Yeah, flautist. You feel like a unicorn is gonna come trolloping out here soon.
NB: Well, there’s like a dragon right there.
HB: There is a dragon. You can’t see the dragon, just us. Also have some wonderful artwork… [motions to painting behind them] I don’t know if you guys recognize big Edie from Grey Gardens. The quote on this picture: “I’m going to get naked in just a minute, so you better watch out!” God, it’s like they eavesdrop on me, you know! I’m gonna get naked in a second! Watch out! Um, Nick has a selection that he is going to share with us today for our book club.
NG: Yeah, chapter next in the SoGoPro book club. I actually brought a play today, which I know isn’t really a book. Some people don’t like to read plays, but I love to read plays!
HB: Plays are meant to be read out loud.
NG: I think so. And I do. When I’m alone I read all the characters.
HB: I would love to watch that.
NG: This is called ‘The Pillowman’ by Martin McDonagh. He’s a really awesome Irish playwright. [speaking in an accent] Maybe we should speak in Irish accents or something.
HB: I’m not good at that.
NG: And this story, I saw it on Broadway with Billy Crudup and Jeff Goldblum which was amazing. It’s about this author named Katruian Katurian Katurian, which is pretty Nabokovian, I guess.
HB: Beautiful.
NG: And he writes these children’s stories about… that are just really grisly and gruesome, and they start coming to life! So this is one of the… this is the beginning of a little story that he’s reading. [reading from ‘The Pillowman’] “Once upon a time, in a land not so very far away, there lived a little girl. And although this little girl’s gentle parents hadn’t brought her up very religiously at all, she was quite, quite determined that she is the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
HB: Amen.
NG: “Which was somewhat strange for a little six-year-old. She would wear a beard, and would go around in sandals blessing stuff. She could be forever found walking amongst the poor and the homeless, consoling the drugs and the drug addicts, and generally consorting with the type of person her mommy and daddy didn’t seem suitable for a six-year-old to be consorting with. Each time they would drag her home from some unsavory sort, she would stamp, and scream, and throw her dollies about. And when her parents would counter that…”
HB:[also reading from text] “Jesus never stamped and screamed and threw his dollies about!”
NG: “She would reply, ‘That was the old Jesus, get it?’ Well one day, the little girl slipped away yet again, and for two horrifying days her parent’s could find neither hide nor hair of her. Until they received a distraught call from a priest they didn’t know saying, ‘You better come down to the church. You’re daughter’s here giving us a lot of shit. It was cute at first but now it’s getting really irritating.’ Well, her parents didn’t care about that at all. They were just relieved to know she was alive and well. And they sped downtown to pick her up. But in their haste, they careened into an oncoming meat truck, were beheaded, and died.’” So that’s just the beginning of that little tale, and…
HB: I hate it when the parents get beheaded!
NG: I know.
HB: They always have such good intentions!
NG: They do, they do. And that story continues, so you’ll have to get it to find out. I suggest you do.
HB: Go pick it up, guys.
NG: “The Pillowman”
HB: “The Pillowman.” Until next time, this has been SoGoPro’s book club.
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