All language subtitles for Morgke 1989

(relaxing music)

- You always need
to wax for traction,

make sure you got
plenty stability.

Stability for it.

You don't need to wax the tip,

like they used to
do in the old days,

these boards are to short
to stand on the tip.

It always seems like there's
three kinds of surfers.

You have the guy who's a local,

who kind of controls how
everybody thinks about him,

so he doesn't really
care what people think,

cause he already knows
what they're thinking.

And then you got the poser,

who constantly worries about
what people think of him,

cause that's why he is a poser,

he tries to change how
people think about him.

And then just have guys like me,

who just kind of don't care,

kind of stuck in between.

My name's Morgan and
my mom picked my name,

from a movie called Morgan.

It's a pretty good movie.

Kind a wish life was
kinda like that movie,

just unserious and funny.

(relaxing music)

- Morgan.

- Yeah?

- I got a letter from your
mother, she said to say hi.

- Oh alright man.

- [Voiceover] Got a
burger, no onions Bobby.

- [Bobby] Alright.

- Hey Dad, I'm going surfin'.

- [Dad] Surfing?

- [Morgan] Yeah.

- Did you clean your room up?

- [Morgan] Ah no.

- [Dad] You didn't
clean your room?

Did you lock up?

Look you gotta, you know,

people want out like
having a good time,

all the time, I want
you to make some money,

you got rent due, 50 bucks
by the end of this week.

Think about that.

- [Morgan] I think, I'll get
it to you, I'll get it to you.

- [Dad] Ok.

- Alright.

- [Dad] Alright see you later.

(whir)

- No kiddin' man.

- Why don't we go to the
beach one of these days,

you know take our.

- Take our turn right.

I'd just like to
see him get a job,

you know make a
little more money.

- [Carol] How old is he anyway?

- He's gonna be 18
in about a week.

- [Carol] Really?

- Yeah.

- [Carol] Big kid.

- Big kid, and he drinks a
lot of milk too, I tell ya.

I tell ya a gallon a day.

- [Leon] What's the
surf like today Morg?

- [Morgan] I'll know soon as
I, it's gonna be pretty good.

- [Leon] Where are we going?

- [Morgan] I don't know, I just,

I just heard of
this little spot,

I hope the surfs, I hope
the surf is like you know,

gonna be pretty big.

- [Leon] Yeah, I'm pretty
psyched I just hope,

it's not to cold.

- [Morgan] Rach,
it's gonna be good.

- [Rachel] Better be.

- [Morgan] Man remember when
we used to catch lizards,

up at camp on the rocks,
baking themselves in the sun.

- [Rachel] I wish we could
be here before any kind of,

civilization, maybe
there was surf back then.

- [Morgan] All the
indians were here.

- [Voiceover] Not much surf huh?

- Hey look, what are you
doin' with that thing?

- [Voiceover] Making
a movie of myself.

- What?

- I like to fool around
with camera's and stuff,

I like to shoot things.

What are you guys
doing out here?

- What do you think?

- Not surfing.

- How come you have
that thing on a stick?

- I don't know, it
lets me take a picture,

of the top of my head,
and of me walking around.

Here, see you can hold it,

and photograph down on yourself.

In fact I have to go.

Here, hang onto this.

Just bring it by
my house on Friday,

when you're done with it,

we'll take a look at it.

Address is on the stick.

- [Morgan] On the stick?

- Yeah have fun.

- How do you know
we'll bring it back?

- If you don't, I'll shoot you.

- What?

Hey wait, where on the stick?

42 Crest.

Hey, what, what city is it in?

What city?

(relaxing music)

- I had this kinda weird dream,

it was about um, about
me being pregnant.

(laughing)

I thought I was pregnant
and, and I was gonna um,

have a boy and a girl, and
that they were inside in my,

inside my, um testicles.

(laughing)

And that, it's kind
of a weird dream but,

and they started
to grow and grow,

and I couldn't even get
out of bed to go to school,

and it was almost
like elephantitis,

and I felt like I had
to carry them with like,

little hang down backpacks.

(laughing)

And, and finally right, before
they were gonna be born,

and it would like relieve
all the pain and pressure,

I woke up and what was
strange is that they hurt,

for a couple days.

Isn't that weird?

- Yeah.

- Couldn't believe it .

(laughing)

It's kinda funny huh?

You know um, right up here
on this very hill about 1903,

this guy named Bott's he was
one of the first attempts,

at a, at a logical flying
machine, and he would have,

beat the Wright brothers.

But a really strong storm
blew his plane over.

But I mean you can go even
further back than that,

when there used to be indians
all over this whole area,

speaking a 1000
different dialects,

just within this bay area.

- [Rachel] How come
you're so interested

in all this old stuff,
about everything?

- [Morgan] It just seems
like by reading about it,

you kind of make
space in your mind.

(wind blowing)

I think, I think what
really brought me,

and Rachel together was
spending a lot of time with um,

with her just communicating
while she had her tonsils out,

for two weeks she was at
home and couldn't talk,

so we had to communicate with
her writing and me talking,

and I think it kind of
developed a, developed us,

a keen sense of um, keen sense
of feeling for one another,

rather than just, you
know, just verbal,

verbal conversation.

We kind of sensed
each other more.

And what I really
noticed was that um,

Rachel, Rachel's a really
sweet, a really sweet person,

and I was attracted
by that, by that, I,

just a really sweet part of her,

I was attracted by that,

and just being, being, spending
more and more time with her,

I got closer and closer to her.

I think one of the, one
of the things that really,

I appreciate about her is
um, her eyes are really,

like really big baby,
baby brown eyes.

Everybody says baby blue eyes,
but I like baby brown eyes.

And they're just, they have
a lot of character to them,

even though a lot of
people like blue eyes,

I like brown eyes.

I think they have a lot
of character to them.

Besides the fact she has her,
she has a really nice body,

and she's um, she's
got a cute smile.

Um, I haven't, I haven't
really had the feeling, that.

I haven't really had the
feeling that I met Rach, Rachel,

in a past life or anything,
but I kinda feel like,

I kind of feel like that, that
I could deal with her in a,

in a future life, such
as, you know having kids,

and getting married and
possibly dealing with,

something like that.

I think that um, I think that
she really is able to um,

to develop that way.

- [Dad] Hey, I thought I
told you to put that ah,

I thought I told you
to bring that back?

- I am don't worry about it,

I'm gonna bring
it back on Friday.

- [Dad] Well hey I don't
want it broken or anything,

cause I don't want to pay.

- Don't worry it's
not gonna get broken,

I promise.

I mean I'm just gonna
bring it back on Friday.

Hey what are you draw,
oh that's a nice drawing.

- Oh thank's, you know
this is a test I took,

when I was about your age.

Here which of these three
images and there's six of 'em,

do you think go together?

Do you see that?

- [Morgan] That looks like
the oil can and the wrench,

and the jeep go together.

- [Dad] Well that's where
you're ah that would get you,

right into the US Army buddy.

Cause that's the
test I took then.

- That intelligence test.

- That's the intelligence
test that'll get you right

in there pal.

- To distinguish between a
jeep, a wrench and a chicken?

- Yeah.

- What's the oil for?

- You'll probably end up in the
motor pool working on jeeps,

you won't be flying those
jet engines like Top Gun

or any of that stuff
in this man's army.

- Top Gun?

What, oh yeah that movie.

- That movie.

- Oh that came out about
three years ago now.

- Yeah.

- That's pretty interesting.

- I'm doing a series on these,

I'm remembering all those times
because it's coming close.

- Yeah so Dad, I mean, did you
ever do that kind of stuff,

I mean.

- Well I had to go for my
physical examination, you know,

like you're going to
have to go register

for the draft right?

- Yeah that's true.

- And then sooner or later,
they're gonna use you right?

To serve in the military and
you gotta go for your physical.

Now me I avoided that
as long as possible.

- How'd you.

- Well first I was a student.

- Yeah.

- And that's why I want you to
study and get into a college,

or something see you get into.

- Well I mean that's
what I'm gonna do,

I mean that's what
I plan just to make,

get some money and then go to
school after I get some money.

- Ok but if you're not
in school right away see,

they're gonna get ya.

And you don't answer the
questions like this when you go.

If you wanna stay, you
gotta make a decision,

whether you wanna go in, now
sure basic training is good,

for anybody but to go
around know how to kill,

and go get killed and go
and fight in wars where they

just blow whole cities up
in no time at all, you know.

I wouldn't wanna be on a ship
and they send a missile over,

and they just blow you
up, that's not fighting.

You know that's what
today's army's all about.

- Well I mean the only
way I feel about it,

is if somebody came
knocking on my door,

ready to blow me away, maybe
then I might fight back but,

other than that I don't feel
like being sent off to some

little country for something
that I don't even believe in.

- That's for sure, ok well
now we gotta work on this.

We gotta work on getting
you outta here, ok?

Conscientious objectors, that's
fine but if there's a war,

they're gonna put you right
up in the front line anyway.

Flying down a helicopter picking
up all the butchered parts.

- So I mean, how'd
you get out of it?

- Well like I said, for six
years I went through two S,

I got the student, and
I even got married,

I got married a year
and a half before

I wanted to get
married, and then

they took married
guys anyway, so.

- They were taking
married people?

- Yeah they take
married guys too.

In a real state of emergency,

they don't care if you
have children or anything.

They just take ya.

So you gotta go and
prepare yourself,

you gotta say to yourself,

I'm not going to be
involved with any government

projects for the
rest of my life,

that's the only way you're
gonna get out of it.

No military, no
government projects,

and then they don't care
if you're an individual,

you can be a crazy man,
that's how you get out.

- What do you mean, a crazy man?

- Well you get a doctor
to say you're crazy.

- Well how'd, I mean
is that what you did?

- Yeah, i got a letter,
I got a two page letter.

- Two pages about.

- Yeah and it only took 35
dollars and one half hour

for this guy to write a letter.

Course I was doing drama you
know art school and everything,

So I knew how to act you know,

it was a little bit
like street theater.

- Well, what type
of street theater?

I mean what were you doing?

- Well let's say
you come in to the,

you go into the doctor's office,

and you look as
crazy as you can ok?

Well you gotta wear two
different kinds of socks,

not a pair, two different kinds,

two different kinds of
shoes then that really

throws them off.

And those mad dress bermuda's
got no holes in the pockets,

so if you put anything in it
they fall right down your leg,

and it also have a slit
right up your rear end,

and it's gotta be ripped opened.

And you go into the army
induction place like that.

Now I'm going for my physical
but before I go in my physical

I have my letter
from my psychiatrist,

I've got this dress going on,

I take LSD three days straight,

I don't wash, I don't
shave, I don't sleep.

I eat turkey and beans.

And then when you
get on the bus,

you become the first
guy on the bus right?

And then everybody
who comes on the bus,

they smell you, they do,
they can smell your sweat,

they can smell your farting,

and you let them smell you,

and then you be friendly,
you say here take my seat.

You know they didn't want
to sit down where I was,

and then you get up and you
give the seat away anyway,

and you walk off the bus,

and you're the first
one off the bus

and the first one into the room.

To start taking your tests.

Now there was nobody else
in this room except me

and this sargent, and I said

'Could I help you
do something sarg?'

and he says 'Sure you can
hand out pencils and paper,

to each of the desks.'

And so I did that, and all
the other guys came in,

and he handed out the
test booklets to them,

and he's looking at
his clock you know,

and he says 'Ok we're
gonna begin now,

does everybody
have their things?'

And then half the
room raises their hand

and says 'I don't
have any pencils'

and the other half says
'I don't have any paper.'

And he's looking at me right?

And I says, I
stood up and I said

'You told me to put a
pencil on each desk,

and a paper on the other.'

He says 'No a pencil
and paper on each desk.'

You know, so you
screw everything up,

you try and help and
you screw things up,

this is what you do.

Now when I got down
to the taking blood,

I told them I didn't want
anybody taking my blood,

and I marked down
on a piece of paper,

that I wouldn't, that I
had all these terrible

experience about you know,
when I had my polio shots

I cringed up so bad that the
needle snapped off in my arm,

and they had to pull
it out with pliers,

and I would have fainting
spells and everything,

but they said 'No, no, no
you gotta take your blood.'

So I waited til everybody
had their blood taken,

and I'm approaching the thing,
now you're in your underwear,

and of course you put brown
stains in your underwear,

this is you know.

And you walk there,
and you walk down there

like nothings happening,

and everybody does want you
in the back of the line,

they don't you
standing next to ya.

They want you down there,
walking down there.

So I get up to the iron,
there's this iron screen

that they have you know, it'a
s white iron thing on wheels,

and it's got a curtain
and there's a little
table there with

all little bottles of blood
and a guy in a lab coat,

he's taking the blood.

So I said 'please don't,
don't put a needle in me,

I don't like needles in me.'

And he like sticks it in
me and I faint, you know,

and I do this dramatic faint
where I knock over the thing,

the big iron thing and it
crashes down on the table,

and knocks over all the
test tubes, all the blood,

and everything and they had
to bring back everybody.

When I woke up I was on a cot,

when I woke up all the
guys were up again,

standing in line in their
underwear gonna get their blood

taken all again.

I said 'so you're not
being friendly', see,

so then you go down to
the next department,

and all the time the guy in
the lab coats checking off

things on my envelope, you know,

he's like checking things off,

he says 'oh I see
here you wrote down,

that you bleed from
inside your penis,

and outside your penis,
and all your holes,

you bleed from, you got
it checked off that.

where do you bleed from?'

I said 'I bleed from
all these places.'

And then he says 'well
what's this you bleed blood,

from the inside of your
penis or the outside?'

I said 'well i don't
know which part you know,

cause some of it seems
to be friction burns.'

Yeah you gotta tell this stuff.

So anyway by this
time they got me,

the psychiatrist, I
know the guys name,

his name was Captain
Silver and I went in there,

and I go 'hey laddie,
hey laddie', you know,

Captain Silver remember
that Treasure Island?

Now he's going to
open the letter up,

and it said, it said something
about me being a paranoid

schizophrenic it also said
I couldn't take any orders

from anybody, I hated
authority figures and also,

I lived in an ivory tower,
and this was the best part,

incapable, I was
incapable of love.

You know, cause if you
can't love your mother,

your wife, your family,

your country, you can't
be killing people either.

You understand?

So, I tell ya you kinda get out.

And then at the end they had me,

you know spread your
cheeks, you know.

They did, they said 'bend
over, grab your ankles,

and spread your
cheeks' you know so.

The guy's looking, he's got
rubber gloves or something,

he's looking down there he
says 'what's that?' and I says

'well what?' and he looks
down at it and I said

'well that's peanut butter'
and I took my finger

and went down there, and
I say 'you want some?

It's great hot' you know.

So, like after all this, you
know the letter, the thing,

I said I was a junkie,
I said I was a homo,

I said everything
to get out of it,

you know what they found out?

- [Morgan] What?

- They found out
that I had flat feet,

and they didn't want me anyway.

(laughing)

Anyway so that's why you
know, like in this test,

I put down these three
things go together,

the chicken, the light
bulb, and the rubber band

and I say 'everybody knows you
need a rubber band to tie up

the chicken's leg when you
screw the light bulb in,

they all go together.'

So if you want to get
out bad enough you can.

That's a little advice for you.

(bang)

- [Voiceover] How's
it going there?

Got a washer, dryer
combo for ya huh?

- [Voiceover] A washer,
dryer and a refrigerator.

- [Voiceover] Ah well
your refrigerator.

(bang)

- [Voiceover] Thank you and
there better be a refrigerator

up there.

(bang)

- [Morgan] Alright
take her down.

(bang)

- [Voiceover] Right over here.

Set it down.

Set it up so it's standing,

we got a rug here in the
way we need to pick it up.

Ready?

- [Morgan] Ready, go.

- [Voiceover] Turn it towards
the door, there you go,

set it down.

Wrong door, there you go.

- [Morgan] Could I
get your signature.

- [Voiceover] Uh
huh, when I called up

and asked for delivery
I gave them both items,

and they were both
set up for Willcall.

Yeah and?

Well what do I do now?

Ah, over a week ago,

it was before the
fourth of July weekend.

- [Morgan] Yeah they shouldn't
do that to you, you know.

We just work for the
driving company so.

- [Voiceover] Alright, I
want that refrigerator,

when am I going to get it?

How bout Tuesday?

Patience is a virtue.

Yes?

(screeching)

(banging)

- Well basically water, why
did I ever get involved in it,

basically it's a lot of water.

Ah water, sky, shadows,
lots of shadows,

and it's huge.

Well it's huge for me anyway.

- And the shadows are across
the top or underneath?

- They're all over.

It's got um, it's
called pool reflection

and it has pieces of
a pool plus the sky,

plus the reflection.

- Oh god.

- This is nice by the way.

- Well thanks.

Trying to learn
more about myself.

- Ah huh.

- But an excuse, an excuse to
solve another problem I guess.

- I gave, talking about problems
I gave Morgan your message.

And he almost didn't respond.

- Well, I should
probably talk to him.

- I think you should.

- I don't know, I've
been so busy I, I ah.

- Well you know if you don't
see him now it's gonna be

much harder when you move.

- Yeah I keep thinking well
I still have some more time

and yeah I don't
really feel like it,

I guess I'm still mad or I
don't know working things out.

- Well I just think
you should talk to him.

I'm concerned about him,
I'm concerned about him.

- Well I just don't know.

(whir)

- [Leon] Morg, look at this.

'the Canadian Mounted Police
do in Canada what's done here,

by the FBI, the secret
service, the border patrol,

the highway patrol, the
local police and even part

of the CIA'.

Wow, CIA too.

'A panel of doctors
recently decreed,

that more than half
of the 20 million plus

hysterectomies in the
1970's were unjustified'.

Man 20 million plus
hysterectomies, that
should be illegal.

Why, look at this Morg,

'why it's against the
law to make a pastry

reproduction of the White
House, I do not know

but that's reported as a fact'.

I wonder why is that.

Or look 'mallard
ducks commit rape'.

What's up Dad?

- [Leon's Dad] Hey,
what' going on?

Where'd you get that?

Is that a birthday
present or something?

Fancy.

- No, it', a friend of mine,

well actually not
a friend of mine

this guy I saw walking
down the beach,

was just like fiddling
with this stick here,

he had it up on
the top like that,

and I just asked him
hey what are you doing?

And he said nothing
just filming,

and then all of a
sudden he had to leave

and he goes here, here,
here is my camera,

I gotta go, I gotta go.

- [Leon] And he just walked
away and left it with Morgan.

- Trusting fella.

Well when I was draft age,
nobody considered dodging,

excuse me, nobody considered
trying to avoid registering,

what they were trying
to avoid was the draft.

And what I did then was refused
to sign the loyalty oath,

they had several court cases
at that time that said,

if you fail to sign the
oath that was their problem

not yours, so that's what I did,

and then I went out of my
way to look publicly red.

Peace demonstrations and
other kind of thing I could.

And eventually they decided
they didn't want me,

took 'em about a year but
I wasn't at all sorry.

- Nick.

- What's up Morg,
what are you doing?

- Leon I don't think
we should do this.

- Why not we're going to
make five bucks an hour.

- No I don't feel like doing it.

- This guy Nick's really cool
too, he's a forward thinker,

anything you need he's
got it in his garage.

Five bucks Morg, no taxes.

Nick are you back there?

Nick.

Nick are you back there?

- Yeah I'm over here boys.

Hey how you doing?

- Alright, are you alright?

- Yeah I'm alright I just.

- Are we gonna work?

- Yeah we're gonna be
chopping some fennel today.

- Oh, I brought my friend
Morgan is that alright?

- That's fine.

- Then I'll go get the tools.

- [Nick] Ok Leon you know
where they are in the shop.

- Yeah.

- [Nick] Ok.

(creaking)

Hi Morgan, Nick's my name.

- [Morgan] Nice to meet you.

- Yeah nice to meet you.

- [Morgan] Some clippers here.

- [Leon] Yeah.

- [Morgan] Man check
out that grenade.

- [Leon] Yeah wonder if we'll
need this for the trimming.

- [Morgan] Yep that
grenade will, that'll work.

- [Nick] You guys
about ready for lunch?

Huh?

You guys ready for
some beverages?

- [Morgan] What's that?

- [Nick] Well this is a
little ginseng cocktail

I thought you might
like with royal jelly.

- [Morgan] Is it cold?

- [Nick] It's not cold,
it's usually drunk

at room temperature.

- It looks like old heroin
bottles or something.

- [Nick] Well this
keeps it fresh you know.

- [Leon] These are
cute little straws.

- [Nick] Yeah, here we go.

Leon.

- [Leon] Thanks, royal jelly.

- [Nick] It's good
for what ail's ya.

- [Leon] Well Morgan's
been thinking about whether

or not to register.

- [Morgan] Leon man hey,
that's not, I mean that's not

everybody's business.

- Man come on.

- What's the beef you guys?

- I mean I don't have
nothing against Nick,

but I mean it's just like,
I don't think that everybody

should, I mean, it's not, they
don't have to worry about me.

I just feel like the registering
just starts dragging you in

that's just the first given
to the whole system of people

getting killed when they
don't even know what it's for.

- [Nick] You could end
up down in Nicaragua.

- I don't want to end up
killing some little kid

or get my nuts blown
off in Nicaragua.

- [Leon] Morg, do you
want to go to college?

- Of course, I mean everybody
wants to go to college.

- [Leon] Well you can't get
financial aid if you don't

register for the draft.

- I mean that, that's
part of the problem.

I mean that's what
inhibits a lot of people,

that's what's, I mean
partly inhibits me.

That's what I'm thinking about,

that's what's pressuring me.

- [Leon] Well, I'm gonna
have to be going now,

I gotta cut.

- [Nick] Ok.

- [Morgan] Alright then Lee.

- [Leon] Alright
take it easy Morg.

- [Morgan] Good
working with you today.

- [Nick] Thanks for your help.

- [Leon] No problem.

- [Nick] We'll
settle up later ok?

- [Leon] Yeah no problem.

Next Friday?

- [Nick] Yeah fine we
could use the work.

- [Leon] Alright see you.

- [Nick] Ok look forward to it.

- Rachel have you ever
heart the expression

'having your cake
and eating it to'?

- Do you mean 'you
can't have your cake

and eat it to'?

- Yeah that's
right, that's right.

- Yeah everyone's heard that.

- Um I mean, if you're
wondering why I'm asking you,

the reason why is cause
if you have your cake

why can't you eat it?

Why can't you eat your cake?

Why can't you eat it?

- You can.

- When are you going
to stop doing that?

- [Morgan] Doing what?

- [Rachel] Stop it I hate it
when, you've been doing that

all this time.

(relaxing music)

- [Rachel] What is that?

- [Morgan] I don't know,
it's just a letter.

What is this?

What the hell is this?

- [Rachel] What are
they talking about?

- [Morgan] 'Dear Morgan it
is my privilege to inform you

that you've been drafted
into the United States Army

for the purpose of defending
our shores in South America

and Iran against the red menace.

Congratulations.

The President of
the United States.'

(whirring)

- Mom needs the blow dryer.

Mom needs the blow dryer.

- What?

- Mom needs the blow dryer!

- Oh alright.

Just wait a second
I'm almost done.

- She needs it now.

- Now?

- Now.

- I was almost done, oh well.

- She needs it, thank you.

- [Rachel's Dad] How
you doing Morgan?

- [Morgan] I'm ok.

- [Rachel's Dad] That's good.

Alright, you know
this reminds me of

when you go down to
L.A. and by Coalinga

there's this huge feed lot.

The smell is about a mile
or two before you get to it,

but they've got 1000's and
1000's of beef out there.

- [Morgan] Big beef huh?

- [Rachel's Dad] Big beef.

Cholesterol city by the highway.

- [Morgan] Those look good.

- [Rachel's Dad] Indeed they do.

(babbling water)

- I got an announcement.

Rachel's gonna move in.

(sarcastic laughing)

- You are?

- I don't think so.

- But Rachel, I mean we
can make it don't worry.

- Forget about it.

- There's plenty of space.

- Pah!

- [Rachel's Mom] You're
moving in over my dead body.

- Don't worry Mom
I don't want to.

- [Rachel's Mom] Fine, where'd
you get this idea anyway?

- She's pregnant.

- [Rachel's Sister] What!

- [Rachel's Mom] I think there's
a few other alternatives we

could consider here rather
than moving into that.

Where do you live?

- The hell hole?

- [Rachel's Dad] I think
you're pretty young to get

tied down with
kids and all that.

- [Rachel's Mom] Do you
want to have the baby?

- [Rachel's Dad] Ah I'm
gonna turn off the fountain

it's driving me nuts.

- [Rachel's Mom] Good idea.

- Are you really pregnant?

- [Rachel's Mom] Are you?

- Yes.

- [Rachel's Mom] Great.

- Why didn't you tell mom?

- [Rachel's Mom] Why didn't
you use birth control?

- I did tell her, I
am telling you guys.

- But why didn't she
tell her before hand?

It's Rachel's place to
tell her, not yours.

- Maybe we did
use birth control.

- That was her question.

- [Rachel's Mom] Maybe
you used a crummy kind,

what'd you use?

- Rubbers don't always work.

- [Rachel's Mom] Great.

How pregnant are you?

- What do you mean
how pregnant am I?

- [Rachel's Mom] I mean how
many periods have you missed?

- Four.

- [Rachel's Mom] Four, shit!

Ah, have you been to a doctor?

- No.

- [Rachel's Mom] Planned
parenthood, anything?

- No.

- You're in deep shit.

- [Rachel's Mom] Four months,
you're sure, you've missed

four whole periods?

Maybe they better
move in together.

- Maybe they better get married.

- That's why I brought it up.

- [Rachel's Mom] So
how you gonna do it?

- I got a job.

- How you gonna eat?

- I got a job.

- What job?

- I got a job.

- What job?

- I have a couple jobs.

- What jobs?

- i painted your bathroom.

You still haven't
paid me for that.

- Morgan I only have two
bathrooms, I'll pay you for

the damn bathrooms but
I don't think you guys

can support yourselves on
painting my bathrooms ok?

- I lift refrigerators.

- You mean you
steal refrigerators?

- No lift like as in pick up.

- Deliver.

- Oh well how much do
you make doing that?

- A lot.

- What about college?

What about high school
you're not even finished with

high school?

- So?

- What do you mean so?

- Are you gonna finish?

- What kind of parent do
you think you're going to be

if you don't even have
a high school education?

Who's Albert Schweitzer?

- I don't know.

- That's the kind of
thing you need to know.

- Rach, this isn't funny you
know, I don't think it's funny.

- I don't think it's
funny either I'm glad you

at least know that.

- I mean I've thought
about it very seriously,

it affects my life just
as much as it does yours.

Yours probably even more
so, you shouldn't even be

it's not even a funny subject.

- Listen I have a question.

Do you want the child?

Have you thought about it?

- No.

- I've thought about it a lot.

I want it if she does but if
she doesn't I'll support her

in that way too.

But somethings gotta be done.

I don't even know if they'll
let you get an abortion.

- I don't know either I think
you can get one up to about

five months, but it's not
going to be fun if you're four

months pregnant.

- I'm cold I'm going in.

- That's a good idea.

I'm cold too.

(burbling)

- [Morgan] Yeah are we going
to have any work today?

I mean, what?

That was the warehouse's fault.

Wait a minute that
wasn't our fault.

Two weeks!

What about my truck?

They're gonna repo
it, guaranteed.

What about my rent?

They're gonna kick us out.

Alright, well I'll give
you a call later man.

Alright, you're sorry?

Well I under yeah I'm sorry to.

(chug, chug)

- So Daphne is
Apollo's first love,

but she's not interested and
he chases her through the

forest and she asks her father,

the river god, to protect her
and he turns her into a laurel

tree and she's, I'm trying to
paint this stopping dead in

the tracks, she's rooted
into the earth and the whole

problem is this tension
between the two characters,

I'm trying to get.

- What is she doing,

running away from his love?

Or what?

- Yeah that's what's happening.

- Really seems like she's
trying to escape there.

- Yeah, cause she's immortal.

- Yeah.

- So um, I'm moving.

- What?

- I decided to go to New York.

- For what?

I mean, I thought you were
doing pretty good out here.

- Ah can't send my work, I
just, I need to think about

myself for a while and try to.

- Yeah that's true you do
need to think about yourself.

- Take care of my own problems.

- Well I mean,
what's your problems?

I mean I got
problems too, I mean,

my girlfriend she's
probably pregnant, you know.

You know what the hell
am I supposed to do?

I mean we all got problems but
that doesn't mean we need to

run at the first
sign of problems.

I mean sometimes you just
gotta stick in there.

I mean maybe you should have
stuck in there when, you know

we used to live together.

I really feel, you
know bad about that.

- Well you can't psych
yourself up so much, you know,

you gotta, sometimes you
just gotta jump around like

that gorilla in the movie, and.

- But am I, I mean am I
supposed to accept that as like

a real abstract way to
deal with my problems?

- That's all I, that's
really all I can.

- That's all the
advice you have?

- That's all I can tell you.

I don't know how
to do it myself.

- For all I know it's a
good idea, it might work.

Well I really hope you
have a good time you know,

with going to New York.

Don't screw yourself up to much.

Me and Dad we'll be alright.

I better go.

I love you, see you later.

- Ok.

(radio music)

- [Nick] Mhm, that stuff.

Ah, how you doing Morgan?

- Alright how are you?

- Ok I'm glad you would
come over and give me a hand

with this stuff.

I've gotta be doing
some repair work here.

Hope you don't mind if I
work on this while we talk.

- No it's kinda neat
just playing around

with this stuff here.

- Well how's your family doing?

What's your dad do?

- It's alright, he ah,
he's a professional artist.

- That sound interesting.

What kind of work does he do?

- Well he does have to work
a part time at this nice

restaurant, just to cover
his half of the bills,

we kinda split the
bills you know.

- A lot of artists have to work,

it's hard to make a living
being an artist in this culture

you know, it's
just hard you know.

My dad.

- Yeah what did your dad do?

- Well my dad was a mechanical
guy and he worked a lot.

He worked for the
telephone company.

And he was a good hard
working guy you know,

but they just took advantage
of him and screwed him

and it basically it killed him.

He couldn't do what he
wanted he always thought

you know he was going to get
to do what he wanted and.

- Like how'd it turn out?

- Well he had a heart
attack and died,

he was basically just a victim
of a lot of stress you know.

- Did he drink or smoke or.

- No he didn't drink,
he smoked a little

when he was younger
but it wasn't anything,

you know he seem to
be in good health.

Was 50 years old he
keeled over dead.

- So he like worked really hard
looking forward to retiring

and then just kind of
over worked himself?

- Well the company you know
they squeeze you between,

you know you work for
the company and you try

and do a good job and you know
they take advantage of you,

it's just hard to make a go
of it cause they're basically

trying to exploit
whatever you have.

He had a lot of skills and
he was handy with his hands

and stuff and I learned
a lot of that from him.

But I decided this wasn't
going to happen to me,

I was going to be
independent you know.

- But he, I mean, he made
good money though you guys

lived well didn't you I
mean you had the bills paid.

- Yeah but I'd rather
have my father than have

the bills paid you know the
bills will always take care

of themselves really,
you know there's always

some way it's going to work out.

- Yeah you're
right you're right.

- And so the important
thing I think is to have

your integrity you know and
let the rest of it flow.

You know, it'll work out ok.

I think if anything I'd rather
have my dad here you know,

than any money that we
made or could have made

or insurance or anything else,

it's just bull
shit otherwise so.

- I don't understand that, I
mean on one level I understand

but on another level
it just seems really,

I don't know for some people
I guess it's a worth it

trade off to have the bills
paid and alleviate that stress.

- Well the whole culture tries
to convince you that that's

the trade off that the thing
is to have all this stuff,

you know.

- It's ok to have that stress.

- Yeah that the stress
is not going to hurt you,

the stress is worthwhile, stress
is something you live with,

stress is no big deal,
but it's a big deal,

I know it is, I could see
it in my dad you know.

I could see the problems
he'd bring home from work

with him when.

- Do you ever gotta
refuel that sucker?

- Yeah did I ever show
you how this works?

- No, show me how, I saw kinda
how it worked but I didn't.

- Well you, you put
this cap on here,

and then you get this
thing, this is just regular

lighter fluid stuff you know,

(whoosh)

and you fill it up like that.

(laughing)

(relaxing music)

- Seems like a pretty
rich neighborhood.

- Man look at that house,
isn't that nicely shingled?

- Yeah, 78, 78.

- That's really cool.

- Maybe that guy's pretty rich.

- 70 there's 70.

- That guy was wearing you
know a suit and everything.

- Here comes 64.

- Check out that
balcony up there.

- 52.

- This is a rich
neighborhood, 42, look crest.

- There it is 42 crest.

- Pull into the driveway.

- Nah we better not we
might block it or something,

we should go around and park.

42 Crest.

- Look at all these
houses, look at those,

those must be worth millions.

- Not millions but like
half a mil, almost a mil.

- I've never seen
houses this big before.

- There it is 42 Crest.

Geez that's such a big house.

- I know.

- That's hella big.

- You could fit two of your
rooms in just that garage.

- More than that,
come on let's go.

(relaxing music)

- Great you guys made it, I
thought there were three though,

and you brought the camera back.

- [Morgan] Yeah the
bracket is screwed.

- That's alright I
made a new one anyway,

I was going to try it out.

Why don't you come on in
and I'll show it to you.

- [Morgan] Alright, alright.

- Right over here.

- Here you want to take this?

- [John] Yeah.

This is the new one I got.

- [Morgan] The new what?

- [Voiceover] Should work much
better with a new bracket.

Maybe later on we'll try it out.

- Rach, Rach.

- My name's John by the way.

- Yeah, my name's Morgan,
that's right we didn't meet.

- Rachel.

- How you doing Rachel.

Well why don't you guys
take a look around the place

a little bit, I'll
be right back.

Make yourselves at home.

- I thought that was
real for a second,

when we first came in.

- Yeah me too.

- What's this thing Morgan?

- Looks like some type of
bomb shell head or something.

Look at that picture, it's cool.

When I look around the room
and I look at all the things

in this room, I feel as
if I'm sharing this room,

or this room is my own,
and I wonder how many hours

it would take for me to
own all these things here.

It took me five hours just
to purchase this watch,

five hours of work.

I wonder how many hours it
would take for me to just own

one square foot of this
ceiling, but for right now

Rachel and I we kind of feel
at home here as if it's ours,

these few moments
together in here.

- [John] How's it going?

- Oh alright man.

- Guys look around a little bit?

- Yeah we were just getting
comfortable looking around,

it's a really nice place.

- Alright, maybe later we can
take a look at some of the

footage we did with the camera.

- [Morgan] Look at Rachel, her
little cute smile looking up.

- [Rachel] I look funky.

- [Morgan] You don't look funky.

- [John] That stick
worked really well,

I'm really happy with it.

- [Morgan] Yeah just the
bracket was kind of weird.

- [John] Yeah I got a
better one for that.

You didn't get Leon
in the picture.

- No.

Look at the water
coming up like that.

- You can almost see
the sticks shape.

- [Rachel] I look stupid.

- [John] That's nice
bringing it down like that,

that looks really weird.

- [Rachel] That's what
we were trying to.

That's where, right
there is where we were

trying to find your
address on the stick.

- [Morgan] Yeah you had to
take, you took off so quickly.

- [Rachel] That's Leon.

- [John] What was that
flicker you think?

- [Morgan] I don't know.

It's kinda hard to believe that,
that we live in this small,

what a lot of people
would call pitiful room.

More space in my bed.

Its kinda cool, although
Dad's spot is kinda cramped.

But at least his can
be kind of like a bed,

it's elevated.

- I'm gonna be truthful
with you Morgan.

Kay my feelings about
the draft is this,

I graduated from high
school in 1968 in Berkeley,

that was probably the height
of the Vietnam confrontation.

I was from a family of seven,
five boys and two sisters.

Two of my brothers got drafted,

before I got out of high school.

The first two that
went died in Vietnam.

I didn't go because I was
a conscientious objector,

and I was prepared to go
to jail rather than go.

Not because I was scared,

because I did not agree
with what was happening.

Don't get me wrong,
America is my country,

this is where I was born,
I wasn't born in Africa,

I wasn't born in Arabia, I
have just as much interest,

in this country as the next
person, because my forefathers

died here, lived
here and died here.

But I will fight
for this country.

(whirring)

- I couldn't marry anyone
until I was at least 25.

I mean if you're, you need
a chance to be a teenager,

and just fuck up and stuff,
you can't be married,

and responsible when you're
only 16 or 18 or whatever.

You have to have lived a little
and have fucked up a lot.

And I think that most
teenagers do fuck up,

and that's how they learn
from all their mistakes.

If you've never had a chance
to make those mistakes,

then how can you have a
marriage that will work?

Then that marriage
itself is a mistake.

- [John] I'll be right
down in a minute.

How's the water?

How's it going?

- It's pretty cool John.

- Alright well is the
temperature just about right?

- Yeah perfect are
you going to get in?

- Yeah one thing though I'm
really upset about you guys,

like breaking that
swivel head I had,

so unfortunately, I'm
gonna have to kill you,

just like I said.

- No, don't, don't, don't.

(clicking)

- Just a joke.

- I hate that.

- Well let me get in to now.

- I knew you were going
to do something like that.

- Just a little joke, ah
the temperature is good.

- That wasn't funny John.

- I thought so.

- No it was scary, I thought
there might be bb's in there.

(relaxing music)

- Everything is so
different he thought,

that's the title of a
painting that my father made,

I always wonder if those,

if that's the
thoughts in his mind,

is his life the way he
thought it would be,

when he was younger,
when he was my age.

Did he think he would turn
out living in a little room,

with his son.

Everything is so
different he thought,

does that run through his mind?

I wonder when my parents
first got married,

and had a kid, did they
think that they would be

separated and divorced and
living two different lives?

I'm sure at times thoughts
went through their heads,

about being together for
the rest of their life.

I kinda think what my
life is going to be like,

I wonder if it'll be the same.

Everything is so different now.

(speaking spanish)

- [Leon] Wolves
kill only for food,

they're dying out, do coyotes
also kill only for food?

Answer no sir coyotes and
feral dogs often kill for fun.

And they're multiplying.

- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Leon I have this idea, what
was that, what was that,

that one about the cake,
the cake, you know the cake,

the white house, the white
house you know, about the cake?

Remember the thing
about the cake?

No wait Leon, the cakes, the
cake, the you know Washington,

the cake, relax, the cake.

Do you know what
I'm talking about?

You know in the paper you
were reading about the cake,

the fact about the cake
and the white house.

- Yeah, yeah it said,
it said it's illegal,

to make any pastry in the
shape of the white house.

- [Morgan] That's it,
do you get that idea,

I can make that cake and
use it as a peaceful way

to demonstrate that I
don't want anything to do

with the draft, I don't want
anything to do with that,

you know what I mean?

It's like a symbol of defiance.

Do you understand that?

It's illegal but it's so stupid.

I'm gonna make a
cake Lee, a big cake,

and it's gonna be just
like the white house.

(upbeat music)

I'd like to report a crime.

I'd like to say that, yeah
that's right, that's right.

My name is Morgan Walker.

What's my address?

1025 21st street, yeah.

Number 6532160.

I'd like to report that I've
made a pastry reproduction,

of the white house.

(upbeat music)