:43:02
And last year it was covered with bikinis.
:43:05
Bikinis, you know, cute little buckets...
:43:07
sweating into the same sand
that held all that blood.
:43:13
Hell, I don't want to talk about war.
It's the final joke.
:43:16
It shouldn't surprise you. Battlefields
have a way of turning into resorts.
:43:22
Wait a minute.
:43:24
Yeah! Air Mail Special.
:43:26
Only that's not Charlie Christian,
he was the original.
:43:28
Oh, Jesus, that was Big Band showtime.
:43:32
One time... I'm just a kid, see?
:43:36
And I'm playing drums,
we're in this divey joint...
:43:38
it's up in the mountains. We had a vocalist.
:43:42
Everybody in the band
is banging her except me...
:43:44
and I got a crush on her. God.
:43:48
These Foolish Things.
:43:49
She could sing These Foolish Things,
put you right in Paris.
:43:53
Blonde, blue-eyed...
:43:55
perfume, the whole whiff of her was just...
:43:59
Before a number she'd come over...
:44:02
she'd lean down and she'd whisper
to me, "Easy on the brushes, kid...
:44:06
"easy on the brushes."
:44:08
She was gonna be vocalist
with Tommy Dorsey.
:44:10
I was gonna play the drums
with Benny Goodman.
:44:13
The difference is, when we were kids
all the choices were simple.
:44:17
- Life was simple. Everything added up.
- No more.
:44:20
This morning I gave a ride,
this kid was hitching.
:44:22
She just goes up and down the Strip.
:44:26
She wanted to ball me, she said.
No words, just...
:44:31
She was hardly older than my daughter...
:44:33
makes you wonder
what the hell's going on out there.
:44:35
Who knows?
Rats are crawling around babies...
:44:38
they're taking pictures of Mars...
:44:40
and we're in the balcony
talking to Charlie Robbins.