are you awake?
john?
i'm not sure.
what are you doing here?
oh.
i'll just have a beer.
my husband's here for work-he's a photographer- and i just came along. i'm not really doing anything right now, and we have some friends who live here.
two years.
you're probably just having a mid- life crisis. did you buy a porche?
25 years.  that's a long time.  are you still in love with your wife?
oh.
i'm not sure, yet.  i graduated last spring.
philosophy.
i don't know, but i can think about it, a lot.
thanks. i'm sure your mid-life crisis will work out,too.
i wish i could sleep bob me, too.
hi, nice to meet you.
evelyn waugh?
evelyn waugh was a man.
why do you have to defend her?
no, i thought it was funny. forget it.
hi, leave a message.
how'd it go today?
ok. maybe i'll walk down with you.
sure.
really?
yeah, it is.
hi again, how's it going?
i went to a temple today and i didn't feel anything.
i don't know what to do.
you smell weird.
like popcorn?
hair stuff?
bye.
lauren?
it's cool.  but,i don't know.  i went to a shrine today and all these little monk's were chanting.  and, i didn't feel anything.  i even tried ikebana, .  and john's using hair products.  i don't know who i.
sure.
oh, it's nothing.  i better go, i'll talk to you later.
ok, bye.
ouch.
yeah.
do you think it's done?
but i like to.  and i don't smoke that much.
ok, i will.  later.
oh.  that's nothing, someone gave it to me.
i'm not. it's just corny, but i'm not into it.
mmm, i love cristal, let's have some.
are you sure you have to go?
yeah, i know you have to work the whole time, i'll probably have more fun here. i'll call charlie and those guys.
i love you.
i miss you.
oh, hi.
yeah. did you get some sleep?
not really. how long are you here for?
oh, good. do you want to go to a party tonight with me and some friends who live here?
see you later.
you really are having a mid-life crisis.
no.
charlie, this is bob. bob  charlie brown.
his real name's hayashi, but someone started calling him charlie because they thought he looked like charlie brown. they've all got american nicknames because its easier for me to remember.  they were just out in l.a. last month doing a shoot with john.  that guy's mr.valentine, he's the art director of their magazine, i don't even know his real name, or why i call him that.
hi.
good.
thanks, you guys should come back sometime.
what do you feel like singing, bob?
you bite your nails?
i could cut the ones that are left for you.
hans? nice to meet you.
i don't want to go home.
it's charlotte.
thanks for getting me back in one piece.
do you want to have some breakfast?
ok, see you downstairs.
hey look, it's sausalito.
i think he kind of liked me. is that so hard to imagine?
how'd a japanese guy get a name like hans?
do you remember when we met at the bar? . you were wearing a tuxedo.
really?
did i scowl at you?
i don't remember.
why do they switch the r's and l's here?
let's never come here again, because it would never be as much fun.
did you see hiromix last night dancing with bambi?
oh. well.  they were dancing on the couch with that weird english guy who kept talking about hanging out with the sex pistols on kings road.
oh, for her show?
oh.
i know.
i'm stuck. does it get easier.
yeah? but look at you.
i just don't know what i'm supposed to be. i thought maybe i wanted to be a writer.  but i hate what i write, and i tried taking pictures, but john's so good at that, and mine are so mediocre.  and every girl goes through a photography phase, like horses, you know dumb pictures of your feet.
but, i'm mean.
and marriage, does that get easier?
did that help? did you learn anything?
oh.
that's too scary.
no one ever tells you that.
that's nice. my parents were always traveling, they weren't around so much.
in d.c., my dad was the ambassador to france in the eighties, so we went to school in paris for a few years.  but we mostly lived in d.c., and they were never around.  and then i moved to los angeles when john and i got married.  it's so different there.
john thinks i'm so snotty.
i know, but that's what you like about me.
why do you have to be with your opposite, why cant similar people be together?
you made it.
what's that?
how old is she?
oh, she'll love it.
fuck off.
i don't know, i think maybe i broke it? i knocked into something the other day.
it's bad isn't it?
you think so?
is that for me?
hi bob, it's charlotte.  how are you doing today?.  i'm going to meet charlie and those guys at this place called orange around ten.  come meet us if you get this.
how long have you been here?
c'mon, let's go.
working.
yeah.
no.
isn't it weird there are no street names in tokyo.  you'd think a city like this would have street names.  you need a map to get anywhere.  look, there are no signs.
um. hi, john, if this is your phone? i'm not sure. i'm going to go to kyoto for the day. i'11 try you when i get back. hope it's going good.  i love you, bye.
rough night?
i'm going to daikanyama, do you want to come walk around?
oh, i guess you're busy, huh.
you can't get sushi anywhere in japan after 2 o'clock. did you know that?
the jazz singer? the red-head?
well, i guess she's more around your age.  you guys could talk about things in common, like growing up in the fifties.
i can't tell the difference?
a coke.
around.
they're not going to play the whole album, are they?
that lunch was the worst, huh.
when are you leaving?
i'm going to miss you.
well, i mean it more now.
i know. but, it doesn't last, you have to go back sometime.
i don't know, it just doesn't, reality changes things. we can't stay here forever, unless maybe we started a jazz band.
54?
hi, bob.
uh, yeah.  i'll bring it down.
just saying good-bye to everyone before you leave?
that's it?
you're leaving right now?
well.  have a good flight.
ok, bye.
i'll miss you.