TEXT: Jimmy: My frame of reference for love has always come from literature. In my brooding youth, Bronte encapsulated my viewpoint thusly: "The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely." But as I grew up, my darkening view was more Shakespeare: "Love is merely a madness and I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and whip as mad men do." But now... now... since you... to my abject horror, my view on love can best be described by Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook: "It's not easy... it's hard... and you have to work at it, but it's worth it... because I want you... I want all of you... forever." Or something like that. Becca: No. <unk> I'm gonna leave you anyway I'm gonna leave you anyway <unk> <unk> Gonna leave you anyway. <unk> Sam: <unk> I'm here <unk> Shitstain: Uh... uh... uh. Sam: <unk> I think I saw a deer <unk> Honey Nutz: What? Sam: <unk> I'm about to kill the deer <unk> <unk> And get some meat <unk> Shitstain: Uh... uh. Sam: <unk> 'Cause I'm hungry. <unk> <unk> Everybody talking 'bout they homies <unk> Shitstain: What? Sam: <unk> My chain bling, bling! <unk> <unk> Now these girls owe me... <unk> (Both sniffling, sighing) Lindsay: Tomorrow... we meet with the flower guy... then we're tasting cakes, and then me and, uh... Ugh...! Gretchen: You don't know your fiancé's name? Lindsay (Laughs): Of course I know his... don't be dumb. Paul! I'm just wired! Gretchen: Call it off. Lindsay: No way! You should've seen Becca's dumb face when I told her I was getting married before her and mom has never paid me so much attention. I should've gotten married when I
SUMMARY:
Beginning with Jimmy's disastrous proposal to Becca a few years earlier, we see the events leading up to the present day. Emerging from a pretentious radio show interview where he plugged his new book, Jimmy meets the homeless Edgar in an alley and offers him a "lounger on the deck" not realizing that Edgar will accept the offer. Gretchen is hanging out and doing drugs with Lindsay at a recording studio, sent as a "gofer" by the PR executive handling Sam Draper's rap trio. Sam, who is furious with the executive for not showing up, hires her to do his PR instead. She attends movie openings with the rappers and meets a well-known director, Ty, with whom she starts a relationship fueled by drugs and booze. This results in her DUI arrest the day before Becca's wedding, where she meets Jimmy. After they break up, Becca tries to proposition Jimmy to pay Vernon back for ignoring her, but Jimmy turns her down. Edgar walks out on Jimmy, saying that while he was with Gretchen he was actually a "fun person". Gretchen tries to go back to doing drugs at the studio with Lindsay, but realizes it is not what she wants anymore. She goes back to her apartment to set it, and her life, to rights. Jimmy is left alone in his house, trying to write a novel or a song, but unable to do either.