Tuesday, October 14, 2008

19. tattooed man (houston) 1988

(reference 12.)

august arrives at the dive bar in houston (ruckus) he has been absent from for several months looking for spider, the person he ran away from, to apologize and try to work things out. spider has arrived at the bar yet, and august meets paul, a handsome and mysteriou tattooed man who has just come out of a bisexual relationship with a husband and wife. august recognizes his own bisexual tendencies during the conversation and feels more connected with paul than he had ever felt with spider. this realization causes him to run away when he hears spider approaching the bar. by chance, paul finds august at the washateria next to his apartment. they go to august's aparment and make out but don't have sex. paul is intrigued by the paintings in august's apartment (which were painted by his mother dar of his sister june). august plans a meeting between paul and his family, a sixteenth birthday party for his sister, at which paul will show off his chefing abilities. june gets drunk and passes out on champagne, paul and dar get high, as does august, reluctantly. august goes to bedroom he grew up in, assuming paul will join him there eventually, but wakes the next morning to discover paul and dar in paul's vw bus having sex. august runs away and doesn't look back.

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