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•MALIBU• mar15/09
I try to surround myself with different types of friends, it’s just a thing I do. If all I did was hang out with Bill Murray then I feel I’d probably just turn into him, you know, sitting around reading Nylon pretending to enjoy Animal Collective records. If all I did was hang out with Al Pacino then I’d just resign to a life of collecting old crime scene photos and rubbing truffle oil all over my body because I can. I’m a guy that likes his friends to shape his own diversity, so I like hanging out with different people on a daily basis. I’ve always believed it was important…until recently.
I like Matthew, I do. He’s got a heart of gold but the fact is that he subscribes to a very different world view than I do. For one, he believes that each of his limbs is working in congruity with another creature on earth. This leads to a lot of guilt for Matthew as an active guy because he’ll wonder if when he’s running on the beach it’s causing some alpaca in Bolivia to run off a cliff to its death. Fun guy right? Anyways, it all came to a head yesterday at the beach when I told Matthew about the time I had a freak collision with a dolphin while catching morning breakers. He told me that the planet had sent me a challenge and I’d failed. He said that Flipper was representative of our society’s impending demise and that by not getting out of the way of the inevitable I stood in the way of our progress as a species. That was the genesis of his argument and it all culminated with him demanding I fuck his girlfriend. It all made me very uncomfortable.