ALL THE BARS IN LOS ANGELES, 12/8/15: Hyperion PublicGin & Soda (1)Total: $10I’m always...
ALL THE BARS IN LOS ANGELES, 12/8/15: Hyperion Public
Total: $10
I’m always meeting up with Ezra in bars that maybe we normally wouldn’t go to, for the sake of convenience. I never go to Hyperion Public normally. Ezra doesn’t live in the city and we’re always meeting up at the last minute, at the most convenient place.
Ezra and Ben were finishing their dinner when I pulled into the third wheel position on the long side of their two top. I ordered a gin & soda and heroically didn’t even think about stealing anyone’s leftover fries. I’ve known Ezra since my sophomore year of high school, so sitting near him makes me feel comfortable. We have wonderful conversations, and I enjoy their contents, but I also just like hearing his voice. The voices of people I’ve known forever (“forever”) are my favorite sounds, a river I could skate away on.
The threads of conversation brought us to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, a movie I’ve been thinking about a lot lately in a personality quiz type of a way, Are You More of a Ferris or More of a Cameron? I used to think I was a Cameron (depressive, anxious, semi-willing third wheel to the dynamic universe) but lately I worry I’m more of a Ferris, his worst version, a black hole of attention love me love me love me and if you don’t, if you hate me, you better hate me with the intense dark blackness of an older sister. If you don’t tell me every day how intense your hate is for me, what good is your hate for anyway? If that’s all you have for me, give it to me, give it to me all the time, it belongs to me, give it.
