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[There is a pregnant pause.]
Hallahan (vodka tonic) They're kinda right about some of that.
ROUND 4
KENTUCKY FRIED
LTT (Corona) How did Cameron Crowe approach you guys to appear as a
''local band'' [that plays a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's ''Freebird''] in
Elizabethtown?
James (Pilsner Urquell) The whole story [based on Crowe's own] is about the guy going back to Kentucky when his dad died, to deal with it.
Tommy (Grey Goose on the rocks) Since we're from Kentucky, Cameron wanted to talk to us about the ''Kentucky experience.'' What it was like there, what a funeral was like, what kind of food they would serve at a funeral.
Hallahan (Knob Creek on the rocks) He came to Louisville and we showed him around and he would ask questions. He has a spongelike brain that kind of soaks up everything around him.
LTT So Crowe's no phony?
James No, not at all.
Koster (Tanqueray and tonic) There's never anything ''ironic'' or
''fashionable'' about his work.
[Punctuating this moment of earnestness in a very Cameron Crowe-like fashion, ''The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get'' by Morrissey serendipitously comes on the stereo system. Everybody in the band starts singing along.]
ROUND 5
CONDOM NONSENSE
Broemel (Stella Artois) That new R. Kelly video for ''Trapped in the
Closet'' is amazing.
Koster (Amstel Light) I want to see the whole thing.
James (Stella Artois) Did you see the DVD with all five videos?
Koster No.
James I've never laughed harder. Right after part 3, I think, he talks about how he finds out his wife's been cheating on him. The way he finds out, at the very end, he calls up his house and a dude answers the phone. So he's driving home and starts looking for the dude. So anyway,
he gets to the bed, and he pulls back the bedspread and there's a rubber
there. And the last thing he says is ''Oh my God, a
rubber...rubber...rubber...'' And in [the next chapter] the story's continued.
LTT (Corona) That sounds a little...ludicrous.
James But it's good theater.
