3 Nights in the Desert

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Guys, why don't you introduce yourselves to our listeners?

My name's Travis, I play guitar.

I'm Barry, I play the drums.

My name is Anna and I sing.

So tell me.

How did the band meet?

I closed my eyes and I imagined this ray of light.

Shut up.

Well, believe it or not, we

were all born in the same week.

So Travis and I were really drunk celebrating our birthday.

And we run-- we run into Anna really drunk celebrating

her birthday.

So wasted.

Improvising song after song.

Yes.

So, um, where do you

see yourselves down the road?

Where do you see yourselves 10 years from now?

Uh, I really think we keep doing what we're doing.

Working hard, making the right choices,

and we'll be doing huge things in 10 years.

I feel like we're on a path.

If it has some twists and turns or whatever,

we're gonna make it happen.

Wait, I got your crystal ball right here.

It says the road we're on continues.

We'll either be famous or dead.

It'd been six years since any of us

had seen one another.

Me and Travis and Anna.

We all went our separate ways, but I

promised Travis we'd spend our 30th birthdays together.

For the last week my wife been asking why I travelled halfway

across the country to see this guy that I hated.

The truth is, I've never loved anyone more.

For whatever reason our band really

meant something to people.

I mean, we had fans.

But in the end it didn't work out,

and I always felt a little bit guilty about that.

If I had known Anna was gonna be here this weekend,

I never would have come.

Are you guys, uh, rekindling your thing?

We never had a thing, man.

So let me guess.

She knows I'm coming?

Yeah.

Who cares?

Brilliant.

Let it go.

Be here.

You look good here.

She'd gone on to make something of herself.

She was a star in Europe and in Asia.

But to me, she was just the one who got away.

Anyway.

Wow.

So why did I come back?

Maybe I just needed to prove to myself I could.

Maybe it's because I made a promise.

Or maybe I was hoping to get a glimpse of the magic again.

You look good.

You look damn good.

You uh, you lost some weight.

Yeah.

Yeah, Julie and I made this plan.

We do a five mile jog before breakfast every day.

Well I'm glad you came out.

I know it's hard to get away.

OK, ready?

Oh my god.

This is so cool.

Oh, eh.

-At least one of us made it, right?

-I haven't exactly made it, but--

-Ah, I think there's a half a million YouTube

viewers that would disagree.

-People will come up to her in the streets singing her songs.

-Well how do you leave all your adoring fans?

It was time.

See that?

That's where I'm taking you tonight.

What's over there?

You'll see.

He's still limping.

You did all you could.

Yeah.

I really missed you guys,

Yes, indeed.

Well said, brother.

Hear, hear.

-Man, I haven't had food-food in forever.

What do you mean food-food?

-I mean, last year I decided no more sauces.

Come on, you're from Kansas.

You can't betray your roots.

A man needs steak sauce.

-I figure, why dump liquid all over your food?

Hm.

Taste?

Taste.

Taste.

Gonna go with that.

-There's a taste, would be another reason.

Oh, in Cambodia they've got this fish sauce

that they put on everything.

It's amazing.

Very hot and it makes your tongue

feel like it's disintegrating.

Wow.

Yeah.

God, you've been everywhere.

Mm-hmm.

-The only traveling I do is for work or a wedding.

At least I'm building up frequent flyer miles.

Mm!

Me too.

Yeah.

What's yours?

-Um, a little thing called Premier.

Mm, Premier Exec.

I should have known that.

-You gotta earn the unlimited domestic upgrades.

I can see that.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, this is great.

The best is the story of when I got it.

I was this close, and I realized it at work.

And all of a sudden I just got up from my desk

and flew to Seattle for lunch and back just

to earn my status.

- The fuck am I sitting here with?

Barry, that was fucking great, man.

You liked when I softened up

at the end of the verse?

Yes!

That was genius.

All right.

Hold on, hold on.

I gotta write this down.

No, let's just do it again.

Don't write the fucker down.

Let's do it again, come on.

Give me the ball.

I've

been in the grip of love.

Intimately acquainted with T-Rex.

So dive into a deed.

I've been fed up.

I mean, I've had enough terrors in my sleep.

You're the only one I need.

BARRY AND ANNA (ON Then

that soft wind hits me from the south.

Oh, how I--

So I was going across camps.

I see this guy with his piercing blue eyes.

He's got the frosted tips.

OK.

He's got a lot of gel in it.

It's looking like a real, you know, a douche bag.

Aw.

-And I said to myself, Anna, you must know this man.

He was the scholarship kid.

He was dropping $50 on a hair stylist.

That's a tool.

Every girl wanted to be with you and every guy wanted to be you.

And we got high just being around you.

-Yeah, that's because I gave you drugs.

That's true.

Speaking of which, um, hello?

No.

We met that day too.

You weren't there.

-I guess my first impressions don't set rivers on fire,

but I'm a slow boil.

Come on, I was sexy, right?

Say yes.

Yes.

Tonight is all about you, dude.

Happy birthday.

It's you're night.

Hehe.

Tomorrow Anna.

What about you?

No, I'm good.

You guys coming out here is plenty for me.

Oh, that is some regal shit.

Cheers.

I'm here.

All right, check this out.

What is it?

No way.

Oh, man.

-Looks like you're about to tell him a secret to the universe.

I'm still waiting for that one.

Yeah.

That's later.

So I'm 5, maybe 6, and I go into the school bathroom.