Only Lovers Left Alive

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(CLICK)

(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS)

Here I go

Going down, down, down

My mind is a blank

My head is spinning

Around and around

As I go deep into

the funnel of love

It's such a crazy, crazy feeling

I get weak in the knees

My poor old head is a reelin'

As I go deep into

the funnel of love

I tried and I tried,

to run and hide

I even tried to run away

Ya just can't run

From the funnel of love

It's bound to get ya someday

Deep into the funnel of love

Deep into the funnel of love

(CAR DOOR CLOSES)

(CAR DOOR BEEPING)

(DOORBELL RINGING)

ADAM:
Ian.

- IAN:
Adam, man, how are you?

- ADAM:
Hey.

- Is this the Supro?

- IAN:
Yeah.

It's a beautiful one, man.

I hope you're gonna like

it because these Supros,

they're getting harder and

harder to find, you know?

You get one, but the

pickups are messed up.

You get one, the neck is

messed up or something.

Oh, Shit.

Adam, you want me to take off my

shoes? I think I stepped in some mud.

- Ian, I really wouldn't bother.

- All right.

ADAM:
The Supro.

IAN:
1959, man.

- Really nice, Ian. Thank you.

- Cool.

All the electronics, everything,

are original, of course.

- I plugged them in, made sure they work.

- Just what the doctor ordered,

as they say.

(STRUMS NOTE)

I shall call him William Lawes.

It's a male?

This one is, yeah.

(PLAYING SOFT MELODY)

Who's William Lawes?

Oh, just some old

17th-century English guy.

Wrote some great funeral music.

Then, during the English Civil War,

he was casually shot dead

by a Parliamentarian.

Oh.

That sucks.

Adam, check this one out, man.

- This one...

- Is a very strange Hagstrom from 1960.

- Swedish.

- Yeah.

- ADAM:
Look at this thing.

- Heh, heh.

Look at the back.

- Mother of toilet seat.

- Heh, heh.

Seriously, man.

Wow.

And this one...

Check this out.

ADAM:
It's a Silvertone.

From the very early '60s.

With an amp built into

the case. Fantastic.

IAN:
Right?

Yeah.

And...

Oh, that's a lovely

Gretsch Chet Atkins.

Mm-hm.

6120, Double Cutaway.

(PLAYS MELODY)

Heh.

I once saw Eddie Cochran

play one of these.

Though he had the front pickup

modified to a Gibson P-90.

Wait. You actually saw

Eddie Cochran play?

Yeah, on YouTube.

Oh, right.

Of course, man.

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(SPEAKING ARABIC)

MAN:
Hey, you.

- I have something special for you.

- Hey. We have what you need.

I know you don't wanna play live,

I know you wanna remain anonymous,

but you being so reclusive

and everything...

is probably only gonna make people

more interested in your music.

ADAM:
Yeah.

What a drag.

(GUITAR PLAYING SOFT MELODY)

Listen, Ian. There is

something you can do for me.

Anything. Yeah,

anything. What is it?

I need a bullet.

A very special bullet.

Really? I got you that box of

shells with the .38 last year.

I know, the .38.

I need a .38-caliber

bullet but made of wood.

A wooden bullet? Seriously, man?

And made from the hardest and

most dense wood you can find.

I'd suggest ironwood, lignum vitae.

Maybe snakewood,

Piratinera guianensis.

Or possibly African blackwood,

Dalbergia melanoxylon.

Find someone who can

make it for me?

Yeah, but could you just...?

Could you repeat the last couple?

ADAM:
Ironwood, lignum vitae.

Snakewood, Piratinera guianensis

or blackwood, Dalbergia

melanoxylon.

IAN:
Dalbergia...

Okay.

Yeah, I mean, I think I know

someone, but what the hell for?

It's for a...

A project.

A secret art project.

Okay, cool, cool.

All right, let me think. Um...

Thank you, Adam.

The shell casing should be brass,

but the bullet has to be wood.

- You just want one?

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