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DATE NIGHT #1 1. WEIRD FISHES LIANNE LA HAVAS 2. TABLE FOR ONE EGO ELLA MAY 3. SOMETHING THE BEATLES 4. WORK CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON 5. OPEN YOUR HEART MADONNA 6. SEE YOU AGAIN TYLER, THE CREATOR (FT. KALI UCHIS) 7. SUPERCUT LORDE 8. SOUL LOVE DAVID BOWIE 9. LIVID ELIZA 10. NOBODY MITSKI Place the sweet potatoes on a tray, drizzle them in oil and MEXICAN STUFFED SWEET POTATOES sprinkle on some salt. Put them in the oven. To a pan, add oil, and heat. When hot, add the garlic and 2 sweet potatoes onion and cook until golden brown. Add the tin of chopped 1 red onion tomatoes, and let simmer. 3 cloves of garlic Add the chopped veg, and season to taste. 1 tin of chopped tomatoes Add the kidney beans, and turn down the heat. 1 tin of kidney beans Take the sweet potatoes out the oven. Hold the pan until the Handful of mushrooms, chopped heat is too much and you can’t feel your fingers. Half a pepper, diced Scoop out the flesh of the sweet potatoes, and add to the Half a courgette, diced pan with everything in. Paprika Turn off the heat. Juice of half a lemon Stare at the pan. 1 spring onion Stare at the pan. Grated cheese Mash the contents of the pan until a nice mixed pulp. Guacamole Mash until your hands hurt. Add the juice of half a lemon, and the spring onions. Place the mixture back into the skins of the sweet potatoes, top with cheese, and put back in the oven until the cheese Pre-heat the oven to 190 degrees. Place the sweet potatoes has melted. in the microwave for 5-10 minutes. While they’re in, chop the Add a dollop of homemade guacamole. garlic finely and dice the onion. Serve to no one DATE NIGHT #1 ALISON: Hm, it’s alright. They didn’t have coriander. Alison sits at the table with dinner. BETH: Still, looks nice. She stares at the food on the plate. She stares at the urn opposite. ALISON: Should taste different. She picks up the fork, full of food, and drops it back down. She takes the lid off the urn, and sprinkles the ashes over BETH: Different doesn’t have to be bad. her dinner. She gorges. ALISON: Different is wrong though. BETH: You should slow down. Silence. Alison eats another forkful. Alison splutters, coughs and looks up. No one is there. The BETH: What did you do today? air is hot. ALISON: We went to the cinema. BETH: Exactly, look, you’ll cough and choke and next thing you know it’ll be you in one of these horrible pots. BETH: And what did you see? Alison closes her eyes, and takes a deep breath. ALISON: We watched your favourite. They’re doing a special edition re-release thing. BETH: Looks nice. BETH: You hate that film. BETH: You’d say it was peaceful. An empty cinema. And ALISON: Ahhh past tense. I enjoyed it today. And you know, you’d say I’d ask too many questions and rustle sweets too you love it so- loudly / and even my breathing was distracting BETH: Loved. Past tense. ALISON: Yeh you did and yeh it was but- Pause. Alison eats. BETH: So go by yourself again. BETH: Was it busy? ALISON: It’s not the same. I miss- ALISON: (Her mouth full) Wha? BETH: But you haven’t even got heavy breathing to worry about so just leave the heavy weight behind and- BETH: The cinema. ALISON: I don’t want to / be alone. ALISON: Oh, no, just a few, and us, it was nice. BETH: I know. I know. BETH: You use to love going to the cinema by yourself. Pause. ALISON: Only sometimes. ALISON: I hate washing up / alone - BETH: Too many plates. in time- a fossil. Yes, a fossil. Marks and imprints and singes ALISON: Not enough space. of the past. BETH: Throw away that tea towel. BETH: (Fossils are for sad people and museums) ALISON: It’s the only one I’ve got. ALISON: The year is 2080 and people queue for miles and pay entry to see my capsule of time. BETH: It’s gross and it smells and needs to go. BETH: (Is your bedroom still full of stones and shells and ALISON: You know, it’s still got that singe from when you- ticket stubs?) BETH: You can’t be sentimental about a dirty dishcloth. ALISON: No throwing away. No getting rid, because, then, what are people queuing for? I better give them something to Alison drops her fork. stare at. ALISON: I can be sentimental about a dirty dishcloth. Alison stands up from the table. She stares at the urn. BETH: No- She places the lid back on the urn. She picks up the dinner plate, and walks away from the ALISON: No I can because I want to look at every item I own table. and think about before. I want to keep this place- a moment END. DATE NIGHT #2 1. WICKED GAME CHRIS ISAAK 2. SATELLITE OF LOVE LOU REED 3. WHEN I GO SLOW CLUB 4. STILL BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB 5. ANYMORE FRANK TURNER 6. MODERN LOVE DAVID BOWIE 7. LOVE--> BUILDING ON FIRE TALKING HEADS 8. IN YOUR EYES BADBADNOTGOOD & CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON 9. 400 LUX LORDE 10. FOR LOVE (I COME) THUNDERCAT GARDEN RISOTTO Take the tenderstem broccoli and drizzle in olive oil, with salt, pepper and paprika. Put in the oven. 30g butter While stirring the mixture, add the lemon juice, 3 spring 1 red onion onions and tin of butter beans. When the rice has absorbed 1 clove garlic the liquid, pour a little more of the leftover veg stock. 5 tbsp lemon juice Repeat. Repeat? Asparagus tips How long- 1 courgette Until all the veg stock is gone. 3 spring onions Take off the heat. Stir in the soft cheese while still hot. 1 tin butter beans Plate up. Aribatto rice Bowl up. 1 litre of veg stock Put it in something. Or on something. Or both. Tenderstem broccoli Serve the roasted tenderstem broccoli and a sprinkling of 50g soft cheese parmesan. Parmesan to serve Enjoy. Enjoy? Heat the 30g of butter in a frying pan. Add the onion and garlic and and fry until purplegreenredbrown golden. Add the asparagus tips, and thinly sliced courgette. When cooked through, add 300g of aribatto rice, alongside ¼ of the veg stock. DATE NIGHT #2 BETH: Why bother at all then? Alison sits at the table with dinner. She stares at the plate. ALISON: We’ve had many the dinner in silence. She stares at the urn opposite. She takes the lid off the urn, and sprinkles the ashes over BETH: That’s because you’re stubborn. her dinner. ALISON: We’re stubborn. She gorges. BETH: Were. BETH: Hello. Pause. Alison splutters, coughs, and looks up. The air is hot. Silence. BETH: It’s got asparagus in? BETH: Right. ALISON: Yeh. Pause. Alison eats. BETH: Can’t stand the stuff. BETH: So we’re not- ALISON: I remember. Pause. Pause. ALISON: I don’t know, ask Carlos! ALISON: I also remember that restaurant- Both laugh. BOTH: Carlos’. BETH: Well that’s cheered you / up- BETH: Yeh. ALISON: Mmhmm, and this food. It’s good. ALISON: And they- BETH: Shame. Alison begins to splutter and laugh. Pause. Alison looks out the window. BETH: Mmmhmm. I know what you’re going to say. BETH: Rain. ALISON: When they- brought that- ha- your face- I can’t even begin to- ALISON: I know. BETH: Yep. I definitely said- BETH: I hate this. ALISON: But they definitely heard- ALISON: I know. BETH: How’d you get from no to only? BETH: Did you put the bins out? ALISON: It’s Tuesday. person, not the folding clean clothes into neat clean piles person. The put the kettle on turn the radiator off person, not BETH: I know. the brew the tea for a few more minutes it’s cold outside let’s get cosy person. ALISON: Fuck. Now I’m all those persons. Pause. I want to be none of them. BETH: Maybe the neighbours / put it out BETH: If I could, I would. ALISON: They wouldn’t and they didn’t, you know that. ALISON: But you can’t. Pause. Alison puts her knife and fork down. She places the lid on the urn. ALISON: How am I supposed to remember all this shit. She picks up the dinner plate, and walks away from the table. BETH: I guess you just- END. ALISON: I’ve never, not once, thought about bin day. Not in any house. I’m not the bin person. I’ve never been the bin person. I’m the washing up person. Not the clothes horse person but the washing powder person, the washing line DATE NIGHT #3 1. A CASE OF YOU JONI MITCHELL 2. THE WILHELM SCREAM JAMES BLAKE 3. NORWEGIAN WOOD THE BEATLES 4. BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE- NEW ORDER 5. WEST RIVER TIBER & DAN CAESAR 6. WE BELONG TOGETHER VAMPIRE WEEKEND FT DANIELLE HAIM 7. WRITER IN THE DARK LORDE 8. I’LL TRY ANYTHING ONCE THE STROKES 9. ALL I NEED AIR FT. BETH HIRSCH 10. CANCEL ON ME BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB BURRITOS Boil the kettle, and pour over 300g of rice, to leave simmering on the hob. 1 brown onion Fry the diced onion and garlic until burnt. No not burnt. 3 cloves garlic Add half a packet of quorn chicken.