De Amerikaanse schrijver Bret Easton Ellis werd geboren op 7 maart 1964 in Los Angeles. Zie ook alle tags voor Bret Easton Ellis op dit blog.
Uit:Less Than Zero
As we walk out of the theater, ninety minutes, maybe two hours later, some girl with pink hair and roller skates slung over her shoulders come up to Trent.
“Trent, like, oh my God. Isn’t this place a scream?” the girl squeals.
“Hey, Ronnette, this Clay. Clay, this is Ronnette.”
“Hi, Clay,” she says, flirting. “Hey, you two, what flick did you see?” She opens a piece of Bazooka and pops it into her mouth.
“Um . . . number thirteen,” Trent says, groggy, eyes red and half closed.
“What was it called?” Ronnette asks.
“I forget,” Trent says, and looks over at me. I forgot too and so i just shrug.
“Hey Trenty, I need a ride. Did you drive here?” she asks.
“No, well yeah. No, Clay did.”
“Oh, Clay, could you please give me a ride?”
“Sure.”
“Fab. Let me put these on and we’ll go.”
On the way through the mall, a security guard, sitting alone on a white bench, smoking a cigarette, tells Ronnette that there’s no roller skating in the Beverly Center.
“Too much,” Ronnette says, and rolls away.
The security guard just sits there and takes another drag and watches us leave.
Once in my car Ronnette tells us that she just finished singing vocals, actually background vocals, on Bandarasta’s new album.
“But I don’t like Bandarasta. He’s always calling me ‘Halloween’ for some reason. I don’t like to be called ‘Halloween.’ I don’t like it at all.”
I don’t ask who Bandarasta is; instead I ask her if she’s a singer.
“Oh, you could say. I’m a hairdresser, really. See, I got mono and dropped out of Uni and just hung around. I paint too . . . oh gosh, that reminds me. I left my art over at Devo’s house. I think they want to use it in a video. Anyway . . .” She laughs and then stops and blows a bubble and snaps her gum. “What did you ask me, I forgot.”
Bret Easton Ellis (Los Angeles, 7 maart 1964)
Scene uit de film “Less Than Zero” Uit 1987 met o.a. Anrew McCarthy als Clay