:04:01
Everything's far away.
:04:04
Everything's a copy
ofa copy ofa copy.
:04:12
When deep space
exploration ramps up,
:04:14
it'll be the corporations
that name everything:
:04:17
the I.B.M. Stellarsphere,
:04:19
the Microsoft Galaxy,
:04:21
Planet Starbucks.
:04:24
Gonna need you out oftown
a little more this week.
:04:26
We got some
red flags to cover.
:04:27
It must've been Tuesday.
:04:29
He was wearing
his cornflower-blue tie.
:04:31
You want me to deprioritize
my current reports
:04:33
until you advise
ofa status upgrade?
:04:35
Make theseyour primary
action items.
:04:37
Here's
your flight coupons.
:04:38
Call me from the road
ifthere's any snags.
:04:40
Narrator:
He was full ofpep.
:04:42
Must have had
his grande latte enema.
:04:46
Like so many others,
I had become a slave
:04:49
to the IKEA
nesting instinct.
:04:51
Uh, yes. I'd like to order
the Erica Pekkary dust ruffles.
:04:55
Operator: Please hold.
:04:56
IfI saw something clever
:04:57
like a little coffee table
in the shape ofa yin-yang,
:05:01
I had to have it.
:05:02
The Klipske
personal office unit,
:05:05
the Hovetrekke
home exer-bike,
:05:08
or theJohannshamn sofa
:05:10
with the Strinne green
stripe pattern.
:05:12
Even the Rizlampa wire lamps
:05:14
ofenvironmentally friendly
unbleached paper.
:05:17
I'd flip through catalogs
and wonder:
:05:19
What kind ofdining set
defi nes me as a person?
:05:23
I had it all.
:05:25
Even the glass dishes
:05:26
with tiny bubbles
and imperfections.
:05:28
Proofthat theywere crafted
by the honest, simple,
:05:31
hard-working indigenous
peoples of--
:05:33
Operator: Please hold.
:05:34
Narrator: Wherever.
:05:35
I was holding.
:05:36
We used to read pornography.
:05:39
Now it was
the Horchow collection.
:05:41
No, you can't
die from insomnia.
:05:44
What about narcolepsy?
:05:45
I nod off. I wake up
in strange places.
:05:48
I have no idea
how I got there.
:05:50
You need to lighten up.
:05:52
Can you pleasejust
get me something?
:05:54
Narrator: Red and blue Tuenols,
lipstick-red Seconals.
:05:57
No. You need
healthy natural sleep.