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My Imaginary Conversation with James Franco

by Paule Kelly-RhΓ©aume

February 5, 2016

Jan 5th 2015, 2:33 am

@lapinkmilk: hi @jamesfrancotv
@lapinkmilk: i can't sleep hbu?

@jamesfrancotv: not bedtime yet do you wanna πŸ’₯?

@lapinkmilk: bang?

@jamesfrancotv: haha ya im just messing w you tho
@jamesfrancotv: :( try counting 🐏🐏🐏

@lapinkmilk: baaa baaa k I'm done w that

@jamesfrancotv: baaad girl

@lapinkmilk: πŸ’

@jamesfrancotv: why can't you sleep?

@lapinkmilk: thinkin bout chou

@jamesfrancotv: ha
@jamesfrancotv: bet you are
@jamesfrancotv: what time is it?
@jamesfrancotv: for you

@lapinkmilk: 2:45
@lapinkmilk: AM

@jamesfrancotv: lemme guess
@jamesfrancotv: *browses thru pics* mtl?

@lapinkmilk: haha good one
@lapinkmilk: ...
@lapinkmilk: you're down the street right?

@jamesfrancotv: parking the car

@lapinkmilk: it's snowy watch out

@jamesfrancotv: ice ice baby

@lapinkmilk: ya that too β˜”οΈβ„οΈ
@lapinkmilk: where is you?

@jamesfrancotv: β˜€οΈπŸ˜Ž sawry

@lapinkmilk: s'ok I got dis guy ⛄️

@jamesfrancotv: I'll snowball-fight him

@lapinkmilk: haha the wit on you

@jamesfrancotv: where's the pat-yrself on the back emoji?

@lapinkmilk: dunno on yr shoulder?

@jamesfrancotv: you got me

@lapinkmilk: i gotchou boo

@lapinkmilk: can i ask you a ?

@jamesfrancotv: shoot

@lapinkmilk: what is it about 35 year-old men?

@jamesfrancotv: im not 35
@jamesfrancotv: anymore

@lapinkmilk: manner of speaking
@lapinkmilk: you know wut i mean

@jamesfrancotv: 😏
@jamesfrancotv: do i?

@lapinkmilk: what is it about after thirty
@lapinkmilk:... Something slides

@jamesfrancotv: 35 y old men have a lot going on
@jamesfrancotv: gotta be more specific

@lapinkmilk: like why are you always tryna go to bed w PYTs

@jamesfrancotv: who wouldn't

@lapinkmilk: no but what is it
@lapinkmilk: you wanna drink their blood or something?

@jamesfrancotv: im not brad pitt

@lapinkmilk: no he married a woman his own age

@jamesfrancotv: you think i'm creepy?

@lapinkmilk: it's just
@lapinkmilk: I wanna understand why

@lapinkmilk: like, are you for real?

@jamesfrancotv: girls wanna be fuckable

@lapinkmilk: but do they wanna get fucked?
@lapinkmilk: like in Palo Alto - "I'm older so I kno there's not much good out there... and yre rlly good."
@lapinkmilk: that's such a line

@jamesfrancotv: but it's true

@lapinkmilk: no it's just a hook you're reeling her in

@jamesfrancotv: it's fiction

@lapinkmilk: read sumthn in the new yorker yesterday like "autobiography is the only form in all the arts"*

@jamesfrancotv: what's wrong w finding somebody special?

@lapinkmilk: bc that's not it
@lapinkmilk: you feel the dissipation of youth so you try to lick it off someone else

@jamesfrancotv: what do u know about me

@lapinkmilk: i know
@lapinkmilk: you're old enough to know better

@jamesfrancotv: nothing wrong w recognising beauty when you see it

@lapinkmilk: but it's like all creepy men
@lapinkmilk: they don't stop at the recognition
@lapinkmilk: why?

@jamesfrancotv: what do u think life is all about
@jamesfrancotv: s-e-x and the pursuit of it

@lapinkmilk: but the measure of her love is different
@lapinkmilk: she doesn't understand the unloving that fucking does

@jamesfrancotv: there's like, a moment in life - you have to capture it.

@lapinkmilk: there's no courage in your love

@jamesfrancotv: what is this, The Interview??
@jamesfrancotv: why'd you write to me?

@lapinkmilk: cause I want to understand and I don't

@jamesfrancotv: ....

@lapinkmilk: and i still don't
@lapinkmilk: you know i liked you in 127 H
@lapinkmilk: when you cried I believed you

@jamesfrancotv: so what's wrong then?

@lapinkmilk: i just don't know why "great" artists have to be such assholes sometimes.

@jamesfrancotv: the complexity of human emotions feeds deviances

@lapinkmilk: and where does your empathy turn blind?
@lapinkmilk: im not deviant n i cry too

@jamesfrancotv: i guess i do it bc i can

@lapinkmilk: throwing back the limits of possibility?

@jamesfrancotv: trying to see how far I can get

@lapinkmilk: but you know, curiosity killed the cat
@lapinkmilk: not to mention the girl you might be screwing over

@jamesfrancotv: hey she can say no

@lapinkmilk: but it's the overture that's misplaced
@lapinkmilk: like, who does she want to fuck
@lapinkmilk: maybe not u

@jamesfrancotv: dayum girl

@lapinkmilk: i just wish you wouldn't have your cake and eat it too

@jamesfrancotv: aren't we all trying to do that?

@lapinkmilk: yeah but in the end it's just throw-up all over your Chinos.
@lapinkmilk: πŸŽ‚πŸ˜–

@jamesfrancotv: i dont wear chinos

@lapinkmilk: corduroy then?

@jamesfrancotv: i'm Not That Kind of Guy

@lapinkmilk: haha okay then sonny

@jamesfrancotv: okay kiddo
@jamesfrancotv: time for bed no?

@jamesfrancotv: i gots some Ho-tel Paintin' to do

@lapinkmilk: suits me
@lapinkmilk: i got some writing to finish dreaming up

@jamesfrancotv: ...hmu if you're eva in LA

@lapinkmilk: tbc: midnight franco convo

@jamesfrancotv: yass

@lapinkmilk: don't spill anything on those curtains now 🎨

*"Autobiography is increasingly the only form in all the arts." Rachel Cusk quoted in the New Yorker, p. 70, January 5, 2015, from a conversation with the Guardian.