Peaches and Andrew Interview Transcription

Peaches: I’m Peaches.

Andrew: I’m Andrew.

Peaches: Okay, I’m gonna start, I’m gonna ask-- no, you ask me first. 

Andrew: Okay. What was your first impression of me? Hm?

Peaches: Okay so... okay, well, the first day I saw you, we hadn’t officially met, we hadn’t talked or anything, I didn’t know your name, but I looked at you, and of course, I thought you were really good-looking, um…

Andrew: Why’d you get all shy?

Peaches: Because, it takes me back to the time where I didn’t know you and I was extra shy, you know what I mean?

Andrew: Mkay…

Peaches: Um, it was the first day of my first semester at a new school and starting college, my first day of college, and it was my first class too, and out of everyone in that room, out of everyone I passed by in the halls, you were like the first person who actually grabbed my attention.

Andrew: Mmm. (they laugh) 

Peaches: Um, and right away, I was like, “Oh my God, like fuck, I should talk to him,”, you know? I was already planning it in my head. (Andrew: Mmm, yeah?) And finally-- Stop! (they laugh) Finally, um, the first day we did talk, I believe it was when we were-- when we were showing the class our artifacts from home, right? (Andrew: Right.) And yours were particularly interesting because I-I know you had indigenous artifacts and everything you brought in was brown, and the artifacts I brought in was brown too, or were brown too. (Andrew: Mhm.) And, I always associate brown-ness with family, with home, with luxury, with skin, with love, you know? So right away, I was like, “ Oh my God, I’m even more interested,”. And then, when I asked you about your artifacts, I don’t know, the way you spoke to me was just so like, calm and cool, and there was so much that I wanted to learn more about you, and I don’t know, just like going, walking into that class, seeing you everyday, just excited me about life, about a new connection I was about to start with you. 

Andrew: Mmm, okay.

Peaches: Okay. 

Andrew: I’ll take that one. 

Peaches: Okay, next question… Fuck I lost it. You know what? I should just save the photo… Ahh! Okay… Oh wait, this is me asking you. 

Andrew: Hm, mkay. 

Peaches: Okay, what does my love feel like? 

Andrew: Your love feels like… like a divine connection to this other world, this other source that is not attainable here, you know? (Peaches: Hm.) I can claim it as mind-altering, I can claim it as life-changing, you know? Overall, life lessons have told me that love is more important than anything, you know? Love is like water, you know, we need it in life to sustain ourselves, to be healthy. (Peaches: Hmm.) Mhm. And love is… could be undescribable, but it can be so described as well.

Peaches: What do you mean? Describe it then! (they laugh) 

Andrew: It’s just like… different sense of reality, I can (Peaches: You think so?) put it in like that type of word, yeah. 

Peaches: That’s cool, I feel like your love is very-- or transcends me, like you to something other-worldly, (Andrew: Mhm.) but not in a bad way, it’s almost like… ‘heaven’ other-worldly, you know what I mean?

Andrew: Yeah, this connection that I feel is totally like divine-feeling, or as I feel like a good light, you know? A good source, a good energy, (Peaches: Mhm.) you know?

Peaches: Thank you.

Andrew: Mhm. Take it.

Peaches: Okay, and then you ask me this one, number three. 

Andrew: What is a pain in me you want to help me heal? 

Peaches: Oh shit, let me think… Um, a pain in you… I think you already do a good job of supporting yourself, not that you don’t need me, but if anything, I think when it comes to support, I need you more than you need me, you know? But I-I do recognize the times you get angry, I do recognize the times where you feel down about yourself, like you’ve told me um, your family may judge you for the path you’re taking because being an artist or um, being a-- or, choosing like skating as one of your um careers, you know? It’s like, obviously it’s not orthodox, it’s not what they want you to do. (Andrew: Mhm.) and I know that brings you down, um, and I want to help you heal from those insecurities they might’ve established within you. I do understand that you, um, present yourself as strong and more powerful than those words, than their thoughts, and-- which is, which is really great, but I do understand that it can affect you deeper than I-- than you show me, and I want you to be able to confide in me whenever you have those thoughts, whenever you doubt yourself. Um, (Andrew: Mkay.) and when you get angry, I-- when you get angry, I try to back off ‘cause I don’t wanna like, um, make anything worse, you know? But I do notice, which is what I’m learning from you, that it’s so easy for you to take something negative and turn it into something positive. And it may take a little while, but that’s eventually how it goes with you and I think that’s really cool. (Andrew: Mhm.) Um, I’m so big on communication, you- you know that. (Andrew: Right.) When you’re angry, I want you to be able to communicate your feelings to me, so I want to be able to help-- I want to help you get to that, ‘kay? That way I don’t have to like, to wonder like, “Ooo, is he also gonna-- is he also mad at me? Is there something--”, you know what I mean? (Andrew: Mhm.) Yeah, okay this is the last question, (Andrew: Okay. You’re sweet.) and I have to ask you. (Andrew: (mumbles) You’re lovely.)

Peaches: Huh?Andrew: Okay, what is it? 

Peaches: Um… oh, number four. What is the most difficult part about isolating together?

Andrew: Phew… (Peaches: I’m so sorry.) where do I begin? (they laugh) I’m just kidding. The most difficult part about isolating with each other... (Peaches: Mhm.) would probably be just being too close together for a certain period of time, you know? I feel like every individual needs their own personal space, their own personal boundaries to just be themselves and  express themselves. Do whatever they do, do creative things,  their ways of doing normal life, you know? I feel like a nice little break, you know,  a nice little healthy break is not bad, you know? Because you’re gonna be with them all day, every day, so it’s like, a nice little break, if someone goes to a different room, or if someone goes to, you know, the sala, and chill, right there, puts the foot massage, you know? It’s nice, you know, it’s giving you space, you know? It’s giving you time to think about not only how you can better yourself, but better your interactions with that person-- (Peaches: Yeah, yeah.) So…

Peaches: I think when you’re at work, I spend a lot of time reflecting on how I act when I’m with you, especially now, (Andrew: Mhm.) and I know that-- I mean you’ve already said it when we spend so much time together, like-- You didn’t say it now, but you’ve said it before. Um, it’s easy for us to like get annoyed at every little thing--

Andrew: Well yeah, because too much of anything could just be bad, you know? So it’s easy to get irritated when you’re around someone too much, you know? Or around anybody too much, that’s why everybody has, you know, like their own space. Healthy for everyone, yeah? 

Peaches: Yeah, space is good. 

Andrew: Yeah.

Peaches: When you go to work, I still get sad.

Andrew: Well I mean, that’s fine, when I come home from work, I’m coming home to a beautiful lady, and I feel blessed, you know? There be days where I come home, there’s nobody here, you know? (Peaches: Yeah.) There’s no cheekies, and when I come home there are all cheekies. I’m chilling, I’m blessed, nothing to complain about, really. Yeah, I could just sit here and complain about bullshit when I’m enjoying my life. I’d rather use that time wisely, am I right? (they laugh) That’s right.

Peaches: Yeah.

Andrew: Right?  (they do a handshake in the background) Sick ass handshake.

Peaches: Okay, well that’s it. I love you. 

Andrew: I love you.