Lixian, a good buddy of mine, calls me up often to chat about almost everything under the sun. Everything.
Earlier in the day
Lixian: Hey say, when is your mum leaving?
Thomas: Roughly somewhere in December.
Lixian: Ok... you know it's not convenient for us to come your house when your mum's around... can't wreck havoc at your place man...
Lixian: Like DA BEASTIE BOYS ya know what I'm saying!
Thomas: ...
Lixian: Yeah... imagine da Beastie Boys... featuring MADAM LI!
(Images of the Beastie Boys and my mum dressed up as astronauts walking and rapping along in subways and the streets like the Intergalactic music video flashed across my mind.)
Thomas, shuddering: Erm, okkayyy.