We talked about what we'd done over the last week, just normal work weeks for both of us. I'd brought along some chips and offered to share; he had s...me beers in his racktop. We went to the side of the trail, laid or bikes down and sat on a grassy spot. I could still see both ways on the trail, there was nobody around."Not many riders today," Michael said. "Maybe because it's cooler."I agreed. "I thought about not riding today, but I enjoyed it so much last week that I decided to try it. ReceptionShocking in its graphic sexual content and riveting in its portrayal of passion run amok, Nagisa Oshima's brilliant, notorious Ai no Korrida is a cinematic landmark. No film up to that time had seriously explored the potent gray area between art and pornography; in so doing, Oshima exposed and overturned many of the conventions of both. Like vintage Luis Buñuel, Oshima skewers expectations of "proper" art by shocking the audience; instead of Buñuel's slashed eyeballs and cross-dressing. You go to work with strippers and become a party whore for strange men. Stay the fuck away from me back alley slut.’ Stunned all I could do is watch as he tore her down with his harsh words. Sarah was on the floor where she had collapsed during his attack. Her face was white as a ghost and she was shaking. ‘I just came here to get my stuff then I’m gone for good whore. I don’t want anything to do with you ever again. Stay the fuck away from me and don’t ever call or try to talk to me again.. I laugh quietly and shake my head as they begin to make out. “The boyfriend, I presume?” Jason asks with a smirk and I nod. He holds out his hand, “My brothers are just over there, want to come have some drinks with us? Dance a little?” I nod and look over at Ali, who hasn’t broken apart from Josh, “Bye Ali!” I say and take Jason’s hand as we walk over to his fraternity’s section of the beach with Matthew. They all give me a once over, nodding their approval to Jason as I press my back to his.