This video should be prescribed for those suffering from insomnia.
As it happens, just before coming here, I had
New Improved and Beyond - from which this is excerpted - playing in the background. I find the audio soothing in an ambient way. Long stretches of silence, punctuated by Jay's occasional grunts and the rattling of plates.
This particular clip, with his eventual ex-wife mumbling "Let's go" in a brutally failed attempt to sound motivational, adds a layer of pathos. Her high school sweetheart was certainly musclebound and monosyllabic when she married him. But did she appreciate what a monstrosity he would swell into? Could she have foreseen her marital bed creaking beneath the weight of 315 lumpish off-season pounds slamming her into the mattress?