While everyone munched on their Mexican food, Lacey feared that Danny would be a disaster calling up the bands to interview. "Hey dude, it's dope. I'm gonna do this dope documentary. Yeah, man. Dude. Sure," she mocked. C'mon, now. That's not fair. Danny clearly would have thrown in some "wicked" also. At this point, Rachel noted that Nehemiah was really slacking. After all, if this job were something that would help out her career, she'd be working her ass off on it. Hey! Nehemiah has been working his ass off. Did you not see his stirring piece, Still Waters Run Deep? One word for you, missy: GENIUS.

Later that evening, Nehemiah and Wes hit the bars but not before pimp rolling down the street first. "Dude, I'm gonna be so black by the time I finish this whole thing," joked Wes. Well, it's not so much that he'll be black as he'll be black-and-blue from all the beatings he'll receive. And speaking of beatings, this docile episode about video production suddenly turned violent as some local hooligans tried to start shit up with Nehemiah in the bar. There was lots of shouting, and when some jerk spilled a drink on Nehemiah, everything got out of control. Granted, no stools went flying (like in Philly), and no racial profiling went down (also like Philly), and no skulls were broken either, but, well, there was still enough tussling that the little "Here's Nehemiah!" circle had a hard time keeping up with its subject. Luckily, Wes had his back, right? Right? Eh, not so much. You see, Wes was in the corner canoodling with his beloved WREN. Oops! Bad time for the dreamgirl to stop by!

Well, Wes and Wren and some others finally caught on to what was happening, and as they were all kicked out of the club, Nehemiah began shouting his mouth off at anyone and everyone. Oddly enough, Wren tried to hold onto Nehemiah's arm, but she was about as sturdy an anchor as an empty plastic bag. Needless to say, she was tossed around. Wes, meanwhile, tried to get his roommate to simply keep walking, but Nehemiah was on a tear as he pushed his boy away violently, making the blurred out crowd of locals cheer in excitement. Uh oh. Memories of skull fractures flooding back...

When we returned from commercial, Nehemiah still seemed P.O.'d, but at least he was further from the fray. Don't know why he was so inconsolable. Not even the gentle touch of Wren could calm the beast as Nehemiah actually shoved her away too. And then he shoved away LINDSEY!! Whoever she was. (MTV felt the need to write her name. Don't know why.)

The next day, we were greeted to mournful images of rain (isn't it nice how the Austin weather always conveniently parallels the emotions in the Real World house? Who knew God loved Bunim/Murray so much?), and in case you couldn't tell that things were sad in the house, we then saw Wes sitting by the pool, his feet dangling in the water. A repentant Nehemiah joined his buddy and noted that he had called Wren and Lindsey to apologize for the night before. This led to a dull interview with Wes who said that as men, they had to grow up and not fight and... yawn... I'm sorry, I dozed off for a sec. Nehemiah then went into the phone room to call his mom, but what did he talk about? The fight? Losing his temper? Controlling his rage? Nope. He complained about Lacey. YES! You know someone's on the road to Outcastville when the roomies vent to their parents. Smell ya later, Lacey!

To be honest, I really couldn't understand most of Nehemiah's conversation with his mother. For some reason, even though they subtitle every other interaction on the show, the producers left this phone talk relatively untouched, which meant I had to decipher static and muffled voices to figure out what the hell was going on. Basically, what I could discern was that when Neh was dissing Lacey, his mom said that maybe he should try to find out why she operates that way, find out who she really is. They then talked about how growing up, everyone always teased and made fun of each other in the household, but as Nehemiah smiled fondly, his mother told him not to act that way because that sort of communication was unhealthy. Wow, Nehemiah's mom is pretty cool! Or "dope-ass," as he later referred to her. Yes, when the call was over, Nehemiah retreated to his bed, and with tears in his eyes, he relayed to Melinda how he'd just had the longest conversation ever with his mom. Furthermore, he realized he was pissing away this great opportunity to advance his video career. I gotta admit, this was a nice scene. The two of them had such warm, thoughtful things to say about the situation, my cold heart melted a teensy bit.

Posted by B-side on September 7, 2005 1:29 AM