Toward the end, he gets angry at his patronizing American girlfriend and throws around a few kitchen appliances and innocent pomegranates.

He had problems with his American girlfriend, he said.

"You don't empathize," one character, an uptight German law student, is told by his American girlfriend.

The 24-year-old Strang has an American girlfriend.

As things get druggier, he meets a hooker named Tweety who is not at all like Jane, his American girlfriend.

His American girlfriend is with him.

I had an American agent, an American dentist and an American girlfriend.

I hope all your friends in Bali aren't as reliable as your American girlfriend.

The principal flutist on that occasion was his American girlfriend, later to be the source of that anguish in Ettlingen.

So I'm thinking, he came to New York, wants to get into the music industry, wants an American girlfriend - this is so bizarre.