they wake up to a house heavy on disarray and passed out people , and yet as the guests start stirring and drifting out and as the day wears on , the beers theyd cracked open for breakfast turn into mixed drinks by lunch , and its somehow just the three of them watching old movies they had not awakened hung over , nor are they drunk now and somewhere around nightfall , which arrives early in january anyway , anthony has this idea about driving west to the wisconsin border to visit his brother .