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VINCENZO ARGENTO: My family, can't move out until marriage.
Typical old school Italian type of thing.
My parents both came from Sicily.
They met over here in America.
Of course I love it.
Who doesn't love their parents?
I love my mother and father.
But it's hard for me to live here.
It's tight, very tight.
My name's Vincenzo Argento.
I'm 22 years old, and I still live with my mom.
I live in Ozone Park, Queens, New York.
This is my home.
I live with my parents.
Yeah, I'm just stuck with my parents.
Ma!
ANTONINA ARGENTO: What?
VINCENZO ARGENTO: I'm starving!
ANTONINA ARGENTO: Tough, you have to wait!
I'm cooking dinner.
What do you think this is?
VINCENZO ARGENTO: What are you making?
ANTONINA ARGENTO: I'm making pasta with sauce, chicken on
the barbecue, and sausage.
VINCENZO ARGENTO: I'm 22 years old.
My brother's 28.
We grew up in the same bedroom.
He's still up there, so I decided I'm gonna move
downstairs.
ANTONINA ARGENTO: He's been down there, I
would say seven years.
He wanted the basement downstairs.
He says, Ma, can I have the basement so
it could be my room?
And I said yeah.
VINCENZO ARGENTO: I'm actually a bus driver a few days a week
during the week.
On weekends I'm a DJ.
I have my own little company.
And also I went to school for audio engineering, so I'm into
music production.
ANTONINA ARGENTO: He wanted his studio down there.
It doesn't look like a studio.
It looks like a damn mess down there.
I want him here, but I don't want him here.
VINCENZO ARGENTO: When you walk downstairs,
one, there's a couch.
Right when you get downstairs, there's a couch on the right.
It's got to be from the '80s.
My brother's pet lizard, it's in a tank
right next to my bed.
And about three days a week he puts crickets in there.
So you hear crickets day and night.
This is a exercise bicycle.
I look like I exercise?
No.
ANTONINA ARGENTO: He doesn't do anything around the house.
If I ask him to take out the garbage, oh Ma, now
I have to do it?
Yeah, Vincenzo.
The garbage comes tomorrow.
Yeah, all right.
I'll do it later.
Well, later never comes, so who throws out the garbage?
His mom.
VINCENZO ARGENTO: I don't know if you've seen my basement.
It's a mess.
I'm not bringing nobody down there.
ANTONINA ARGENTO: Yeah, there is other people's junk.
But I think most of it is mostly his junk.
He doesn't really have a closet, I understand.
He doesn't have room to put his clothes, so I put it in my
laundry room.
VINCENZO ARGENTO: I think a cleaner appearance, anything,
can make anybody feel more mature and like they know what
they're doing in life.
ANTONINA ARGENTO: I want it to feel like
it's his own apartment.
But I want it to be neat, so when people do come
downstairs, I could say look, this is my son's room.
This is his studio.
I want it neat, that's all I want.
VINCENZO ARGENTO: Downstairs it'd be nice if I had separate
areas for work, sleep, and lounging around.
ANTONINA ARGENTO: So Vincenzo, how do you
think of my sauce today?
Did I do a better job?
VINCENZO ARGENTO: How do you think of it?
ANTONINA ARGENTO: How do you think of it?
Even if--
VINCENZO ARGENTO: Practice a little more.
ANTONINA ARGENTO: OK.
MALE SPEAKER: Oh.
ANTONINA ARGENTO: My sauce is good.
I don't want to hear it.
VINCENZO ARGENTO: I feel like if it was a lot cleaner down
there, the style that I would want, I'd bring a
female home, hang out.
ANTONINA ARGENTO: He's going to meet somebody.
Because I mean, I lived at home until I got married and I
met my husband.
VINCENZO ARGENTO: Until I find a girl like my mother, I'm not
going nowhere.
But they don't make them like that no more.
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