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March 25, 2001 - 12:09 pm

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I am going in-fucking-sane on the caffeine intake today, and I see no reason to stop. It is the fuel of my life. Don't ask me for a blood transfusion, unless you'd like to get really, really shaky.

(That ought to put a stop to all of the people who email me and say "Bill, can I get a blood transfusion?")

Hmm.

Well, I was planning to treat you to a little more rock ala Bill. It was an original song I wrote, and it is called "Hitler's Girlfriend." It's all about Eva and her love for her man. Unfortunately, I cannot find the tape. If I've lost it, I'm going to have to hunt down my friend Nick and see if he still has a copy. See, back in the days when I was a lousy student at DePaul, Nick and I would while away the Saturdays in his room twiddling with knobs on a four track and pretending we were called 'The Veltones.'

If I can find Nick, and he has copies of 'Hitler's Girlfriend', that means I may also be able to obtain copies of such Veltones classics as 'An Ugly Monkey (Nobody Really Likes)' and 'Old Man Blues,' a song in which I'm 90 and Jewish for three minutes.

Oher things I considered discussing today: Cosmo quizzes. Fight Club. Lolita.

On Fight Club, briefly (if you haven't seen it, make up your mind now whether or not you want to continue reading...): I thought it was wonderful the way Project Mayhem basically turned out to be another corporation. This was great and ironic, as the Norton character was trying to escape that existence.

Consider: Project Mayhem was very much like a corporation in that it became autonomous (functioned independently), had branches in major US cities, had a uniform, a filing system (and was therefore bureaucratic), a code of conduct (Don't ask questions about Project Mayhem i.e. keep those corporate secrets secret), and, you didn't have an identity until you were dead ("His name was Robert Poulson.").

How 'bout them apples?

Also: I think Fight Club was more about embracing the establishment rather than rebellion. In the end, Norton chooses order over chaos, and literally kills his chaotic side. He chooses an independent, individual path, based on his personal morality, rather than aligning himself with corporations(capitalism) or Project Mayhem(socialism/communism..remember how agrarian they were?)

Also, any film that ends with a Pixies song is A-OK in my book.

Not 12 hours after I watched Fight Club, I finished a book I'd been reading for months. Strangely, the book used the exact same plot device Fight Club employed.

Hmm, that wasn't brief at all, was it?

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