Tales from the Zone
Oct. 29th, 2010 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maryWhen the first MyChem trailer for the new album came out, Erinna was like "this is just Rant. I can't believe how much this is just Rant."
She was referring to the book Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk. To quote from Chuck Palahniuk's site:
I just finished reading another Palahniuk book, Lullaby (people say Palahniuk's a nihilist, but I think he's what happens when romantics work in hospitals and journalism for a while, which is the same thing only more poetic), and so I was looking the dude up, and I came across the fact he was a member of the Cacophony Society -- they inspired Fight Club's Project Mayhem (I've long had a lot of issues with Project Mayhem and the whole rah-rah-cavemen-rah nonsense which permeates Fight Club, but I think Lullaby demonstrates that Palahniuk's grown up quite a bit in his understandings of privilege).
Anyway, here's a little bit of what Wikipedia says about 'em:
Gerard, honey, you know I adore you and your crazy LARPing band of weirdos, but I think you'll find that bandom already got its Chuck Palahniuk fanfiction album about five years ago
She was referring to the book Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk. To quote from Chuck Palahniuk's site:
The only person not present is the subject: Rant Casey, an updated Huckleberry Finn in a messy, crowded near-future. Cars, traffic, and accidents all play parts, with chunks of the through-line action presented as radio traffic reports. Of course there's a romance. And of course it's confronting and occasionally violent. And sickening or sexy.
I just finished reading another Palahniuk book, Lullaby (people say Palahniuk's a nihilist, but I think he's what happens when romantics work in hospitals and journalism for a while, which is the same thing only more poetic), and so I was looking the dude up, and I came across the fact he was a member of the Cacophony Society -- they inspired Fight Club's Project Mayhem (I've long had a lot of issues with Project Mayhem and the whole rah-rah-cavemen-rah nonsense which permeates Fight Club, but I think Lullaby demonstrates that Palahniuk's grown up quite a bit in his understandings of privilege).
Anyway, here's a little bit of what Wikipedia says about 'em:
The Los Angeles branch of the society listed events in their monthly newsletter, "Tales from the Zone."
Gerard, honey, you know I adore you and your crazy LARPing band of weirdos, but I think you'll find that bandom already got its Chuck Palahniuk fanfiction album about five years ago