Life After Symbolic Suicide

In the film, Waldowski tells Hawkeye that he has suffered a "lack of performance" with a visiting nurse and now believes he has latent homosexual tendencies. Soon after, he reveals his desire to commit suicide and seeks advice on which method to use. Hawkeye, Trapper and Duke (Tom Skerritt) suggest that he use the "black capsule" (a fictitious, fast-acting poison). At an impromptu Last Supper, Painless takes the capsule (actually a sleeping pill) and falls asleep in a coffin to the strains of "Suicide is Painless". Hawkeye then persuades Lt. Maria "Dish" Schneider (Jo Ann Pflug), a nurse who is returning to the U.S. the following day, to spend the night with Painless and cure him of his problems.

- Melancholia transformed. In the mourning I'll rise. In the mourning, I'll let you die!

On Becoming a WIlling Participant in the "Others" Desire

The Self-Castrating Figure

You’re running and ... johnny’s song
Nobody thought, oh nobody thought
What johnny thought
Nobody knows, nobody knows
What johnny knows
Only johnny knows, what I’ve done

No one is talking bout the of the ...
Until the day johnny had no clue
What I could do
If you were in my shoes, you’d do it too
If you were in my shoes, you’d do it too.

Enjoy!

This is My Rifle, and this is My Gun...

...on over-identifying with my chosen community.

Big Tools

from Wikipedia:

The title references an idea first conceived by Carl Jung and later expounded upon by Drunvalo Melchizedek concerning the possibility of reaching a state of evolution at which the body would have two more than the normal 46 total chromosomes and leave a currently disharmonious state. The premise is that humans would deviate from the current state of human DNA which contains 44 autosomes and 2 sex chromosomes. The next step of evolution would likely result in human DNA being reorganized into 46 and 2 chromosomes, according to Melchizedek.

Furthermore, the song references a wish to experience change through the "shadow"; an idea which represents the parts of one's identity that one hates, fears, and represses, this exists as a recurring theme in the work of Carl Jung.

Musical (and Social) Interludes

You Can Get Anything that You Want...

...at Alice's Restaurant