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|  |  Saturday: Raging Bull
11.12.2003 by , every Wednesday.
 
 Nathan Lane comes over every Wednesday to the house to watch a movie, or just chat with Dan.  Dan found these little chats so interesting, he decided to tape-record them and tell the world all the neat things Nathan had to say about movies and stuff.
 
 Saturday, the second-last day, the sun burnt out long ago.
 
 Raging Bull (1980): A biographical film about the middleweight champ, the physically tough, but emotionally self-destructive Jake LaMotta.
 
 (our voices sound like they're in a tin can)
 
 Nathan: I hate everything!
 
 Me: Yeah, that's what she said.
 
 Nathan: Who?
 
 Me: What?
 
 Nathan: Who said that?
 
 Me: Nobody.  Nobody said that.  It's just something you say.
 
 Nathan: What?  You just say that who said that?
 
 Me: Nobody!  What's the matter with you?
 
 Nathan: Have you been talking to someone else?  I thought these seven days were supposed to be just us?!
 
 Me: What do you mean?  Of course!  I haven't been talking to anyone, Nathan.
 
 Nathan: You better not have been.  I find out you've been talking to someone else, I'll be out of here so fast.
 
 (sound of a distant siren.  not the emergency kind)
 
 Nathan: It's getting messy in here.  You ever think about cleaning up?
 
 Me: Why?
 
 Nathan: Let's talk about the movie.
 
 Me: Let's talk about the movie.
 
 Nathan: I can see my two hands in front of me.
 
 Me: Is that a review?
 
 Nathan: It's what I identify with.
 
 (I sigh loudly)
 
 Nathan: Oh, what?
 
 Me: Nothing.
 
 Nathan: No, tell me, Dan, we all want to know.
 
 Me: Why do you gotta be so damned obtuse all the time?
 
 Nathan: Fuck you, obtuse.
 
 Me: Don't you ever want people to like you?
 
 Nathan: More than anything.
 
 Me: Then why shoot yourself in the gut?
 
 Nathan: Like I said, Dan, I can see my two hands.  Here they are, right here.
 
 (sound of me smacking Nathan's hands away)
 
 Me: I said cut that shit out!  I want this to be good!
 
 Nathan: I'm trying.  It's not like I ever get any help from you.
 
 Me: I'm not as smart as you!!
 
 Nathan: That's what it's all about, isn't it?  Jake just isn't as smart as everyone else.  He's just a dumb guy using what he's got.
 
 Me: I hate you.
 
 Nathan: This is how it happens, Dan.  You will sit here slamming your head against these prison walls.
 
 Me: Oh, don't get all dark on us.
 
 Nathan: Do you want to change seats?
 
 (we switch seats)
 
 Nathan: That's better.  Isn't that better?
 
 Me: I get it.  It's better.
 
 Nathan: Now Dan, tell me about what you will do when I'm gone.
 
 Me: I told you not to bring that up.
 
 Nathan: All right.  What will you do the day after next?
 
 Me: I can't think that far ahead.  I live in the present.
 
 Nathan: Bull.  Everybody plans.
 
 Me: What will you do?
 
 Nathan: If you draw someone with wild, daring eyes, it doesn't actually mean that that person you drew is wild or daring.
 
 Me: And my grandmother having wheels does not actually make her a trolley-car.
 
 Nathan: You're right.  You're not as smart as me.
 
 Me: I want to die.  And I want to be remembered.
 
 Nathan: The best you can is good enough, Dan.
 
 Me: Stop saying my name.
 
 Nathan: Starts to sound strange after a while, doesn't it?
 
 Me: I just want to forget who I am a lot of the time.
 
 Nathan: Well, get a sandwich, Charlie, 'cause we're going in again.
 
 Me: I can't do it.  I'm done.
 
 Nathan: No way.  Nu-uh.
 
 (sound of a match striking)
 
 Me: One more?
 
 Nathan: One more.  Hey, I haven't slept either.  I'm getting those flashes of heat-shudders about every minute now.
 
 Me: What do you think it would sound like if we re-arranged every piece of sound on this tape?
 
 3. Nathan: How could we?
 
 2. Me: After this, we should never talk.
 
 5. Nathan: But you don't want to get better.
 
 4. Me: I'm feeling really sick.
 
 1. Nathan: Somewhat similar to most of the other tapes.
 
 [end transcription]
 
 next week: it'll be Sunday, but we won't be at church.
 
   
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