Into The Wild Page #5

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Society, you're a crazy breed

I hope you're not lonely without me

When you want more than you have

You think you need

And when you think more than you want

Your thoughts begin to bleed

I think I need to find a bigger place

'Cause when you have

more than you think

You need more space

Society, you're a crazy breed

I hope you're not lonely without me

Society, crazy indeed

I hope you're not lonely without me

Thanks a lot.

In the letters

Chris wrote me from college,

it was clear his anguish and problems

with Mom and Dad had continued.

He said I was

the only person in the world

who could possibly understand

what he had to say.

With whose money are you buying

all these goddamn presents?

I work. The only reason

I'm not talking is because

you're wandering around acting like

the big-shot flirt with everybody.

I am making the contacts

for this business to work!

You don't care at all about what I do!

I don't even want to talk to you

about it anymore!

Don't you walk away from me, woman!

Woman!

Kids! Look what your dad

is doing to me!

For God's sake,

look what your mother is making me do!

F*** you! I hate you!

There ain't gonna be no party.

I'm gonna cancel Christmas this year.

Cancel Christmas?

Who do you think you are? God?

That's right! I'm God!

Well, you're not God.

You can't cancel Christmas.

That's bullshit!

We're 10 deep!

Alex, I don't mean to be on you about

everything. You're doing a great job.

I wanna keep you on and

we all wanna help you get to Alaska,

but you've got to start wearing socks.

With almost a year having passed

since Chris' disappearance,

my parents' anger, their desperation,

their guilt was giving way to pain.

And pain seemed to bring them closer.

Even their faces had changed.

She convinces herself it's Chris,

that it's her son

whenever she passes a stray.

That it's her son

whenever she passes a stray.

And I fear for the mother in her.

Instincts that seem to sense the threat

of a loss so huge

and irrevocable that the mind balks

at taking its measure.

I'd begin to wonder if I can understand

all that Chris is saying any longer,

but I catch myself and remember that

these are not the parents

he grew up with,

but people softened by the forced

reflection that comes with loss.

Still, everything Chris is saying

has to be said.

And I trust for him that

everything he is doing has to be done.

This is our life.

Big game. Very big game.

Got it.

Damn it!

Get off!

"Hey, Dad, can I light the barbeque,

please, Dad, this time?"

"Well, Son,

you can go get the lighter fluid."

"Come on, Dad. Please, Dad, please?"

"Well, why not, Walt?

That sounds like a good idea..."

"Shut up, Carine! Shut up, Carine!

"No, Billie. I told you once.

Don't make me tell you again. Okay?

"Okay?

"You hear me? You hear me, woman?

"You hear me, woman? Huh?

You hear me, woman?"

"Sorry. Sorry, Walt. I'm sorry."

Sh*t.

No! No! Damn it!

God damn it! F***!

"There was clearly felt the presence of

a force not bound to be kind to man.

"It was a place of heathenism

and superstitious rites,

"to be inhabited by men

nearer of kin to the rocks

"and to the wild animals than we."

Sunni.

Hey, Sunni! Come here, baby.

No. No!

But now all I'm focused on

is just Alaska.

- Yeah.

- Alaska.

All right. Let's hear it for Insane Cain!

Let's give it up

for Slab City's own Tracy T!

Let's give it up

for Slab City's own Tracy T!

Hey. My name's Tracy.

- Tracy!

- Yeah!

Jack London is king.

Hey, you gonna stay with us long?

Well, I'm waiting on a check

from my last job

to come into Salton City

the day after Christmas.

I've got to start thinking about

getting ready for Alaska.

When the sun gets a little lower tonight,

I'm going to start a calisthenics routine.

After the check comes in,

I think I'm gonna try to find

some big old mountains I can climb

every day until spring comes.

I've got to see

how far the money's gonna go.

I've still got a lot of supplies

to pick up before spring.

So, I might get another job

or I might be okay.

Hell, we'd give you a little something for

the days you spend in the booth here.

I'm not taking

any money from you, Rainey.

It's been a real great twist

meeting you two.

You two look like you're doing good.

- We are doing good.

- Yeah?

We're doing real good.

Speaking of which, don't you think

you ought to introduce yourself

to our little Joni Mitchell over there?

I...

- Hi.

- Hi.

You selling these books?

I am. We are.

He was.

I like to read.

- Do you?

- Yeah.

That's good.

I heard you play your song last night.

- I'm terrible.

- You are not terrible. You sing sweet.

Thank you.

I was gonna go take a walk

to Salvation Mountain.

- You wanna go?

- Okay.

- Hi.

- Hi. Alex.

I'd like to show you around up here.

I've been here since 1984, more or less.

A lot of tourists come in here

and they look at that car door up there.

They really like it.

And I found car doors and put them

up there and I bolted it all in.

Where did you get the telephone poles?

A lot of people in the valley

just love me a lot.

Everybody now, I think,

in the whole world is just loving me.

And I want to have the wisdom

to love them back.

And that's about it.

So I really get excited.

You really believe in love, then.

Yeah. Totally.

This is a love story that is staggering

to everybody in the whole world.

That God really loves us a lot.

Does that answer that?

- Yeah.

- Good.

I really love it here. I think the freedom

of this place is just so beautiful.

To me, I wouldn't move for $10 million,

unless I had to.

So I'm contented here in the desert,

and I'm living where I want to live.

And I think good gets better.

And I think those great big tanks there

were the sewer plant for

the Marine base in World War II.

If you want to,

you can try putting your hands in there.

And I'm gonna do the same thing,

just for the fun.

You're doing real good.

You can wipe your hands off on my shirt

if you want.

This is starting to make me hungry.

I was just a couple of years older

than Tracy when I got pregnant.

- Wow.

- Yeah.

Yeah, I thought my husband and I were

going to just make peace on Earth

and babies and love

and stay together forever,

and that didn't quite work out that way.

He left me.

So, I...

Anyway, whatever,

but I ended up raising Reno on my own.

That's my boy, his name's Reno.

Then I met Rainey.

That was sweet.

It was really good for a while. It's just...

You know, Reno was

a teenager already by then,

and he was just on his way

to becoming his own man.

And I haven't even heard from him

in two years.

I don't even know where he is.

I hope I get to meet him sometime.

Do your folks know where you are?

Hey, guys?

Dinner's ready if you guys are hungry.

Yeah, we are. We're hungry.

I'll be all right.

You want to come and eat?

Or we'll sit here.

Because I will sit here with you all night.

Let's go. Let's go.

Guys, come on. It's getting cold.

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