SLC Punk! Page #8

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- Yes.

And she should be.

- But who she is...

- Is evaporating.

I don't think

she knows who she is.

I think we're starting to talk

about pain here, Stevo.

A human being

must go through pain.

- What is Jones doing?

- Satanic bible.

I'm gonna prove there's no Satan.

He doesn't exist!

He's going to try to summon the beast

tonight at midnight.

He isn't going to come,

and when he doesn't come...

Jones will have proved

that science is the only truth.

- Have you met my other sister?

- There's a lightning storm coming.

I need to get a picture ot it.

Hi, Stevo.

- That's my sister.

- Your whole tamily is a little strange.

Yes, but we are strange.

- Let's speak of anarchy.

- Yeah.

So we started our debate.

This was our custom.

He believed in structure,

I believed in chaos.

This was an ongoing fight.

He seemed to be winning.

Parties are like this in Salt Lake

for us punks.

The days would pass. There would be

a party, then a fight, then another day.

This was the cycle.

It was getting old, though.

I was feeling old.

Anyway, it was a weird night.

The school ot science says the world

moves trom order to disorder... chaos.

They're tools, Stevo.

You know, lite goes trom order

to disorder to order.

Atoms come together randomly

to torm a structure.

- An intant is born...

- A child, yeah.

Exactly. It grows, it gets older,

it dies, it decomposes.

- Exactly.

- Back into chaos.

Exactly. Anarchy.

But then those atoms are reformed

into something else.

A blade ot grass, a tree,

a tlower, whatever... the cycle, man.

I got it.

The cycle, man.

Yeah, I get you.

The cycle.

The time is now!

I'm gonna go out

and I'm gonna prove...

that all your faith and all your prayers

are untounded!

You comin'?

- Is he serious?

- He's always serious, Stevo.

I'm gonna go watch.

I'll see you later.

- I treasure these talks, Stevo.

- Not as much as I do.

We've got science to celebrate

and demons to dispel.

Ott your butt, Pippy!

We're gonna go show that science

is the only truth!

- I think we're gonna cut.

- This makes me uncomtortable.

He shouldn't be playing

with something he doesn't know.

I don't blame you. I'll get a ride home

with Sandy. Have you guys seen her?

- I saw her in the back earlier.

- So did I.

All right, I'll see you later.

What?

What do you want?

It wasn't that I loved Sandy.

I knew that we had an understanding.

I discovered then that Chris was right...

all things had systems, even me.

I was about to beat the sh*t out of this

guy because he had invaded my territory.

It was my territory, no question

about it, just like in the wild.

I was following nature, nature was order

and order is the system.

- Shut the f*** up!

- Stop it! Stop it!

Get otf me!

Get the tuck otf me!

You're such a f***in' p*ssy.

What the tuck did you do that tor?

F*** you.

In the name of Satan, ruler ot the Earth

and king of the underworld...

I command the forces ot darkness

to dispel their internal...

Jones didn't need to prove

the devil did not exist...

not as a supernatural being...

because I had seen the devil.

He was in that room with Sandy. He was

me, Harvard, my mom and dad, all of us.

Jones was just making

all of this up anyway, so who cared?

"F*** 'em," I thought.

"F*** him, f*** this party...

and f*** everything.

Above all, f*** anarchy."

I don't know,

we were, like, just kickin' it...

smokin' cigarettes and...

Trish had, like,

candy corn, dude, and...

We were just watching birds and sh*t

and I just started thinking...

Salt Lake

ain't that bad, you know.

You know what I'm sayin'?

I know it sucks and all...

but, you know,

this is, like, home, you know.

What the f***

are you talking about?

All I'm saying is,

it you think about it...

no matter where you go

you gotta have a home...

and Salt Lake is, like,

home.

- This place is never gonna be my home.

- I'm just saying...

No, you said

what you were gonna say.

Get it?

Now you tuckin' listen.

Look at this f***in' place.

It's a sh*t hole!

Look out there and tell me

what you see. Nothin'!

Nothin' piled upon

tucking nothin'.

It's like Jesus Christ took a sh*t

and it landed right here!

So you can be happy

all you f***in' want. All right?

I used to think we were alike,

we were similar.

We had something together, like this.

We thought alike, we telt the same way.

But you...

F*** you.

Grow up, Bobby.

Look around and grow up.

'Cause I swear to God, man,

I'll tuckin' write you otf like that.

This is your home?

You know what? F*** your home.

And this city was still the same. Just

look like it. There's nothing going on.

That's what I saw when I looked out

over the city... nothin'.

How the Mormon settlers

looked upon this valley...

and felt that it was the promised land

is beyond me.

Maybe it looked different

back then.

Look at this thing, this temple.

When I was 7 and we moved here,

Mom and Dad told me this was Disneyland.

Righttully so. Been livin' with Mickey,

Donald and the whole crew since.

And now Mike, a good friend of mine,

was gettin' out.

What?

I'm leaving.

I'm going to Notre Dame.

- How could you do that?

- I'm 18. I gotta go to college.

Mike, I'm gonna miss you, man.

It's gonna suck around here without you.

- What's you major gonna be, dude?

- Botany.

- What's that?

- Plants.

You're gonna study plants.

I wanna save the rain forests.

Somebody's gotta tight for them.

Do you believe this guy?

He's going oft to save the plants.

This guy was one ot the most

hard-core sons ot b*tches I ever met...

and he's going otf

to save the plants.

I remember this time

he was drunk...

and he got the idea in his head

that all the cars on his block...

would look better without windows.

Get down, b*tch!

He took 'em all on.

They needed to call backup.

Finally they got him

in the back of a squad car.

The cops thought he was on angel dust...

"The only way you could do it."

Not so.

It was just Mike.

He broke those goddamn handcuffs,

kicked the window out of the car, drunk.

That's it.

Never got caught either.

Story was all over the papers.

It took weeks for us to get him to admit

that it was him that had done it.

Now he's going off to hug a tree.

I kind of knew it was the end.

All that was lett was Bob and me.

First two punks.

The last two punks.

Then again, I was getting the impression

I was all that was left.

Bob was in love.

Stevo, I want to introduce you

to a young friend of mine.

I think you'd like her.

Yeah?

Why do you think that?

I don't know.

She's smart...

and she's ambitious.

- I'm not ambitious.

- Not yet, dude.

I love you.

Bob loves you.

- What's the matter?

- Nothing.

Nothing's the matter.

I'm right as rain.

Why are you always depressed

all the time?

I'm not depressed.

I think Sandy really got you.

No.

You know, dude,

it's no big deal.

You're like my brother...

and I love you and all.

But what that f***ing b*tch did,

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