Shannon’s Perspective:

“With your feet on the air and your head on the ground.”

I think it is important, before we go forward, for you to realize I am a bit mad, sometimes I’m entirely bonkers but I’ll tell you a secret. All of the best people are.  Ok, so maybe I borrowed that from Alice in Wonderland (the Tim Burton version), but it is true.  I am a bit mad, and this song makes me celebrate my own madness.  From the very first… “Stop!” to the last “Try this trick and spin it.”  I know I’m a bit mad and I’m ok with it.

This song has also been used A LOT in television and movies to convey a type of madness but 2 of them make me love this song even more.  The first is 1999’s box office hit Fight Club.  The end when this song is playing is just fabulous.  The second is an episode of Criminal Minds called The Lesson.  The version of the song in this episode is an instrumental version and is on a kids lullaby album.  The episode shows a pair of unwilling but very much alive human marionettes dancing to this version and let me just say it is haunting.

This lullaby version has also been the alarm on my phone for several years now and I have a kind of Pavlov response when I hear it playing.  I think our dog Kenji does as well as he kept looking at me while Larry and I danced to this version tonight.

Larry’s Perspective:

Welcome to what we are colloquially calling "March Madness".  This project is still very much a work in progress. As we've literally worked on it everyday, we started to see some themes forming and decided to try and have some fun with it, only as we can. Because it's our project.

Disclaimer: I follow one sport and one sport only: Formula One racing. And no, it's not because of Drive To Survive. It's been at least 20 years now. So the "March Madness" theme has nothing to do with basketball. I could care less about baseball, basketball, curling, football, hockey, Indy, Nascar, etc. So growing up in the heart of THE Ohio State University zealots was the Canadian equivalent of a kid who could only skate on their ankles.

The key word here is "Madness".

This Pixies song has always been fantastic. And I thought it was perfect to close out Fight Club. Especially when you watched it the very first time and figured out who Tyler Durden really was...plus Meat Loaf was in it! His name was Robert Paulsen! IYKYK.

As you may have noticed in the title, there are two versions of the song I had to dance to tonight. One that I love, and one that scares me to the core.

While Shannon and I do share a lot of things in common, I can proudly say I have not watched all of the Law & Order series 50 times over. Or Criminal Minds. Or Serial Killer documentaries. 

So while my murder may point to any one of my current or former co-workers or family members, it was Shannon. She clearly knows all the ways to get rid of me, the body, the evidence, etc. You can't see it but I'm blinking twice to indicate I am in danger. Again. Shannon did it.

More on this later, but we used to all watch The Simpsons. And you would not believe how much I lost it when in Season 14, Episode 5 (literally titled "Helter Skelter" - how's that for madness?) they made a parody called "Law & Order - Elevator Inspectors Unit".

Shannon did not appreciate her beloved franchise being made fun of...but I did...and still do.

Shannon did it.