1) the soundtrack (girl group, and falsetto, matching something truly butch)
2) the dressing, rather then undressing
3) its real presence as an urtext (anderson, the popularaztion of finland, punk, lynch, jackass?, barney?)
4) the iconography (skulls, the scorpio badge) in teh extended bedroom sequence
5) the intertextuality (james dean, who stole from the outlaws, is being stolen from in turn, in the little altar, where he acts as a trinity, with elvis and the jolly roger) (or him watching the motorbike movie while suiting up)
6) the presence of lil abner comics, and making lil abner almsot pornographic, and defiantly queer (is it lil abner?)
7) god i want the boots
8 the super quick intercutting in palces, adn how some of the boys seem very amgy
9) drugs as interior design
10) the sludgy, murky soundtrack, like a shotgun underwater
11) it seems v. LA, i just got finished reading visonar states, adn the all of it, the soundtrack, the shots of oscars, the seeing things thru movie screens, teh odd bluelightling that looks like the sunshuien glare is trying to be blocked out,
12) its only kind of satanic, but the whole sexual subtext of jesus as motorcycle boot enthusit is remarkably erotic (to the chiffons hes a rebel?!?!
13) whats the source text for the jesus scene
14) its machine fetishism, its tellign of charachter thru costume and interiro design, rather than dialouge, etc, is sirkian
15) the nude scenes are very brief, and ambigous, which makes thnigs even more exciting
16) the frenzy, teh hot to trot, overwhelming popcult frenzy, that occurs at the rape scene, intercut wtih more jesus, is really disturbing, noisy adn nightmarish
17) making the connection b/w the aesthetics of fascism, the hsitory of xianity and american popular culture, in the last third, seems to tie up the issue is a nice little bundle and the swatiska/hitler intersplices seems extrenous
18) the pan(ic) scene to the religous ambigious I will Follow Him is a really nice touch though
19 it gets boring near the end

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