Leave whatever your opinions of the intent theory are at the door of your cave and venture inside for a minute. Imagine that David Fincher & company were intent on synchronizing their film "Fight Club" with the Radiohead album The Bends. If such a thing could occur, it logically follows that Fincher would try to drop hints throughout the film. Here are the hints that I have found so far.

1. FIRST CHOICE (TAKEN FROM THE DVD'S RUNNING COMMENTARY):

David Fincher: "(I said that) we cannot have someone do music for this film who's ever done it before because it will just freak them out, trying to thematically tie this all together."

Brad Pitt: "We were pushing for Radiohead."

Ed Norton: "Brad and I had a mutual fixation on the second two Radiohead albums."

2. "PLANET TELEX":

Track One on "The Bends", "Planet Telex", is referred to at least three times within the film.

(a) (Taken from www.greenplastic.com) "'Planet Xerox' was this song's original title, but because Xerox was a copyrighted name, Radiohead changed it to 'Planet Telex.'" Jack: "When deep space exploration ramps up it'll be the corporations that name everything: the I.B.M. Stellarsphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks..."

(b) The pay phone that Jack uses to call Tyler is made by a company called Telnex.

(c) When Tyler disappears and the house is run by his army, Jack refers to the place as "Planet Tyler", a mere two letters away.

3. YOU DO IT TO YOURSELF

Jack: "Home was a condo on the fifteenth floor of a filing cabinet for widows and young professionals." At the exact moment that Jack's flaming apartment appears in "The Bends Club", Thom sings, "Don't get my sympathy hanging out the fifteenth floor..."

4. FIGHT CLUB / OK COMPUTER?

I haven't yet found an FC/OKC synch--it's fair game--but the film has several odd connections to that album as well.

(a) Jack, on the effects of the support groups: "Babies don't sleep this well...every evening I died, and every evening I was born again."

Thom, from "Airbag": "In the deep, deep sleep of the innocent, I am born again."

(b) Thom, from "Airbag": "In a fast German car, I'm amazed that I survived...an airbag saved my life" (Jack inspects car accidents for a living, and near the end of the film is involved in a bad one); and, from "Paranoid Android": "Please, could you stop the noise? I'm trying to get some rest" (the battle cry of an insomniac).

(c) In the beginning of the film, when Jack is bemoaning Marla's intrusion upon his little self-help universe, he refers to her three times as a "tourist". Kind of a strange word to use as an insult; stranger still to use as the title of OK Computer's last track.

(d) If you turn to the first page of the OK Computer liner notes, you'll find a detail from what appears to be a guide for what to do in the event of a plane crash. There is a picture of a man holding out his arms next to an airplane window, surrounded by flames. Does this remind you of a certain pamphlet created by Project Mayhem?

So is all of this simply coincidence, or is it intentional? It may sound like I'm chasing a red herring, and granted, one can find hidden "clues" if one looks hard enough at anything, but with a film and a band with so many apparent connections already, I think it's at least worth a glance. Any thoughts?