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I'm still trying to figure out Eraser Head.
Jay
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I last saw Eraserhead about 20 yrs. ago in college. IIRC, the movie's about the struggle between, on one hand, one's devotion to one's art and, on the other hand, the need to pay attention to and raise a family. (As if there should be a quandary here...) It is a pretty obscure movie, one that 'limp-wristed "feelm criteeks" ' (thank you, RockyD) looove to agonize over...
A college buddy of mine went to a costume party as Henry from Eraserhead. Black suit, skinny tie, hair piled high like a Serbian dictator, carrying the ubiquitous paper bag....needless to say, I was the only one that got the joke. Story of my life.....
Another mutual friend and I used to run a radio show on the local college station, and he'd play the theme song from Eraserhead, sung by the Lady in the Radiator...
"In heaven, everything is fine,
you've got your thing, I've got mine"
...as our opening and closing theme. We used to get a lot of calls from drunken jocks screaming, "WTF is that s&%t??? Somebody oughta have you arrested!" [rolleyes]