I'm sure I've spoken about Portishead's third album, Third, here at some point, and I know I've posted my favorite song from my favorite album of theirs. Third has a quality not many albums have. It sounds to my ears like a mapping of my own personal mental interiority. I'm not sure I can adequately explain that without filling up a few pages; suffice it to say, this album lived in my blood from the moment I first heard it upon release in April of 2008.
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I drove up to the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville last night to see David Lynch's Eraserhead on the big screen for the first time. Needless to say, it did not disappoint.
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| Poster by the inimitable Marko Manev. |
The sound design in this film is amazing, and to finally behold it on the big screen... man! I've seen many of Lynch's films at the theatre - everything from Lost Highway after (except The Straight Story) as they came out, as well as Blue Velvet and the original Twin Peaks Pilot, but never Eraserhead. This was everything I thought it would be. Also, the audience had a special treat, as The Belcourt is pairing many of their David Lynch Retrospective across the month of March with some of his short films, so I also had the distinct pleasure of seeing The Grandmother.
I'd seen this before, but not in years and not on a big screen. The Grandmother may be even more unnerving than Eraserhead; I'm not the first one to say it, but many of these early-period Lynch films have an unmistakable "Industrial Nightmare" feeling to them. I had indulged in a deep drag from my vape pen before the screening, only to realize by the time The Grandmother began that it hit me SUPER hard. So I went into both films completely ripped and had a full-on hallucinatory experience, which was a bit difficult to manage at the time, but eventually worked out to be an extremely memorable experience.
Playlist:
Ghost - Satanized (single)
TVOTR - Young Liars E.P.
TVOTR - Final Fantasy (single; 2004 Recording)
TVOTR - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Zeal & Ardor - GREIF
Black Sabbath - Eponymous
The Bronx - IV
Ghost - Infestissumam
D'Nell - 1st Magic
Roy Ayers - Ubiquity
Isaac Hayes - Three Tough Guys OST
Isaac Hayes - Truck Turner OST
Led Zeppelin - Presence
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Drug Church - Prude
Fugazi - 13 Songs
PJ Harevey - Rid of Me
The Police - Outlandos d'Amour
Portishead - Third
