eraserhead - original soundtrack

label: I.R.S. records
released: 1982

i'm just going to assume that some of you out there are fans of david lynch.
or maybe you're just one of those people that are all like "what the fuck am i watching?".
i am both of those things.
i'm of the age to have seen TWIN PEAKS when it was on ABC.
it was one of those "strange things" that i always seemed to be interested in.
and then one day i was introduced to the movie BLUE VELVET.
there's just no going back after that sort of thing.
and then it was WILD AT HEART.
and then it was TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME.
and then it was LOST HIGHWAY.
but i'm not here to talk about my history with david lynch.

somewhere along the line i'd been turned onto ERASERHEAD.
i'd picked it up at the video store because i'd seen david lynch's name on the box.
i'd been fairly well versed in getting lynched by this time and i still found myself thinking "whaaaaaaaaaaaa?".
but in the best way.
i was 2 years old when it was released and i can just imagine what folks thought of it back then.
i was in a room with other people during my initial viewing and when it was over i was the only person left in the room. everyone else had left. someone had fallen asleep in a chair.
that was pretty much the last time my friends accepted my word on a movie.
sometimes having friends is overrated.
i was high most times back then.
i didn't know any better.

this isn't so much a soundtrack than it is a score.
soundscapes.
something maybe godflesh or sunn o))) and the like would play before or during or at the end a show.
and even though you're probably already aware of the fact: the pixies covered "in heaven (lady in the radiator song)".
that's gotta mean something,yeah?
and now i'll leave you by implanting the visual of replacing the baby in ERASERHEAD with black francis and slowly backing out of the room saying "in heeeeeeeavennnn....everything is fiiiiiine....".

DL