Eraserhood › (FREE LATE NIGHT CABARET) ‘Queen Annaconda’s Revenge’ w/ Jess Conda @ Underground Arts Black Box – Philadelphia PA (9/6)

Late Night Cabaret 2015 **THIS IS A FREE EVENT** 21+ | Doors 10PM | First Sundays have been hosted by this dynamo of cabaret since 2009 -thus we welcome back the director of BRAT Productions – JESS CONDA as she hosts the Openstage (with friends) and as this follows her FINAL performance of Brat’s The…

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Ancient Machines: The Lady in the Radiator is the Heroine

FINE“For in truth I was looking at a collection of ancient machines that had no meaning: all syntax, no semantics. I was claiming I saw a meaning in it. But this meaning had no reality, outside of my mind. I had brought it into the hall with me, carrying it in my head, and now I was playing games with semantics by pasting it onto these iron monuments.”

— Neal Stephenson, Anathem

The Lady in the Radiator is the heroine of Eraserhead. That’s right: the heroine. I’ve been thinking about this since 2010, when I began my first serious attempt to get inside the artistic process that led to Eraserhead. I have read no interpretation that comes close to giving her proper place in David Lynch’s mythic meta-dreamscape. What follows is my attempt to explore at least some of the thematic aspects of Eraserhead, especially as they pertain to The Lady in the Radiator.

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