#Charlotte Stewart

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Eraserhead (1971) dir. David Lynch cine. Herbert Cardwell & Frederick Elmes

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Tremors (1990)

Director - Ron Underwood, Cinematography - Alexander Gruszynski

"Broke into the wrong goddamn rec room, didn't ya you bastard!"

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Laurel Near in Eraserhead (1977)

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Charlotte Stewart in Eraserhead (1977)

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ERASERHEAD (1977)

A very artistic and cerebral movie, think Andy Warhol and Don’t Touch Me I’m Scared. I found myself tense during the whole movie, I don’t know if it was the atmosphere, the sound effects, or if I was just matching the energy of our main character but I was going through something. RIP David Lynch.

⭐⭐⭐.5

The first eight (8) or so minutes of the film are this cerebral other worldly planet. It is so strange to behold when we are suddenly in reality and in a location that is something we can understand as being earth. But even once we are on “earth” there are things we don’t quite understand like an uprooted plant in soil just sitting on his bedside table. The synopsis calls it an “industrial environment” but it is unlike anything I have ever seen before. Yo, David Lynch straight up HATES Philly. This movie is basically set in alternate universe Philadelphia and Lynch did it like that because he lived in Philly for years and thinks it’s terrible (wack). I have never lived in Philly proper but I know and have known people who live there and they didn’t churn out Eraserhead. Maybe I have been away from the “City of Brotherly Love” for too long, I know Philly is responsible for the death of the hitchhiking robot but what did people expect from the place that birthed the Philly Phanatic and would later churn out Gritty? ANYWAY.

We learn the name of our main character, Henry, he is just a scared dude going through the world (think Beau Is Afraid energy). He goes to meet up with his gal who has been dodging him a while and has an awkward dinner with her family before the mother asks him if he has slept with her daughter. Then the mom starts to kiss up on him before Mary comes in to yell at her and we find out there has been a birth! There is a (maybe) baby at the hospital and it is Henry’s! The two are to be married at once! Flash forward we have Mary trying to spoon feed the thing she gave birth to. Henry comes home and is seemingly oblivious to the whole thing, he doesn’t seem to mind that the baby looks like it does (which is not very human) but also makes no attempts to help Mary care for it. He gets a little worm in the mail and doesn’t know what to do with it. Eventually the crying gets to Mary so that she storms out back to her parents house to try and get a night's sleep. 

Henry attempts to care for the baby but it gets sick and he doesn’t know what to do, he is terrified. When Mary is back she is having a fit in her sleep and Henry is pulling these fleshy nodes on what look like umbilical cords out from under her (maybe from inside her?) and he throws them against the wall. It is unclear if this is a dream as it breaks into a woman with enormous facial cheeks dancing on a stage. On another occasion when the wife is out, Henry’s next door neighbor just so happens to lock herself out of her apartment and asks to come in. At first she is distressed by the sight of the baby but she and Henry help distract each other. Henry cheats on his wife because he is stressed out which is not an excuse ever but the shot of them sinking into the bed that was a pool of water was really cool. Again our big cheeked lady on stage, this time she is singing that viral song that goes “In Heaven Everything is Fine.” 

Henry appears then his head pops off and his baby's head is where his head should be. A little boy scoops up Henry's head and takes it to a pawn shop where they bring it to a back room and remove sections of brain to make erasers. So it appears that the movie title comes from the fact that in this version of earth pencil erasers are made from grey matter. It isn’t entirely clear if this is just an unfounded fear of Henrys or if it is truly something done in his world and he is worried it might happen to him. Either way, Henry ends up killing the baby and it dies for so long, 1922 long, and Henry didn’t even do something that would kill it quickly and painlessly. Fucking yikes. No compassion for his own son-thing. The movie ends with more flashes of the planet from the beginning of the film and close ups of the baby's head.

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S1, Ep. 9: School Mom (1974) Little House on the Prairie (1974-1983)

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Tremors

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo abbiamo ripreso a parlare di animazione e in particolar modo della DreamWorks, portando all’attenzione uno dei film più strani di questo studio ossia Shark Tale. Oscar è un pesce pulitore che lavora in un autolavaggio per balene e sogna di diventare qualcuno di famoso. Un giorno il suo capo gli ordina di restituirgli un grosso debito…

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I had a clothing store called The Liquid Butterfly, and one day I came in and there was Jim Morrison. He was just standing in the store looking out the window. We were right across the street from Elektra Records, so there was a lot going on.

He was very much a loner, you know? He didn't do a lot of publicity or stunts of any kind. He was a pretty quiet guy, and so we became friends over several weeks, in fact we became drinking buddies.

We would often go down the street to just sit at a bar and talk. I wasn't looking for romance, I wasn't looking for a partner, I was just kind of a buddy he could talk to, a friend with benefits.

-Charlotte Stewart

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When I First Watched David Lynch's 'Eraserhead'

Please don’t ask me what “Eraserhead” is about because I’m still trying to make sense of it after all these years. Even David Lynch, who passed away on January 15, 2025 after battling emphysema, refused to tell anyone what it means as he prefers to let audiences come to their own interpretations. I finally got to see this surrealist body horror cult classic for the very first time at New Beverly…

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Program - Sparks

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Prairie Man: My Little House Life & Beyond by Dean Butler #BookReview #NetGalley #Citadel #Memoir #LHOTP #Television #50thAnniversary #LauraIngallsWilder

If you're a fan of 1970s television show #LHOTP, you'll want to check out Dean Butler's memoir, #PrairieMan. It's heartfelt and honest, and just the thing I needed to read during this #50thanniversary year. #ARC #NetGalley #BookReview #CitadelBooks

Cast just before his twenty-third birthday, Dean Butler joined Little House on the Prairie halfway through its run, gaining instant celebrity and fans’ enduring affection. Ironically, when the late, great Michael Landon remarked that Little House would outlive everyone involved in making it, Butler deemed it unlikely. Yet for four decades and counting, Butler has been defined in the public eye as…

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'Eraserhead' (1977) film

-watched 4/14/2023- 1 star- on Max

I don't know why this movie got pretty decent reviews- I like David Lynch's far-fetched, comical, horrific, artistic work, but when some of it doesn't make a lick of sense to me, I'm aggravated with myself for having sit there through the entire thing!

82% Rotten Tomatoes

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[ulrichgebert]

Dann probierte ich es auch mal mit David Lynchs düsterem und mutwillig geheimnisvollem Erstlingswerk Eraserhead. Henry hat im ehelichen Schlafzimmer ein immerzu quengelndes, fischköpfiges Vielleicht-Alien und unsinnige Visionen. Hat ein revolutionäres Sounddesign. Ich weiß auch nicht, warum ich sowas immer mache.