Lynchian Nightmare
My best ever project was an English Oral (oo-er)in which we had to give a 10 minute presentation on anything we wanted.

At the time, my inquisitive 12 year old mind had led me to raid my brothers horror movie video collection, and having made my way through all the F13, Freddy and Halloween movies, I was moving into the darker corners of the genre.

With two days to go until my presentation, I still had nothing. I don't know what possessed me to pick up Eraserhead that wet saturday afternoon, but it's bizarre visuals, and aural assualt, inspired me in a way that I can't express in words. It was so utterly bizarre, in the space of 10 minutes my mum, pretending not to be watching, went from 'what's the rubbish you're watching' to mouth-agape disbelief.

I had my subject. It gave me the advantage to talk about one of the most insane movies ever made, but also the ability to completely bullshit through the presentation. I could be certain none of my classmates would have seen it, and the film is so open to interpretation that I probnably explain it was a metaphor for the Disneyfication of the USA, and everyone would buy it. I could also fill half the time with random clips of randomness.

My one potential stumbling block was teaher. A slightly bohemian type, who had the hots for (particularly after she told my folks I would end up writing for the NME... this was when it was still good). There was the possibility that she knew the film, and would see through my ruse.

As it was, she hadn't (but knew of it) and I got top marks for choosing a 'difficult' subject, and dealing with it in a 'mature fashion'. And I made a few quid making copies of it for half the class.
RESULT!
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 19 Aug 2009, 8:23, 1 reply)

Eraserhead
is awesome. And I'm not the type of person who uses the word 'awesome'. Except I just did.
( Sonic the Hedgetrimmer doesn't care what you think, Wed 19 Aug 2009, 17:42, closed)