A new book with the long-ass title In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre by Josh Frank provides some insight into the early days of the Eraserhead cult. A musician and host of the underground cable show New Wave Theater, Ivers also wrote the song that supplies the first part of Frank’s book title. The Pixies have recorded it, Devo used to play it live, but it is best known as The Lady in the Radiator’s song from Eraserhead. (Ivers was murdered in 1983 – a case that remains unsolved.)
Eraserhead’s life as a midnight movie began in 1977 at the Nuart Theater in Santa Monica.
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