Who is he/she/it and why/how did it escape? And where did it escape from? I have an image of a figure running around all over the place with a big pumpkin on his/her/its head. In the image, he/she/it has two eyes cut out like a halloween pumpkin (so he/she/it can see where they are going). I imagine they would need to have the cut-out eye holes - how would they escape if they couldnt see where they were going?

Pumpkin-head escaped from a hospital for Mad american horror film characters, that were never actually used. Thats why they are so mad/depressed. Unlike freddy and others, pumpkin-head never actually had hes own film, and he wasnt going to put up with it anymore.
A small van with 2 Megaphones on the roof, drove around the area broadcasting the news on the fateful day that he escaped.
I assume they caught him, but never saw it confirmed, unless pumpkin-head soup?¿¿¿??.

Well then who's Leo? :huh: "I'm coming I'm coming Leo! LEE-OH-WO-WO-WO-WO-WO!"

(I love that song by the way!)

That Leo song is from Billy Wlder's 1951 Ace in the Hole (aka The Big Carnival). One of the best films ever made about the sensation-hungry public and reporters who are all too happy to feed them. It's based loosely on the Floyd Collins story with Kirk Douglas playing a reporter who intentionally keeps a man trapped alive in a cave so he can milk the story. Here's a great clip introducing Kirk Douglas' character:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUw6vpFLdMU

The song (and alternate title) comes from the carnival atmosphere that grows around the cave-in:

"As Tatum’s copy gains traction with the public, curiosity seekers move on Escudero by the dozens, then thousands, hoping to make their own lives more important through their proximity to tragedy. The land outside the cliff dwelling is transformed into a literal media circus as a carnival erects a Ferris wheel. “We’re coming, we’re coming, Leo!” croons a country singer while a woman sells the sheet music of the song (a biting reference to country-western singer Vernon Dalhart’s exploitive 1925 song “The Death of Floyd Collins”)."

http://www.objectivistcenter.org/ct-1940-ace_film.aspx

I really can't recommend the film enough, now available through Criterion:

http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=396

It would be funny if it was about someone who had gotten themselves a fake tan, and when they saw their orange face in the mirror, scarpered to somewhere where no-one who knew them could see them.


:lol:

My goodness, now im impressed - all these things about a 1992 b side have come to light finally.. what is it about that song thats so addictive and seductive? For me its the happy, melancholic melody which also fills the Code album.. that and Shiftwork are two albums i always return to for a treat :)

Simon Rogers tells a great story about the making of this track in The Fallen

Tease. This book had better be as good - and as thick - as it could be, because if it is you'll have the definitive Fall tome on your hands, imo.

That's a great post from Hostile - the OTHER definitive Fall tome would be the one where (all? some of?) the lyrics were dissected in light of little shards of knowledge like this. The book would necessarily contain much that was subjective (Jean-Baptiste Clamence's rumination on the lyrics of Garden elsewhere on this forum is always my benchmark for pieces of this kind) but there are plenty of facts that could be brought to bear on the subjective bits, as Hostile shows above. It's difficult to imagine how one person could write such a book, but a good editor could certainly put one together as an anthology. The good folk of this forum would be a pretty amazing resource to have available, for a start. Smith would think it was bollocks, of course, and as with any Lit Crit-type stuff much of it would actually BE bollocks (see the Garden thread again, which features people convinced the song is actually about Bob Dylan - you what?) but it could still be an amazing read for Fall fans if it was well put together. If you wanted to be stupidly ambitious you could have a crack at the music itself while you were at it. People rate Revolution in the Head so highly, but this, if it was done right, would be that book times 1000 - the source material is so much richer textually, apart from anything else.

Go on, Faber, bung me 100 grand and I'll take the next three years off work and get the thing started for you.

That's the only teaser I've put out... I am restrained (in a cellar in Prestwich. I tell ya, that Austrian girl has started a trend)