Nostalgia Trap - Episode 239: Heaven is a Place Where Nothing Ever Happens w/ Tyler Scruggs

Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 12:35 a.m.

David Lynch\u2019s Eraserhead (1977) remains an unrivaled enigma in the history of cinema, a cult film that launched the career of one of Hollywood\u2019s most enduring outsiders. The process of making the film, detailed in Lynch\u2019s 2018 memoir Room to Dream (co-written with Kristine McKenna), reflects the complicated intersection of individual vision and economic reality that would define Lynch\u2019s path as a filmmaker. But do these cultural and economic conditions even exist anymore? Musician, writer, and fellow Lynch-head Tyler Scruggs joins us to talk about Eraserhead\u2019s unique production and cultural legacy, in a conversation that explores authorship, adaptation, consciousness, and what it means to be an artist in the digital era.\xa0 \xa0