It is late and I have deleted a large post about THE YEAR AND WHAT IT IS MEANS. Because it was stupid.
Instead, here is "Shelley Duvall's Rock 'n' Rhymeland" in its entirety, courtesy Youtube. I thought that "Gordon Never Really Learned to Play" in the dungeon was actually "Sister Christian," but only the first two notes of the chorus sound like that. The rest is new jack swing!
I must have the tickler scene that follows memorized to the frame in some deep dank crevice of my brain. Still frightens me.
Also, Little Richard: hoot. Also, Brian Setzer as lead in an alley cat house band YEARS before neoswing! Edith effing Bunker! Gary Shandling and Terri Garr as Jack and Jill! A completely unrecognizable Woody Harrelson! That guy from "Dave's World"! Remember "Dave's World"?! Also, also, also. You can list your own favorites. I'm still trying to figure out who Dweezil Zappa played.
The message of the film is simple: when you take the characters you love out of your storybooks, they come to life in the real world temporarily, and quickly die because the world they live in is a flimsy simulacrum world built on the delusions and ramblings of an elderly rhyming woman. Like Baudrillard writing a really bad episode of "Pete and Pete." Which he would, naturally. ("Pete and Pete" is the show where I heard, for the first and probably only time, the phrase "milk makes me phlegmy," which to date is somehow grosser than most things I can possibly imagine. Almost ruined milk for me for life, but milk is pretty good.)
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