Saturday, February 13, 2010
There’s a scene in the childhood nightmare movie sequel Return to Oz where Fairuza Balk has to wander through a hall of trinkets and guess which items are actually her friends — Tik Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead, and an ottoman-cum-moosehead — since said friends have all been enchanted by a terrifying usurper witch. Also, this witch has myriad interchangeable heads because she’s really vain. Also there’s a b-side Rock Biter minus the personality. And then there are Wheelers:
Along with my new Thermos, some mother-of-pearl buttons for my mom, and a hardcover copy of Gilead, I walked out of the Brooklyn Flea having exorcised some serious childhood demons.