The second you saw the name "Luis Buñuel" in yesterday's post, you should have known this was coming.
"I am un chien andalusia" is literally a line in this song.
"Slicing up eyeballs" is literally a different line in the song.
Can we look at the title of the film, though? Un chien andalou is a mishmash of French and Spanish already. The film is really about nothing. It's a surrealist collaboration between Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. It was, at points, stomach-turning, debasing the standards of art and morality.
Ahhhh, there it is. The title. That last sentence paraphrases Black Francis a.k.a. Charles Thompson IV, the writer of this song and leader of the Pixies, the Boston-based post-punk band that broke through the US consciousness with their 2nd full length album, Doolittle, which opened with this bombastic song.
Never released as a single in the US, this song hit #23 on the UK charts. More personally, it's possibly my favorite song by a band that I count among my favorites.
The Pixies did break up in the mid 90s but reformed about a decade later, and are still together and still making music. Kim Deal did leave the band in 2013 to devote herself to The Breeders full-time, and was replaced on their 2013 tour by Muffs frontwoman Kim Shattuck - who was amazing as a fill-in.
Shattuck was replaced the next year - by most accounts, because her personality (which had been very frontwoman-y and outgoing) didn't mesh with what was a mostly introverted band, which is a shame because she was incredible. She was replaced by Paz Lenchantin, who, to be fair, is also incredible.
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