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The Melting
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The Melting 23

The mad road to the cells of the sky

In the small screening room of the hotel, Donnie Darko had already begun. It was another favorite of Sandy Pearlman. We once sat in his van and watched it at a small makeshift drive-in theatre in Austin, Texas, after the twilight spectacle of thousands of bats exiting a labyrinth of caves and filling the sky. It’s all about frequencies, he had said. I r…

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