"LA. is like..nowhere. Everybody who lives here is lost." - Dark
I was living in Omaha, Nebraska in the late 1990's when my boyfriend (at the time) and I were driving around. The radio station we were listening to announced they were giving away free CD's in their parking lot. This was before Spotify, so we were soon part of a crowd digging through a pile of plastic cases. There was some sort of contest about a ticket hidden in one of the CD's, but I remember not really caring about the prize. I was more interested in the music, especially when I picked up a soundtrack to a film called NOWHERE.
I became obsessed with this compact disc. What kind of film was NOWHERE? How did the songs on the soundtrack fit into the film? How had I not seen nor heard of this film? I was even more intrigued because I recognized some of the actors in the photos, but this was either before Internet Movie Database or before I heard of the site. So, I searched all over Omaha for the film, but NOWHERE was, like...nowhere.
I just kept listening and obsessing over the free CD I stumbled upon. I was introduced to some great music, which painted many hypotheticals of NOWHERE. A few songs quickly became favorites. Life Is Sweet (daft punk remix) by The Chemical Brothers is a repetitive techno-beat that I wished my fave dance club would've played. Nowhere by Curve is a sexy, sultry ode to destruction ("An end must come to all this fun"). I Have The Moon by Lush may go down in history as my favorite love song because it's romantic, sad and wonderfully tragic ("You're bound to die under the sun"). Trash by The London Suede is a joyous celebration of living on the fringes of society, which I related to then and now ("We're the litter on the breeze"). Plus, 311, Hole, Chuck D and Marilyn Manson provide some edge to NOWHERE.
In a plot twist of fate, a cousin in Grand Island, Nebraska randomly rented NOWHERE and she knew I needed to see this crazy film she discovered. It was like the clouds parted and a beam of light shined down upon me. I finally found out what NOWHERE was about and the music & photos at last made sense, well, sort of. I eventually located NOWHERE in an Omaha video store. There was a DVD available but I didn't own a DVD player, so I purchased the VHS. Flash forward 20 years or so, and I finally found a DVD on eBay. (More about that happy moment here...http://freakboyzone.
In conclusion, I enjoy the soundtrack to NOWHERE so much that I purchased a used CD after my free radio station copy was stolen during the infamous 2004 Memorial Day Break-In of my Omaha apartment. For those without a gadget that plays CD's, I've noticed a NOWHERE playlist or two on Spotify and they may include a more complete soundtrack than the disc.
"NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" - Dark
Thank you for reading or listening to my half-blind words.
Freak Out,
JLH
P.S. A different post about a different Omaha soundtrack...
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In case you want to give the gift of words this holiday season...
