Echo and the Bunnymen

From Barbelith

More info on the band here: http://www.dez.com/doug/bunnymen.html

Todd:

Um, I read somewhere that the character of Frank was inspired by Bill Drummond's visions of a rabbit, as recounted in his book "45." (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0349112894/qid=1041571530/sr=8-8/ref=sr_8_8/104-6731832-4350303?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)

(from Hypnotism and NeuroLinguisticProgramming in Donnie Darko)

The film opens with an Echo and the Bunnymen song. The band were managed by Bill Drummond, who famously sent them on a tour of Scotland so that their erratic journey would make the shape of a rabbit. Drummond later went on to form the KLF. After a number of hit records influenced by Robert Anton Wilson's fact-and-fiction blending Illuminatus books (I saw Wilson speak in London in the week when the KLF reached Number One), the band faded from view. They re-emerged as the K Foundation, issuing proclamations in newspapers, became involved with the art world, and famously burned a million pounds.

In Graham Greene's short story "The Destructors," teenagers lay waste to a house, flood it by damaging the water mains, and set light to a mattress that they know to be stuffed full of cash.

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