If you know me, you probably know how much I loved the movie Mulholland Drive by David Lynch.

Not only was it a masterpiece mind fuck by David Lynch, but it came out in that perfect period of my life.  It came out in 2001, right after I graduated college, drove across the country and was back home living with my parents for a year.  I had a lot of free time on my hands, hadn’t started really living life or paying back student loans – so I had money to spend, and I had my best friend from high school, Reggie, back home also.  That meant when a weird movie came out and was actually playing in my home town, we were going to see it.

But there’s more.  It didn’t play at the normal theater.  It played at Aimee’s Movie and Dinner.  Aimee’s had just opened at that point.  Glens Falls (the city neighboring my home town) was trying to revitalize it’s downtown, and Aimee’s was part of it.  Aimee’s was next door to Wallabee’s Jazz Bar and served food and drinks during the movie.  Most dinner and movie places I assumed served dinner, then the movie.  Aimee’s took your order, started the movie and brought you your food.  It was fantastic.  Unfortunately from our experiences it was going well.  There were never more than 6, or 8 people there at a time.

So we went often.  I think Reggie and I saw Mulholland Drive 4 times there during its run.  And thankfully Aimee’s is still open and doing much better business than that first year.

This year, when Sam saw that Silencio was coming to the Beachland Ballroom and Tavern, we had to get tickets and go.  The music of David Lynch.  Perfect.  If you don’t know, Silencio was a club where the pivotal scene of Mulholland Drive took place.  It is a memorable spanish version of Roy Orbinson’s song Crying by Rebekah Del Rio.

Silencio was amazing.  They played two full sets.