Yellow House Artist Collective exhibition of painting, drawing, sculpture and photography, there was also a puppet theatre, light shows, performance of plays and regular screening of films. These included a range of classic, avant garde and modern works such Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali's "Un Chien Andalou", Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", Phil Noyce's "Better to Reign in Hell", Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympia" and Peter Weir's "Count Vim's Last Exercise", as well as works by Albie Thoms, Bruce Petty, Mick Glasheen and Arthur and Corinne Cantrill. In 1990 the Art Gallery of New South Wales staged an exhibition which comprised, in part, reconstruction of some of the
Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot the tune's middle section when he called home to check his messages. The lyrics for "Spirit Ditch" include the line "horse-laughter is dragging pianos to the ocean", which was inspired by a scene from the Luis Buñuel film "Un chien andalou". Although he once explained the album's idiosyncratic sound by admitting "I didn't know what I was doing", Linkous purposely used found sounds throughout the recording of the album – these included sounds that he found on records, sounds that he recorded and, in one instance ("Ballad of a Cold Lost Marble"), the sound that a defective amplifier was making