Un Chien Andalou/Andalusia

Salvador Dali, perhaps best known for his landscape paintings featuring melting pocketwatches and other distortions, collaborated with Luis Bunuel on a short film of nightmarish proportions, "Un Chien Andalou" (1928).

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The title, which translates to "An Andalusian Dog," is meant to be as meaningless as the entirety of the film itself. Still, human nature is to find patterns and meaning even where none exists and countless analyses using Freudian, Marxist and Jungian formulas have been applied to the film.

In Debaser, Black Francis sings "I am un chien andalusia," taking poetic license with the film's original title which he thought sounded too French.

Andalusia is an autonomous and historic region of southern Spain with a population of over 7 million across 33,694 sqare miles. Andalusia's capital is Seville.

Because he supported the Fascist Franco in the 1930s and for pursuing fame and fortune in the U.S., Dali was expelled from the Surrealist movement by Andre Breton. Breton coined the anagram "Avida Dollars" -- "Greedy For Dollars" -- out of Salvador Dali's name and became a lead Debaser of Dali's art.

Luis Bunuel died of cirrhosis of the liver at age 83, in 1983.

Salvador Dali, oft recognized by his handlebar moustache, died in 1989 of heart failure at age 84.