No Clue Velvet

Wow, I've been busy. Busy busy busy. Work is ramping up, leaving me with less time for trivial blog posts. When you think about it, however, it's trivia that keeps us going, that fills our days, that swells up inside us with false fulfillment, so allow me to add some more color to your day and that color is Blue.

Blue Velvet. It's a movie. By David Lynch. In case you aren't fully acquainted with Mr. Lynch, he makes weird, confusing, avant-garde-esque films such as Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Eraserhead, Dune, and Blue Velvet. He also was the creative force behind TV's Twin Peaks, which I think I was too young to become knowledgeable about. He's a film industry maverick, writing, producing, and directing films with unique flair and idiosyncrasy. In other words, I never became a fan. Lost Highway is a wreck. I think this excerpt from a chat with my friend Dre sufficiently explains:

Andre: for the record, blue velvet = really good

mulholland drive = really good

me: i just saw it [Blue Velvet]...and i didn't get it

it was annoying

Andre: everything else by lynch = not very good

i have to see blue velvet again

but i remember really really digging it

me: you would

1:06 AM

Andre: i actually saw it after mulholland drive

i hated lost highway

but blue velvet is coherent

its A to B

(in terms of story)

lost highway is A B F J D 9 4 Z

I think that sums it up. I agree with Dre, except that Blue Velvet, isn't that good. And, further, it's really really not good on cable TV with all of the curse words dubbed. Lots of freaks and don't mess with me freak and I'll freak you up. Very jarring and took me out of the film, which already had its issues.

There just wasn't enough of a point to it. I sat their watching and feeling that I was going to come away with nothing. Nothing that would empower, inspire, educate, entertain, impress. I was left thinking: so that happened, upset that I wasted two and a half hours. So be it. On the bright side, I was able to fast-forward through commercials. Thanks DVR.

So in closing:

Dennis Hopper likes
to curse, suck gas, and hit folks
Suburbia? Nope.

Jared