Hot Rod Biology

I am so familiar and such a fan of David Lynch, this question is hard for me to answer, all I can say is:

When dealing with Lynch and his obscure ideas I think that you have to have a grasp as to his way of working, in particular the way he always makes the familiar, unfamiliar. I see this as central to both his idea of humour and the way in which he explores the human psyche. However, itís also worth recognising that he himself never explains his ideas or motives. So the question is how familiar can you get? I have watched nearly every movie, I have watched Twin Peaks the series over and over again, I have spent hours talking and deconstructing Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet etc, I have made reference to Lynchís style and ideas in movies I made at collage, I have read Laura Palmers diary many times etc etc, I reveal in his held shots of closed elevators in Eraser Head, but am I familiar with Lynch? I am not sure, he his still a distant character, though I feel I can claim, that I have got some way to understanding the way he abstracts ideas.

ìI donít know, humour is the most abstract thing, I donít think anyone can ever figure it out, but, hmmmmm, I like, hmmmm, absurb things, basically.î David Lynch

last Thur:

something about clubs here, and secret codes, ideas about how information becomes more meaningful. The social desire for difference yet togetherness - ìitís important that not everyone likes the music that I like, itís important that some people I know and like, like the music that I like...î If I know TP and you know TP then we can talk and that other person doesnít understand (which is a lot of fun because they look a bit confused) and they think weíre weird...which is great...

a connection here with Tarantinoís films....

today:

If TP was about a town in hills in Papua New Guinea and the machinations therein, written by a PNG writer - I think it is quite possible that we would not "get it" at all. So a certain level of cultural familiarity is necessary...however...

interesting things might come out of our miss-reading of the "TP PNG" series - it might be a far more creative experience (as long as it wasn't too boring) due to our re-contextualising of the original to our own circumstance...going far beyond the authors original intention...

Yeah but we'd still be re-contextualising based on our own circumstance? So what we're familiar with?

I've heard somewhere, something about how our brains will always make sense of something based on what we already know . . . not sure where I'm going with this? Something about not being able to escape familiarity I guess?

Hmmm . . . not helpful! But feel the need to post anyway, cause I've been sitting here so long . . . that thing Keith said about the delete button!