![]() ![]() Previously, I could see what you were saying, but didn’t find it fully enveloping my aesthetic spirit. This was years into your career, after Man, after Dune, and just as Roger Ebert was calling you “reprobate” for the masterful Blue Velvet. ![]() I remember when my passion became permanent, not just some fleeting filmmaking fancy. You have that effect on me, don’t you know. Crazy old cousin “Jingle” Dell’s got nothing on me, and I can easily…dammit. I’m as Powermad as Sailor and Lula, hotter than Georgia asphalt and convinced that peaches do indeed spread diseases. Several dozen viewings later and I can argue with anyone over the merits of your bizarro-world Wizard of Oz riff. ![]() You see, I am a real movie maniac, someone who linked up with your Wild at Heart so significantly that I remember watching it over and over when it was finally released on VHS (I know, you HATE that. I was hoping to come off a little more forceful than this. You see, I’ve loved your MOVIES for a very long time – since I first saw your “straight” drama The Elephant Man way back in 1980, and I’m here to say that I miss you, and need you back in my life terribly. Nor am I particularly enamored of your current concentration on Transcendental Meditation, though I can completely see where you’re coming from with the whole “free your mind” ideal. No, not your subversive Midwestern mentality that sees beauty in the most grotesque of worm-infested rotting meat mannerisms. You see, I’ve loved you for a very long time. It’s just hard imagining what I have to say, and how I have to say it. Too much? Have I put you off already? If so, I’m sorry. (Reposted on the occasion of his 65th birthday) ![]()
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