"Goddamn, you're one suave fucker!"

My stepdad LOVES Blue Velvet, so it's not uncommon at all for our family get-togethers to include things like "Where's my bourbon, shithead?" and "To Ben!" as well as "Daddy's home!" with the appropriate crazed look.

We are not healthy people.

Blue Velvet might be the most watchable.

Oh dear. I do want to see Mulholland Dr. and Lost Highway, and they do sound even weirder. Blue Velvet is at least fairly straightforward and linear, if very strange. I gave it points for actually having a plot that generally fits together and resolves.

I had no interest in The Straight Story, but I just added it to my Netflix queue. Oh, I have Netflix now. I've already become obsessed with it.

Em's still pretty cough-y so we laid on the couch and watched Monsters, Inc for the ten zillionth time. I can hold off the tears until Sully pops his head through the door at the end and hears, "Kitty!"

Dear Pixar -

You get me every. Single. Time. Don't ever stop.

Aims

Blue Velvet is probably the least weird David Lynch movie.

One of my favorite pastimes is making potentially arguable declarative sentences and watching Buffistas dig in.

I never even heard of The Straight Story. Off to Netflix! I think this makes 450 in the queue. Good lord.

You get me every. Single. Time. Don't ever stop.

Talking to my Pixar insider I think it is safe to say that Toy Story 3 is going to absolutely destroy you.

P-Cow, Mullholland Drive is probably my favorite Lynch and I think you'll dig it too since you have the fascination with identity and unreliable narrators. There is one key thing to figure out about the plot (which is not explicitly explained) but once you get that then the whole thing opens up.

I'm not a big Lynch fan--too bizarre for my taste--but I probably should see The Straight Story.

So in honor of Dennis Hopper, I watched Blue Velvet.

...That was a side of Dennis Hopper I hadn't seen before.

Also Dean Stockwell.

Considering the two of them (Hopper and Stockwell) were doing the drop-out scene together in the '60s, it's rather appropriate they were in this film together.

Talking to my Pixar insider I think it is safe to say that Toy Story 3 is going to absolutely destroy you.

If it follows my instinct and is a "Pete's Dragon"-esque-coming-of-age-for-Andy, Puff the Magic dragon boy growing up theme, it totally will.

Though I'm sure it's understood, I feel compelled to say that the Straight Story is David Lynch channeling Jon Turteltaub. It's NOTHING like what one would consider Lynchian. Sweet and effecting and, yes, quirky...but the quirk level is roughly a 3 on the Lynch scale of 100.

I heard an interview once where Lynch said that tSS was the movie most like he really is in life. Given my concern for what goes on in the minds of people like himself, Stephen King and other seemingly twisted souls, I was relieved to hear it.

Don't believe it though.

I think this makes 450 in the queue. Good lord.

Ha, yeah, mine is much shorter at the moment. It COULD be that long, but I am refraining from adding, like, every single movie I could possibly ever want to see. I'm adding things when I get the urge or the whim. And I'm loving the Instant Queue, which means I can save anything they have for streaming to watch whenever I want later. Right now I'm just getting one disc at a time since it's the cheapest, but I'm sure eventually I will decide paying more is worth it. The Instant Watch, though, kind of makes up for it.

P-Cow, Mullholland Drive is probably my favorite Lynch and I think you'll dig it too since you have the fascination with identity and unreliable narrators. There is one key thing to figure out about the plot (which is not explicitly explained) but once you get that then the whole thing opens up.

I do like identity issues and unreliable narrators! I've heard good things about it.

I want to see Lost Highway because I've had the soundtrack for years. I want to hear Trent Reznor's "Driver Down" in context!