Re: Dylan's songwriting technique


What? Like the straight story of Eraserhead??? The old slug/baby
linear thing? Have you been smoking crack again, really real?

David should have been lynched for that one. Anyway, what is this
fascination with 'straight' stories? Brokeback Mountain was a huge
success. Bob loves cowboy films.


David Lynch utterly infuriates me, most of the time. I think he is supremely talented, but he probably lost too many brain cells with his transcendental meditating. But I think Eraserhead is sort of a masterpiece. Dune was goofy but I loved some of the scenes. Blue Velvet infuriated me, but I can see the trouble was with me and not the movie. Mulholland Drive was brilliant for the most part, but I still felt like walking out when characters became a few inches tall. I refused to go see his three hour latest epic, but will slowly try to watch in on dvd when it comes out.

However, one David Lynch movie shines above all the rest, The Straight Story. Lynch actually told a straight story, and told it very well.

The thing about Brokeback Mountain was that it was a story about an oppressed minority, and the movie attacked a lot of people's sensibilities. When you're fighting for equal rights, you need to come right out and get your point across. There are no surrealists in foxholes. Imagine Dylan writing Hurricane in the style of Thunder on the Mountain. Hurricane Carter would still be in prison if that had happened (where he still belongs, say the idiot cynics.)
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