boy, interpreting lynch's work requires walking a fine line. i must confess, i went too far in the other direction recently.

found a great review of mulholland drive at ***COMPLETE SPOILER ALERT***

http://www.themodernword.com/mulholland_drive.html

and wasted the better part of a sunday reading it, digging up my dog-eared copy of finnegan's wake, writing notes, etc. that following friday, i made it to my local hollywood video just in time to track down their last vhs copy at 11:58.

got home, popped it in the vcr and,

nothing.

all of those great feelings that i had when watching that movie the first (and second and third...) time were gone. the mystery, gone. it felt like the time when i was seven years old, and "accidentally" caught a glimpse of the dollhouse that my parents were working on for my christmas gift. the joy is in the not-knowing. and i think that joy comes because there's a way that we can understand things more deeply when we haven't seen them in black and white, wrapped up in a little bow.

now that's not to say that i think the review was unfair, or misleading. quite the contrary. it was apt, engaging, well-written, and appropriately cautionary of all spoilers. i just didn't know my own limits.

so i was feeling pretty bummed, but then i learned about IE and stumbled upon this site w/ accompanying message board. i thought, 'aha! a place to talk about ideas withough ruining the ride.'

here's to hoping that's the case (fingers crossed), and that i can recalibrate my 'need-to-know-o-meter'.

anyways, although it's what originally brought me here, i'm going to ignore the IE thread until after i hit the seattle premiere next month.

cheers,

~T

my user name is spelled incorrectly.

tatemae