thank you red room. i really didnt want to explain the whole unified field theory as you very well did.
IE means something to you and me. others it doesnt, or in a lesser way.
its how all his films are, if you look at the time period each film was released, example: FWWM was called a disaster at cannes, and its friggin brilliant! i think with time, IE will find its fans.

I made a reference (post number 13 on page 1 ) above to a late 1999 interview in which David praised film over digital.

Here is the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIOe3uEj9rY

There are 5 parts to this interview series, I can't identify which section Lynch discussed the film/digital subject-but it is in there : )

Now, post 1999-2000 Lynch changed his mind and embraced digital.

Just in case you want to hear DL's comments.

Ha! Still warm panties no less.

One thing that makes me smile is I read/saw somewhere Lynch talking about the unified field and how Tje Phantom (or the actor playing it at least) and the lightbulb were linked through it and he found it funny that the cosmos joined the two. Like the fact the cosmos demanded he put an entire scene in IE with some women talking about tits and ass and one of them takes their tops off. 'The Unified Field demands it!' TM.

actually the story is that in preparation for that mr. crimp scene, krzysztof majchrzak asked david if his character should be holding an object or something. he pointed to a table of items of various use, and david said yeah lets try sometime(whispering:we're shooting digital, boys, cant no one from hollywood beat that cause we can shoot for 45 MINUTES. you know how long those fuckers can go on a take? 10 fucking minutes! im sooo over film.)(actually that last part was interjected by me as to what i think really happened. ;)

so then krzysztof looked at table, picked a few thing, but lynch didnt think they werent right. then  krzysztof took the light bulb, went behind the tree, put it in his mouth, and did the take. apparently the "unified field" idea is that lynch had already been thinking about a red lamp, and where it would go in the film, and there it was in the phantom's/krzysztof's mouth but that it would also be related to nikki/sue/laura(sue does have a lynch looking red lamp), so the phantom almost threatening her with a red bulb would have special significance, to her, lynch, the phantom, the audience. krzysztof just thought it looked interesting, and there it is as a plot device. i believe that was what was meant about unified.

All anyone needs to know about the late Mahahahrishi is neatly wrapped up in this laughable interview with the fawning Larry King.  This is a classic bit of human interaction with each human on a parallel ring never actually interacting with the other.  I simply LOVE it! 

In order to find yourself congealed in a faux-scientific muck of such inanity requires something like a post-traumatic stress syndrome where you really need new answers.  The discord might be advanced by an event such as 9/11 and the bafflement that collective meditating for peace had been insufficient to avert that tragedy.  And you ask yourself (where is my beautiful wife...) how did this happen?  Perhaps we need greater numbers.  Greater numbers.  School children.  Supple minds from the world over.  There's even a scientific-mathematical-quantum-physicality formula on the hows and whys!  How to reach the new uh... peace army... how to reach them.... Through FILM!  I mean... VIDEO!!!!

Oh, the humanity.  All the while deacquisitioning the basic knowledge of what it is to be a human on this planet.  Sad. Or to put it your language, as phony as a three-dollar bill. 

Transition times are always difficult.

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3I-yyDfIrQ

What an orator. MMY for President, everybody.

 After watching that am I the only one who suddenly understands Lynch's own particular attraction to the marharishi? I felt like I was watching one of his short films.

Not sure what the maharishi's solution is though... total something or other?

Apologies JFK I was off with my IE story about the lightbulb, cheers for setting it straight.

 Oh my, that was painful!

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin