"Mulholland Drive" was intended to be a TV pilot.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/
I knew that Lynch practiced TM back in the 1970s from his buddy at art
school who was on my Sidhis course. He was also known to shut down
production on "Twin Peaks" to meditate so a lot of people back then knew
he was into TM.
On 10/03/2013 07:10 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
When I first watched Mulholland Drive I enjoyed the whole surreal,
glossy surface but couldn't make head or tail of what the movie was
about (ditto Lost Highway, etc. ). It was after the film came out that
Lynch first revealed to the world that he was a regular practitioner
of TM. And when I say regular, I mean he claims never to have missed a
single session since he learned the technique back in the early 1970s.
That sounds scarily obsessive to me. I mean, never to miss one,
single, solitary session over a period of forty years! How can you be
so completely in control of what's happening in your life to achieve
that 100 per cent score? (Do we know if Lynch ever took the sidhi
supplement?)
Anyway, when I heard about Lynch's involvement in TM I immediately
rented the DVD of Mulholland Drive to take a second look. Was the film
an esoteric, symbolist art work on theimportance of contacting the
source of creative intelligence? I was wondering if I now had the key
to unlock its arcane secrets? No - I didn't! I actually found myself
*more* bemused by the film than I did on that first viewing. It's
still a great movie of course: turn off your mind, relax and float
downstream . . . and just enjoy the experience.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote:
Oh so funny, so funny - I just got off the phone with an old friend
who was at MIU as staff and student for a number of years - he was a
big Charlie Lutes fan and also saw Robin C a few times - he told me he
was at MIU when Blue Velvet came out, the honchos at the Capital of
the A of E there in Fairfield told everyone not to see the movie, but
Charlie said in some lectures my friend went to that he (Charlie) saw
it twice to try to figure it out.
My buddy also thinks he saw the influence of Charlie Lutes in some of
the aspects of Twin Peaks - such as secret societies and so forth. I
thought it was funny.
