"This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top..." – David Lynch
Though I would like to say my first experience with the films of David Lynch was a midnight screening of the neo-murder-mystery Blue Velvet in a dingy arthouse theater in the mid-to-late 80s during the independent film boom sitting next to a sleazy femme fatale… I’d be lying.
Actually, my Lynch fandom began at the Scholastic Book Fair around ’85. I purchased a four-pack of film storybooks, including Supergirl, Return to Oz, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, all movies I had viewed many times and had great respect for.