My David Lynch collection

This story starts out a few years ago, when I was 19... or maybe 20. I can't quite remember. Anyways, I was looking up the most disturbing movies ever made, hoping to find one to watch. Why? I just wanted to see how much I could handle, I guess. Most of the top ten lists that I found had similar movies. Most of them looked way over the top for me. Like Cannibal Holocaust and A Serbian Film. I read summaries of each film before deciding that ultimately I did not wish to see them. Until I came to Eraserhead. The plot sounded so bizarre... so strange. It had nothing like crazy amounts of gore, or children and animals being hurt. It was apparently just super trippy and unsettling. Perfect! So I watched it with my dad. I don't know how I convinced him to watch it...

We were both left feeling so weird after watching it. It was like a beautiful dream and horrible nightmare rolled up into one movie. I thought to myself "I wanna know what fucked up genius made this.", and that is how I discovered David Lynch. I immediately looked up his other films. I didn't watch the next one for a little while though. I think it was a few months later when I decided to give Mulholland Dr a go. I unfortunately watched it with my mother, which was very awkward because of the sex scenes... and she also thought the movie was awful. But I loved it. I re-watched it the next day when I was alone and began decoding the mystery in my head, which became my most favorite part of any David Lynch film.

At this point I've seen 70% of his movies, but I own them all. The reason for this is that I love that feeling of watching a David Lynch movie for the first time, and I want to save that feeling for the perfect time... or times. I haven't seen Dune, Lost Highway, The Elephant Man, or The Straight Story. Lost Highway will be the next one I watch, but I'm waiting until it feels right. I know... it sounds so strange. But once I watch all of his films, I won't get that feeling back again. He doesn't make films anymore. All I have to look forward to is the Twin Peaks revival.

I love my David Lynch collection, but I need to upgrade some of the DVDs. Pretty much just the Korean ones. I think they're probably pirated, but they were cheap and I was broke. I'm hoping by next year I'll have them replaced.