This summer has been dubbed my David Lynch summer. No, I didn't recently watch the director's famed Muholland Drive, Eraserhead, or Inland Empire but his early 90's TV show Twin Peaks. It blew my mind. The show is set in a rural Washington town named Twin Peaks and follows an introspective FBI detective, Agent Cooper, as he solves the murder of a teenage girl, Laura Palmer. Lynch's style feels like that of an updated Alfred Hitchcock. It's an interesting blend of noir, melodrama, gothic imagery, and surrealism. Here is a scene from Twin Peaks in which Agent Cooper uses Tibet and rock throwing to advance him in the case.
In a move flexing the charitable side of his brain, Lynch created a foundation to help children reach their fullest potential. The David Lynch Foundation funds research and awards scholarships to children that are interested in practicing transcendental meditation. Practicing this meditation for more than 30 years, he believes that it improves concentration and creativity. If this practice will help me imagine half of what Lynch does then I'm all for it.
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