Catching the Big Fish : Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

by Lynch, David

• ISBN13: 9781585425402
• ISBN10: 1585425400
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-28
• Publisher: Tarcher

Summary

Musical verse accompanies a milkman and his cranky kitty as they make their morning rounds. The milkman knows his hometown; he knows who needs ice cream for a birthday party, who just broke a leg, and who has a new baby. He even helps return a lost dog that's hiding along his route. This pitch-perfect, retro read-aloud's gentle sensibility is ideally matched with beautiful art that powerfully evokes an era of classic illustration.

Author Biography

Three-time Oscar-nominated director David Lynch is among the leading filmmakers of our era. From the early seventies to the present day, Lynch's popular and critically acclaimed film projects, which include Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, and Mulholland Drive, are internationally considered to have broken down the wall between art-house cinema and Hollywood moviemaking.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(2)
The First Dive	3	(4)
Suffocating Rubber Clown Suit	7	(2)
Starting Out	9	(2)
The Art Life	11	(2)
A Garden at Night	13	(2)
Curtains Up	15	(2)
Cinema	17	(2)
Interpretation	19	(2)
The Circle	21	(2)
Ideas	23	(2)
Desire	25	(2)
Consciousness	27	(2)
Translating the Idea	29	(2)
Los Angeles	31	(2)
Eraserhead	33	(2)
The Pace of Life	35	(2)
Yogis	37	(2)
Bob's Big Boy	39	(2)
The Angriest Dog in the World	41	(2)
Music	43	(2)
Intuition	45	(2)
The Unified Field	47	(2)
The Fourth State	49	(2)
Getting There	51	(2)
Modern Science and Ancient Science	53	(2)
Anywhere, Anytime	55	(2)
Identity	57	(2)
Final Cut	59	(2)
Therapy	61	(2)
Dreams	63	(2)
Angelo Badalamenti	65	(2)
Sound	67	(2)
Casting	69	(2)
Rehearsal	71	(2)
Fear	73	(2)
All Together Now	75	(2)
Twin Peaks	77	(2)
The Continuing Story	79	(2)
The Red Room	81	(2)
Ask the Idea	83	(4)
Test Audience	87	(2)
Generalizations	89	(2)
Darkness	91	(2)
Suffering	93	(4)
Light of the Self	97	(2)
A Tower of Gold	99	(2)
Religion	101	(2)
Drugs	103	(2)
Turn On the Light	105	(2)
Industrial Symphony No. 1	107	(2)
Lost Highway	109	(2)
Restrictions	111	(2)
Mulholland Drive	113	(2)
The Box and the Key	115	(2)
A Sense of Place	117	(2)
Beauty	119	(2)
Texture	121	(2)
Working with Wood	123	(2)
Having a Setup	125	(2)
Fire	127	(2)
Light on Film	129	(2)
The Straight Story	131	(2)
Heroes of Film	133	(2)
Fellini	135	(2)
Kubrick	137	(2)
Inland Empire	139	(4)
The Name	143	(2)
A New Way to Work	145	(2)
Director's Commentary	147	(2)
The Death of Film	149	(2)
DV for Young Filmmakers	151	(2)
DV Quality	153	(2)
Future of Cinema	155	(2)
Common Sense	157	(2)
Advice	159	(2)
Sleep	161	(2)
Keep at It	163	(2)
Success and Failure	165	(2)
Gone Fishing, Again	167	(2)
Compassion	169	(2)
Consciousness-Based Education	171	(4)
Real Peace	175	(2)
In Closing	177	(2)
Select Filmography	179	(1)
Sources Quoted	180	(1)
About the Author	181