Filmmaker David Lynch has passed

Eraserhead is the weirdest film I've ever seen. I remember one film critic said, "One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry." I thought that summed up the reaction to it perfectly.
My roommate at LSU was so excited when it was playing at the Varsity that he'd get to see it. He felt he was fully prepared having seen off the wall films like Liquid Sky, Eating Raoul, and a couple of others. I told him he wasn't prepared at all if he thought those things prepared him. He came back from the film and just sat with a sort of blank stare at the wall, and kept saying, "That was a weird f-ing movie." I just kept smirking/chuckling every time he said it. It disturbed him greatly and I remember him not sleeping well that night, either.

A lot of people disliked his version of "Dune" and it didn't do well at the box office, but I found it stunning, and it inspired me to read the books (which i admit are better, but that's true 95+% of the time with any book/film).

RIP to a great creative visual artist.