I remember when I was growing up and he was the latest shocking thing, it was very much the standard opinion to say "Actually, I heard one of his interviews and he's surprisingly intelligent."

Got to admit, I came into this comments section for the Simpsons references, and I wasn't disappointed.

One thing I really love about David Lynch is he's one of those strange people who really isn't trying to be strange - his favourite movies are fairly mainstream things like Sunset Boulevard and There's Something About Mary. It just all becomes completely surreal once it passes through his mind.

ALL THE LIKES.

It's the logic of the witch trials, isn't it? If you drown, you're innocent, if you float we'll kill you.

Heh. You know, when I read the "eagle egg" simile, my first thought was, "I wonder what this guy's views on bills to protect endangered species and national parks might be?" Maybe we've all misread him, and he was trying to say "Abortion is like destroying an eagle egg - IT'S AWESOME, and I've done twenty of each…

"It's Rocknroll, father!"

Yeah, that surprised me as well, as a Briton. It's interesting that Britain and Israel seem to be slipping backwards a little - not much, but perhaps a backlash against being comparatively quick to legalise homosexuality?

"I AM IRON MANNEQUIN."

This is why I get all my medical advice from Crowded House:

I do worry about him. There aren't many other roles in the world where he'll get to be as Matt Smithy.

It's one of those things where, if it's depressing, people think it must be real, because otherwise what's the point to it? The Donald Glover arc - to pick but the most egregious example - wasn't "real" because you could see the author throughout trying to manoeuvre you towards the correct didactic moral lesson to…

Yes, depictions of female superheroes are famous for their adherence to strict biological realism.

I'm pretty sure the budget for a movie where Matthew McConaughey plays an AIDS patient in the 80s is going to be a lot less than the budget for Pirates of the Carribean 2: Bill Nighy is Cthulhu, though.

Me too. One of my favourite actors, and always seems like a very sweet person.

Oh, so that's what "body percussion" is! *donates in the hope that the video will just be ten minutes of them being punched in the face*

Do Starbucks ask you to pay for the coffee twice? If they did, that metaphor would work.

Yes! Exactly! Her attitude is that her art is worth paying for, but yours isn't. I doubt I would get away with 'paying' for a ticket to her gig in beer and hugs because she needed the fun and exposure of an audience.

God, I know. I was recently in a queue with a group of teenage girls discussing their favourite Doctor Who monsters and all I could think was "If I'd been born just ten years earlier, my whole adolescence would have been so much easier".

Yeah, that's what I thought they were driving at. About the kindest thing I can say about that idea is that their definition of gay sex is pretty narrow compared to the reality.