Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
by David Lynch
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Author: David LynchEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
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Published: 2006-12-28
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Tarcher
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Book Review: Beautifully written, sparse book, very Lynchian, very good, and inspring...
Summary: 5 Stars
David Lynch is a true American artist, one of the greatest filmmakers this country ever produced. I have seen every film he's made, and he's never made a really bad one (even Dune had some great moments). This book is a very spare book, but Lynch chooses and writes his words carefully, and he says a lot in its sparse prose.
My favorite bits are the one about dead bodies (it's not as morbid as you might think), a part about how he disagrees you have to be unhappy if you're an artist (I agree with Lynch on that one), how the film industry is ruled by fear and that hurts creativity (amen, David!), the part when David talks about visiting a pyschiatrist (I won't divulge that one), the part about following intuition, seeing the doughnut, not just the hole, and only worrying about what you can control, not what you can't control. It's a wonderful book, and dare I say, inspiring book as well. Lynch really doesn't go into layers of intellectualising, which is good. Lynch's films really speak for themselves, and this book is a direct, beautifully written meditation on art, life, and being.
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In this rare work of public disclosure, filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.General Books
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