The Residents - "The Sandman" (The Voice Of Midnight)

Crazy horror story telling (with nasal vocals!) in Residents' style with Angelo Badalamenti musical influences (though perhaps they precede him?)

Twin Peaks

I've been slow watching this show for more than a year now. Last night I realized that the reason this works so well for me (David Lynch' work in general, and others like him) is because when every day logic is stripped away, everything - including people, places, objects - becomes laden with emotion and relative meaning. It exposes a rawness of what we feel, want and fear by removing the thick layer of 'normality'.

The reason why so many Lynch wannabe's fail is exactly because they don't realize that. They just muck around with the storyline, create weird situations, crazy characters and illogical or impossible plots and think they did the same. But you need to have an idea of what you expose if you want to do it right. Otherwise the abyss is just a plain black square and nobody will care.