Coinciding with my literary contribution, 'softspace', I am endeavoring to write about the elements that go into the background of the story as well. To that end I would like to offer David Lynch's series of movies dealing with the media and California. They are exquisitely poignant while delivering a human face to the issues of concern, namely identity crisis, conspiracy, and mind control. The ethic as well as the aesthetic to which they aspire is to be admired and emulated, only an American with a keen sense of history could have made these treatises.