Damn. Nice catch by Bromwich:

In a brief note, Bishop traces the title to a newspaper misprint for "mammoth," but the reason for its appeal to her is plain when one remembers the man-moth of Shelley's EpipsychidionThen, from the caverns of my dreamy youth ( Read more... )

We picked up Blue Velvet on blu ray at Target down in Buffalo. Don't know when I saw it last, but this time what struck me is how it's a Hitchcock movie. It's basically all later Lynch in embryo, sure, or anyway the self-written or co-written projects, and none of that is Hitchcock, but this is both all of those and Hitchcock. I don't know if he ( Read more... )