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MrMcCall

"Why is poor taste ubiquitous?" --Eric Spieakermann in "Helvetica"

Because we live in a world who live to be titilated with the inane, lewd, and lascivious.

Like a brain-damanged Bower Bird's trashy monument to itself, he created monuments to the vapid and wasteful.

"Buh-bye." --David Spade's flight attendent character on SNL

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>Obsessed with compassion and how to create happiness for others...

"One of these things is not like the other..."

It's almost like you haven't even stopped to understand his work. There's far more compassion in the films and television he left behind than there is in your comment. It's a shame you don't seem to want to find it. I hope you have a pleasant weekend.

The way your comment reads weird is really remniscent, for me, of the weird characters David Lynch created. Those that were half here and half somewhere else. I bet weirdness follows him to this day.

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