David Lynch was a visionary director of the strange and the surreal – but what we hear in his films is as important as what we see.

It would be convenient to say that I was so cool that I watched it on purpose, an artsy queer suburban kid desperate for culture. I happened upon it by some mysterious channel surfing synchronicity and kept watching,

His visceral films, which reflect the best and worst of American life, affected viewers in realms both conscious and unconscious.