The unconscious is constantly bubbling over in Lynch's films, from Mulholland Drive's shifting realities to the fractured identities of Lost Highway – he has described Blue Velvet as "a dream of strange desires wrapped inside a mystery story".
He described blue collar Pennsylvanians with a series of what in the eyes of Californians might be considered pure negatives: guns, clinging to religion, antipathy, xenophobia.
How do you describe blue?
Even food descriptors, those perilously toothsome adjectives, feel fresh and unexpected when, for example, tiny nine-year-old Sarah, the youngest competitor to make it past the first round, describes blue cheese as tasting "feety-ish," or Troy, a twelve year old with choppy bangs and formidable chops, says that a spicy steak rub "blows up in your mouth".
The United States is free and unfair, creative and fashion-challenged (some describe blue button-down shirts and khaki pants as our "uniform"), sporty (NBA rules!) and grossly overweight, individualistic and self-deluded (they love to laugh at narcissistic, talent-free American Idol contestants).
There she encountered the slim, sensible twenty-seven-year-old house secretary, Alice Methfessel, whose eyes Bishop described as "blue blue blue" and whose disposition was as bright as the Sunny-Side Up formula she used to lighten her cropped hair.
The "blue pike's" identity has been confusing since it did not belong to the pike family (Esocidae) and some walleye in northern waters (along the Canadian Shield) are colored bright turquoise-blue due to sandercyanin protein in the mucus [ 47], which does not match the darker grey-blue color described for "blue pike" [ 48, 49].
The color, described as blue in the article, is blue-green in the original photo, not the light green suggested by the reproduced image.
I was fascinated by the ways these writers described the blue overhead.
The third Monday of the year is often described as "Blue Monday", the most depressing day of the year.
This map is a visualization of the z-values that were described by blue numbers in Table 4.
