This year we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the David Lynch sci-fi epic, Dune. While the film was a commercial bomb, it’s gone on to garner cult status and the theatrical release of Jodorowsky’s Dune — which tells the tale of director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s failed, earlier attempt to bring the Frank Herbert classic to the screen — will only create more interest around the Lynch film’s birthday.

While Lynch’s Dune is fraught with miscalculations, bad editing and now-cheesy effects, it’s also full of visionary, unique elements that are supremely “Lynchian.” Where does this guy get all these strange ideas? Why not ask the man himself?

Catching the Big Fish is an artistic memoir of sorts that finds Lynch ruminating on his creative process, his on-the-job education and the importance of meditation to his art. This book is read by Lynch and the effect is like a master’s lecture from one of our most important filmmakers and artists.

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