Enough already!  What is it about Chicago in August? 

The heat, the construction, those heart-break Cubs!

Half the town’s skedaddled, and the other half of us are stuck here – like a bathing suit sticks when you’re trying to slide it back on before it’s dry.

So let’s get out of here, shall we?  An easy escape is into a movie – the dark cool space, the larger than life stars, the implausible stories.

But as Eight Forty-Eight film contributor Jonathan Miller explains, David Lynch’s 1986 film Blue Velvet won’t just take you out of the ordinary – but way into the truly weird.