Understanding 'Let's Rock'


OK, the scene in which Coop discovers Chris Isaak's character's abandoned car.

Scrawled across the windsheild are the words "Let's Rock."

So...what exactly is this supposed to mean?

Alright, well we can easily deduce that Isaak's character (sorry, but I'm blanking on the character's name now - very annoying!) has essentially been abducted into the Black Lodge.

And we also know that the phrase "let's rock" will later (in the TV series, that is) be spoken in Coop's presence by the Lodge-dweller known as the Man From Another Place (MFAP).

So we can easily deduce that the message scrawled across the windsheild is a message from MFAP to Coop.

But...why "let's rock"?

Well, one of the major clues might be the brief scene in which we see part of the message from inside the car. From this specific position, the words are essentially inverted.

So listen: we all know that the reason MFAP's voice sounds so uniquely strange is because, in reality, Lynch had the actor speak his lines backwards. Inverted, in other words.

Now if you ever successfully attempt to utter the words "let's rock" backwards, you will find yourself voicing a phrase which sounds almost exactly like "still car."

"Still car." An apropos message to be found written across an abandoned vehicle, no?

Btw, if you don't believe me, check out the special feature in the original DVD release of Season One, in which the actor portraying MFAP (Mike Anderson) provides a brief tutorial in how to say "let's rock" backwards.



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I don´t think it really "means" anything beyond being kind of a catch phrase MFAP likes to use; wasn´t it the first thing we heard him say in Cooper´s dream? So, when we later, in the first segment of FWWM, see that message scribbled on the car window, it´s yet another hint that whatever happened to Desmond, it´s Lodge related.



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Actually to get "Let's Rock" backwards, you'd gave to say "Car Still", not "Still Car".

I always assumed it just means, something like, "here we go!" - since this is the beginning (correct me if I'm wrong) of the Black Lodge sucking Coop in.


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That's such a great way of putting it. I'm going to have to steal that! (all these years after you posted it)

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That image has been waiting for something to pop out lately.

"perhaps that Cable is bent/corrupt - perhaps that he's bending a refined metal/something pure/reality?"

"Steals," but there's something shifty about it, like maybe misappropriation of something he could legitimately have for purposes other than what he's actually doing, or perhaps relying on loopholes --bending the rules somehow-- instead of outright robbing, or some such. Maybe Sam's estimate of the value of the Sheriff's office furnishings is meant to reflect his own thoughts on that point. Two different mental styles, but both "saw" the same thing.

A floppy thing exerting tension on a much less floppy thing. The sort of thing that gives you a bow. Seems to me I shot one in college that might have been a laminate with a steel band inside. I'll bet there are more layers, because as you said, some trouble was taken to make it noticeable. There are many such visual links between the movie and the series, especially.


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We have two Mikes. One is Mike "snake" Nelson. The other being Mike "arm" Robertson (MFAP).

I have the Wild At Heart soundtrack and during an Elvis song Nick Cage's Sailor exclaims "Let's rock"! He has a mic. Get it?

Remember, Sailor's trademark is his snakeskin jacket, yet another link to mic/Mike "snake".

So, snakeskin jacket = snake jack. What? Well, MFAP is from the Red Room which has red curtains seen at One-eyed Jack's where Jacques (rather obvious connection) worked. Let's Roque!
-- What's with the French references in WAH as well? More on that later --
OK, Getting back to where I was, Mike "snake" Nelson hooked-up with one-eyed Nadine even! I could go further and state what I think is the veiled and yet at the same time obvious (when you're "Thinking of Linking") reference, but what's it all about? Just where is this taking us?

Let's see, Ben Horn owned One-eyed Jack's and his walyer was none other than Leland Palmer who had fallen under BOB's (MFAP's "familiar") influence.
Ben was the one who made a "little Elvis" reference and lynch has referred to MFAP as "Little Mike". "Let's rock"!
Little Nicky Needleman certainly makes sense in this light ("Hare's another clue fore U AW, the lawyer IS...") and was not a pointless plot Contrivance as more than a few folk Have surmised.
The boy links to Nicholas (yep, Sailor) as Little Nicky when seen in a red suit with horns bringing to mind Little Mike in a red suit with Horne's Big Red One-eyed Jack Curtains in place of literal horns on his head? I believe so.

Both Nicholas and Nicky have been linked with Mike, but is Nicky connected to "snake" like both Sailor and Nelson? I'm not sure but if MFAP and Sailor were written this way, then I'll assume (yeah, I know what they say about ass-uming!) Nicky is as well because of, you know, that whole devil/snake/fallen Mike stuff a lot of people, to put it one way, are into.
So...little = Mike = mic/micro ultimately code for fallen? Fall would be associated with small, right?
Oh, yeah, that last bit reminds me -- Where was One-armed Philip Gerard (under Mike's influence) found by the police after he fled the Great Northern hotel?
By the falls (get it?), that's where! So Philip Gerard and Mike and Nick anD Nicky like I was getting at, not to metion the needle connection, RIGHT?!

Having mentioned small as in Mike, the smallest crater on the Moon is named Hell of all things...I wonder why? Kenneth Welsh (actor playing Windom Earle) said that the Red Room was the equivalent of Hell. A crescent moon symbol is seen hanging on a red Curtain that Laura is posing in front of for Ben Horne's Flesh World magazine. That adds up since Ben's One-eyed Jack's has the curtains hung in the Red Room. Hornes and Hell (flesh world?), indeed. Crescent = croissant (remember, Horne even mentioned the word!)?

So? So, croissant, being French like other things Horne related (Jacques is a French-Canadian which again connects to crescent moon on red One-eyed Jack Curtains) links, imo, to the Crescent (or do I mean Croissant) City of New Orleans famous for its French Quarter.

You may ask myself where does "Let's Rock" fit into that last piece of the puzzle and I will tell you -- WAH, like I've been silently saying! Just what is the French food Connisseur Jerry Horne (who Just Hoovers the hell out of croissants and brie) doing in New Orleans in that film with a dude who places a (French?) quarter over one of his eyes, in effect rendering hisself (southern dialect appropriate here, so Ha!) one-eyed?

YeP, I realize that Wild At Heart and Twin Peaks: The Bronze Box SeereeS or whatever connect with TP:FWWM. It's a meta thing...? *

Now that you understand the tru ram ifications of the underlying symbolic connotations of 'Let's Rock', where you gonna go, where you gonna run, where you gonna hyde? Nowhere... 'cause you're already tHare, c?

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Dude, you've lost your mind.

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*beep* babble talk.


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What IS the point. That IS not a Question, bi the way.

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yeah, and hoo, I mean, who IS on first. Dingus?

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@know -

Well, you certainly gave me a good laugh. I can only hope you're not serious. If so, you're going to have to stop with dropping LSD in your morning coffee...

Please nest your IMDB page, and respond to the correct person -

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"Let's Rock!" doesn't mean anything. It's pretty much "Here we go!".

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