RIP David Lynch

[John Matthews]

The great David Lynch passed away. Here's a trailer of one of my favorite films he made:

More recently, he made his weather reports... I'm thinking of a long, long joke, but I'm sure it gave him a good reason to make something (wish I could do that sometimes).

He will be missed.

[MrSMW]

Both Lynch and Blue Velvet were one of the staples of my film studies days at uni back in 90-92. 

RIP old fella.

[eatstoomuchjam]

Even though I couldn't say I loved (or even liked a lot) a majority of his stuff after (and somewhat including) Lost Highway, I loved that Lynch was out there doing stuff.

Blue Velvet is easily one of my favorite films of all time and I still can't see anything that says Heineken without briefly thinking in my head (or saying out loud) "Fuck that shit.  Pabst! Blue! Ribbon!"

[Clark Nikolai]

I read about him meditating and how that helped him organize his thoughts better as well as get him in touch with his inner self and inner ideas. He also would trust his dreams and intuition. There's a story told (on YouTube) by the musician who did the theme for Twin Peaks, Angelo Badalamenti. Lynch described the mood and Badalamenti did some initial improv. Lynch said, great, record that. Badalementi wanted to work on it more, that this was just a start but Lynch said it's perfect. He was into the first thing. Much like beat poetry, stream of consciousness ideas I guess.

I'm impressed by him being able to do that because some times when I'd worked intuitively it turned out to be a social faux pas so I tried to avoid that after that.

I remember seeing Eraserhead at a repertory theatre. Someone who had seen in Vancouver told us that all the vampire punks (later called goths) go to it so we had to dress like vampires to watch it. So we did. Later we went for doughnuts so there was a table of vampires having doughnuts. A young woman came to ask us if there was some event going on or something. We played dumb and said that, "no, nothing was going on."

The movie just created a mood that was depressing, stressful and entertaining at the same time. The line "Strangest darn things, but they're new!" I repeated for years. (The old guy says that about the mini chicken.)

[EduPortas]

1 hour ago, Clark Nikolai said:

 

That's absolutely beautiful, thank you. Talk about raw talent from Badalamenti.

Now Lynch and Badalementi in the same production? That's really special.

It's not an exaggeration to say that the music of Twin Peaks is another character of the series, equally as important as every other character.

[PannySVHS]

David Lynch, what an artist! Like David Bowie, he leaves so much behind in regards of body and spirit of work. Now their deep beautiful souls are having a fxxing fantastic coffee together and we are listening to their conversation. The two ingenious artists and humanbeings will keep inspiring and touching hearts, minds and souls. If you haven't watched "Elephant Man" or "Straight Story" yet, a must watch. I started Twin Peaks two days ago. What a marvel. I didn't expect the news a day later.

[eatstoomuchjam]

2 hours ago, Clark Nikolai said:

The movie just created a mood that was depressing, stressful and entertaining at the same time. The line "Strangest darn things, but they're new!" I repeated for years. (The old guy says that about the mini chicken.)

From that one, I'm known to throw out an "Ohhhh, you are sick" every so often.

[PannySVHS]

Talking about lines. I paraphrased it incorrect, obviously:)

 

[MrSMW]

IMO, THE best series of the 90’s and one of the best series of all time.

 

[Thpriest]

I was about 16 when Twin Peaks came out. It really was the most mind blowing original TV and has probably not been bettered.

[MrSMW]

I was at uni and it was cheap wine, snacks and packed student house every evening it was on. It was an event.

No one distractedly scrolling on their phones either…because no one had phones back then, other than people that worked in The City in banking!