David Lynch - Classic or Dud

SB is much worse though and delivers nowhere near the same mystical punch.

I'm interested though in films which present a similar vibe and setting to this, though. How about Robert Altman's Short Cuts?

xpost I'll seek out that thread. MD is definitely a film to savor and grow old with, but one of my own cinephile philosophies is that for every film you watch for a second or third time you could watch something new. Hah maybe that seems quite entry-level but I hate to be the guy who's seen MD 134 times.

I almost always find once is enough, for films. Maybe I'm weird.

Although to refute that, I love watching a real favourite film with a guest, for the dual motion of personally introducing them to something new, and enjoying the screening with them. I saw MD with my 17 year old brother recently and alas he hated it!

Anyway, gotta get to work. Your degree is good at the moment?

Although to refute that, I love watching a real favourite film with a guest, for the dual motion of personally introducing them to something new, and enjoying the screening with them.

yeah true, my best friend often rewatches a film with me present and I have been known to do the reverse. some of the greatest films I've seen...of course I'd see them again in different company. FEMALE COMPANY

My degree is OK, and I'm off to Dungeness for an interview tomorrow!

oooh with who? Or is it confidential? Hope to rack up some interviews this summer myself..

with a dude who runs a Bird Observatory there, and moonlights in a Top 40 indie-dance act

Sounds very good, post MA...I guess this is like the true beginning of adulthood.

lololol this IS my MA

post MA I don't have a fucking clue except that I'm starting a band

http://www.factmag.com/2010/11/29/david-lynch-releases-solo-electronic-single/

65 today. It helps to speak backwards Italian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ4ai_W9BzI&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

I'll be showing the English, non-Simpsons version to my grade 6s today. After giving some background on the show, I always promise them that "this is going to completely freak you out." It never does, but it's always very dramatic when I announce that it will.

Happy Birthday David Lynch! :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atJuCtm6kgI

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2790

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go98Oa10QR4

don't think there's been enough wtf in response to this

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/duran_duran_by_lynch.jpg

http://vimeo.com/21939919

These last couple of days I've been timing & color correcting deleted scenes from Blue Velvet. It's a beautiful trip down memory lane.

!!

http://www.badassdigest.com/2011/01/25/lost-blue-velvet-deleted-scenes-to-be-included-on-blu-ray

Man, that badassdigest link hints at an actual extended cut by the look of it. STOKED.

seriously doubt that happening, prolly just standard deleted scenes

We've been hearing about it for a long time, and now it's finally here: David Lynch's solo album of electronic pop. Here's the first thing you need to know about this album: It's called Crazy Clown Time.

http://pitchfork.com/news/43525-david-lynch-announces-his-debut-album-featuring-the-yeah-yeah-yeahs-karen-o/

He's also in the Pearl Jam documentary.

i like that song!

the David Lynch track from Return from Planet Dub:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL_CSYHAUKk

he ripped off crispin glover!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6b_lSQst0

surprised they dont steal from each other more often tbh

stop all this crap and make another movie.

^^^

I'm a bit nervous that Inland Empire will be his last one.

the world won't need film after crazy clown time drops

hey what happneed to my teenwolf!!

Just listened to "Catching the Big Fish", his audio book. He keeps talking about how awesome Transcendental Meditation, but of course not once does he actually explain how to do it. Well that's not entirely true, at one point he says he was introduced to it, some lady gave him a mantra, he sat down and started meditating on it and was instantly in a realm of bliss.

Does anyone know about TM? Seems to me like you have to have someone give you a special mantra, that not any mantra will do, but it has to be special and unique to the individual. I think this is one of the things the Beatles always thought was suspicious during their stay in the late 60s. Who can give you this mantra? Does it have to be a TM licensed guru?

mantras aren't necessary for meditation but it is kind of central to Lynch's specific discipline - you get your mantra from a guru, yeah

I think TM is not any different than just sitting there and listening to some nice music with your eyes closed for 15 minutes - he is crazy to start a corporation for people to meditate all day

Yeah but wouldn't a specific sound be able to match your unique vibration, or something like that? I could see the use in a personalized mantra, though yeah for transcendence obviously nothing is ultimately required.

It was created by Maharishi mahesh yogi or whatever who is seen as kind of a huckster? Just do regular meditation, it doesn't cost 10,0000 bucks.

I mean, the fact that they're asking fit so much money is enough for me to call bullshit.

^^^

Yeah but wouldn't a specific sound be able to match your unique vibration, or something like that?

well, it has to be a sound that you can personally can make and repeat. the repetition (and the mind-numbingness of repeating something endlessly) is part of how it works.

I'd like to get a hold of Lynch and teach him the REAL eternal truths of the universe

Yeah but wouldn't a specific sound be able to match your unique vibration, or something like that?

This presupposes that people have a "unique vibration," that a sound can "match" it, and that there's some benefit to matching that vibration. I'm with blank, it sounds like a way to separate Westerners with too much money from some of said money.

Just listening to the natural rhythm of the breath is probably the best technique, I'd guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vAICnFZA6I

Ok the other thread was open at the same time, so im posting this here. Tell David I caught a small fish.

I went to David Lynch and Donovan's TM tour a couple of years ago. One of the strangest, and ultimately hilarious, nights I've ever witnessed. Lynch was cool. His car pulled up just as I got to the Glasgow Film Theatre. He was very friendly, saying hello to everyone as his minders ushered him in. It was announced that he'd be giving an unprepared q & a session and we could ask whatever we wanted. So naturally plenty of people asked about what happened to Dale Cooper, if Ronnie Rocket would ever be made etc. 'Gee, I dunno' was his general answer, before he turned it round to talking about how great TM was. "BLISS!! SERENITY!!!" he kept repeating, spreading his arms in a breast stroke motion. It was rather ridiculous, but he still came across as a dude, albeit one who was trying to peddle the joys of TM. Now I recall, he did talk about having a mantra and how this brought "BLISS! JOY! SERENITY!".
After half an hour of this we got a ridiculous hour + of Donovan being cringingly awful.

haha, i was there too. bizarre night but amazing to see lynch in the flesh.

Shill or not, I don't doubt it is something that he uses in all his films for decades now.

Hope it's not true:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/aug/19/has-david-lynch-retired