David Lynch - Classic or Dud

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

I don't doubt that meditation aids his creative process. I'm just suspicious of any religion or cult that only offers enlightenment in return for wads of cash.

Why are celebs such suckers for religious/spiritual/self-help practices that demand lots of $$$? I'm with Telephoneface: Follow your breath! It's free.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GXGc4EobS8

whole thing is on NPR

More on the Blue Velvet reissue:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/nov/03/blue-velvet-flaming-nipple-deleted-scenes

Guardian is all over Lynch it seems. This is also a nice interview, about his music, inspiration, coffee and talking fish:

David Lynch: 'Sometimes the fish talks back to you'

This is where you can hear him talk about the album.
Still have to hear a single note. Also, I'm at episode 13 of my first Twin Peaks rerun since the series ran. Awesome! Totally forgot how very funny it all was. Back then I was mostly scared instead of amused, it seems :)

The album is surprisingly good.

Whoa thanks for the link Willem! Saving it for the dark night to listen to that! :)

The Blue Velvet reissue was released last month in belgium and the netherlands, I found out after this thread was revived. Just received the Blu-ray, and wow - that 51 minutes of lost footage is in high definition as well, and has a score and everything! (no subtitles though)

The Dutch Dune Blu-Ray really does say "Dino De Laurentiis presents a film by David Lunch" :

http://i39.tinypic.com/2lww47o.jpg

David has his own line of coffee: http://www.javadistribution.com/coffee/david-lynch-signature-cup-organic-coffee/

The album with Chrysta Bell is on Spotify.

He sure has a type.

66 today. As always, showed my students Cooper's dream.

Do your students enjoy your Culture Corner bits, or do they tolerate them with lols and eyerolling?

Sure does (x^2p)

Depends. Some stuff they're genuinely interested in--the Kennedy assassination, anything to do with the Beatles, Spielberg, etc. Things like the Jefferson Airplane, or Eisenhower, they're not much interested in. How interested I am has a lot to do it with sometimes; I don't think they'd normally be the least bit interested in Nixon or Scorsese, but I really make a big production out of it with them, and it carries over. For most of the Twin Peaks clip, they were giggling--with it, at it, who knows? I do know the 5 or 10 minutes I take up with this stuff is far and away the high point of the day for me. Teaching place value can be a bit of a comedown afterwards.

amazing sense of dread in this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbf8PMuphqo

yeah, great little film. shows more than anything else that he's always been very attuned to sound and music in generating his effects.

technically his first film is "six men getting sick," but that was part of an installation so...

is it just me or does he seem to have descended back into self-parody for most of his endeavors since inland empire?

make a movie again ffs

I have a feeling Lynch won't ever make another feature length film.

He should make a feature length animation.

I have a feeling Lynch won't ever make another feature length film.

i have heard this speculation several times now. why do you think he's done w film? i expect at least one more feature from him.

he's pretty old and doesn't seem to be actively working on any film projects, he appears to be focusing his energy on different types of art

coffee iirc

no one knew he he had been working on INLAND for years until a few months before it was released.

well, not "no one", obviously. i'm sure the actors and crew knew.

that's not true. i heard reports about it many months before it came out.

not that long before it was released at any rate.

really? I remember reading about lynch making a movie w/ jeremy irons and some other folks in inland empire (before the film had that name) and then spending a while wondering when it would come out.

I recall that the copy of Lynch on Lynch that I have mentions something about him being at work on IE.

A revised edition was published by Farrar Straus & Giroux on March 16, 2005 (ISBN 0-571-22018-5)

btw, for the uninitiated, that book is def worth seeking out.

dunno if this has been posted elsewhere, but here's basically an hour of deleted/lost/etc scenes from Blue Velvet (!)

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