David Lynch - Classic or Dud

West Cross Way?

Holland Park Ave

^^^Ave can also be Latin for 'hai' and Average, DOUBLE MEANINGS, also Holland is in the initial title

let's do this, where are attractive lesbians, sinister cowboys and expert mimes

Only know NW + around my uni well, dude. There actually is a London in Literature module on my course but I liked the sound of Literary Linguistics more.

Holland Park def has a ring! Nandos is where the creepy man behind the car park lives.

Oh man that cowboy...what was his significance. do you think? Sent a chill up my spine when he appeared in that party sequence near the end.

yeah and where Naomi Watts really works (I always thought the barista in the opening 20 minutes and her either WERE the same actress, or should have been)

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Cowboy's significance? To deliver a fucking amazing speech, and to signify Classic Hollywood as a sort of ancient mafia, employing its own grandiose fixers to protect its fantastical domain?

and to signify Classic Hollywood as a sort of ancient mafia, employing its own grandiose fixers to protect its fantastical domain?

yeah this, film probably opens up and deepens some kind of resonance if you've lived or spent a lot of time in Hollywood. It is Wilder's Sunset Blvd's nightmare twin.

I wrote a lot about this interpretation of the film in the Mulholland Drive thread - it definitely is about the idea of 'the classic Hollywood movie' - showing the frail scaffolding of the concept and yet being one

am watching Youtubes of this guy's talks on Transcendental Meditation - is this shit as potent as he makes out?

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.