David Lynch - Classic or Dud

I got the 7" of that, I dig it.

The song is lovely

Laura Dern says (re: forthcoming project), "there's a twinkle in his eye and he's up to something radical and fantastic."

At long last, Lynch's cult classic "Weather Reports" will all be collected and combined to create a 24-hour piece which Vanity Fair says "evokes an unsettling yet strangely familiar space between reality and utopia, where the temperature is comfortable and a soft breeze blows, the sun reliably peeking through any clouds." Available June 13.

It’s a great bit but I will never actually watch any of the weather reports

i catch one every once in a while

but honestly, if they were collected and i could get them for $5 or something, i would probably do it

if only to use as an alarm clock wake-up song/video for people staying in my guest bedroom

this has probably been pointed out on ilx and elsewhere, but i just learned about the sculptor Giacometti's sculpture for the 1961 re-staging of Waiting for Godot. he and Beckett were great friends (https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/alberto-giacometti-1159/when-alberto-giacometti-met-samuel-beckett).

In the original 1953 production of Godot at the Théâtre de Babylone (a converted shop), Giacometti sat in the audience. The director Roger Blin had reportedly jerry-rigged a flimsy tree together for the production, using twisted wire coat hangers wrapped in tissue paper anchored to a piece of rubber foam. It is not hard to imagine that Giacometti might not have been impressed with Blin's shambolic attempts at scenography. When Beckett invited Giacometti to create an entirely new vision for his work in 1961, the artist readily accepted.

In an interview with art critic Reinhold Hohl, Giacometti described the process of constructing the stage set in his studio with Beckett:

"We experimented all night long with that plaster tree, making it bigger, making it smaller, making its branches finer. It never seemed right to us. And each of us said to the other, maybe."

https://i.imgur.com/f4AUAjv.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/We9EF3F.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/N1Vzh1X.jpg

....

of course, i suppose another likely inspiration was probably the sad charlie brown christmas tree, so who knows

I only watched Eraserhead in full for the first time recently. Had no idea the Evolution of the Arm was prefigured in Henry’s apartment.

Also looks kinda like a neuron

AXx°N N.

And beyond

https://i.imgur.com/c1A3gsW.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Lxwomx9.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/1rIjGGQ.jpg

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Also how much the baby prefigured ET! Talking of which, here's a Lynch drawing from c.1970

https://i.imgur.com/5ufu2te.jpg

The other prototype evolution of the arm is of course the cover of Julee Cruise’s voice of love album

The Julee Cruise cover features one of his ham heads. Lynch sculpted the little head out of wax, around a piece of ham. Stuck it on a wire and let the ants crawl into the head to get the meat.

One of his short films has video of the ants crawling in and around a similar head.

I had a close encounter with a “Ten lined June beetle” on the sidewalk today; it gave me serious frogmoth vibes, exceeded only by the Jerusalem cricket on our patio that made me lose my s#% one night last night last year (I seriously thought I was gonna end up like New Mexico Girl, until I found a way to fling it into a neighbor’s yard).

The frog-moth that Lynch said he saw in Yugoslavia in the 60s was probably this creature, the mole cricket:

https://i.imgur.com/MvCCJu6.jpg

Looking at it now, it seems likely to have inspired the Eraserhead chickens too

Apologies for inflicting that on this thread.

I will not sleep tonite :|

Actually that's Gryllotalpa brachyptera, which is native to Australia, so not that particular one. More likely Gryllotalpa stepposa though it doesn't look quite as good.

I love it! What a weirdo

I’ve found a few of those in my time. Pretty cute guys, but if you pick them up the front digging legs can push your fingers apart with pretty amazing force.

I missed all this wisteria posting. Ambivalent about the new series being in the Twin Peaks world

https://moviehole.net/david-lynchs-wisteria-updates-cast-tease-involvement-twin-peaks-connection/

Sounding like Wisteria is just the working title for Twin Peaks season 4. Hasn't he said stuff about all his material taking place in the same world/universe/whatnot?

That all seems like pretty weak basis for speculation to me. Kyle maclachlan is in Washington - isn’t he from there? & cast members posting pictures of wisteria “or purple flowers that resemble them” doesn’t feel like much either. omg Susan Sarandon also posted a picture of some beautiful flowers, could she be involved too? Or is that just something ppl do on Instagram in summer

idk it feels like ages since those original rumours that said they were gonna start filming in May & afiact there isn’t much to even indicate anything is happening at all, let alone that it’s twin peaks

I don't want any more Twin Peaks, nothing could follow the end of S3 without feeling like a compromise.

Kyle maclachlan is in Washington - isn’t he from there?

The main Twin Peaks locations are half an hour east of Seattle, with a couple being north or west of the city. Maclachlan's childhood home town is another three hours east from the Double R, and his winery is an hour further east from there.

charlie-day-cracking-the-case.gif, except it's just a map with two dots on it.

movie hole dot net with the scoop

(for ppl who didn’t click through, the sole “evidence” of filming on Twin Peaks S4 was Maclachlan posting a photo of a car’s nose with some light mud splatter, meme-captioned “tell me you’re in Eastern Washington w/o etc”)

I'm willing to believe this new thing is straight up Peaks S4 tbh

I mean in the absence of any evidence I’m willing to believe it could be anything - I’m kinda hoping it’s that antelope don’t run no more script that’s mentioned in the recent bio - the author writes something like “those who have read it say it’s the best thing he’s ever written” but he wasn’t able to get it made because it would be too expensive. If the rumours about Netflix money are true that is quite tantalising!

also K-Mac does seem to be really into dropping cryptic little hints about stuff

My take here is basically the same one I had when Twin Peaks S3 was announced: there is more David Lynch directed stuff coming and that is good and it doesn't matter if it's Twin Peaks related or not.

^^^

yes

there is more David Lynch directed stuff coming

tbf tho I don’t think even this much is confirmed (even that clickbait article that draws conclusions based on literally nothing is calling it a “rumoured project” still) - I do have faith something is in the works but it’s a p different situation to when s3 had actually been announced

I don't see him relinquishing directing duties again if he can help it.

If he does end up getting other directors to chip in I hope he goes for like, PFFR people

No I’m not saying twin peaks is back without lynch, I’m saying there is no confirmation there is a lynch thing definitely coming tp or otherwise

yeah I've been wrong before but I feel like it will still be a while yet before we get actual "official" word either way

I believe it’s happening, and I don’t need evidence

Evidence of that nature is antithetical to twin peaks discussion

the production of a new series certainly could go sideways, but don't we know that there was a 13 part series called Unrecorded Night scheduled to begin shooting in May, produced by A2K PRODUCTIONS, INC. and TWIN PEAKS PRODUCTIONS, INC., with Peter Deming as DP?

Personally would love to see a brand new project, if it had tiny links to TP world I'd be good with that. I just think S3 ended it all so perfect.

On the one hand, I agree, on the other hand, I didn't think I needed/wanted a third season and boy was I wrong.

xxp Didn’t all that just come from some Reddit person tho? I don’t think there’s been any real confirmation

ALTHOUGH I just saw upthread from our own Johnny Fever when the 1st reports came out

FINALLY! I've known about this since March because of my job, but I've had to keep it my own secret for eight months. I feel liberated

Which is good enough for me

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yeah that's true, i'm currently rewatching initial series to ready for another rewatch of S3. It's just so good.

I definitely don’t need more. I don’t need anything, ray. If there’s one thing you should know about me, ray, it’s that I don’t need. I want.

i re-dove into the whole "episodes 17 and 18 are meant to be played simultaneously!" thing again, the last couple nights, and man it felt good!

and regardless of intent, i still find this to be one of the most beautiful images

https://i.imgur.com/tuRub45.png

Huh, all those TP cast members posting Wisteria does seem pretty significant/telling.