David Lynch - Classic or Dud

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.

I thought someone asked Mark Frost on Twitter, though, and he said he has nothing to do with whatever wisteria is.

If we take her at her "it's not code!" word, I feel bad for Sherilyn Fenn if it turns out the others were posting wisteria photos because they're involved and she just happened to think the wisteria was nice.

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

Fwiw, I feel the opposite (would love one more thing, even just a movie, to tie up the… loose ends); but will also be plenty satisfied if that never happens.

lol they all look coincidental tbh

Michael Horse’s is captioned “on my walk today”, Amanda Seyfried has tagged 2 of her friends who don’t seem to have anything to do with TP. I’m not even sure these are all pictures of wisteria. Some are from April or May, one is new.

Hays strikes me as someone, like George Griffith, who is as much a fan as a participant & likes to get involved in the hype so I think her “I learned about something” bit is literally just her reading the same articles everyone else is - she has been in a total of four scenes ever so I would not be assuming Heidi the waitress has deep inside knowledge on the next lynch project

Can't believe everyone is this hyped for Lynch's Desperate Housewives reboot

Could it be these folks are all tuned in to Lynch to some degree and are aware of the title “wisteria” and then just started to notice wisteria out in the world and either consciously or unconsciously posted wisteria in their socials either as an homage / hello to Lynch and fans

That seems more likely than a coded confirmation that this is s4 and around as likely as some of them just liking flowers

Yeah I would think it would be kinda rude for them to do that as a fake-out without knowing the "score" (or having Lynch's blessing), but what do I know.

(also, for all we know, Heidi the waitress could be central to the whole thing, lol)