Pullman/Lynch

Sometimes it is just good to know that you aren't the only one.
Julie Klausner has a weird crush on Bill Pullman, too! I've been kind of wanting to rewatch Lost Highway, but Alex put a temporary moratorium on watching David Lynch films. The reason? He's taking an ENTIRE CLASS on David Lynch next quarter. Color me jealous.

GOOP.

Okay, so I get Gwyneth Paltrow's weekly newsletter, GOOP. Don't judge. I love vague self-help almost as much as I love Gwyneth's unselfaware ramblings and INSANE "detox"/starvation plans. I also, as you know, love David Lynch. But never did I think my interests would meet.
This week, G.Pal's newsletter was about MEDITATION. Of course! Strangely enough, she'd never tried it. I'm sure she doesn't have a lot of spare time, since she is usually rising at 7 to drink lukewarm lemon water (DETOX, people, rid your body of the toxins!) and then doing 50-100 repetitions of various exercises designed to make her butt look good. As G. Pal herself puts it:
"My New Year’s resolution is to learn how to meditate. It’s always sounded like something I should do, but I don’t know how to. My friends who do it say it’s really freakin’ brilliant. They say you can’t know the peace/awareness/contentment until you do it. My brain drives me mental. I am going to start. Tomorrow. "
It seems pretty likely at this point that Gwyneth runs this whole GOOP operation on her own, without anyone checking over what she's writing, because that sounds crazy. "My brain drives me mental," really? Is that supposed to be a joke? I'm convinced that early in the morning (perhaps even before she's had her lukewarm lemon water) she just jots down some stuff and is then like, "Fuck it, I'm GOOPin' it." She enlisted three different mediation experts to describe their processes. You can guess who was reppin' Transcendental Meditation.
David Lynch's thoughts on meditation are pretty common knowledge, since that's the focus of his writing (and unfortunately his film making ) lately. He does drop this gem:
"I sat down, closed my eyes, started this mantra — which is a specific sound-vibration-thought — and it was like I was in an elevator and they cut the cable. Boom! I fell into bliss – pure bliss. And I was just in there. Then the teacher said, “It’s time to come out; it’s been twenty minutes.” And I said, “IT’S ALREADY BEEN TWENTY MINUTES?!” And she said “Shhhh!,” because other people were meditating."
Most importantly, he says that if you have a meditation-related question, you should email him and he will personally respond. Don't think I'm not tempted. Although I am not into meditation (obviously), I always admire the passion that David Lynch brings to everything that he does. I just wish it would involve new movies.

Polanski Redux

The David Lynch in my head is the David Lynch that puts things like this on twitter:
I built a fish over the weekend. You?

And then a few hours later, writes this:
For those asking, my fish is made of plaster, wood, wire and epoxy.

In-my-head David Lynch is currently battling it out with Real-Life David Lynch right now, since Real-Life David Lynch signed this (from Videogum, obviously). I've been coming up with ways to justify this all day (because that is what I need to do, because I am a totally normal person!) and here's what I've come up with: David Lynch is probably friends with Roman Polanski, and you defend your friends, right? I mean, if one of my friends was accused of murder I would probably still not want her to go to jail. Or whatever.
I guess Alex ought to get busy printing up those TEAM POLANSKI tees, because the demand is far greater than I ever anticipated. Tilda Swinton called, she wants her TEAM POLANSKI baby tee STAT!

Something You Won't Be Interested in, Probably

Well, I found something that has really helped me figure out what to do with the rest of my life:
It's Twin Peaks inspired cross stitch.
I really do think it's cool when someone can take needlework and somehow make it more modern and related to pop culture. I also feel like this is finally a way I can combine my love of needlework and my love of David Lynch. If you'll excuse me, I have a blanket to finish (unfortunately it has nothing to do with Twin Peaks).

Eraserhead

On Thursday night, I watched Eraserhead for the first time. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, But aren't you always talking about how much you love David Lynch? Actually, you aren't thinking anything, because you aren't anyone, because no one reads our blog. But still. It doesn't make much sense that I love David Lynch, yet I haven't seen his first film, the one that notoriously took him years to finish, the one that made him famous, the one that the government included in the National Film Registry because it is "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Well, yeah, but listen...David Lynch has a finite number of films, and once I finish them, I finish them. It's the same reasoning behind why I didn't read every Lorrie Moore book in one week. I like to know that there are still David Lynch movies out there that I haven't seen.
So I watched Eraserhead, finally. This clip sums up the experience:

You will probably enjoy it, if you're in the right mood. There was actually one scene in the movie that was almost too gross for me to watch. If something makes me say out loud, "Oh, gross," then I know it has been effective. Seal of approval!

D. Lynch

Just making sure you guys have been following this.  Make sure you at least watch the Tommie Holliday episode.  Keep on truckin', David Lynch.

!!!!!

LOOK LOOK LOOK LOOK LOOK WHAT I GOT IN MY EMAIL TODAY! My two favorite things have merged.
Exclusive First Listen: Danger Mouse And Sparklehorse Team Up With David Lynch

I was so excited to see this that I haven't even listened to it yet.

You Heard it Here First (Unless You Already Heard It)

Alex probably already knows this and just didn't tell me, but I have some David Lynch news for y'all anyway. Are you following him on twitter? You don't have to. I can follow him for you. Of interest:
-D. Lynch is working on a project with Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse
-D. Lynch is totally going to (creatively) hook up with Rainn Wilson. After receiving some sort of twittered compliment from Mr. Wilson, he replied:
@rainnwilson Thanks, Rainn. Let's talk when I get back to Los Angeles.

And now he encourages the public to follow Rainn Wilson. They are obviously BFFs now. Technology: bringing people together.

Lynch

This is a Moby music video directed by David Lynch.  That's...I mean, that's why I posted it. 

Shot In The Back Of The Head from Moby on Vimeo.

Twin Peaks: Fall Asleep With Me

It doesn't take a music genius or a Pandora station to figure out that Alex and I aren't into Mike Patton (unless Alex has gotten into some weird Faith No More phase. I don't know, strange things can happen in college). But he's obviously good at what he does, if you like what he does. Kind of like David Lynch (sorry, I'm contractually obligated [Alex made me sign a contact for the blog] to mention David Lynch every third post). I found this song Mike Patton recorded called "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me." It's got that Twin Peaks feel about it, which for Alex would be the feeling of falling asleep in a recliner with your head in your hand and occasionally waking up whenever I tell you to pay attention.

Great Minds are Winfreys

Lookout!  Two similar posts.  I think you should be used to it by now. 

 I'm a big fan of Rotten Tomatoes in general, but I really enjoy their "Five Favorite Films With..." feature.  Today I saw that they were talking with Billy Ray Cyrus.  This should be interesting, I thought to myself.  Well, let's just get this out of the way.  Yes, The Horse Whisperer was on his list.  Twilight was also on there for some reason.  But the weirdest (and most interesting for the one person that reads this blog) part was his inclusion of... Blue Velvet.  This is what ol' Billy Ray had to say about the film "Let's go with Elephant Man -- no, I'm going to go with Blue Velvet, for myDavid Lynch pick. I'm going to go with Blue Velvet because I love Roy Orbison so much. He was a great influence on me musically, and still is. That's when I kind of put two and two together -- with Blue Velvet -- and thought, film is a great way for your music to be heard, without radio. It's a great way for your music to be heard."

David Lynch can reunite The Beatles

It's common knowledge (in my brain) that David Lynch can do anything. He can move mountains through the power of Transcendental Meditation. Anyway, apparently TM can do a lot of other, more fun things (who wants to move a mountain? Not me), because at last night's David Lynch Foundation benefit, The Beatles reunited. The ones that are alive, that is, although I wouldn't put it past David Lynch to somehow get the dead ones involved. But the real question is, who's that dude talking in the middle of the video?



I'm glad the benefit went well and all, but honestly I'll be glad when David gets back to twittering.
But that's not the real point of this. The point of this is that I found something, you guys, while looking for a clip of the Beatles. I found this:

If you read the info, you'll find that someone not only made a (kind of cool, but mostly mediocre?)mashup of the theme to Blue Velvet and Eleanor Rigby, but wrote a STORY to go along with it, AND made an ENTIRE ALBUM of David Lynch mashups. I'm half creeped out, half jealous, but mostly just want to watch Blue Velvet again.

More of the same

Reading David Lynch's twitter has already paid off! Because he posted a link to this.

Seriously, just the thought of David Lynch updating his twitter page was enough to keep me going today. Maybe eventually I'll post about something else. But probably not. I can only hope that when Alex completes his first feature film he will make a thank you video that is exactly like this. Make it so!

Because two Lynch posts in one day isn't enough

We all know about Jennifer Lynch's FIRST movie. But did you know she has another one? I didn't! But ever since I found out that Alex hasn't been keeping me up to date on Lynch news, I've been doing several-months-of-unemployment levels of research. I don't have to tell you what parts of this trailer seem very Lynchian, but can I just say Bill Pullman? Sometimes it must rule to have David Lynch be your dad. One of those times is when he can executive produce your weird movie.

My birthday is in May...

...which gives you plenty of time to save up enough money to buy this for me. I'm not necessarily referring to Alex. Just anyone who might be reading this and who wants to buy me a present. There's a MYSTERY DISC.




Also, why did David Lynch hire a Michael Cera dress alike to play the guitar?

That is me on the twitter page.

I found something amazing. David Lynch has a twitter page.
http://twitter.com/david_lynch
And in case you were thinking, "I know it SAYS David Lynch, but is it really David Lynch?" Well, he answers that for you on youtube.

As you will see, his twitter is mostly well wishings and weather reports. And a lot of meditation stuff, like: "Thought of the Day: We are like the spider. We weave our life & move along it. We are like the dreamer who dreams & then lives in the dream." You know, kind of exactly what you would expect.

Exactly what you think it will be like

Oh, you know. Just David Lynch singing while wearing a cowboy hat.

Everyone's dream, and they don't even know it.

Whether you've actually thought about this before or not, it is a dream of yours.  

Inland Empire

I watched Inland Empire by myself a couple of weeks ago, mainly due to the fact that H. won't watch David Lynch with me and Alex gave up on the movie about thirty minutes in. Actually, when I texted him to say that I was watching it, he texted back with, "I straight up turned that garbage off."
So, Inland Empire. I love David Lynch as much as the next girl (okay, so I love David Lynch waaaay more than the next girl), but Inland Empire is weird. And not weird like the rest of his movies. Weird like, why did he use that camera? And why is it three hours long? (Alex's response: "He forgot to edit it.")I tried to find the weirdest/scariest part on youtube to show the world, but apparently no one has posted it (hint: it's the part with Laura Dern's distorted face superimposed on the face of that dude she shoots. Oops, spoiler!). So instead here is this part, which pretty much sums up what you are getting into:

There's some cool music throughout, and I liked all the actors, but for me it just didn't feel like a movie. Although, Alex, I don't know how far you actually got in the movie, but there are definitely tits. And a monkey at the end. So maybe you might want to give it a second chance?

NSFW (Or mom)

This one's for Kerry.  Also, what a stupid question to ask David Lynch.  What kind of response did you expect?