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I was thinking of making a thread for that but the 'is DEAD' thing weirds me out. 

 

It's a shame there isn't an edit for The Return that includes the full performance she did, cause they have that awfully long and terrible Nine Inch Nails thing but then they only gave her like a minute. A real shame considering how essential she was to the sound of Peaks, that shoegaze-ness of it

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https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/david-lynch-new-album-music-video-chrystabell-1235012568/

 

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Over the Memorial Day weekend, Lynch cryptically teased something new for audiences to "see and hear" on June 5 ("June Five," Lynch proclaimed in his Missoula, Montana speak). And no, the project is not the rebirth of his planned post-"Twin Peaks" series, "Unrecorded Night," canceled during the pandemic. It's an album with Chrystabell, "Cellophane Memories," out August 2 via Sacred Bone records. And along with the Wednesday, June Five announcement, the label shared a new video for "Sublime Eternal Love," featuring Chrystabell and directed by Lynch.

 

Per a press release, the origin of the album "comes from a vision that David experienced during a nighttime walk through a forest of tall trees, over the tops of which he saw a bright light. As he recalls it, the light became the lilt of Chrystabell's voice and revealed a secret to him." The release continues, "Elisions in time reappear over and over within Chrystabell's vocals, which emerge and dissolve and loop back in layers of harmony and history. They are mantled by David's, and late composer Angelo Badalamenti's, orchestra of waldeinsamkeit-inspired strings, oneiric guitar glissandi and clouds of reverb, whose melodies are like the sensation of time pausing for a first kiss."

 

 

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I've sort of accepted that we aren't going to get any super impressive projects from him at this point in his career, films, shorts, music or otherwise

 

I did like that weird thing he did with Flying Lotus a while back. There's a music video but the song is better standalone I feel cause they edit it down for the video 

 

 

the video, apparently David Firth worked on the direction of this, the Salad Fingers guy. An inspired collab lol

 

 

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Series 1 is great , Series 2 suffers a bit from lack of clear focus, where some of the oddball stuff feels like wacky bloat rather than value added things.

 

I really like The Return - way much more on subsequent viewings that I did on the original watch (as that level of expectation had been removed) the same too with FWWM - which is also a great watch nowadays.

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I've seen Season 3 twice and other than its ending I still don't really like it tbh. I already got into that on this thread tho I think, its mountain of lore and disconnected narratives kinda just diluted all that dreamy pathos. I just can't convince myself it's any good tbh, despite being deep on the Lynch koolaid wrt some of his other works

 

I'll stan Lost Highway to kingdom come I tell you what

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He had an interview with Sight and Sound recently, apparently David Lynch has emphysema from a lifetime of smoking so in person directing isn't really a thing he can do anymore cause of COVID, which would properly fuck with his lungs. Can only work short distances before being out of oxygen. Sad

 

He'll probably be focused on music and painting from now on I suppose

 

 

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So now he can cast himself in the Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) role in a Blue Velvet sequel/prequel together with the 'oxygen' tank & mask combo !

 

Nah, not to make light of his situation, just something a bit left field that would be so Lynch to do.....

 

However things work out, and I can't imagine there's going to be any more TV/movies, he'll ultimately leave a fantastic legacy.

 

 

 

 

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Saw Billy Joel live in Cardiff last night (it was great) but surprisingly the support act was Chris Isaak - and my missus was like, why does he look familiar.... and all I said was "Chester Desmond in Fire Walk With Me", and she sort of just look puzzled, until he played "Wicked Game" and she was like "OMG, yes Twin Peaks !" (albeit that particular song turned up in Wild at Heart).

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Damn man, you knew it was coming with the emphysema diagnosis but didn't expect it so soon.

 

I've been doing a rewatch of so much of his stuff recently on 4k blu ray as I got way into physical media. The way his stories explored such dark themes, the depth and emotion of them. Their contradictions and abstractions, that idea of something being 'Lynchian' and knowing what that meant (in a manner of speaking). How they penetrated the popular zeitgeist and changed film, TV, even influencing some video games along the way. There's really no currently living 'artsy fartsy' director which got the mainstream to pay attention to them in such a big way, even as he dipped in and out of fashion from time to time.

 

Bummer, will be sticking that Eraserhead blu ray on sooner than expected.


I feel compelled now to post videos of my favorite Lynch things

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Also I have to watch his version of Dune now, the only film he's done I've not seen. Apparently it's not good but I got to know

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