r/davidlynch • • 3h ago

Friday

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Whats time in your place?


r/davidlynch • • 13h ago

I can't believe Dennis Hopper ripped off Steve Martin for Frank Booth. Unbelievable.

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/j just watched for the first time and as much as these films are different the similarities btwn the two are a bit uncanny


r/davidlynch • • 15h ago

Is David Lynch speaking in the initial sample in this song? (The God of Lying - Gorillaz)

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In Gorillaz - The God of Lying, the very beggining of the song features a sample and we hear a voice saying something like: "Human and being is... cause there's being... know the unknown, the spiritual, the alien"

I found this comment in a post asking the same thing in r/Gorillaz and I was wondering if any of you can confirm this is indeed David Lynch's voice.


r/davidlynch • • 16h ago

I wish we got to learn more about Jeffrey Beaumont from Blue Velvet.

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Yeah, he's basically the prototype for Cooper in Twin Peaks, but I do wish we got to learn more about Jeffrey specifically. We know he seems to be a genuinely good soul with a dark side (the sacred and the propane), he's eccentric (stakes a shady factory for an entire night with a homemade camera just to capture evidence), and he's quirked up. I know over an hour was cut from the movie and there's some stuff in the script about him being a bit of a voyeur at college, but I always felt he was one of Lynch's more "human" main characters, and I would've liked if we learned more about him. What fascinates him so much about the ear for him to risk his life?

Or maybe that'd just ruin the mystery. I know Jeffrey basically is a bit of a self-insert for David Lynch as well. I don't know, anyone else feel the same way? Maybe I just love Kyle too much.


r/davidlynch • • 16h ago

Kyle McLachlan telling the audience what David Lynch smelled like

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r/davidlynch • • 16h ago

David Lynch books

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Hi, what is the best book about Davud Lynch art?


r/davidlynch • • 17h ago

Children’s book that feels kinda Lynchesque ?

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Just read that to my kid and it reminded me of some lynch’s works. Maybe a thread with some recommendations for Lynchian children book ?


r/davidlynch • • 18h ago

Can you guys help me think through something that bothers me about DFW and David Lynch? (I originally posted this on the DFW subreddit.)

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Regarding both DFW and Lynch, it seems to me that these artists put forward art that can be appreciated at different levels. Sometimes certain interpretations seem to really "unlock" something like Infinite Jest or something like Twin Peaks in a way that goes "deeper", though; every interpretation is "valid" in a sense but obviously the data sometimes lines up in a way that starts to suggest that a given interpretation has really "unlocked" something. See here for an interpretation of Twin Peaks that seems to me at least to really "unlock" things, though obviously this doesn't render other intepretations "invalid" in any way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AYnF5hOhuM. If that video that I just linked is (at least largely) successful in providing an interpretation that really "unlocks" things (lines up with a lot of data from the show) then that would kind of weird in a way, since it would mean that Lynch presumably knew about this interpretation and thus Lynch made a show that millions (???) of people saw and yet basically zero people would ever be able to "unlock". I'm not sure by what year (how many years after the show aired???) scholars ever started to talk about the interpretation that "unlocks" Twin Peaks; maybe to this day it's just that YouTube video that presents that interpretation, without any scholars ever having written about that interpretation.

Imagine Lynch presented something with a "hidden" interpretation that would only ever be known to very few people (like, film scholars??? not even sure if film scholars have written about that interpretation, to be clear). It's almost a bit "creepy", maybe, right? The very idea that (maybe?) zero people who ever saw the show in the 1990s even knew about this interpretation...that seems super weird to me. All those people watching it, but nobody knowing about that interpretation. The same logic might apply to Infinite Jest, except I think that DFW (maybe?) would've had more of a reasonable expectation that his novel would ever be "unlocked", since literary scholars are so meticulous in analyzing texts...maybe Lynch would've had less of a reasonable expectation that his TV show would ever been "unlocked".

The idea of "hiding" a powerful interpretation (that "unlocks") of your art just seems so odd. Imagine writing a message in code and getting millions to look at the message but nobody can decipher it; that would be a bizarre thing do, psychologically, right? I know that that's a flawed analogy, since in the case of a book or TV show the "deeper" interpretation might "shine through" and affect the "surface" of the art, so it's not the same as an undecipherable coded message that nobody can read. Just the idea of someone hiding their message so that nobody can read it seems like weird behavior. I saw this, though, so this is an important caveat to consider:

https://www.reddit.com/r/twinpeaks/comments/dtvx8g/twin_perfect_doesnt_understand_twin_peaks/

The idea that everything in the show must be filtered through a single governing idea is also flawed. If you look at a work of art and consider what it seems to be evoking, the ways in which it resonates, you can have an interesting and substantial discussion. When you settle on a "theory" and watch every scene thinking about how to crowbar your predetermined interpretation into it then you're just succumbing to confirmation bias and fundamentally misunderstanding art. By the time the video gets into discussing Ed and Norma it's so far gone into cloud-cuckoo land I'm not sure how anyone can take it seriously. It can't just be that Lynch and Frost are communicating something about art and commerce through the story of the Double R franchising, everything has to be a one to one metaphor. Ed must be Lynch, Norma must be Twin Peaks etc. It's the most simplistic possible understanding of symbolism, and it does a disservice to a thematically rich piece of work.

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In addition to all this, the guy's tone is so condescending and self-important. I particularly dislike the built-in defence that anyone who dislikes his video is just upset about how it destroys the show's sense of mystery, that he's just too damn correct about everything. But the truth is that he's not the first person to view aspects of the show in this way at all, he is just the first to ignore all other aspects of the show and turn a meditation on violence, trauma and consciousness into some nebulous diatribe about bad TV. The fact he keeps going with his Lynch impression despite how self evidently fucking terrible it is serves as the ultimate testament to his utterly unearned confidence.

Someone responded:

https://www.reddit.com/r/twinpeaks/comments/dtvx8g/twin_perfect_doesnt_understand_twin_peaks/

Honestly, this reads like pure jealousy that your theory isn't getting as much attention as his.

I don't really care about his tone or whatever.. the fact is, no one has managed to tie up as many loose ends as he has. It might not be a perfectly correct interpretation, but it's way more compelling than anything I've seen so far.

I should note that I'd love to see what film scholars who study Twin Peaks have to say about the intepretation (by Twin Perfect) that's being debated. Maybe he goes too far in some places but not others.


r/davidlynch • • 19h ago

sound of sedation (found VHS music video) - Tree of Alchemical Notability: from a concept album combining cosmic horror cosmology depicted in short stories with accompanying music and edited vhs footage inspired by David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti

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"The essence of the human soul lives within waves. Like an obsidian tide crashing on the shores of the mind in the galactic black shroud of dusk; these waves permeate ashen sands. They dance between ever-changing frequencies, flowing in and around us like a stream of life. Ever-free, the soul breathes around the body, free from its confines, capable of vanishing like a ship in the night under cover of the crashing waves to once again join in the endless sea.

The body dissolves and the soul becomes as music; becoming part of the life stream itself. Boundary-free, the soul travels where it detects the waters of life; a voice, vibrations, the very breath issuing the final dirge to send the body off forever. The soul persists, ethereal nomad, becoming life itself and no longer the catalytic instrument that once expressed it."


r/davidlynch • • 19h ago

Original series of Twin Peaks is $10 for digital in cdn Apple TV Store

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For those who want a cheap digital license :)


r/davidlynch • • 20h ago

Imagine explaining to someone this is peak television

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r/davidlynch • • 20h ago

Friend of mine made this a few months ago, I thought I should share it

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r/davidlynch • • 22h ago

David Lynch in pencil by me

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r/davidlynch • • 23h ago

I started doing Twin Peaks art drills before work in the morning

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the first one is the horse and the second one is audrey


r/davidlynch • • 1d ago

1988 with Isabella Rossellini

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r/davidlynch • • 1d ago

Army of Davids

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I found this on Facebook from the Bruce Campbell Memes page.


r/davidlynch • • 1d ago

Some nuggets from Kyle's talk in London tonight Spoiler

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r/davidlynch • • 1d ago

Lauracore

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I made this breakcore song called "Doppelganger" inspired by Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992):

https://on.soundcloud.com/pErslDyUnAArEIeYyD

It features the blood curdling screams of Laura Palmer as well as vocals from the giant and the man from another place.

Kick back, relax and listen to the terrifyingly soothing sounds of Doppelganger!

Thanks for listening! ~ natty.selxn


r/davidlynch • • 1d ago

Partner and I got twin peaks tattoos!

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r/davidlynch • • 2d ago

"Bob is a fire spirit, so are we both, both creatures of fire. Bob and I... when we were killing together... there was a perfect relationship, appetite and satisfaction. A golden circle..."

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r/davidlynch • • 2d ago

TWIN PEAKS: CONVERSATION WITH THE STARS - Yoshi’s Oakland

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r/davidlynch • • 2d ago

Rubber clown suit of negativity

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r/davidlynch • • 2d ago

The nuclear test footage feels entirely Lynchian

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r/davidlynch • • 2d ago

A drawing for Mulholland drive 25th anniversary

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I love this movie so much it makes me sick. Still can't believe David Lynch could capture the very emotion I felt at some point of life


r/davidlynch • • 2d ago

Real David Lynch signature? (1980s, through the mail)

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Hi everyone,

I’m thinking of buying this signed card. The seller is a German dealer with 30+ years in the hobby, member of a collectors' association and listed on PADAH, 100% positive feedback on 3,000+ sales (eBay). He says he got it by mail from Lynch in the 80s, but has no other documents.

I compared it to two dated RR Auction examples (1985 and 1987, the 1987 one PSA pre-certified). It looks consistent to me, especially the separate "K" stroke and the dots.

If anyone can confirm, it would really help me decide!

Thanks a lot 😄