Thoughts on Art | DAVID LYNCH on Creativity

 

Author’s of the so called Tortured Poet’s Department Society mark these words . . . . . ! (sic!)

Lost on Mulholland . . . . . .

 

for David Lynch

Classics revisited! WICKED GAME - Chris Isaak

 IN MEMORIUM - DAVID LYNCH

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David Lynch thought for the day . . . . . we will not see his like again

"Morning pages are more than just a practice—they’re a doorway into the subconscious, a space where the veils of the waking mind begin to lift. Carl Jung (Ketu in Hasta) called it the shadow, the part of ourselves that holds both the truths we fear and the creativity we crave. Federico Fellini and David Lynch(R.I.P.) built their dreamlike worlds from this place, drawing on the surreal, the hidden, and the raw.

When you write in the morning, before the noise of the day sets in, you’re fishing in the deep waters of your mind, as Lynch would say. The subconscious is still close, whispering fragments of forgotten dreams, unresolved thoughts, and quiet desires. The pen becomes a bridge, translating those whispers into words, revealing parts of yourself you might not otherwise notice."

“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.” 

― David Lynch

 

 

Judith Roberts from Eraserhead (1977)

from David Lynch

night then . . . . . sweet dreams

‘PENA’ read by David Lynch (from Gary Lucas)

David Lynch recites “Pena” for Gary Lucas 

 Gary says "David Lynch was a real mensch to make this recording for me to play at my CAPTAIN BEEFHEART SYMPOSIUM.”

“Ideas are the best thing going. Somewhere there’s all the ideas, and they’re sitting there and once in a while one will bob up and the idea is made known suddenly. Something is seen and known and felt all at once, and along with it comes a burst of enthusiasm and you fall in love with it. It’s unbelievable that you could get ideas and that someone could give you money to make a film from them. 

And you’ve gotta be true to them because they’re bigger than you first think they are. They’re almost like gifts, and even if you don’t understand them a hundred per cent, if you’re true to them, they’ll ring true at different levels. But if you alter them too much they won’t even ring; they’ll just sort of clank. I really believe it’s like The Beach Boys said: ‘Be true to your school.’ Later on someone might tell you, 'That’s a very uncommercial idea,’ or 'That’s going to make a hundred million dollars.’ But if you’re thinking about that up front, for me you’re thinking about the wrong things.” 

— David Lynch (from Lynch on Lynch)

David Lynch - the master auteur filmmaker has died . . . . .another great hero gone.

 #audrey's dance

#david lynch#twin peaks#audrey horne#angelo badalamenti

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Lost Highway - Hank Williams thanks to O My Soul for the nudge

Renee / Alice - LOST HIGHWAY

Other birthdays | Isabella Rossellini

 

Jean-Christian Bourcart, 1990

Also born this week: exquisite Italian-born supermodel (photographed by greats like Richard Avedon, Bruce Weber, Helmut Newton and Francesco Scavullo) turned mercurial and intense actress turned animal behaviour authority Isabella Rossellini (née Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini, 18 June 1952). Among the many achievements of the daughter of actress Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini: she remains the definitive spokeswoman for Lancôme cosmetics and maverick filmmaker David Lynch’s single greatest muse. Her performance as tormented sadomasochistic nightclub chanteuse Dorothy Vallens in Lynch’s 1986 masterpiece Blue Velvet (a role originally intended for Helen Mirren) alone ensures Rossellini cinematic immortality. Pictured: Rossellini photographed at the Cannes Film Festival by Jean-Christian Bourcart, 1990.

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I love this photo as it doesn’t conform tp the convention of portraying her as merely the staggeringly beautiful woman but in fracturing her image says something about imagery of the time . . . . she was of course muse and partner to David Lynch! 

Mornin’! ADVERT BREAK : Kyle and David Lynch do like a cup of Joe

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DEAN STOCKWELL: 5th March 1936 - 7th November 2021

 DEAN STOCKWELL

We loved him in Quantum Leap and watched religiously but in Blue Velvet he blew us away! You work with David Lynch for a reason . . . . . . . . . . 

 " I started at a very early age in this business and I’m sure most of you have read stories about people who have started as children and ended up in very difficult lives and bad consequences. It’s not the easiest life in the world, but then no life is easy."

Dean Stockwell: 5th March 1936 - 7th November 2021

with thanks to Apimil 3.0

WILD AT HEART - VIDEODROME - AQUARIUM DRUNKARD

Another in the occiasional series of ::

Videodrome :: Wild At Heart

(Welcome to Videodrome. A recurring column plumbing the depths of vintage and contemporary cinema – from cult, exploitation, trash and grindhouse to sci-fi, horror, noir, documentary and beyond.) 

Great article (as ever) this one by e hehr

“Wild At Heart is a love story that barrels down a strange highway through the twisted modern world,” David Lynch said of his 1990 film. “There are very tender moments, and there are very violent moments. And then there’s confusion and despair, and then suddenly – you’re in love. There’s got to be room for all of these things…film, in my mind, should have contrast to it. It should have many different kinds of feelings all weaving their way throughout.”

A lifelong painter, Lynch began drawing as a young child long before considering film. His mother, Edwina Lynch, would buy crayons and coloring books for his siblings, but not for young David. He was supplied with blank sheets of paper, no lines to color within. Lynch would later attribute this to his mother recognizing his innate artistic abilities: “Somehow a really beautiful thing came to her that those [coloring books] would be restrictive and kill some kind of creativity…boundaries will screw you.”

 

Blue Velvet - David Lynch

 Night then . . . . . . . 

alway worth remembering that Dennis Hopper telephoned David Lynch when casting 'Blue Velvet' and said "You have to let me play Frank. I AM Frank!!"

sleep well . . . . sweet dreams! ?

From Aquarius Drunkard's Newsletter comes this about one of my favourite films, David Lynch's 'Straight Story'



Remembering David Lynch's The Straight Story

Over at The Ringer, Adam Nayman has a beautiful look at The Straight Story, David Lynch's G-rated Disney classic, which turns 20 this year. In Old Joy, a subsequent "American road movie, a character remarks that 'sorrow is just worn-out joy'; The Straight Story inverts that equation," says Nayman in this look at Lynch's least baffling movie, which makes it maybe his most baffling movie.

The Wisdom of 

DAVID LYNCH

(for all the toxic managers I ever worked with or for . . . you know who you are)

David Lynch on directing with kindness. 

 ERASERHEAD

A favourite film

David Lynch and Jack Nance

Advertising poster with cut out mask - who wouldn't want one?!

SONG TO THE SIREN

the author . . . . . 


the Cocteau Twins


Sinead O'Connor



This Mortal Coil

featuring the guitar of Robin Guthrie and impeccable peerless voice of Elizabeth Fraser


The version by This Mortal Coil was used in the David Lynch film Lost Highway [1997] although not included on the soundtrack album for contractual reasons. Peter Jackson also used in the Lovely Bones in 2009. In October 2018 the This Mortal Coil version of the song appeared in the BBC drama Wanderlust (S1: E6)

Lyrics
Song To The Siren

Long afloat on shipless oceans 

I did all my best to smile 

'Til your singing eyes and fingers 

Drew me loving to your isle 

And you sang

Sail to me Sail to me 

Let me enfold you 

Here I am Here I am 

Waiting to hold you 

Did I dream you dreamed about me? 

Were you hare when I was fox? 

Now my foolish boat is leaning  

Broken lovelorn on your rocks,  

For you sing,  

"Touch me not, touch me not,  

come back tomorrow: 

O my heart, O my heart shies from the sorrow" 

I am puzzled as the newborn child

I am as troubled as the tide. 

Should I stand amid the breakers? 

Or should I lie with  

Death my bride? 

Hear me sing, 

"Swim to me, Swim to me,  

Let me enfold you: 

Here I am, Here I am,  

Waiting to hold you

Lyrics by Larry Beckett (1967) Original Music by Tim Buckley (1970)

Larry Beckett wrote the lyrics to Song to the Siren as part of his ongoing collaboration and friendship with Tim Buckley throughout their high school years

Song to the Siren lyrics © BMG Rights Management

DAVID LYNCH

so many of my favourites . . . 

Favourite Film Director? Well Lynch is right up there  . . . 

B ★ O ★ W ★ I ★ E 

because we miss him and in tribute to two heroes, the two Davids, Mr Bowie just because and of course Mr Lynch as one of my favourite film directors