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brownbunny wrote:i don't know if anyone is hip to this yet, but lynch is touring with "yellow-fucking-mellow" donovon. ???

heyheyhey... don't knock Donovan, he's the shit!

I heard about the two of them touring together a little while ago, but alas they are only (for now at least) visiting three cities (and P-land ain't one of 'em)
plus, you have to be a member of his church/club/temple/whateverthefuckitis in order to get tickets (I think, but I may be wrong about that)

i actually like donavon, and without shame more than i like dylan (charlatan, i know).

i was reading lynch's book in borders yesterday, anyone have the chance to pour through it?

You dont have to be a member of their cult to go. I love Lynch but this sounds fucking boring.

brownbunny wrote:i actually like donavon, and without shame more than i like dylan (charlatan, i know).

me too.

a rare breed to exist.

"Catch the Wind" is a great song. I am surprised that it hasn't popped up in a Wes Anderson film, actually.

David Lynch very succinctly sums up his feelings on product placement.

Excellent! I had the feeling that there was going to be some sort of pithy response when the video was half over and the interviewer hadn't even finished asking his question!

It'll probably still have to be explained to Barmy.

Taste That Famous Cherry Pie

The Recipe

8 inch Crust: 1-1/2 c. flour, 1/2 c. Crisco, 1/4 c. ice water
Mix flour and Crisco with fork. Add ice water. Mix with your hands. When blended, roll into ball and refrigerate overnight. To roll out: flour both rolling pin and flat surface, split ball in two, roll out 1/2 to fit pan and 1/2 for lattice.

Filling: 3 c. cherries (pitted, sour frozen); 1 c. water; 1c. Baker's sugar; 4 T. cornstarch; 1/8 t. salt
Thaw cherries at room temp and strain (yields 2 c. juice). Taste for sweetness, more/less sugar may be needed. Add 1 c. water to make 3 c. juice (reserve 1 c. juice for cornstarch mix). Dissolve cornstarch in 1 c. juice, stir with whip. Combine 2 c. juice, 2/3 c. sugar, salt, and bring to a boil. Add cornstarch mix, cook until clear, about 5 min. (if cooked to long, syrup gets gummy). Remove from heat, stir in 1/3 c. sugar (blend thoroughly). Pour mixture over cherries, fold with wooden spoon, cool (stir mix while cooling to prevent scum from forming on top). Pour mix in pie shell. Top completed pie with lattice crust.

Bake @ 425 degrees for 35-40 min.

No red food dye?

If anyone here gets a chance to see the new print of Eraserhead that's been touring around (restored by MOMA under supervision of Lynch), I'd highly recommend going and seeing it. It is truly beautiful.
It's playing in Portland until this Sunday (1/06/08).

Antoine Doinel wrote:David Lynch very succinctly sums up his feelings on product placement.

I only just watched this.
Most excellent reply from Mr. Lynch.

Yeah, I agree, but this is pretty damned good, too.

Ha ha ha. I think I like that one even better.

The BAFTA Annual David Lean Lecture was given by David Lynch in October of last year. There is a transcript available on this page.

brownbunny wrote:i actually like donavon, and without shame more than i like dylan (charlatan, i know).?

That's the most disgraceful comment I've ever seen on an internet forum

Check out Don't Look Back for the scene where Dylan puts Donovan firmly in his place - and this somewhat before Dylan hit the peak of his powers.

Seeing David Lynch's lecture late last year was certainly one of the most esoteric events I've ever seen. He's a fantastic speaker, and in the beginning quite a lot of the discussion was about his films, even though most questions about his films ended up getting answers about how TM is pure bliss and happiness etc. And despite all the assurances that TM would change everything, I had a hard time keeping a straight face when Lynch introduced two "scientists" who according to him were just about the two smartest persons on the planet. The whole event went downhill from there,

Afterwards we all learned that if 2000 people in Finland did TM at the same time, positive waves would flow thru the nation, ending depression and unhappiness, cutting the crime rate in half etc. Apparently there was some mathematical formula thru which they'd ended up with the magical number 2000, but I can't quite recall what it was. The audience reactions were priceless.

All in all, the whole event was pretty much batshit insane, but very enjoyable and listening to Lynch speak is always pleasant. Too bad he had those two nutjobs with him.

BTW: Apparently the same method would solve Iraq's problems. Maybe Lynch should get in touch with Bush or Petraeus.

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brownbunny wrote:i actually like donavon, and without shame more than i like dylan (charlatan, i know).?

That's the most disgraceful comment I've ever seen on an internet forum

You should stay in and log on more.

Forgive me if this has been posted elsewhere, but I thought this Lynch public service ad was better than his last feature.

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brownbunny wrote:i actually like donavon, and without shame more than i like dylan (charlatan, i know).?

That's the most disgraceful comment I've ever seen on an internet forum

Check out Don't Look Back for the scene where Dylan puts Donovan firmly in his place - and this somewhat before Dylan hit the peak of his powers.

Dylan's performance is almost superfluous after Donovan's little sing-song, a sugar-coated, insubstantial ditty, completely faux and obvious in its sentiments ("…I’ll sing a song for you / that’s what I’m here to do / to sing for you…"). Dylan even chuckles midway through and remarks, "Great song, man", and of course you just can’t believe him for a second. When Dylan snatches his guitar and sings a deliberately strident, sneering version of It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue, it sounds like nothing less than a rebuke directed at the banality and sentimentality of the whole fey folkie world, at Donovan himself, who nods along, smiles, and occasionally seems to wince. And when Dylan sings “It’s all over now...” he seems to look right at Donovan, slouched in his chair across the room, utterly deflated.

Perhaps Dylan wasn't the nicest young man, and he tripped on his ego more than a few times (perhaps especially in the 65-66 years), but to even suggest that Donovan's music is in anyway comparable to his - much less superior - is beyond my ability to comprehend.

I just ended my personal David Lynch marathon, concluding with the just released DVD of Lost Highway, something I never did before with that director. With all of his works very fresh in my mind right now, I have to admit that Lost Highway floored me completely and the most of them all. Not only it's the most gorgeous looking film of all Lynch films, it's also the most fluid, the most seamless. Not a single scene wasted. As much as I love Mulholland Dr. and INLAND EMPIRE, I feel they are 15 or 20 minutes too long. As someone who has seen those two films more than 5 times, the first half gets unfortunately duller every viewing - for Mulholland, the film starts for me when the women meets the corpse and for INLAND, when Sue meets the whores. But for Lost Highway, the buildup is just as slow but it's still so creepy and riveting every time. The directing of Lost Highway is very wonderfully, brilliantly tight. For those of you whose memories of Lost Highway have faded, I suggest you to revisit its highway very much.

My recent experience with Blue Velvet was 360 degree different from my first experience in 1987 when I was still in high school. It has become so ordinary to me now. Very strange to be saying about a film that once destroyed me, also that once I was obsessed with for a long time. That can't be good. (The Exorcist destroyed me when I was 4 years old and it still does today! )

I never imagined Lost Highway to affect me emotionally. It was flat to me when I first saw it more than ten years ago but now all I want to do is to cry for Fred! Fred getting fried dissolving into an empty dark road really hit me hard for some reason.

My next favorite is Fire Walk With Me. God, that film bursts with incredible empathy - so boundless that makes Mulholland and INLAND (just as much the story of a woman in trouble as FWWM) seem more constrained.

Stay tuned for more thoughts.

My recent experience with Blue Velvet was 360 degree different from my first experience in 1987 when I was still in high school.

Sorry for this rather stupid and not constructive response - but if you turn 360 you are going in the same direction as in your high school years…

Jesus, I should go back to high school and take the damn geometry again.