ver$hy ver$h

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“My childhood was elegant homes, tree-lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as it’s supposed to be. But on the cherry tree, there’s this pitch oozing out—some black, some yellow, and millions of red ants crawling all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath. Because I grew up in a perfect world, other things were a contrast.”
 
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IdleRich

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Or do you mean did I see Wild Palms? I watched that at the time it came out cos I was conscious that I'd missed out on something by not seeing Twin Peaks. I watched it again since, has a cameo from William Gibson I recall.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
No, I guess you meant the short about stealing after all, I didn't know any of that cos I've seen Lost Highway, Wild Palms and Natural Born Killers but so far apart that I never made the connection(s).
 

catalog

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His non-film art doesn't get talked about enough.

I went to the big retrospective they had in MCR a few years ago https://homemcr.org/exhibition/david-lynch-my-head-is-disconnected/ and it was stunning/disturbing in equal parts.

Loads of his bits from over the years, including these weird little boxes he makes, sort of like little terraniums, except it's roadkill and little animals that he's dismembered and then he presents it as a "kit" with instructions of how to make it "work" again. can't find an exact eg online, but this sort of thing


and then the massive multimedia paintings, with lights and bits of clay added on. This is the famous one, "boy lights fire", which they had. It's just the scale of it that's so impressive, really large painting and so detailed in every part of it. lots of different textures.


This is my fave, it always just makes me laugh whenever i think about it


Could not muster up the required £425 to get one, but what I liked a lot is that i think it's stone litho, which is an "endangered art" ie no-one does it cos such a faff. I was doing a printing course at the time and stone litho was talked of in hallowed tones.

the thing about it that makes me laugh is the brackets - four (4)
 

catalog

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totally disagree but horses for courses. you see em in the flesh, there's a lot going on. especially when you see the volume of work. the clunky/amateur feel does not bother me in the slightest, all it is is that he's doing it all himself with no real budget. bit like his short films that he made on his days off - "bees being what" is the funniest shit ever. i can't find it online but i've got it somewhere, will try to post later
 

luka

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i like lynch mostly but i do understand why craner has so much contempt for him and celebrated his death
 

luka

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he was saying surrealism for lynch is just pulling stuff out your arse and its the easiest and cheapest option. it doesn't digsuise any great mystery, its just incoherent images, theres no depth there, no necessity. what 'themes' he does have are cheap and trite and have been done to death before. lynch encourages the sense that there is a mysteery there becasue hes a charlatan. thats the craner view of it.
 

okzharp

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i met his (young, beautiful, Irish American) girlfriend recently, best impromptu night out i've had in ages, ended up at some luxury squat in Bermondsey, she bought loads of expensive Irish whisky and was belting out old irish songs acapella, telling us about all the things they were working on, he was helping her direct her first film which was - of course - about a love affair between an old man and a young girl.
 

luka

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lynch at his worst and where i really sympathise with wicked, bad, mean craner is episode 8. that is Guinness advert surrealism at its tritest and most gawky.
 

ver$hy ver$h

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he was saying surrealism for lynch is just pulling stuff out your arse and its the easiest and cheapest option. it doesn't digsuise any great mystery, its just incoherent images, theres no depth there, no necessity. what 'themes' he does have are cheap and trite and have been done to death before. lynch encourages the sense that there is a mysteery there becasue hes a charlatan. thats the craner view of it.

Lynch doesn't come off as calculated and cynical enough for this to be the case.
 
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