David Lynch dead at 78

He still had a social media channel where he posted something nice each day during the pandemic and then he released some music on vinyl recently. feels a bit like the last things of david bowie where you wondered if something new comes out soon but then they just die instead and you realize how old they actually where 

true legend.

Fuck!..

Good age to rest, amazing artist

Very sad to hear this, he was a true artist.

saddening news to wake up to, I thought he had another 10 years at least. RIP.

Sad as fuck

Did he really like Autechre? Fucked if I know but it was a great story anyway

Only watched Fire Walk With Me recently and it was still magic, he had such a unique magic about him

Well this is shit news. I saw Lost Highway when it was out in cinemas. David was on Jay Leno to promote it and they were showing the scene with the phone. I couldn't stop thinking about this scene and I HAD to watch this movie! So I went and it blew my mind completely. Was just a teenager back then but I never stopped loving his work. Definitely one of those things from teenage days that never turned out to be shit later on. Always kept an eye on what he was up to. But it was only a few years ago I first heard this album. Jocelyn Montgomery singing Hildegard von Bingen, he produced the thing. The whole album is killer. I really don't like knowing that he is dead.

my all time favorite artist. i've been into his work since i saw Elephant Man when i was a kid. after all this time following his work it's hard to imagine the world without David Lynch in it. i still have the paper i wrote on Blue Velvet for my college rhetoric class (i got an A).

it's impressive how dialed in he was to his creative vision. it was so consistent across all the different media he worked in. film, music, painting, photography, sculpture, etc...

and yet for an artist of such singular vision, it's amazing how influential his work was and still is. i've been rewatching season 1 of Severance in advance of season 2 coming out this week & his influence there is undeniable. for sure there would be no Severance without Twin Peaks.

i love that his life was such an amazing journey from humble beginnings. his works continue to carry an element of mystery and provoke multiple interpretations, which will keep his art alive & influential for many years to come.

  On 1/16/2025 at 11:28 PM, cruising for burgers said:

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I was bumping that soundtrack in my car. One of the things that first endeared me to his movies was the sound design. The sound in his films can stand as artwork, alone. That soundtrack is up there with any Basinski LP. It’s a life regret that I never got his autograph on the 8x10 of the baby from my copy of the original vinyl pressing. 

Eraserhead, imo, will always be his best film. It’s probably his most personal and most purely artistic. It’s terrifying, magical and hilarious. 
So many things to say about all of his work. He was a visionary.

  On 1/17/2025 at 1:31 AM, J3FF3R00 said:

Eraserhead, imo, will always be his best film. It’s probably his most personal and most purely artistic. It’s terrifying, magical and hilarious. 

I was thinking this. at any rate, it's the first of his I ever saw and still my favourite.

  On 1/17/2025 at 1:29 AM, digit said:

my all time favorite artist. i've been into his work since i saw Elephant Man when i was a kid. after all this time following his work it's hard to imagine the world without David Lynch in it. i still have the paper i wrote on Blue Velvet for my college rhetoric class (i got an A).

it's impressive how dialed in he was to his creative vision. it was so consistent across all the different media he worked in. film, music, painting, photography, sculpture, etc...

and yet for an artist of such singular vision, it's amazing how influential his work was and still is. i've been rewatching season 1 of Severance in advance of season 2 coming out this week & his influence there is undeniable. for sure there would be no Severance without Twin Peaks.

i love that his life was such an amazing journey from humble beginnings. his works continue to carry an element of mystery and provoke multiple interpretations, which will keep his art alive & influential for many years to come.

 

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Hadn't really copped any severance link but I suppose there is, but it's everywhere just maybe not as overtly as that

That episode of the newest series of Twin Peaks was amazing altogether, I wasn't mad on the whole thing but there was one real trippy episode, possibly black and white ep 7 or 8 it was amazing

It's a sad day, that track in Fire Walk With Me in Canadian Jacques back bar, fuck me, that was good, he can set a strange mood, and the little lad talking backwards with the red curtains and black and white floor

Hard to pick a best moment but I think it would prob be from twin peaks, mulholland drive or blue velvet, so many good freaky tripped out sequences to be fair, master at the mad and I love that

RIP boss

the way the music fades out for the dialogue and then fades back in in the end always gets me... utube is not allowing to embed anything by him today, what a shitty move to ruin a beloved tribute to his work... maybe it's not utube itself I dunno but still... 

https://youtu.be/qZowK0NAvig

RIP. Hopefully Aphex releases his OST for Mullholand Drive...

David & Tront

Lynch's 3 hour 'masterclass' is now on youtube.

https://youtu.be/nQVdHZsfd1Y?si=UFKFzqR3xQdcQshS

If y’all haven’t seen this, legendary bit of cinema …

(from Wikipedia)
“Lumière and Company (original title: Lumière et compagnie) is a 1995 anthology film made in collaboration between forty-one international film directors. The project consists of short films made by each of the filmmakers using the original Cinématographe camera invented by the Lumière brothers…

(rules)

1. A short may be no longer than 52 seconds

2. No synchronized sound 

3. No more than three takes “

Big surprise, Lynch’s was the best.

Again, this was all shot on one single take. He had someone opening and closing a panel of some form to create the “cut to black” transitions while repositioning the camera to another staged scene. Truly brilliant. 
My favorite part is the “LIGHT IT” transition with the actual fire wipe. So good. 

My mood today:
 

I saw The Elephant Man as a child and it terrified me. I couldn't stop rewatching it. Everytime it came on. It mesmerized me. It taught me to be a human. To not be cruel. To not judge people by outer stuff. Only the inner stuff. I saw Dune when I was a bit older but still a child. The music, the insane visuals, the complex depth it holds. It made me love art. The rest of his work is deep within me. His art will always be a center within me. Thank you dearest sir. You will never be forgotten as long as humanity exists. RIP.

I've been thinking about David every since I've heard the news and it makes me feel quite sad. Many great tributes all around, my favorite radio station had a morning program dedicated to him. I had this sudden desire to watch Inland Empire again last week and I remember exclaiming "David, you old fox!" Beautiful cinema, beautiful music, a great artist. I'm going to miss him. Rest in peace

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This was a crazy shock as we celebrated one of DL's newest fans's 16th birthday...also shared with John Carpenter ... which took a sudden turn. so we stuck on that brilliant Art Life documentary mentioned above and it was a much needed and often funny balm .

We now have lined up for the weekend a lot of  the classics, many i've not seen but have been saving.. like elephant man, lost highway etc. Really looking forward to a long overdue rewatch of Mullholland Drive too. Lynch touched on my life in many ways from old partners being superfans to my dear old mum watching TP back in the day to the amazing Return in recent years.  I feel blessed to have lived through his lifetime and am enjoying the next gen getting into it all.

Last year I reworked an  old track with some TP/DL samples...

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https://keyfumbler.bandcamp.com/track/starmoving

og GOAT, great loss, thanks for the inspiration. rest in peace.