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Question of the Week: What do you think of David Lynch?
Sub-question of the Week: Have you ever learned a musical instrument?
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I first heard of David Lynch from this podcast. Back in 2017 when Twin Peaks: The Return was airing, you guys would bring it up every week and it really sounded like some transcendent television was happening and leaving you both amazed. The first David Lynch film I watched was Eraserhead. I decided to watch it in 2020. That year, since theatres were closed, I started to watch older films I had never seen. (Including Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Fight Club, Jaws, E.T.). Eventually I watched Blue Velvet as well.
This fall, Blank Check did their “Twin Pods: Fire Cast With Me” miniseries and it was finally time for me to get caught up with Lynch. Usually I don’t watch much TV, but since I remembered both of you loved the Return so much, I decided I would watch all of Twin Peaks along with the Blank Check recaps.
I enjoyed all his films, but my favourite is Mulholland Drive. It terrified me. I had trouble sleeping the night I watched it. Horror movies don’t usually phase me, but that movie made me paranoid.
A little house cleaning before answers…
I’ll die fighting on a hill with you Ian until we get an Alpha Flight film! Believe me when I tell you that those heroes from the north have a lot of love down here, at least where I’m coming from. I think they’d make a terrific onscreen team within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Maybe they’re waiting to see where the X-Men land first and hopefully before someone gets the idea to introduce some other team that doesn’t deserve an onscreen presence like Alpha Fight does. Can you imagine Squadron Supreme, The Great Lakes Avengers or the Wrecking Crew getting to the spotlight before Alpha Flight?! That’s cause for rebellion. Throw them in with Captain Marvel, I almost forgot they teamed up with her…
https://nerdist.com/article/why-alpha-flight-should-join-mcu-diverse-avengers/
Along the way I’d also like to see an Invaders movie (with Union Jack), Beta Ray Bill and a total reboot of the Inhumans (Make them a weird royal family directed by someone like Guillermo del Toro).
Dave, I LOVED Fred Hembeck too as a kid and you’re right, reading sixteen panels of witty dialog in the same black and white line weight just doesn’t resonate like it used to. What drew me to his style was the simple caricature of the Marvel Universe, much the same way I was drawn to “Not Brand Echhh!” I loved that silly stuff when I was a kid.
Back to Ian. I had those Big Little Books too! Lots of them and I also drew flip-book cartoons in the corners of the pages. Are we normal? And as for Gold Key Comics, they did have the most fantastic painted cover illustrations. I wasn’t into Star Trek back then but I remember their Gold Key run with photo covers before the ones they had with Marvel and DC, that Enterprise crew really got around. They even had their own Gold Key styled “Star Trek” logo that pops up every so often to this day.
Do you remember the Star Trek Fotonovels? I found a collection of them at a comic book store in Oklahoma about 30 years ago and I still have them somewhere. What a concept, they should do it for “Adam 12” and make them half the size.
David Lynch was a visionary but not one that I’ve taken in a much as I should have. I saw “The Elephant Man” and “Blue Velvet” years ago and the version of “Dune” he did, so bad that he replaced his direction credit with Alan Smithee. I never watched “Twin Peaks” either but maybe it’s time to change all that and honor Lynch with some viewings. My manager Will at Lone Star Comics was a die-hard Lynch fan and it was because of him I saw “Blue Velvet”, Will took in everything Lynch did and was the first person I knew who raved on about “Twin Peaks.” I was happy to see David Lynch in the last scene of Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” where he portrayed John Ford, probably the best scene in the film.
What should I watch first?
No, I am not a musician in any way, shape or form. My Dad’s side of the family is full of musicians, good ones too but I took after my Mom’s side and got the artist bug in my Italian blood. Good enough to make a living at it too pushing pencils and pixels all day long for a paycheck.
Maybe I’ll go draw now, perhaps a Hembeck styled Alpha Flight!
Stay warm out there my fellow Sneakers!!
Of all David Lynch’s movies, I enjoyed The Straight Story the most. Simple yet profound and heartfelt, it was the least Lynchian of his films, but it showed he could direct movies about everyday people dealing with everyday human problems…IF HE WANTED TO. It’s like seeing the early work of an artist who then went on to do impressionist or abstract art and knowing they developed their style because they wanted to, not because they were incapable of drawing or painting in a realistic way.
I took piano lessons and exams up to Grade 5 in the Royal Conservation of Music system. I wasn’t a good pianist but the theory came in handy when I was singing in choirs and now when I’m teaching myself guitar and learning how to play my grandfather’s 100-year-old mandolin-banjo.
Of all David Lynch’s movies, I enjoyed The Straight Story the most. Simple yet profound and heartfelt, it was the least Lynchian of his films, but it showed he could direct movies about everyday people dealing with everyday human problems…IF HE WANTED TO. It’s like seeing the early work of an artist who then went on to do impressionist or abstract art and knowing they developed their style because they wanted to, not because they were incapable of drawing or painting in a realistic way.
I took piano lessons and exams up to Grade 5 in the Royal Conservation of Music system. I wasn’t a good pianist but the theory came in handy when I was singing in choirs and now when I’m teaching myself guitar and learning how to play my grandfather’s 100-year-old mandolin-banjo.
Whoops, sorry! My doppelganger must’ve clicked the post button a second time!