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October 4, 2016 10:14 AM

Playing Lynch is “a collaborative meditation on the work of David Lynch”.
Practically, it’s a site hosted by Square Space that lets you buy an album of David Lynch soundtrack covers with a donation to the David Lynch foundation
Best-of-the-web-ly, it's a collection of David Lynch scenes where said music was employed, with the signal characters reenacted by John Malkovich.

• Special Agent Dale Cooper (from Twin Peaks)
• The Log Lady (from Twin Peaks)
• Frank Booth (from Blue Velvet)
• The Lady In The Radiator (from Eraserhead) Henry Spencer (from Eraserhead*)
• The Mystery Man (from Lost Highway)
• The Elephant Man (from The Elephant Man)

Each scene is part of a twenty-minute short film, Psychogenic Fugue, directed by Sandro. (Trailer)

posted by Going To Maine (10 comments total)

Huh, I never knew David Lynch had a foundation. Yet. somehow, an institute devoted to bringing transcendental meditation to populations faced with insufficient social support networks and high levels of background dysfunction is precisely what I would have imagined it was.
posted by crush-onastick at 10:22 AM on October 4, 2016

Robert Blake's Mystery Man is tough to imitate.
posted by a lungful of dragon at 10:28 AM on October 4, 2016

Yeah, I love Lynch, but I'm not particularly motivated to (indirectly) give money to that particular cultish scam.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 10:28 AM on October 4, 2016 [1 favorite]

/for the title, a slightly sinister quiet clap that goes on for far too long
posted by Celsius1414 at 10:28 AM on October 4, 2016 [2 favorites]

Oh - I missed one. There’s also footage of John Malkovich playing David Lynch as he meditates.
posted by Going To Maine at 10:42 AM on October 4, 2016 [1 favorite]

Oh - I missed one. There’s also footage of John Malkovich playing David Lynch as he meditates.

I just assumed there'd be a jump-scare to the man behind the restaurant mid way.
posted by Theta States at 9:12 PM on October 4, 2016 [1 favorite]

"Robert Blake's Mystery Man is tough to imitate."

Made even more creepy after Baretta's later legal troubles.
posted by Brittanie at 5:18 AM on October 5, 2016

Made even more creepy after Baretta's later legal troubles.

holy shit, I never knew
posted by Theta States at 8:19 AM on October 5, 2016 [1 favorite]

Well, this is just supremely weird.
posted by davejh at 6:16 PM on October 5, 2016

Well, this is just supremely weird.

It’s worth remembering that Squarespace also hosts this oddball Jeff Bridges album / project, so I think they’ve definitely trying to curate the idea that it’s a good place for weird arty stuff.
posted by Going To Maine at 12:35 PM on October 7, 2016