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June 24, 2018 6:53 AM   Subscribe

David Lynch interview as Room to Dream, his biography is published. Discussion (audio only). 'It is calling, but there are a lot of disturbances' Lynch hints at the possibly of more Twin Peaks.
posted by fearfulsymmetry (10 comments total) 6 users marked this as a favorite
 
1. His hair is transcendent in those Guardian photos.

2. I'm disappointed that he doesn't read the entirety of the audiobook.
posted by elsietheeel at 8:39 AM on June 24, 2018


Ah Fuck.

Politically, meanwhile, Lynch is all over the map. He voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primary and thinks – he’s not sure – he voted Libertarian in the presidential election. “I am not really a political person, but I really like the freedom to do what you want to do,” says the persecuted Californian smoker.

He is undecided about Donald Trump. “He could go down as one of the greatest presidents in history because he has disrupted the thing so much. No one is able to counter this guy in an intelligent way.” While Trump may not be doing a good job himself, Lynch thinks, he is opening up a space where other outsiders might. “Our so-called leaders can’t take the country forward, can’t get anything done. Like children, they are. Trump has shown all this.”

posted by bootlegpop at 10:24 AM on June 24, 2018 [1 favorite]


That's not exactly support for Trump. I supported Sanders in the primaries, and I sure can't blame anyone who didn't vote for Hillary Clinton, but I am definitely not a Trumpster. If it's any consolation, about 90% of Mark Frost's Twitter account is dedicated to talking shit about Trump.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 11:37 AM on June 24, 2018 [1 favorite]


I love thinking about what David Lynch may or may not know about. And Twin Peaks The Return was a huge help for me surviving 2017. It's so good I'm not sure I want to see more. I don't know if there is enough time to pull it together. (and I love Mark Frost twitter!)
posted by armacy at 6:13 PM on June 24, 2018


I can blame them, given the amount of things that are worse in the world, including kids being put in cages, partially because people felt too pure to go for the least fucked option. Nonetheless, I guess that there is no point in bringing a debate that has been had hundreds of times in the politics thread into this thread.

I really enjoy Lynch's work and have since I was literally a kid, but his work is very white and he has a sort of weird nostalgia for a time in America when things were really only good for white people. I can't envision him going out and harassing people or anything awful like that, but given what I said above and given the fact that he likely has a decent amount of money, it's not entirely surprising to me that he somehow thinks that the novelty or opening that a Trump presidency represents might be worth the harm that it does to people that he likely has very little to do with.

It's too bad, but I get it.
posted by bootlegpop at 6:36 PM on June 24, 2018 [4 favorites]


I think it's a lot to extrapolate that Lynch doesn't care about people unlike himself because of this comment. Lynch's work is very, very white, but there is a strong sense in The Return of someone who cares passionately about disadvantaged people on the whole. He also tends to take a long, philosophical view of things -- and admittedly, in the case of Trump, that is almost certainly much easier to do for an old, rich white man than anybody else in America. But it's also generally how Lynch rolls. I wouldn't mind seeing more invective, too, but I don't hold it against him. It's not a Roseanne situation.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 7:50 PM on June 24, 2018


I love a lot of Lynch's work. But he supported Reagan in the '80s, and, well, notwithstanding his "forgetting" who he voted for in 2016, maybe he voted for You Know Who and just doesn't want to say it.
posted by Artifice_Eternity at 8:07 PM on June 24, 2018 [1 favorite]


I had always heard that Lynch was a Republican, but then some years back on the (now sadly defunct) Nerve.com I read an interview with him where he said he was most emphatically not a Republican and was annoyed that people were always saying he was. Back in the 80s he'd expressed admiration for the idea of a cowboy actor becoming president, Lynch just liked the imagery of that, but people took that as him endorsing Reagan's politics when he didn't really. I suspect this latest quote is something on the same order. It seems like Lynch doesn't think Trump is actually a good president, but he just really likes that Trump is so different from previous presidents.

I think Trump is a sack of crap, but I don't really begrudge Lynch's admiration of him because... well, Lynch is pretty wacky sometimes. I don't think Lynch is an idiot or he can't function in the world, but he's on some whole other wacky wavelength from most people. I mean, to jump from Bernie Sanders to Trump... in the course of one election! The guy is just a mess politically because he doesn't seem to really think out the issues. He bases his politics on images and weird impulses, just like he makes his films. He wouldn't identify as a political conservative and I don't feel like he has hate in his heart, and I kind of wish people would stop asking him about politics because he's only going to embarrass himself. It's one area where his touch of crazy does him a lot more harm than good.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 7:35 PM on June 25, 2018 [2 favorites]






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