David Lynch RIP

I was very saddened to hear of the passing of David Lynch today. He had a large impact on the popular culture of much of my adult life. I have seen all of his films and of course his amazing television series Twin Peaks. I also have a couple of his albums in my music collection.

I wrote a student paper on David Lynch in 1977 while in the film studies program at Temple University after viewing Eraserhead at the TLA Cinema on South Street in Philadelphia. The class instructor was very excited about the feature film from this filmmaker and talked about seeing some of his earlier short films.

A few years later I would see it again in Buffalo at the Allendale Theater and then The Elephant Man too. I was very excited when he came out with his version of Dune in 1984 although I was a little disappointed in the film's deviation from the book which was one of my favorite science fiction novels. But I did enjoy the film and watched it a couple more times over the years. 

I really liked his next film Blue Velvet and I would go on and see all of his films following it including Wild at Heart, Lost Highway and The Straight Story. I especially liked the Twin Peaks prequel Fire Walk With Me. The 2001 film Mulholland Drive was really good as was Inland Empire in 2006 which would turn out to be his last feature film. The last thing of his I saw was the revival series Twin Peaks: The Return from 2017. He would also make more short films but I never saw any of them. 

He was also involved in several music projects over the years. He released a couple of albums which I have in my collection... Crazy Clown Time from 2011 and The Big Dream from 2013.