David Lynch on discovering the internet

January 13th, 2006
The full interview is available here : / _6koyfk

[@tickbox_]

He's like the old man version of Bjork. Completely insane and endearingly fascinated by simple things.

[@ANunes06]

Now I want nothing more than to see David Lynch and Bjork go for a long walk together.

[@PitNeex]

endearingly fascinated by simple things is exactly what we lose as we grown up, it's such a great quality for a creative person to have!

[@Throbbicus69]

I think he views the internet differently than a lot of people and i'd say arguably correctly complex. Most people find the internet to be pretty simple but don't really understand how many different things go into the formation of it. He understands the absurdity of it.

[@miikavihersaari3104]

Many things that have been amazing at first have come to be viewed as mundane and taken for granted, without remembering how amazing they really are. I can write a comment here, and instantly people around the world can see it if they happen to watch this video and read the comments. None of the common things we're surrounded by today are simple, and the amount of them is like a massive mountain and a little bit scary.

[@tickbox_]

@@miikavihersaari3104 Totally agreed. When I said "simple" originally I meant more "things that have become mundane to us". He's managed to maintain a childlike wonder and curiosity with things that have faded into the background for most people. We should try and be more like Lynch I feel.

[@vinnybrich484]

I love how david lynch is filming a dead mouse getting eaten by ants as an "experiment"

[@iamahuman6402]

I think it’s funny that he gives off very “old way hermit” type vibes but loves new things so much. He gives off the vibes of someone who’s like Chris Nolan in that he doesn’t have a smart phone and uses a type writer. But Nolan gives off more futuristic vibes in his movies but does things more old fashionably.

[@mazack00]

I have to explain David Lynch to a lot of people, especially his "short films". People don't realize that the man is such an artist that an idea will come to him and he'll just execute it.

[@Psalm144verse1]

dude throwin gang sings

[@swampdonkey4919]

Nah, he's just waving at people who aren't there, lol.

[@TrueEnglishMan01]

🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

[@Psalm144verse1]

@@TrueEnglishMan01 shut up

[@ErenTheWarcriminal]

@@TrueEnglishMan01…no

[@toxendon]

​@@ErenTheWarcriminal yes

[@fernandofaria2872]

Such a shame this guy stopped making feature films 😢

[@OKULTRACOMEDY]

Hey, we got The Return which a staggering piece of work as good as any of his other films.

[@szczesciejestkoloruczarneg749]

I like him

[@Scroolewse]

He has such an interestingly simple way of speaking certain things

[@deadNightwatchman]

Interviewer guy clearly is in a tea pot, like Phillip Jeffries.

[@BboyCorrosive]

The internet in 2006 was superior to the internet in 2024, come at me.

[@FrequeBoutique]

Google maps...

[@reecemarais690]

On the main it held a more hopeful and promising philosophy, even though functionally needed improvement at times

[@gughunterx437]

In some ways, but -- for now at least -- it is still a good way to get some kinds of information that would be prohibitively difficult to obtain through, for example, your local library.

[@zeltzamer4010]

Easily. There was the convenience of it but it didn’t totally dominate and poison everything like it does now.

[@BboyCorrosive]

@@zeltzamer4010 this, people think the internet started in 2010 or something, personally I was on it looking stuff up as early as 1995, people forget the internet was initially in universities for sharing research.

[@andta7889]

This guy so good XD

[@tylerwoollard7805]

A quick poem: In shadows and surreal dreamscape's call, There lies a mind, both dark and mystical, A master of enigma, Lynch by name, In every frame, he weaves a cryptic game. Through flickering screens and twisted tales, He draws us into Lynchian mystic trails, Where the ordinary becomes bizarre, In Lynch's world, no truths are ever far. Twin Peaks, a town of secrets deep, Where owls and logs their secrets keep, A murder mystery, strange and obscure, In Lynch's hands, it's an eerie allure. Blue Velvet's streets, both strange and seedy, A world where darkness meets the needy, Innocence lost, a journey through despair, Lynch paints a canvas, rich and rare. Mulholland Drive, a fractured mind's descent, Reality and illusion, forever bent, A puzzle where truth and lies entwine, In Lynch's vision, reality's design. Inland Empire, a fractured, fractured tale, Where boundaries blur and sanity may fail, A labyrinth of scenes that twist and turn, In Lynch's grasp, our senses churn. Lost Highway, a Möbius strip of time, A tale of identity, a riddle so sublime, Intrigue and madness, an elusive quest, In Lynch's world, we're put to the test. From Eraserhead's nightmarish womb, To Dune's desert worlds, where destinies loom, David Lynch, a filmmaker of the surreal, His visions, a journey, both raw and real. In Lynch's world, reality's a haze, Where strange occurrences light our days, A poet of the cinematic art, David Lynch's genius, a work of heart. (Tyler Woollard Sept 2023)

[@rad4924]

That is insanely good!

[@RealKynan]

Cool ChatGPT poem you fuckin fraud (Thousand Suns January 2024)

[@curiositytax9360]

Nic Roeg made better films. Lynch’s films are great but ultimately empty and soulless. No wonder he’s got a little cult that worship him. So did Charlie Manson. So did Donald Trump. So does Alex Jones. The first names that come to mind. People seem to be fundamentally rotten at the core judging from social media and their taste in pop culture and art.

[@plaidchuck]

@@curiositytax9360lol so we go from a harmless film director to charles manson. Touch grass my dudez

[@curiositytax9360]

@@plaidchuck harmless film director? He pushes a cult haha and he depicts sexual violence in a disturbing way that is more aesthetics than truth. He made his film Fire Walk With Me that is about rape/incest of teenage girl by her father into something sensual. I think the comparison is fair overall. Manson never actually did anything. He just had acolytes who he ordered to do things for him, which resulted in murder. I think Lynch even was on Alex Jones show years back, talking about how 9/11 was an inside job. Lynch also supported Ronald Reagan, which again was an aesthetic decision rather than anything to with truth or reality. He just likes the idea, image of it. I like Lynch films, this isn’t a moral thing, just being honest, and sad that all the worst kinds of people who sell a brand and an image are always the most popular and have large fanbases. It’s just the story of life. Some girl tried to marry Manson when he was in prison. People are rotten ultimately, hence the cult like popularity of Lynch.

[@flyingaviator8158]

cant find the website, is it off?

[@beanbeanster7219]

@flyingaviator8158 David has a youtube channel called David Lynch Theatre. Every day he'd do a local weather report and tell us about a song he's thinking about that day. The comments section was a lovely community. David hasn't posted there since December 2022. I really wish he'd do the daily weather reports again. On that channel are some other bits and bobs he's done. He also did another daily thing. Check it out. It's fab.

[@kristenelizabethdraws]

​@@beanbeanster7219 God - it's been over a year - I knew it, and only a month or two ago, I went back and Liked a few remaining comments I'd left un-Liked... but reading your comment brought it home... remember when we weren't so sure at all he was really taking a probably-permanent break from the channel... and then someone alerted us to his appearance elsewhere for his birthday... and Linda's David Lynch Collection channel disappeared as well - glad I took screenshots of my favourite posts. Wishing you well - blue skies and golden sunshine ☀️

[@flyingaviator8158]

I remember his Videos from the IG account, it was very special indeed. But I was looking for the website mentioned in the video, why is it down? @@beanbeanster7219

[@ggzzbb]

@@beanbeanster7219 This interview is from 2006 and there actully was a subscription based website early 2000's which included amongst other things a chat room where Lynch would pop in once in a while and engage with the members.

[@andta7889]

Where is this website????

[@MrKylePopovich]

Interesting. He predicts digital over film just perfectly (sound recorder not using tape anymore, and no two film prints are alike, being perfect examples). YET, he fails to realize what the magic is of the internet. The internet is visual telephone. We connect to other peoples phones/servers of data. Its so simple, and thats why its hard to move forward. We've perfected the digital transmission of audio and video through the air waves. What could be left? The Apple Scuba Gear Vision Professional II?

[@reecemarais690]

Arguably deeper sensations could be left, like neural interfaces exchanging emotional and visceral data. Virtual empathy where we already have telepathy in a way