(photo by Bonnie Schiffman)
Today would have been David Lynch's 79th birthday - the perfect time to share this tribute I recorded with fellow fans on Thursday night. After the sad news on January 16, I felt the need to talk to others - to articulate in common what we couldn't individually. Thankfully, Cameron Cloutier of
Obnoxious and Anonymous, the channel that first hosted me over a decade ago, was able to oblige. He gathered several regulars and previous guests in addition to myself: collector Joe Anthony, festival aficionado Ted Arn, online commentators Joey Pedras and Mandy Singleton, and author Max Every (whose oral history of
Dune I'd coincidentally discovered on a bookshelf a week ago). The last guest joined halfway through and brought with him lots of interesting anecdotes and questions about Lynch's most controversial film and its place in his larger body of work. Though we started off in a somber mood by the end of two hours we were all smiling, laughing, and leaning forward in our seats - buoyed by the memories and gratitude for these exciting years sharing the planet with David Lynch's dreams.
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