"...I think that everything's going in evolution. But it's a slow process and there's lots of places to get hung up and we're in one of those places right now."
--David Lynch, Search & Destroy #9
It was 2006 or '07 when Disaster Amnesiac had a conversation with a dude who'd recently seen David Lynch give a talk. L told me about how most of the time spent during this talk was upon the subject of transcendental meditation. It's known that Lynch was a long term practitioner of the activity. One has to wonder how that practice informed the last phase of his life, his dying phase. It's far beyond me to put forth any more propositions than that though, as regards David's personal journey into death of his body. Disaster Amnesiac would like to say that I've never seen Eraserhead, but have watched Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, both seasons of Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire multiple times each and they are all considered by me to essential to a certain way of thinking about art in general and film specifically. Lynch evinced evolution above hang ups. All of these productions of his kick major ass in their own singular ways, and they are all evolution from what he'd done previously. There are people that love his stuff and people that do not love his stuff. I can think of a few that I've known, on both sides of that coin. He was not a magnet for indifference, which is a key signifier for true creativity.
I was told that David Lynch died today. It's not sadness which I feel from that news. It seems to me that somehow Lynch wouldn't have wanted that for people. Sadness is too narrow a spectrum, especially for practitioners of transcendental meditation. His film work is timeless in its own transcendental way, and I know that that work will continue to be appreciated here and probably lots of others places too.
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