As a student of film I try to be pretty receptive to all styles of films from all types of filmmakers. If I don't "get" a film then I've been known to rewatch it just to see if I can pick up something I missed the first time around. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.

Tonight at the Galaxy Hut as part of their Dennis Hopper '86 Night, Julie and co. showed Blue Velvet. I've now seen Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (as well as several episodes of the series.) I've seen Dune and couldn't finish Eraserhead.

I just thought I should clarify that I'm not basing my opinion of Lynch's "talent" on one single film. I've given him several opportunities to impress me.

And he has failed every single time.

I just don't "get" David Lynch. I mean I will give you the man has a certain level of skill as a filmmaker and he definitely has a very unique style. But not a single film of his that I've seen has connected with me in any way shape or form. Not one.

Here's what I do think I understand. I believe Lynch's aesthetic is based on just kind of following his subconscious and allowing whatever pops out of his head to be the storyline. And I think he's going for a more abstract style of filmmaking. But my problem is that I don't connect on an emotional level with his movies. I'm not saying that all movies need to be melodramatic and I also believe that if I can connect with a flim on an intellectual basis then there's still some level of emotional payoff.

But Lynch's characters never seem like anything other than characters to me and even then I use that term loosely. "Pawns" is probably a much more appropriate word. I read somewhere that Lynch does essentially try to film his dreams and I don't have a problem with that. La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2 are very dreamlike and I think both of those movies are better than anything I've seen from Lynch.

So Josh and if I'm not mistaken Zack: I believe you guys are both professed Lynch-heads. Can you tell me not necessarily what it is I'm missing but what it is about Lynch's movies that appeal to you. It's probably not that big a deal to most of you all but as a film geek/student it bugs the crap out of me that I'm failing to connect in such a way with a legendary filmmaker.

This style seems wild
Wait before you treat me like a stepchild
Let me tell you why they got me on file
'Cause I give you what you lack
Come right and exact
Our status is the saddest
So I care where you at black
And at home I got a call from Tony Rome
The FBI was tappin' my telephone
I never live alone
I never walk alone
My posses always ready and they're waitin' in my zone
Although I live the life that of a resident
But I be knowin' the scheme that of the president
Tappin' my phone whose crews abused
I stand accused of doing harm
'Cause I'm louder than a bomb
C'mon C'mon louder etc...

I am the rock hard trooper
To the bone, the bone, the bone
Full grown - consider me - stone
Once again and
I say it for you to know
The troop is always ready, I yell `geronimo'
Your CIA, you see I ain't kiddin'
Both King and X they got ridda' both
A story untold, true, but unknown
Professor Griff knows...
"I ain't no toast"
And not the braggin' or boastin' and plus
It ain't no secret why they're tappin' my phone, although
I can't keep it a secret
So I decided to kick it, yo
And yes it weighs a ton
I say it once again
I'm called the enemy - I'll never be a friend
Of those with closed minds, don't know I'm rapid
The way that I rap it
Is makin' 'em tap it, yeah
Never servin 'em well, 'cause I'm an un-Tom
It's no secret at all
Cause I'm louder than a bomb

Cold holdin' the load
The burden breakin' the mold
I ain't lyin' denyin', 'cause they're checkin' my code
Am I buggin' 'cause they're buggin' my phone - for information
No tellin' who's sellin' out - power buildin' the nation so...
Joinin' the set, the point blank target
Every brothers inside - so least not, you forget, no
Takin' the blame is not a waste, here taste
A bit of the song so you can never be wrong
Just a bit of advice, 'cause we be payin' the price
'Cause every brother mans life
Is like swingin' the dice, right?
Here it is, once again this is
The brother to brother
The Terminator, the cutter

Goin' on an' on - leave alone the grown
Get it straight in '88, an' I'll troop it to demonstrate
The posse always ready - 98 at 98
My posse come quick, because my posse got velocity
Tappin' my phone, they never leave me alone
I'm even lethal when I'm unarmed
'Cause I'm louder than a bomb

'Cause the D is for dangerous
You can come and get some of this
I teach and speak
So when its spoke, it's no joke
The voice of choice
The place shakes with bass
Called one for the treble
The rhythm is the rebel
Here's a funky rhyme that they're tappin' on
Just thinkin' I'm breakin' the beats I'm rappin' on
CIA FBI
All they tell us is lies
And when I say it they get alarmed
'Cause I'm louder than a bomb

-Public Enemy, Louder Than a Bomb

topical.

Okay, so I'm totally obsessed with this new drum beat. I know it sounds weird. An example for you drum nerds out there, this beat can be heard on track 3 & 4 on this album...




&

on track 10 on this album



If you ain't got these yet, it is time.
DMZ = amazing! for real!
any fans out there of these bands? This stuff is a pretty recent discovery of mine.

Anyone recommend some new tunes for me in a similar vein...?

As it so happens, my crush is in a band & the drummer does a similar beat... you can hear it here... coming soon to the Black Cat!

DIrect from Hollywood Cemetery

http://www.myspace.com/dfhc

Or is the footage that they released today the same footage that was made available in that conspiracy film from, oh, 4 years ago? I thought they were going to roll that beautiful baked bean footage of the plane hitting. What a gyp!

anna says hi.