Seven Days of David Lynch Day 5: Football Game

From 2011's Crazy Clown Time. 

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Watch:

Friday night I did something I've been meaning to do for some time: I brought the television and blu-ray player from upstairs down into the living room and set it up just below the tv there. Then I grabbed the disc with Twin Peaks: The Return from both the standalone BR set and the A-Z set and cued up 17 on the top screen and 18 on the bottom. 

It looked something like this:

Obviously, the pictures don't really do it justice, as I snapped them pretty haphazardly, as not to take away from the viewing experience. To talk about this further, I'm going to pilfer from a text thread I have going with my friend Chester Whelks.

Watching Twin Peaks: The Return episodes 17 and 18 simultaneously felt like it was going to shore some long-overlooked or half-formed theory about the series up into something definitive, but that didn’t happen. I can’t say I took a hell of a lot away from this other than the uniqueness of the experience itself, which is not to be undervalued. I haven't had something like this since The Flaming Lips' Zaireka, and I cherished it. That said, I was hoping for something really jaw-dropping, and that just did not happen. 

It is, however, considerably more difficult to watch two episodes at the same time and keep information from both coming in equally; I kept confusing events in the same episode as happening across both, which in and of itself might just say something about the validity of this interpretation. The fact that Episode 18 gets quiet when 17 is really going tells me there is probably more here and I just need to try the experiment again, but go in with specific ideas to watch for, instead of just careening through haphazardly.

There are quite a few instances of blocking, dialogue and conceptual juxtaposition that make me think this coupling is intentional. A lot of opening doors and traversing thresholds in sync between the two episodes that make me inclined to give this some credence to these being two parts of the same whole (or "two birds with one stone," in the show's vernacular). 

Being that The Return is an 18-episode series and thus perfect for “coupling,” I became interested in the idea of watching the entire series as 9 “couplets." I'm in the middle of a three-day weekend from work, so who knows...

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Seven Days of David Lynch Day 4: Thought Gang - Frank 2000

'Nuff said. 

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Seven Days of David Lynch Day 3: Polish Night Music

David Lynch and Marek Zebrowski's 2015 Polish Night Music is one of the most atmospheric albums I know of. Right from the start, I feel like I'm skirting the alleys of Łódź, passing dilapidated apartment buildings and ornate Gothic churches, only to be sucked into an ominous, failing machine. 

Abstract, yes, but I have Lynch himself to thank for those images. Łódź served as one of the filming locations for Inland Empire, and his lifelong obsession with industrial sounds and scenescapes is omnipotent in much of his work. 

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Watch:

I figured this would be a good time to compile a bunch of trailers released for David Lynch's films, starting with 1990's Wild At Heart. 

This film is so iconic, but it also skirts a line between deadly serious (Sailor beating a man's head open on the courthouse stairs) and completely hysterical (Thrash Metal band Powermad adding accompaniment to Sailor serenading Lula in the middle of a mosh pit). 

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Read:

Continuing with the Lynch-centric theme, I spent some time digging through my old issues of Wrapped in Plastic and found an article from the first issue I ever purchased - issue 17. The article in question was an interview with Twin Peaks writer Harley Peyton on the set of his film Keys to Tulsa. 

As usual, WIP braintrust Craig Miller and John Thorne conduct a fantastic interview, which becomes all the more entertaining as Eric Stoltz and James Spader drift in and out of it. In particular, I either had no idea or had just plain forgotten that Peyton wrote the screenplay for the cinematic adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero (a film I have yet to see, given how much I love the book).

It's been a very long time since I've seen Keys to Tulsa, may have to seek that out sometime soon...

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Playlist:

The Police - Synchronicity

Phil Manzanera - Listen Now

Midlake - The Courage of Others

Deftones - private music

YUNGBLUD - Idols

Drug Church - Prude

Fever Ray - Eponymous

David Lynch & Marek Zebrowski - Polish Night Music

Underworld - Lovely Broken Thing

Underworld - I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and This is My Horse

Underworld - 1992 - 2002 (Disc 2)

Zeni Geva and Steve Albini - All Right You Little Bastards

The Trapezoid & Six Ex - Cannibal Children of the West (single)

Shellac - To All Trains

David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time

Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch - Twin Peaks Season 2 OST

Myrkur - M

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Card:

From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.

• Seven of Pentacles

• XIX: The Sun

* King of Swords

"The solution to the problem taking up most of your time is practice."

I had the idea to start adding quotation marks to the pulls that come off sounding like I'm offering them to someone else. I guess the idea is I'm placing the quotes there so it's obvious (to me?) that this is the cards talking to me. Or something like that. I don't know.

Anyway, pretty direct message on this one. I'm not entirely sure what it applies to, other than writing, which I've not been doing. So a nod to get back on that train, or something else?

Seven Days of David Lynch Day 2: Harold's Theme (The Living Novel)

I have damn near every piece of Twin Peaks music with a proper release on vinyl now (most on CD as well) and that huge, $70 "ALL The music" digital release from back around 2011. I still need to acquire a copy of the "Season Two Soundtrack and More!" on wax, though. Here's one of my favorite tracks. 

For such a smaltzy, soap opera character, there's an awful lot around the Season One character Harold Smith - portrayed by Lenny Von Dohlen - that really works. His idea of the "Living Novel" is one of them. As does his theme, which I've always thought adds a perfect amount of danger to the scenes with him and Donna. 

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Seven Days of David Lynch Day 1: BLUEBOB - Blue Horse

 

This coming Friday marks the one-year anniversary of David Lynch's death. You know what follows in these pages. Starting Seven Days of David Lynch today, with a favorite from Lynch's collaboration with multi-instrumentalist/Producer John Neff, BLUEBOB.

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NCBD:

Big week, and I've already received a warning not to flip ahead in the finale for Dreadnok War, so I'm psyched. Let's get into it!

Creeping up on issue 30. Wow. Kirkman is building something great, and I'm here for it. 

Not a lot to say about the new creative team on TMNT so far. And that's not a bad thing by any means. The art is insanely good, and the writing feels like we're building to go somewhere interesting, so I'm just sitting back and waiting. Which, with the turtles, is always fun.

The one non-80s IP this week, and I'm happy as hell to have the respite. I love Jeff Lemire's Minor Arcana!

So weird that such a large part of my monthly pull is now centered on the toy properties I loved as a kid (and still love, let's face it). 

Whatever happens in this one, I have a feeling it's BIG! Great way to end Dreadnok War, which has really served as a revitalization for the Energon Universe's version of the Joes for me. 

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Playlist:

David Bowie - A Reality Tour (Live)

Faith No More - Album of the Year

Peeping Tom - Eponymous

David Bowie - Low

David Bowie - Reality

Helmet - Aftertaste

IDLES - CRAWLER

Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound

Blood Incantation - Absolute Everywhere

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Card:

Just one card from Thoth today. I've been pulling at least one a night, independent of my Hand of Doom spreads. I've felt a reconnection to this deck of late, and I can feel myself growing into it in an even more substantial way than before, which is saying something, because I've now had this one for over twenty years. 

• Prince of Cups: Today, especially, don't undervalue pragmatism when dealing with Earthly matters. Vague, but I'll take it. There's also the intimation of making a decision and acting on it quickly. 

David Bowie/Brian Eno - Moss Garden

 

After an unexpected trip to Chicago for a funeral this past weekend, I've been so slammed at work I've barely had a chance to think of posting here. I couldn't miss closing Bowie Week 2026 with one of my favorite tracks from 1977's collaboration with Brian Eno, Low. Of the three albums in Bowie and Eno's "Berlin Trilogy," I'm pretty sure this one is my favorite. 

Ten years since he left us, and the world has done nothing but disintegrate. 

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Hallo Spaceboy

 

From 1995's Outside. Or rather, this is a remix of the song on Outside. A remix that leans heavily into 90s electronica and really makes it work. I mean, I prefer the album version, but this is definitely a cut above what a lot of other established artists were doing to keep up with 'the new sound' at the time.

Also, is that Pet Shop Boys' singer, Neil Tennant, singing on this track? 

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Watch:

Last Thursday, I saw Johannes Roberts' latest film, Primate. Can't recommend it enough, but it's not for the faint of heart, that's for sure. The Horror Vision did a spoiler-free review:

We're only two weeks into the year and I already have one film I feel pretty strongly about as far as a "Best of 2026." Always a good sign.

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Playlist:

Double Life - Indifferent Stars

Helmet - Aftertaste

Coleman Hawkins - Wrapped Tight

Tamir Hendelman - I Saw Three Ships (single)

David Bowie - Heroes

Chicago Underground Quartet - Good Days (For Lee Anne; single)

Carepenter Brut - Leather Temple (single)

Johnny Griffin - The Cat

David Bowie - Reality Live

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Card:

Setting aside Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot 9which you can buy HERE) to work with Thoth for today's card.

Control desires. Or maybe, don't control them? I think one of the things I've taken away from this card over the years is a juxtaposition with Chaos Magick's edict not to let the lust of result hamper the chances of achieving what you want. This is pertinent in everything, although I didn't have anything specific in mind at the time I drew, so I'll be reflecting on this card all day today.