#lynchland

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“Many peoples lives are filled with mystery, but things move super fast nowadays, and there’s not much time to sit and daydream, and notice the mystery. There are fewer and fewer places in the world now where you can see the stars in the night sky, and you’ve got to go a long way out of L.A., to the dry lake beds, to see them now. One time we were out there, shooting a commercial and at two in the morning we turned off the lights and laid down on the desert floor and just looked up. Trillions of stars. Trillions. It’s so powerful. And because we’re not seeing those stars, we’re forgetting how grand the whole show is.”

- David Lynch

Shooting star over Mt Warning, NSW, Australia - D. Munn Photography.

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Angelo Badalamenti:

"Working with David Lynch has changed me in a number of ways. The first, and most important is that David loves beautiful melodies. And that passion gave me the confidence not to hold back as a composer. I reached for long, dark and bittersweet melodic lines. And David loved my use of harmonic suspension, which I’ve developed into an identity as a composer. Secondly, I’ve learned to compose music from his vivid descriptions of those scenes, moods and tempos. This is what’s so different from the traditional way of working with film directors. When David and I were working on the Laura Palmer theme for Twin Peaks, he would sit next to me at the keyboard. In a very soft and expressive way, he said, “Angelo, the music should begin very dark and slow. Imagine that you’re all alone in the dark woods, and the only sounds you hear are the wind and the soft cry of an owl. It’s kind of scary, and the music should haunt and mesmerize you.” Then I would start playing it, and David would say, “That’s it. That’s it. Play it slower. That’s so beautiful. Now you see a beautiful teenage girl in the distance, and she’s coming out from behind a tree. She’s all alone and so troubled. Now take that darkness and go into a beautiful melody.” I would change the musical colors, and build them ever so slowly until they reached a climax, and David would be saying, “Oh, it’s so beautiful! You’re tearing my heart out, Angelo!”

- Film Score Monthly, 2001-09)

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“ Who killed Laura Palmer?”

Twin Peaks by David Lynch

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On the "Wild At Heart" set with Laura Dern and Isabella Rosselini

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“I learned that just beneath the surface there’s another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn’t find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force–a wild pain and decay—also accompanies everything.”

― David Lynch

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David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini by Helmut Newton, 1988.