Tag Archive: Inland Empire


CRAZY CLOWN TIME

My Mom always said to me that I should ‘play nicely’ but such advice would, I suspect, be anathema to David Lynch.

Pouring beer over a woman and ripping her shirt off, screaming so loud you spit and running around crazily in the backyard are some of the antics described in title track of his forthcoming debut album Crazy Clown Time (released the first week of November on  Sunday Best recordings).

If you are prepared to entrust Lynch with your e-mail address you can download this track for free (for a limited period) from his website.

Lynch recorded  the 14 track album at his own Asymmetrical Studio with engineer Dean Hurley, who contributes guitar and drums to several songs.

If this track is anything to go by, the album as a whole promises to explore the same surreal, backwoods territory of his movies. Continue reading

MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON

Maya Deren

I’ve just watched David Lynch’s Inland Empire again, the meaning of which I don’t think would be much clearer even if I watched it 20 times.

One review cited Maya Deren’s 14 minute, 1943 film Meshes Of The Afternoon as a possible influence and having seen it on You Tube it’s not hard to see the similarities.

The nightmarish eroticism, stark rooms, eerie shadows, menacing stairways and a brutal killing are all in Lynch’s movie.

All you need to do is replace the murder weapon with a screwdriver……..