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Just a week ago we named a new pair of kittens who have joined our menagerie Sailor and Lula.
A sad day. A little while back my partner and I were talking about which legends deaths must not be too far away and which would hurt the most. Lynch and Waits were at the top of the list. Let's hope Waits stays with us for a while because I'm not sure there were that many others that would bother me.
"Never let the fact that they are doing it wrong stop you from doing it right." Hyman Mandell.
I know I often make a thing of composing cute obit posts etc, but… pretty hard to process this news right now.
In terms of any kind of art / culture I care about, Lynch has been a giant presence throughout my life, really.
You could easily beat your chest and declare him the best filmmaker of the past 50 years or whatever… but that would imply that he was in competition with other people for that dubious honour, when really he was out there on a plain of his own, almost entirely removed; working to his own rules, creating his own genre - his own artform, near enough. A completely self-sufficient, uniquely inspired DIY artist, with a vision so strong he somehow managed to filter it through millions of dollars and hundreds of collaborators and still get it up on screen at what felt like 100% proof. And, all whilst giving every impression of being a real swell guy too.
But enough blather - shall try to return to this when it’s sunk in a bit.
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