Lmao, for your information: we are NOT okay
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
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I mean I like his stuff and totally recognize that he was a huge influence on film making but mans was 82 or something and he probably died comfortably a millionaire surrounded by loved ones so its not like a huge tragedy. Also he would probably find jokes like this very funny as he was kind of a lynchpin of dark comedy (pun obviously intended)
Oh no I thought it was hilarious (hence the lmao) I was just kinda expanding on the bit. I am in fact very sad about his passing but you're totally right. He's a nut and I just read something where he was interviewed and was asked why he was referring to Angelo Badalamenti in present tense (dude passed away) and Lynch was like "eh we just lose our physical form we don't die, disappearing forever is stupid everything is fine". So yeah he's probably having a good laugh at us dorks rn
He's a nut
One of my favourite things about Lynch is his success as a just unironically weird dude who creates art from that very earnest place. It's something I hadn't ever really heard other people say and then Guillermo del Toro also talked about it in an interview about Hideo Kojima of all places. Here from about 2:35/2:40
Just got around to watching this and it's so wholesome. "He really believes in the goodness of pie and coffee" 
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i heard he had emphysema and hadn't been well enough to ;eave his house in some time and e probably kicked it because of the fire/evacuation.
i don't care about the guy in particular but health problems can destroy a lot of the comforts of wealth
: I can't believe David Lynch is dead! What a tragedy, there will never be anyone else like him, Hollywood just can't make movies like that anymore!
: One illustrious part of the history of cinema is gone. May the best new surrealist directors in the world carry his torch, such as Bi Gan [everyone who enjoys David Lynch and is on this website, PLEASE watch Long Day's Journey into Night].
He didnt even insult the guy, its their problem if being liked by white people is an implied insult in these people's eyes lol
I'm not white and I was still really bummed, but this is so true. The whitest people I know were hit the hardest by the news.
obligatory WKYK reference 
That one also hit us hard
Last year or so I was thinking "whatever happened to Whitest Kids You Know, they were pretty funny". So I looked it up and was kind of mildly devastated
Am I the only one who has never seen anything made by this guy?
He was far more active before the 2000s, so it's easy to not be aware. Twin Peaks was also a flash in the pan when it aired; the series lasted two seasons - and that's his most famous output. At work yesterday when the news broke, pretty much everyone over 40 collectively said, fuck that sucks.
Everyone under 35 said, who's that?
Kinda feel like the Twin Peaks/Lynch fandom was much more prominent in the "old internet" (pre like 2010 or so). There's just something about the cult following of the show and its "puzzle box" nature of it that really flourished back then, but nowadays where everything is controlled by algorithms any sort of fanbase just segmentizes themselves into their own little place on the net so you can't just stumble upon these things anymore. When I first got onto the internet, it was like it was guaranteed it would lead me to watch stuff like Twin Peaks or Evangelion. You kinda couldn't get around these things. Back then the internet wasn't just "everyone is on here" but if you were on it you kinda were a nerd to begin with. I know quite a lot of people who are big lynch fans and they are all under thirty, but much younger than that and you probably won't get as many.
I feel like there's something to young people's minds and lives nowadays that stops them from enjoying and seeking out the things that came before them (I mean I do kinda get it, the world we've left them certainly ain't great, but there's no doubt in my mind that there are things in the past that are more than worthwhile to engage with).
Twin Peaks and Evangelion were both series that had their finale in theaters at feature-length. And they both had a significant impact on anime.
Probably. I’m not a Lynchhead but I’ve seen Mullholland Drive and Dune at some point.
The Lynch Dune has it's problems but it's much more fun than the chamalamdingdong ones
I mean...
Mf probably watched Blue Velvet and thought it was praising 1950s American suburban culture.
BRG is an elite poster and gave us one of the best response images ever
I block most of the top accounts at Bluesky so I don't know what the top posts were but in my feeds there was an insane explosion of David Lynch posts. For that account I don't follow anybody - I grab raw feeds off the site.
I couldn't mute a lot posts because they were like this...
[broken heart emoji]
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I've never seen anything like it at the site.
The outpouring for Lynch is really unique and interesting. There were posts about him on practically every subreddit
Maybe his excellence at treat making and lack of scandal elevates him in a society devoid of heroes? That sounded more pretentious than i meant it to
My favorite thing about lynch was from an interview I heard him give. He was telling a story and went off on a tangent about how smoothly his friend drove the car that he was a passenger in. Like, you couldn't feel any of the turns.
His movies had to hit so hard before people had the internet. I feel bad there is a gulf of comprehension we will never cross with his work.
They still hit hard? Just because some guy on reddit writes 1200 words on why he thinks Agent Cooper is dead the whole time like it's his first time having a thought about a film doesn't detract from the work.
True, but back when you had a vcr and could maybe not see the move more than once and didn't have as much exposure to content the dreamlike vibes had more fertile soil I think. We are not the same people as the audience was you know?
That was a mild joke.
Where is Jay Bauman? Is he safe? Is he alright? 
Must be gutted
Mulholland drive made me so mad cuz i knew there was a secret to it but couldn't figure it out until someone told me and I'll never forgive myself for not getting it.
Since it bested me it is in my top 10 films to recommend people watch
The secret you were told isn't true.
No hay secreta!
sounds like a lynch plot
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