i flew over to dj, and it was really fun.
before dj’ing i went to a david lynch talk at bafta, here in london.
at one point david lynch was asked about whether the twin peaks soundtrack had been a top 10 record and he responded:
‘ask moby, he’s here’.
sorry if it sounds like i’m self-aggrandizing, but it’s not everyday that you get a shout-out from your cinematic hero.
i’ve always had great love and admiration for david lynch, but ‘inland empire’ sealed the deal for me.
i wrote about it before, when it was released, but i’ll write about it again.
it really is one of the most remarkable movies of the last 20 years.
if you haven’t seen it i think that you should.
you might hate it, i don’t know.
it’s beautiful and powerful, and it has a strong narrative, although it’s a very unconventional narrative, or, rather, it’s a narrative presented in an unconventional manner.
i think it’s the best movie in david lynch’s ouvre.
if that’s how you spell ‘ouvre’.
i went to the david lynch talk tonight thinking that he’d be talking about transcendental meditation, but a retrospective talk about his career was just as good.
although they didn’t talk about ‘lost highway’, which i personally think is david lynch’s second best film.
if i had to rate his movies i’d go with:
1-inland empire
2-lost highway
3-the elephant man
4-fire walk with me
5-eraserhead
6-blue velvet
7-dune
8-lost highway
i know, ‘lost highway’ is my least favorite of his films. it’s a good movie, it just didn’t speak to me. maybe you love it and it’s your favorite.
if so, good.
it just didn’t resonate with me at all.
maybe it’s because he didn’t write it?
i dunno.
but inland empire is one of the most remarkable movies i’ve ever seen.
and it was really fun dj’ing tonight.
and it’s 6 a.m and i’m going to sleep.
g’night.
moby