David Lynch is having . . . a benefit concert on July 15th at the Key Club? For the David Lynch Foundation? A foundation whose goal is . . . to encourage meditation classes in elementary schools? Apparently. And I think I am going. I have never heard of the bands that are playing. I don’t really give a rat’s ass about meditation. I am going for no reason other than that I feel that there is about a 96% chance that David Lynch himself will actually be there and this may be my one chance to thank the man himself for creating Audrey Horne, my eternal fashion/eyebrow muse, role model, and bosom friend, and for giving the world Special Agent Dale Cooper, the second most important FBI Agent in my heart, and for making the first most important FBI Agent in my heart wear a dress. Oh, and I have to thank him for The Cowboy and the Frenchman, because that shit is the shit. And I have to thank him for how Inland Empire made me feel kind of vaguely uncomfortable, like there were little bugs crawling underneath my epidermis, for about a week after I saw the film on opening night at the Princess. And I have to thank him for Wild at Heart, which is possibly my favourite film ever after Barbarella. And I have to thank him for this, which is hilarious, and for the Club Silencio scene in Mullholland Drive, which I think is one of the most beautiful moments in cinema.
Um, does anyone want to come with me? We could have an entire David Lynch day! We could go for cherry pie at The Apple Pan! We could actually go for a drive on Mullholland! We could try to find the spot on Hollywood Boulevard where Laura Dern gets stabbed with a screwdriver! We could find a karaoke bar and sing Roy Orbison songs! Oh, it would be so great. SO GREAT.
Other, unrelated things that are so great:
1. Today I saw a billboard for X-Files: I Want to Believe (also known as “The Greatest Cinematic Event of All Time”) over Santa Monica Boulevard! And it was very exciting. Truly, July 25th will be the greatest day of our sad, sad lives.
2. On Friday I am going for lunch at Clifton’s! Because it has been much too long. My lonely heart needs some . . . jello-based salad and fake redwoods, apparently.
Yours truly,
Ms. Xandra A., Lady-About-Town
Yes, Yes, Yes! I will be there in spirit! Don’t forget to tell him that we hosted the first annual WLU David Lynch Film, Coffee and Pie Symposium 2007!
Though we can’t make it there, but we’re Lynch fans too