David Lynch Launches Coffee Brand
 

David Lynch, director of Wild At Heart and Mulholland Drive, is to venture in to the world of coffee production.

Lynch launches his “Signature Cup” range of coffees in the next few weeks –you can choose from Organic Espresso, Organic House Roast, and Organic Decaf French Roast.

Lynch has always loved coffee, saying it’s a "beautiful addiction" and "if you turn away from them [cups of joe] for one second, they go cold on you."

Lynch also says that coffee is what helps him get creative with writing ideas, saying "I'd have coffee, sometimes six cups, along with the shake, and I'd have sugar in my coffee. By then I would be pretty jazzed up, and I'd start writing down ideas.”

His coffee loving ways have found an outlet before now too – he has directed a series of adverts for Japanese TV, for Georgia coffee.
You can see one of the Georgia ads by clicking here

Lynch’s latest movie "Inland Empire" which premiered at Cannes this year, will be released in the Spring.

I assume that the coffee is not only organic, but also free of third world slavery, child labour and poor wages?

nooooooooooooooo

not lynch too


nooooooooooooooooooooo

I'm surprised that he didn't decide to open a chain of restaurants,since he hates eating at home so much.

Not very much selection but honestly, I usually just brew espresso roasted beans on every coffee apparatus I own, so no harm there.

There's an article in Entertainment Weekly on Lynch this week. The article pictures Lynch with a cigarette in his mouth blowing smoke into the camera.

Select theaters will offer free samples of the coffee during showings of Inland Empire.
After all folks, the movie, clocking-in at three hours and nearly plotless in the conventional sense, may just require some sort of stimulant to muddle through.

Coffee has one of the largest profit margins in the food & beverage industry, so that makes it an easier start-up than many other businesses, but with the current glut of coffee cafes out there, I'm guessing Lynch will try local saturation in just a few specific areas first to get his feet wet.

In other Lynch business news, he is no longer partners with Propaganda Films. The new company is called Absurda. Not 'Absurd' and not 'Absurdia,' but 'Absurda.'
The dream is that Lynch can make enough from coffee to self-sustain the decidely experimental film company.

According to the article, Lynch can be found in Hollywood on a street corner these days. His constant companion? He hangs out with a cow.
A real cow. A real live animal cow. Reportedly, Lynch wanted to mount an Oscar campaign to have Laura Dern nominated for an Academy Award, but was appalled to discover that the lobbying effort would cost him around three million dollars. Now, Lynch is actively protesting. And the cow, you ask? Who knows? The cow is part of the protest somehow.

I almost thought you were joking and checked on the internet... only to find some video of that cow story. Ha! Ace!

Edit: Ha! Yes. It is a real cow!!!

Just to clarify what I wrote before, Blue Velvet is my number one film of all-time and The Elephant Man is in my top twenty; although that was then, and this is now.

As some may know, Mulholland Drive was originally in production at ABC as a TV series starring the then-unknown Naomi Watts (King Kong). When the network finally passed on the project, it soured Lynch quite a bit on the whole business of TV & Film if one does not have their own company.
From there, he started making digital shorts at his L.A. home with a Sony PD150 and posting those at www.DavidLynch.com. Those experiments have led down the road to Inland Empire.

that sucks. but i think that the joe perry sauce is quite funny though

Weird!?! I watched it last night... again.
It IS brilliant, but stands at Nr. 3 for me.

1.Eraserhead
2.Wild at Heart
3.Blue Velvet

Would make a good poll thread...

The Elephant Man is in my top twenty. I rank Eraserhead, Wild at Heart, and The Straight Story and (even) Dune elsewhere in my top 100.
Not in the top one hundred or even two hundred would be any of his other efforts.

For now, you can buy a bag of beans (the coffee is supposed to be incredible) at his website. The beans come in metal tubes and he sells coasters with images from Eraserhead stills.

His coffee loving ways have found an outlet before when he fetishized coffee and pie in the Twin Peaks TV series.

Zygron's Art Gallery is pretty cool.

Edit: You must have an amazing top 10 then? :rolleyes:
What do you mean with (even) Dune?

Yeah, Elephant Man was sad and one of my favorites too. Surprisingly enough, another one of my favorites is "Elephant" which is a movie based off Columbine. Others include Fight Club, The Matrix (first one), and the Alien series.

any of you ever seen the original TV pilot version of Mullholland Drive? Kims was selling a DVDr before they got raided so I know its out there.

If they're gonna give away coffee during a 3 hr movie I hope they have a coffee break.

Are you kidding me?
Those must be somewhere...

Naomi Watts is the lead in the Mulholland Drive pilot, but I haven't seen it either.

my favorite lynch movie is mulholland drive
sometimes i like eraserhead more
just depends.

The significance that he gives to a good cup of coffee in Twin Peaks has most certainly sexual undertones in it.

I think it also has to do with the philosophy of transcendental meditation, that he practices since the seventies. (When it comes to giving yourself a treat, once a day).

He reportedly is still a very big proponent of transcendental meditation and often lectures at and visits retreats. In fact, his new book is due very soon all about the subject. It's called "Catching the Big Fish."

To me, and I write from my own experience here, it's a bit of a joke that a western man who is a smoker and a big coffee drinker is able to quiet their mind to much of a degree.

or the coffee scene in mulholland drive

Tell me about it. I too, have had my doubts.
It might work for him though.

whatever works for ya, man
if it works for him, then sweet

this thread sucks

i wonder if lynchs coffee will make any sense

it should be fine as long as no one puts a fish in the percolater...


lynch and donavan are going on tour promoting transcendental meditation. DL has been meditating for 30 years and says all his ideas are from spiritual journies.

Now that I have a minute to check, I see that the book is available for pre-order.

http://www.amazon.com/Catching-Big-F.../dp/1585425400








Availability: This title will be released on December 28, 2006.

1/11/2007

David Lynch will be reading from his new book
7pm
new york city
barnes and noble e. 17th street

I'm really surprised that David Lynch is starting a coffee brand. I mean the man who's movies have gone against commercialism, and American ideals is making a coffee company! I actually think more power to him, he must just really like coffee.

"C'mon Bobby, have another glass of Jack."
"Don't mind if I fuckin' do... Speakin' of Jack... a one eyed Jack yearns to go a peepin' in a seafood store..."

Innovative filmmaker David Lynch is to celebrate the publication of his new book by collaborating with folk guitar star Donovan with a handful of special events later this month.

Lynch, famous for the originality of films such as 'Blue Velvet' and 'Mulholland Drive' will be discussing his new book "Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity" as well as his forthcoming new movie 'Inland Empire.'

The events taking place in three cities in the US will also see performances from Donovan, who will be play a set of his greatest songs from the 60s and 70s.

Donovan, known for hits such as ‘Mellow Yellow’ and ‘Sunshine Superman’ has just taken up the post of heading up the musical wing of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace.

Taking on the new role fulfils Donovans 40-year interest in Transcendental Meditation.

The two unique cultural icons and can be seen at the following venues:

Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City (January 12)
Kennedy Center, Washington D.C. (14)
Kodak Theatre, Los Angeles (21)

Damn, I wish he was going to be in D.C on Saturday. Thanks for the news.


According to recent interviews, he wants to take the profits from the coffee venture and parlay them into working capital for his new film company that will operate as independently as possible from the film studios and traditional motion picture distribution networks.

Lynch dreams of Absurda Films becoming a collective for a new generation of experimental filmmakers.

A friend of mine got a sneak taste of the coffee...he reckons at first it tastes and smells and looks like coffee, but then 3/4 of the way in it just turns into lemonaid.