[porkmarras]

 

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.

[Tokolosh]

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

[heavium]

nooooooooooooooo

not lynch too


nooooooooooooooooooooo

[porkmarras]

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

[RdTv]

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

[atari 2600]

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.

[atari 2600]

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.

[Tokolosh]

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!!!

[atari 2600]

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.

[king_buzzo]

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

[Tokolosh]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

Just to clarify what I wrote before, Blue Velvet is my number one film of all-time.

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...

[atari 2600]

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.

[atari 2600]

Originally Posted by porkmarras

His coffee loving ways have found an outlet before now too – he has directed a series of adverts for Japanese TV, for Georgia coffee.

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

[Tokolosh]

Zygron's Art Gallery is pretty cool.

Originally Posted by atari 2600

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.

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

[Inhuman]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

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.

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.

[tesla69]

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.

[Tokolosh]

Originally Posted by tesla69

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.

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

[atari 2600]

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

[cryptowonderdruginvogue]

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

[porkmarras]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

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

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