🎬 #155 My Favourite David Lynch Is A YouTube Series.

I never wanted to make this newsletter too reactive to stuff that happens out there in the world, but the passing of David Lynch yesterday has made me reconsider for this one time only. So something a little different this week.

Ok, the title might be a bit exaggerated but only by a bit. My actual favourite David Lynch film is The Elephant Man. But what I love about him, more than the fact he made some really great films, is that he was very much his own person. He made things on his own terms and was more artist than filmmaker, turning his hand to whatever pursuit inspired his creative energy - including making coffee, music, books, furniture, art, and this masterpiece of a YouTube series. Two of my favourites are below but you can watch the entire playlist here.

Happy viewing and here’s to blue skies and golden sunshine all along the way.

Bry

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DAVID LYNCH'S WEATHER REPORT 12/12/22

2022 Dir David Lynch
1 min 09 secs

I remember tuning into this series a lot during Covid. It was a real beacon of hope and comfort in those days where uncertainty was pretty much the dominant emotion. But any time I watched David tell us the weather in LA, I felt better about everything. There was a lovely consistency to the output. Hair always perfect, mostly short but also long with a beard - nice to see David succumbing to the freedom that lockdown afforded in letting things grow a bit wilder than usual. But there was always the same shirt, sunglasses that were sometimes there, sometimes not. For me though it was the catchphrases that made me the happiest. They were sometimes altered a little, and the little random titbits thrown in here and there added some spice to the anthology. Theses were mainly centred around what song he was thinking about that day.

The series continued from 2020 through to 2022. But amazingly, he had started doing weather reports all the way back in 2005 - where he would phone in to a local radio station. He then continued doing them on his own website until 2010. Then brought them back on YouTube during the pandemic.

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DAVID LYNCH'S WEATHER REPORT 06/01/21

2021 Dir David Lynch
1 min 18 secs

I think this is the coolest David Lynch has ever looked and he was always a cool guy. What I love about the setting of these pieces is the little hints of the outdoors and the minimalist backgrounds. The yellowish wooden cupboard doors the dominant background element. But the series did start in a different location which looks to me to be a basement studio of some kind.

He also opted for a more set-up camera, which would eventually evolve into the more casually held iPhone set-up you can see in the videos above. I think he made a great choice because the iconic ones come across as friendly, warm and inviting.

I now invite you to take a look back at these wonderful weather reports and then revisit some of your favourite David Lynch films.