Fix Their Hearts or Die

Let’s do one more day of Lynch stuff. Regular Icecano programming returns Friday.

Everyone quotes “fix their hearts or die”, and rightly so, but I think “those clown comics” is heavily underrated as a dismissal.

Kyle MacLachlan’s remembrance on Instagram is really something: Kyle MacLachlan | Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget... | Instagram, as is his piece in the NYT: How David Lynch Invented Me . Live your life in such a way that your longest running coworker writes something like that after you pass.

Laura Dern's letter to David Lynch: You wove L.A. into our dreams - Los Angeles Times: ditto for Laura Dern’s.

Angelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Palmer's Theme: I cannot tell you how many times I have said “don’t change a single note!” in a David Lynch voice.

David Lynch: The Film is the Thing: There’s a documentary called Great Directors that had an amazing interview with Lynch talking about why he doesn’t talk about his films. That clip seems to have gone off line, but this interview is pretty much a restatement of the same worldview.

A lot of people wrote a lot of stuff about Lynch over the last few days, my bluesky feed has been basically non-stop Lynch material, which has been just great. Here’s some of the ones I particularly enjoyed, which you might too:

Nothing Will Die, Especially Not David Lynch

David Lynch Forces Your Brain to Work Differently

The Best Show on TV Is Twin Peaks: The Return

David Lynch's top five sandwiches - by Raquel Laneri

“Fix Your Hearts or Die”: David Lynch’s Work Has Always Been Deeply, Powerfully Queer | Them

In Heaven (Everything is Fine) - by Marya E. Gates

A Tribute to David Lynch's 'Twin Peaks'

RIP David Lynch (and links to help LA)

And Rusty Foster sums it up in Today Service Tabs