I was fortunate to meet him in passing in LA many years ago he was with two beautiful women, both who looked suspiciously like his old flame Monica Belluchi. Perhaps he cracked how to make a "tulpa" after all, like Dale Cooper's doppelganger Dougie Jones in Twin Peaks season 3 He will be missed. Weirdo, in a good way. Lynch's death was announced on his official Facebook page by his family. "There's a big hole in the world now that he's no longer with us," the post said. "But, as he would say, 'Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.' … It's a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way." Lynch revealed in August last year he was battling emphysema, a chronic lung disease, from "many years of smoking". Considered by many a maverick filmmaker, he received three best director Oscar nominations throughout his career for his work on Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man and Mulholland Drive. Guess they had to make room for all the new weird coming this year.
"What always got to me about David Lynch wasn't just his weirdness but his apparent normalcy, the way that not just most of his projects but he himself seemed to embody a kind of Eisonhower-era white-picket-fence-and-apple-pie Americana but set against a backdrop of unearthly phantasmagoria. One always imagined an aw-shucks cowlicked youngster leaving his Sears catalog home to go for a bike ride only to encounter the carnival at the edge of town, and coming back for dinner with images of the snake lady, the wildman, the chicken-eating geek and his own distorted reflection in the funhouse mirror dancing through his mind while mom and dad say grace, these images representing on the one hand a nightmare, and on the other, an astonishing freedom: the knowledge that beneath the surface of things there is a kind of seething strangeness waiting to reveal itself. It's common these days to be presented with two visions of America, one positing that this country is a stainless beacon of freedom and justice, the other that it is an irredeemable hell-hole of oppression and bigotry. David broke the binary to offer a third view: America is really fucking weird."