Not a day goes by where I don’t think about him. I’ll second this, will always miss him.

The Wind is Moaning….

One year ago today we lost David Lynch. It seems in sane that is true. The great thing is that his work lives on and will inspire artists for a generations. Here is the Lynch memorial that Emily Marinelli and I hosted last year. #davidlynch #twinpeaks www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKID...

Twin Peaks and True Detective (S1)

Who would you describe as a counter culture filmmaker at present?

Just finished Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers, last film of 2025. Not bad.

The Dial-A-Poem Poets’ Totally Corrupt, 1976. Clockwise, from left: Anne Waldman, John Giorno, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and John Cage. Calling in to get Bill Lee…

Rabbits and Dougie Jones

Very happy to share that, after an interesting 24 hours, I have submitted my PhD thesis ‘Designing Arthouse Television: David Lynch’ Big thanks to my supervisors Dr Julian Stringer and Dr Leora Hadas. And to David Lynch, who is missed. And to everyone else who has supported me! Rest… then prep…

Worth a read: Kate Alexander’s BFI blog on “SUPPORTING PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, CREATIVITY AND RESILIENCE THROUGH WORKPLACE COACHING” www.workwiseforscreen.org.uk/en/topics/ju...

Lungleg by Richard Kern

Fritz Lang & Fritz Arno Wagner filming ‘M’, 1931

Some Crash covers

Gabrielle's body braces from David Cronenberg’s J.G. Ballard adaptation Crash (1996)

This tweet was sent to me this morning. It is a response to someone trying poorly to criticise someone for celebrating a personal reading milestone, the response I’m sharing is brilliant and it applies to so many facets of life now. Particularly university cuts on staff, teaching, and courses.

An amazing day of solidarity with staff, students, and community members saying NO to compulsory redundancies and unnecessary course closures.

I was today years old when I found out Lynch was invited to direct American Beauty, Motherless Brooklyn, and an American remake of The Ring. I’ve read Room to Dream before but I must have not processed this. How would these films look and work with him directing?

50+ degrees shuttered at UoN. Yet the prospectus indicates c.650 PGT/UG programmes in total. So how does 50 mostly UG cuts (from c.250 courses) equate to 'less than 5%' of the UoN offer? Am I failing to math @uonucu.bsky.social

Please do sign these petitions! The change.org website will ask you for money - if you would like to donate to help stop the cuts, the local UCU hardship fund is a much more effective place for your generosity to go. Direct bank details here: uonucu.org www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

My sixth or seventh viewing of Wise Blood (1979, directed by John Huston, and based on the novel by Flannery O'Connor). It's available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzNs... Some screenshots follow. Rich and strange. I expect David Lynch was a huge admirer.

William S. Burroughs in his room in Tangier, 1961. Taken by Allen Ginsberg.

Halloween things happening in Sheffield

David Lynch on Korg

Have enjoyed speaking and presenting with Dr. Leora Hadas on Visuals in Kung Fu Panda at a Kung Fu Panda Symposium at Nottingham as supported by the British Council. Great to hear from one of the film’s directors, John Stevenson, on visual design and structure. Plenty of insightful work discussed.

As anyone who's watched "I Saw the TV Glow" should know, this is an *outstanding* match of storyteller and source material.

"Put Away the Flesh" Daniel Bird on Jaromil Jires' Valerie and Her Week of Wonders Diabolique Magazine, Issue Nº7 Nov/Dec 2011

Interesting video on Pasolini on consumerism: youtu.be/bipWHxTi-3c?...

Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession -35mm 6K Scan. These look incredible. By Peter Ncseventeen, Film Archivist at Scanners inc.

a semiotics major could write a whole PhD thesis on this thing. images divorced from their sources or any inherent meaning, presented in a stew, artificially aged, to invoke the hint of a scent of a feeling of something bsky.app/profile/airb...

Haus Zum Walfisch, AKA the ballet school from Suspiria. Freiburg, March 2013. (Via scavengedluxury)

September 30/ October 1st

"mesmerises the viewer with its overlapping tales of toxic Tinseltown": David Lynch’s self-produced, self-distributed epic of oneiric uncanniness INLAND EMPIRE (2006) is now on MUBI UK & Ireland projectedfigures.com/2023/04/26/i...

Six days to go - looking forward to this exploration of the underrated areas of CHARACTER AND WORLDBUILDING IN HORROR, led by the awesome Charlotte Baker! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/character-... #horror #horrorwriting #horrorwriters #character #worldbuilding

Credit to whoever made this…

Book Launch: Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media. Thurs 30th Oct 2025. All Welcome! Presenters: Lida Zeitlin-Wu (Notre Dame), Carolyn L. Kane (Toronto Met), Amber Sweat (Amherst) & Aileen Robinson (Stanford). colourandfilm.com/cfps/

Terence Stamp Pre-Shot ‘Priscilla Queen Of The Desert 2’ Scenes Months Before He Died; Filmmaker Stephan Elliott Says Actor Had “Time Of His Life” deadline.com/2025/09/tere...

William S Burroughs and David Lynch lining up:

Has anyone watched the Alien Earth finale yet…? Not quite sure what to make of that, as a final episode or season.

📢 NEW CFP 📢 The next issue of Comparative Cinema invites contributors to reflect on hapticity (or "haptic visuality") in film and television from different perspectives (the affective turn, cinematography, queer studies, and more). Deadline: January 30, 2026 More here: raco.cat/index.php/Co...

Thrilled to share the very open Call for Proposals for BAFTSS 2026 on 15-17 April in Bournemouth. Amid all the stress and uncertainty of HE, the annual conference is a great place to reconnect, reflect, think new thoughts and make new plans. Join us! @baftss.bsky.social www.baftss.org/cfp-2026.html

SEVEN turns 30 today and I wrote about it for The Guardian. One of those great movies where its imitators took all the wrong lessons from it: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

We're standing up against job cuts! @uonucu.bsky.social

Pasolini playing football. Genoa, Bologna, Italy.

There's still time to sign up for the 5th To Be Continued... online conference, which launches this Thursday 18 September! Join us to talk about David Lynch, copyright, franchises, and legacies with a stellar group of scholars!

Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Going to make a collection of Godard attacks

Mulholland Drive made via Grand Theft Auto 5’s director mode and enhanced machinima, made (I believe…) by Recycle Bin: youtu.be/XyxLYXisOYM?...

I'm happy to announce that the article Katie Crosson and I co-wrote/edited documenting the Play for Today Viewing Group has been published online today for the Critical Studies in Television journal! doi.org/10.1177/1749... (1)