Every Day, Once a Day - Tribute to David Lynch (January 20, 1946 – January 15, 2025)

just sat down just read the news

of the passing of David Lynch

From Twin Peaks to Mulholland Drive

Wild at Heart to Lost Highway

"Gnikil sih ot flesti htrae eht

surrealism and deviations his craft

redroer thgim reraeb sti taht

Eraserhead still haunts me

tsav os rewop a pu reffo lliw

as does the Black Lodge

straeh nekorb dna smaercs

beat to your own drum, he taught me

delffumnu fo dnal neddih siht

simple normal folk, can be as weird

ni stirips eseht, dessenrah

and stranger than those with the

fi dna "yad doog" yppah a htiw

loudest and brightest of folks

uoy teerg sa enob ruoy morf

I'm sad, so very sad, a true legend

hself eht pir ot ekil sa er'yeht

has passed, who always in his unique

snoitacovni yltseirp ro sdeed

tales and artistic ventures

doog rof ton erac ereht stirips

uncovered the darkest and truest

wam lufthgirf siht retne erad

of what it means to be human

sreyarp on

never hides the dark from the light

egdol etihw eht tuo kees tub"

remember, "I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it, don’t wait for it, just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair or two cups of good hot black coffee. "

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Thanks for reading!

Author's Notes: Another for the day only because I read the sad news that David Lynch has died at 78. Tried to do a surreal tribute to the man. I don't think it will ever fully represent how much I have loved his films. Since early days when I watched Twin Peaks, Erasherhead, Wild at Heart and Blue Velvet at too young a teen to properly "get" them, he's always been an inspiration. Includes a quote from Windom Earle interwoven in the piece and one at the end by Agent Dale Cooper.

"No prayers dare enter this frightful maw. Spirits there care not for good deeds or priestly invocations. They’re as like to rip the flesh from your bone as greet you with a happy “good day”. And if harnessed, these spirits in this hidden land of unmuffled screams and broken hearts will offer up a power so vast that its bearer might reorder the Earth itself to his liking." - Windom Earle, Twin Peaks

"I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it, don’t wait for it, just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair or two cups of good hot black coffee. " - Agent Dale Cooper, Twin Peaks

RIP David Lynch. January 20, 1946 – January 15, 2025