Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 15-1-2026 — David Lynch (Ten questions)

15th January, 2026: David Lynch.

Yay!

It’s Thursday!

Which means we can dance, sing, and wave our hands in the air: for no apparent reason.

Why?

Well, why not … ?

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I’m something of a Mac fan: which you’d guessed.

So … ?

The news that Apple’s going to be introducing its Apple Creative Suite grabbed my attention.

The suite’s going to consist of subscription versions of their Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor and MainStage, apps.

I have to confess, I like the idea: it seems a cheap way of getting hold of some well spoken of, powerful, software.

But … ?

I’m still not sure I like the idea of renting software: nor — on my money — does it the quoted price seem reasonable.

Given the money?

I’d be happier buying the main app, Final Cut Pro.

If anyone has £300 going begging, I’d love to hear about it!

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Did I mention there’s a young woman called Drew Gulliver floating around various socials?

There’s a young woman called Drew Gulliver floating around various socials.

She’s gorgeous … and seems to have a thing about Dad jokes … !

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Dearie, dearie me … !

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 20th January, 2022.

20th January, 2022.

Yep: I’ve got an early start, today!

Mostly … ?

Because I’ve got the second in a series of Zoom meetings: with a weight management service.

It’s ninety minutes long, I should add: something I found to be something of a chore, if I’m being honest.

The fact it’s a group setting should be useful: those always seem to be, from the little I’ve seen.

Here’s hoping.

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Just as a thought … ?

I worked in a call centre, a few years ago: and left a while ago.

When I left … ?   I was being paid eleven pounds an hour.

As were some of the new starters: which possibly tells you something.

At any rate?

One of the job boards I’ve signed up for, sent me an advert for the same post.

At nine pounds an hour.

I ignored it.

But I’ll tell you what … 

Something’s gone on there … !

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 20-1-2021: David Lynch

20th January, 2021.

Hmmm … 

I’m feeling mildly rushed.

Why?

I’ve a phone meeting, today: with my Work and Health case worker, today.

At the last call?   I was told the group running the programme would be organising contact with a nurse for me: to discuss various things.

As far as I can tell, given the phone situation?

They’s not contacted me.

I think I’ll need words … 

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Dune: The Review …

23rd November, 2018.

OK … 

I think I managed to totally ruining that intro video, there.

Yes: I’ve used the Pitch Shift Down button on the whole clip: rather than the few seconds I meant to use it one.

Cie la Vie!

If you’ll excuse the term.

At ANY rate … ?

It’s getting late … 

But I wanted you to know I’ve watched another movie.

Yes: I’ve finally decided to sit down and watch — and then write about — the David Lynch film that is … 

Dune … 

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Dune — The Extended Cut: Ummm …

1st March, 2017.

You know: this may be one of those rare — for now — times where I go to bed, leaving a post unfinished.

I don’t like doing that.

Well … 

Not often, at any rate.

But am very aware that I’ve had a free evening, tonight.

And watched a film: that’s three hours long.

The extended cut of David Lynch’s Dune.

The one he took his name OFF of.

It was … 

Long … 

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Mulholland Drive: Weird Scenes Inside A SURREAL Goldmine …

You know, I HAVE to admit, two movies, this week … ?

Is possibly overdoing it.

Possibly … !

Although given there’s little on telly, tonight, I might just drag something else out of the collection.

At ANY rate … ?

At any rate, I have to admit that, with little else to do, last night … ?

I managed to catch the 2001, David Lynch film, Mulholland Drive: on a dimly remembered favourable mention from both Debbi Mack and long-time reader, Kaiju.

And I’m not sure what’s just hit me … 

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Mulholland Drive opens with a montage of the central character, Betty (Naomi Watts), watching a dance contest.   We then see the mysterious Rita — Laura Herring — losing her memory, after being involved in a car accident on the eponymous road, suffering amnesia as a result, and ending up in the apartment used by Betty: who, it seems is an aspiring Hollywood actress.

The result … ?

The result being that the girls decide to try and find out more about Rita’s background.

A search that — this IS a David Lynch film, after all — goes in some very STRANGE directions.

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Now, I said I wasn’t sure what hit me … ?

Too right … !

Now, I’ve said it before — and will no doubt say it again, at some point — that I feel David Lynch is a genius.   If for no other reason that any of his films that I’ve seen are some of the most beautifully shot  I’ve ever seen.

In fact, if I remember rightly, I think I saw or read David Lynch saying that he’d originally trained up as a cinema lighting man.

Don’t quote me on that.

But it would explain the depth of colour that his films seem to me to have: including the black and white ones like Eraserhead  or The Elephant Man*.

That’s one thing Mulholland Drive shares with the films in Lynch’s œuvre: that sheer beauty.

There’s another … !

You notice I use the word ‘surreal’ in the title of the post … ?

That’s justified, I think.

In common with other Lynch films I’ve seen, I think we can definitely say Mulholland Drive is a touch surreal: with twists, characters and dreamy scenes floating across your sight in a way that — of any other director I know of — only Peter Greenaway could catch.

And again, much like Eraserhead, the original series of The Prisoner and any three paintings by Salvador Dali, I’m also thinking something else.

I’m thinking that Mulholland Drive has a very slippery sense of meaning.

I’ll tell you what.

I’ll leave you seeing stars.

I’ll let you tell me what you think

Mulholland Drive
★★★★

*        Personally … ?   I happen to think that The Elephant Man is the high point of the Lynch films I’ve seen.

*Eraserhead*: Blood, Guts, and the Insides of David Lynch’s head …

You know, I think I’m going to be quick, with this.

Possibly.

But I know I’ve been meaning to tell you about Thursday night.

Which I’ve got to admit, I had to myself.

Having nothing else to do, I just had to watch the copy of David Lynch film, Eraserhead, that I’ve had sitting around for a while: and that I know Movie Night Adrian and Kevin D weren’t necessarily keen on seeing.

I think I can appreciate that: but at 89 minutes … ?

I also think they’ve missed a treat …

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Arrakis

I’ve managed to postthis shot of Siân Phillips, as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, and José Ferrer, as the Padishah Emperor Shaddam the 4th in David Lynch’s film version of Frank Herbert’s Dune.   

As a fan of the novel?   I always felt a little ambiguous about Lynch’s film version, beautifully designed though it is.

You see, I’ve always felt that, before you go and see The Film of the Book I always think that – given that it’s a book or film you may think is eye-catching enough to go and spend money on – you should read the book first.   Let’s face, we all know that, just occasionally, Hollywood can make a complete horlicks of a job, and turn out something with little or no resemblance to its named source material.

I,Robot is one such example.   It’s a great, entertaining romp of a Will Smith action movie — something he can and does  dovery well — but in my view, one that had little to do with Isaac Asimov’s original short story collection of the same name.

Beyond a few names, and the obligatory quoting of the Three Laws Of Robotics, that is.

But I’m sidetracking, here.

Returning to my original point, I bought my first copy of Dune, just before the David Lynch film saw its UK release, back in the mid 1980s.   Frankly, the quote from Arthur C. Clarke, on the back cover, about Dune being the SF equivalent of Lord of the Rings had caught my eye, along with the attendant publicity surrounding the movie.

And practically fell in love with that novel, from that first line; – “In the week before their departure for Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the boy, Paul.” (Extracted from Dune, © 1965, Frank Herbert)

I shared my first name with Paul Atreides, was roughly the same age as him, and could sympathize with someone who was described, practically within the first couple of pages, as “… small for his age”.

I’m 5’ 2”, just so you know.

What’s more, Paul Atriedes ends up ruling the entire known human universe: something that had a lot of appeal to a spotty teen, who’s very unsure of himself.

I didn’t have the actually money to see the film, on its UK release, though.

But that purchase did start a love affair with both the rest of Frank Herbert’s Dune series.   Although I wasn’t as impressed with the spin-offs and prequels Brian Herbert co-wrote with Kevin J Anderson; – although, granted, if it’s anyone’s sandbox to play in, it’s Brian’s.

Seeing the film, though, was something of a disappointment, in comparison.

I’ve seen enough of David Lynch’s film to satisfy myself that he is one of the cinematic greats of our time; – Elephant Man is an iconic, must see flick, and I’m looking forward to tracking down some of his other work, in time.

But I can’t help but think, especially having seen the Peter Jackson version of the Lord of The Ring trilogy, that he was the wrong man to attempt Dune.

But that original novel of Frank Herbert’s?

Let’s face it, a book that, on one level, tells the story of a group of religious fanatics, fighting for their freedom, in the middle of a desert, and trying to disable the one thing that keeps the transport system going is very, very relevant.

And needs VERY careful treatment.

Wouldn’t you say?