Hold onto your avant-garde hats: David Lynch is back on the Web.
On Thursday, “sometime between 1:23 and 1:38 p.m. Pacific time,” Mr. Lynch, the celebrated “Twin Peaks” creator and director of films like “Mulholland Drive,” will reintroduce davidlynch.com as a digital music store and “sensory experience.” There will be sound experiments from the past (some unreleased from his film and television projects) and new music.
David Lynch Music Company“This thing of the Web is so magical — the way it works — we just hit a few buttons and we feel we’re with the world,” Mr. Lynch said in an e-mail. The new Web site is designed to be “a secret room filled with music,” he added.
Mr. Lynch delighted his fans a decade ago by creating a labyrinthine Web site that served as a type of window into his wacky, surrealist mind. There was subscriber-only content like original music and the animated series “Dumbland.” You could buy an odd array of merchandise (ring tones, coffee) and even get weather reports for Los Angeles, delivered by Mr. Lynch via Webcam.
But he found it hard to make regular updates, and the site eventually went dormant. “In the beginning there was a lot of buzz, as if there were millions of bees in the hive, but because the content wasn’t
really updated enough, more and more bees flew off,” Mr. Lynch wrote in the e-mail exchange.
“And finally there was a real nice buzz, but it was very small as if maybe only one or two bees stayed
in the nest,” he continued. “They were very nice bees. And I hope they will come over to the new davidlynch.com.”
Mr. Lynch has always had a deep connection to music. He helped write the song “In Heaven” for his first feature, “Eraserhead.” While making “Blue Velvet,” he wrote the song “Mysteries of Love” with the composer Angelo Badalamenti. His “Falling” became the theme song for “Twin Peaks,” later winning a Grammy.
Even so, many of Mr. Lynch’s fans would love to see him make another feature film. His last one, “Inland Empire,” was in 2006. Might they start looking for one? “Fans might start looking,” Mr. Lynch said, “but they will need a strong telescope to see it coming.”