{"id":131115,"date":"2017-09-09T17:15:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T21:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=131115"},"modified":"2017-09-09T17:17:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T21:17:04","slug":"it-wasnt-there-and-then-it-was-there-david-lynch-on-elvis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=131115","title":{"rendered":"“It wasn\u2019t there, and then it was there.” David Lynch on Elvis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDavid Lynch has always been open about his love for Elvis’ music, citing it as one of the first things that really “lit his fire” as a kid. Wild at Heart<\/i> is filled with Elvis nods and in a lot of ways it is a very weird – and Lynchian – “Elvis movie.” I went off on my feelings that Elvis was very present in Twin Peaks: The Return<\/i> – especially in the even-at-this-early-stage-legendary episode 8, where Elvis’ presence was deafening. Literally. (Thoughts here.<\/a>) <\/p>\n

In 2011, as Lynch was preparing to release his album Crazy Clown Time<\/i> (because, of course), he gave an interview to Spin<\/i> about it. <\/p>\n

His comments on early rock ‘n roll and Elvis were so beautiful and filled with emotion (stated bluntly, in that childlike way that he has. OPEN. He’s OPEN and not AFRAID of his emotions.)<\/p>\n

Anyway the whole interview is here <\/a>, but the Elvis parts are particularly special for me to read. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s definitely a mutated rockabilly feel of the album. How did that music first affect you as a kid?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like being hit with a truck filled with happiness [laughs]. It was a thrilling truck, and you know, I sort of wish everybody could experience that feeling. You\u2019ve heard these stories. So many musicians when they saw Elvis for the first time, they just slammed their head with their first and just sad, \u201cDamn! This is it!\u201d And it was just suddenly so obvious. It wasn\u2019t there, and then it was there. And it had this unbelievable power, and it just screamed out, and everybody and his little brother lit up like a Christmas tree. It was unbelievably beautiful. I just, inside, felt this thrill, this love of the sound. It was like grabbing onto an electric wire.<\/p>\n

Blue Velvet came out in the wake of things like Happy Days and American Graffiti, and people painting the \u201950s and early \u201960s as this very nice and shiny time. And the way you used older music really flipped that on it\u2019s ear.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You know, \u201950s music held a happiness for sure, but you know Elvis also sings \u201cHeartbreak Hotel,\u201d and there\u2019s a kind of sweet sadness, and that dream thing that could go either way. The \u201950s dream, like the Fleetwoods \u201cCome Softly to Me,\u201d was real popular. And all the great ones there, they caught this thing. In every decade the music paints the mood. So if you listen to what was popular in the \u201950s, from \u201956 on, maybe, and it\u2019s a summer night and you\u2019re listening to this or you\u2019re slowdancing in a basement with a girl, you can go back to that time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nTikaeni Faircrest in “Twin Peaks: The Return,” listening to The Platters’ “My Prayer”, episode 8<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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