Articles for tag: David Lynch, Lost Highway, Southern Spain

Karla News

Rammstein: A Biography of the German Metal Band

Background: The German Industrial Metal band Rammstein was formed in 1994 in East Berlin, Germany, the former soviet controlled territory. The alternative rock band first entered the world’s stage when film and television director David Lynch (Twin Peaks) commissioned them to work with him. By this time, Rammstein’s unbounded, unhinged, and explosive live shows had ...

Karla News

Film Review: “The Straight Story”

David Lynch’s The Straight Story is an inspirational story of a man, his life journey and his lawnmower. Alvin Straight is a 75 year old man, who, with the inability to drive and weak legs decides to visit his brother in a most unusual way. Alvin Straight rides his lawnmower over 350 miles with a ...

Karla News

Book Review: David Lynch’s “Catching the Big Fish”

“Catching the Big Fish” is David Lynch’s brief novel describing, mostly, the effect meditation has had on his creative impulses. Notably, Lynch has been meditating for over 33 years, and so can be considered a semi-expert on the subject. In the book, Lynch discusses his former love for painting, his move from Philadelphia to LA, ...

Karla News

Nightmare Aesthetics in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Murder in a Small Town:

“Home is a small town with a deadly secret.” -Gary Indiana The television series, Twin Peaks, creates a sense of nightmare by introducing a quaint, small, American town and then stuffing it with a seedy underbelly of sex, drugs, murder, greed and corruption. By building a television show on the story of the town’s good-looking, ...