Werner Herzog and David Lynch

David Lynch making new films with Herzog, Jodorowsky

Werner Herzog and David Lynch are teaming for "My Son, My Son," a horror-tinged murder drama based on a true story.

Herzog and his longtime assistant director Herbert Golder co-wrote "Son," loosely based on the true story of a San Diego man who acts out a Sophocles play in his mind and kills his mother with a sword. The low-budget feature will flash back and forth from the murder scene to the disturbed man's story. A guerrilla-style digital video shoot on Coronado Island is tentatively set for March.

In a separate development, Lynch's Absurda production company has attached Asia Argento and Udo Kier to star with Nick Nolte in Alejandro Jodorowsky's metaphysical gangster movie "King Shot."

Marilyn Manson is touted to appear as a prophet in the "Sin City"-style film, which producer Eric Bassett said has enough sex and violence to guarantee an NC-17 rating.

Lynch is executive producing both projects, and Absurda is repping their sales rights in the Cannes market.

"Son" is produced by Eric Bassett, who also is producing "King" with his Absurda colleague Norm Hill and Clavis Films' Simon Shandor.

Herzog, repped by Gersh, is having a busy 2008. He was set to film "Son" in the summer but postponed it to direct Nicolas Cage in a remake of Abel Ferrara's "Bad Lieutenant" starting in July. In the fall, he will shoot the Victorian-era drama "The Piano Tuner" for Focus Features.

All kinds of good film news! [via], link

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Second Annual David Lynch Weekend

Second Annual David Lynch Weekend * May 25-28 * Memorial Day Weekend featuring Filmmaker David Lynch, Quantum Physicists John Hagelin, and Singer/Songwriter Donovan at the Maharishi University of Management. There will also be live brainwave demonstrations on meditataion and transcending.

Through David’s work, thousands of students are learning the creativity-enhancing, stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique in the US and around the world. David is now launching a new program "Teaching One Million Students to Meditate."

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Catching the Big Fish: Meditation Consciousness and Creativity - washingtonpost.com New David Lynch book and transcript from the online chat today on the Washington Post where he discusses films and transcendental meditation.

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Blood Tea and Red String

"a David Lynchean fever dream on Beatrix Potter terrain as lovingly crafted as it is unsettlingly sour-sweet" - Dennis Harvey, VARIETY

Equally obsessive if far more oblique, Christine Cegavske's Blood Tea and Red String is the fruit of a 13-year process, a stop-motion fable as beguiling as it is baffling.

Crammed with overdetermined images of birth and death, Blood Tea concerns the struggle between a trio of grasping albino mice (done up like the coachmen in Alice in Wonderland) and a group of half-bird, half-wolf critters known as The Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak. Cegavske's debt to Jan Svankmajer is obvious, but the film more closely resembles one of Alejandro Jodorowsky's psychedelic vision quests as re-realized by Ladislaw Starewicz.

Cegavske's ultra handmade style (she did the menacing crows in The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things) is the opposite of every trend in contemporary animation, and worth lauding for that reason alone.

The DVD was released this month and I am very curious to see it.

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David Lynch And His Favorite Cow Team Up To Drum Up Interest In 'Inland Empire'

from the website:

"David Lynch RIGHT NOW is sitting on the corner of Hollywood and La Brea with a cow on a leash and a picture of Laura Dern that says For Your Consideration. He also has a sign that says "without cows there would be no cheese in the Inland Empire". This is one of those things that a person needs to see. I wish I wasn't chained to a desk."

That is one crazy bastard. But he's a talented one.

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Good morning to you...

::Did you have a delicious bowl of Satan Snaps for breakfast? Try them today! Now with marshmallow pitchforks.

::What's more fun than swatting flies? Swatting mosquitoes, of course. [via: toohey's world]

::LynchPosters - Archive of David Lynch posters.

::Here's a great way to piss off your parents and teachers. Wear the FCUK shirt. Or maybe something not quite as easy to read, like the shirt I had monogrammed in high school with a big letter "Q" with the roman numeral IV (4) inside the letter Q. The principal thought it was some nice little club we belonged to until a teacher hipped him to it one day.

::Great Etch-a-sketch drawings. [via: j-walk]

Quote For Today
Pray for a good harvest, but keep on plowing. ~Anon

Life was so much easier when your clothes didn't match and boys had cooties.

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Good Sunday morning....

movies
I finally got to see Signs, with Mel Gibson last night and enjoyed it. Braveheart is certainly in my top 10 favorite movies list.

And I've seen 3 movies with Asia Argento in them recently. I first saw her in B. Monkey. Then, XXX, and the New Rose Hotel.

I wasn't aware that Director David Lynch had directed so many commercials. [via greencine]

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art
Nice, dark illustrations.
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Surreal and Dark Art from Illustrator Jason Beam.

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Avocado Lite-nobody does it better. Seriously. [via anne]

Garbage Pail Kids return. Including "Fartin' Martin," "Metallic Alec," and "Harry Potty." Weren't they originally out in the mid-80s?

Badfads Museum is a fun visit of bad fads from the past 100 years. Guess I better unload these leisure suits, hot pants and ditch this Farrah Fawcett do.

Quote For Today
Art is the reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul. ~Edgar Allen Poe

Sag, You're it.

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Good Wednesday morning...

»"I don't know how it ended, but when I fell asleep it was Nora Jones 48, Oakland 21." says Dave Barry.

»Musician Erykah Badu born on this day in 1971.

»Saw a great little movie on Sundance last night called, "Straight To Hell", by Alex Cox. [If David Lynch had directed THE WILD BUNCH] With Dennis Hopper, Courtney Love, and Joe Strummer. It was made in 1987.

»My public radio station played many George Harrison songs last night because of his 60th birthday.

»Virtual March On Washington
So, what time are YOU scheduled to call your Senator, and the White House? I'm scheduled to call Senator John Edwards at 1:26 pm, Senator Elizabeth Doyle at 1:31pm and the White House at 1:36. If you see this in time, go to the website and sign up to make a call to your Senators and the White House and help be a powerful reminder of the breadth and depth of opposition to a war in Iraq.

»Quote For Today
"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."
~John F. Kennedy

I'm just working here until a good fast-food job opens up.

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