Yesterday sucked, didn’t it? First the loss of Milwaukee legend Bob Uecker, and then the loss of universe legend David Lynch. Woof. If those two icons loomed large in your life and represented two distinct yet strangely complementary aspects of your personality and overall sensibility (cough cough), January 16 was truly a terrible day.
But maybe the sadness will end on January 22. That’s when local film and video curator/zine TV Grime (a.k.a. Luke Geddes) will pay tribute to Lynch with an “emergency Twin Peaks memorial screening” at X-Ray Arcade. The screening will feature the original 1990 television broadcast of the Twin Peaks pilot—commercials and all. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the screening begins at 7 p.m. There’s no cover.
TV Grime has screened the Twin Peaks pilot at X-Ray before—and, in fact, has screened the entire first season—but Lynch’s death called for this last-minute tribute. (The date was originally going to be a TV Grime night dedicated to 2000s-era MTV.) We attended all of the Twin Peaks screenings and loved them. If you’re a Lynch/Peaks fan who’s still reeling from yesterday’s loss, we wholeheartedly suggest you drop by on the 22nd. As W. C. Fields would say, we’d rather be there than Philadelphia…
R.I.P. David Lynch.
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