I’ve heard for a while that David Lynch will sometimes pop onto Indie 103.1 with a daily weather report. Having left terrestrial radio behind for SiriXMus, I’ve never heard it. But what luck, he’s been providing this service for several years on his own website:
The David Lynch Daily Weather Report
I wish we could embed this on the front page.
ok…and those of us with a bugged plugin for quicktime what exactly is he about and saying?
I love Indy for this among many other reasons.
They said something the other day about Inland Empire screening somewhere next week with a Q&A. Anybody know where/when?
http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/calendar_full_Aug_2007.htm#day1
Thanks Jay!
Someone teach this man some RSS!!!!
sirius/xm sometimes gets celebrities to do their traffic reports in certain cities as well.
ok…I ran the plugin again and it took. Umm…it was a weather report. What did I miss?
Yes he does it DAILY! I have been trying to get ahold of Inland Empire having gone to school in Claremont (5th-Soph College). Blockbuster aint got it May need to jump to Netflix.
If you want this on your own site, just put it in an iframe! And link to the file (http://www.davidlynch.com/dailyreport/index.html)
Done, if you need more direction I could help you out…
I’ve been watching Lynch’s daily report almost daily for about a year and a half. I can’t explain my fascination with it. It is nearly always the same.
“Good morning. Today is July 25th, two-thousand and seven, and it’s a Wednesday. Here in L.A….” Then he looks out the window and describes what he sees. It’s almost always the same; c’mon, it’s L.A. What’d you expect? He always finishes with the then current temperature in fahrenheit and celsius. He always wears the trademark white shirt, buttoned all the way up. If it’s a chilly morning, he might wear a black cardigan. He almost never deviates from the script. The webcam never moves, so the shot never changes.
I think the reason I keep going back is for the occasional (rare) variances. Sometimes there are unusual items on the desk. Even more rarely he’ll throw in an off-the-cuff comment, unrelated to the weather.
Whatever it is, the man is brilliant. He has found a way to keep me (and others) coming back every day for the same piece of nothing.
Or even better, here is a link directly to the quicktime, although I don’t know if the name changes every day. I very much doubt that it does
http://www.davidlynch.com/dailyreport/frontdoor.mov
If it does, just set this url in an iframe on your own site
http://www.davidlynch.com/dailyreport/greeting3.html
Did any of you all ever read the Angriest Dog in the World? It’s one of his earlier experiments in “the daily same piece of nothing.”
http://www.lynchnet.com/angrydog/
‘Matt – it’s not really a technical issue, its more a question of how do I slip something into Sean’s coffee that makes him loopy enough that I can convince him it’s a good idea.
@ Travis:
YES!
That strip is a touchstone of excellence! So much so that it wove itself into my subconscience, and I find myself incorporating it into whatever daily conversations from time to time.
Thank you for the link. Awesome!