David Lynch appearing at Trinity college on the 20th of October

welcomeinjam

So apparently David Lynch is appearing at Trinity college October 20th
http://www.consciousnessbasededucation.org.uk/LynchDonovan.shtml

Does anyone know where to get tickets for this or do you just show up? I can't find any information anywhere.

ixoy

Yeah I can't find any information either. It's not related so much to his film work as his interest in meditation (there's an article in the Sunday Times about it) but I'd still be interested in seeing him.

johnny_ultimate

Im pretty sure a Trinity friend managed to get me an 'overflow' ticket - the main auditorium is already full so there's another room set up with a video link and stuff.

Can't wait. The man is one of my heroes and Im dying to get my photo taken with him

Read about this in the Sunday Times and tried to get a ticket. I've been unable to secure one yet, but I do know a certain individual who can easily get his hands on tickets but seeing as he has no interest in it refuses to get me one. He also turned down time with Tanantino for the same reason. Shame he's such a dick.

Goodshape

An email I got from some Trinity guy wrote:

Due to the exceptional interest in the David Lynch/Donovan event at Trinity College on 20th October, we regret to say that all the tickets for the Burke Theatre have been allocated.
However, we have decided to provide a live audio-visual feed of the Burke Theatre event to the adjoining Robert Emmet Theatre, and to which audience David Lynch will also speak in person.

Tickets for the Emmet theatre can be collected on a FIRST COME BASIS from Jessica at the Beckett Theatre box office on Tuesday and Wednesday between 10am - 2pm, and on Friday from 10am to 1.30pm.

So that just leaves Friday for those of you looking for tickets to the Emmet theatre yoke. Won't be in town for it myself


....strange coincedence this though. I was just after watching a talk Lynch gave a few years ago on Google Video and thought it was fantastic (see my sig for link). Very good speaker.

johnny_ultimate

Woah he's actually going to be speaking in the extra room!
Hell yeah!
Damn I shouldn't be getting so excited about this. But I am such a Lynch fanboy.

Lawless_Samurai

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Read about this in the Sunday Times and tried to get a ticket. I've been unable to secure one yet, but I do know a certain individual who can easily get his hands on tickets but seeing as he has no interest in it refuses to get me one. He also turned down time with Tanantino for the same reason. Shame he's such a dick.

Wow your friend is a dick

ixoy

Is it open to the public? I'm a former Trinity boy - can I get one? Ask your friend Goodshape - run over to his house now. Break in if he doesn't answer within five seconds. If he's not at home, hunt him down and make him answer - this is urgent!

Goodshape

I >think< anyone can go but tbh I didn't actually ask :-/

The 'guy in Trinity' isn't a friend of mine - I just got the email address from a friend. And that copy+paste answer is the same one he got.

I'd say your best bet is to head to Jessica at the Beckett Theatre on Friday and nod politely if asked "are you a student here?"... just in case.

//edit
just asked the guy who gave me that email address and he's confident it's open to anyone.

Pedrospuds

i hpe there security , because if im around , im more than likely gonna try and kill the guy . Genius? Nah . Scorsese is a Genius

Karl Hungus

Pedrospuds wrote: »

i hpe there security , because if im around , im more than likely gonna try and kill the guy . Genius? Nah . Scorsese is a Genius

Guess I'll have to show up and protect Mr. Lynch myself. The man's more of a genius than Scorsese could ever dream of being.

Pedrospuds

Pedrospuds wrote: »

i hpe there security , because if im around , im more than likely gonna try and kill the guy . Genius? Nah . Scorsese is a Genius

Don't knock David Lynch. Scorsce may be a great director, but has he created his own genre? No, but the genius that is David Lynch has. He makes constantly fascinating films, which are both dazzling and ingenious

ixoy

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Don't knock David Lynch. Scorsce may be a great director, but has he created his own genre? No, but the genius that is David Lynch has. He makes constantly fascinating films, which are both dazzling and ingenious

Word. Lynch is the only director whose name has become an adjective used to describe movies - Lynchian. He's created a certain mixture of sound and imagery that many have tried to duplicate but that he can only truly succeed with. One of the living greats as far as I'm concerned.

galactus

ixoy wrote: »

Word. Lynch is the only director whose name has become an adjective used to describe movies - Lynchian. He's created a certain mixture of sound and imagery that many have tried to duplicate but that he can only truly succeed with. One of the living greats as far as I'm concerned.

Not sure about that: see this Wikipedia entry on "Hitchcockian"

But I take your point: Lynch is a genius.

Running Bing

galactus wrote: »

Not sure about that: see this Wikipedia entry on "Hitchcockian"

But I take your point: Lynch is a genius.

Yep have to give the nod to Hitch on that one.

One of the best words I have ever heard is Franco-Hitcockian:D


Still doesnt take away from Lynch. The guys a genius and a breath of fresh air.....and I got my ticket:D

ixoy

I got there five minutes - f**kin' work prevented me getting there at 2pm. In a fit of maddened jealousy, everyone who is going is banned unless they give me a ticket

Killaqueen!!!

Ugh I'm so annoyed. I've missed so many heroes of mine who have been in Dublin. And Trinity get all the names! First Helen Mirren now David Lynch. Does anyone now how I could get a ticket? I'm not in Trinity though...:(

galactus

Killaqueen!!! wrote: »

Ugh I'm so annoyed. I've missed so many heroes of mine who have been in Dublin. And Trinity get all the names! First Helen Mirren now David Lynch. Does anyone now how I could get a ticket? I'm not in Trinity though...:(

That and they have unelected represatation in the Senate! End Trinners hegemony now!!

PS Are there any Lynch-fests on to commemorate this occasion?

johnny_ultimate

Just back from this and very much enjoyed it. Lynch was an excellent, blunt speaker. Disapointed I didn't get to shake his hand / get a photo, but oh well. I was close to one of the greatest living film-makers, which is a good days work IMO. Audience was strange - Im surprised so many asked meditation questions and not about his films. But some intelligent folk got some movie related questions in there.

Donovan was absolutely hilarious though. In the safety of the 'overflow' room we were all in bits laughing at his constant failed attempts to be hip. Music was good, but when he spoke...

"TM For the Kids!"

Running Bing

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Just back from this and very much enjoyed it. Lynch was an excellent, blunt speaker. Disapointed I didn't get to shake his hand / get a photo, but oh well. I was close to one of the greatest living film-makers, which is a good days work IMO. Audience was strange - Im surprised so many asked meditation questions and not about his films. But some intelligent folk got some movie related questions in there.

Donovan was absolutely hilarious though. In the safety of the 'overflow' room we were all in bits laughing at his constant failed attempts to be hip. Music was good, but when he spoke...

"TM For the Kids!"

Where you the bloke in the second row pissing himself laughing by any chance;)


Must say Donovan is an absolute top quality musician but I am not surprised he has slumped in popularity. The guy is stuck in a timewarp:rolleyes:


As for Lynch I felt there was too much **** asked. It was great to him him talk but I just wished he had talked more about his films or Twin peaks. The same question "if your so happy why are your films so disturbing" was basically asked three times, some guys question was "meditation, its all about thoughts isnt it".

I felt it was a great oppurtunity to hear a genius talk about his work but I felt it was squandered a bit tbh.

all-time-FANBOY

Naturally, LOVED it... and got to shake his hand!

I waited around after his talk outside the theatre. Saw David come out with his entourage right in front of me(!) - and I walked toward him, crying, "David! David!" He clasped my hand, I go like the worst kind of gushing fanboy, "David, it's GREAT to meet you." And his quick - but sincere - reply, "Nice to meet you!" - before his entourage hurried him on.

Probably more later about how I got in and the talk itself, but just have yet to fully process this very very brief cool encounter.

(I managed to get in on the left hand side of the theatre, and was second in line for a question - the guy standing at the mike didn't get a chance either - I was going to ask David is he still disappointed he never got to tell more stories of Twin Peaks either by way of another season or more movies - but I know they'll be another time).

johnny_ultimate

Babybing wrote: »

Where you the bloke in the second row pissing himself laughing by any chance;)

Heh I was in the second row but that was a friend of a friend in hysterics throughout. Although I was chuckling rather heartily too

bashibazouk

Think I was sitting behind you! That friend of a friend was so annoying!