Mulholland Drive
Five gold stars
I have just re-watched Mulholland Drive, David Lynch’s intriguing movie about ..um..stuff. It is hard to pin down. Things change. A movie hasn’t made me feel like this since Fire: Walk With Me. It reminded me a lot of that earlier film. It even had “The Arm” in a bit part. A lot of Aussie actors, too. I counted three.
The similarities to Fire: Walk With Me take me back to the old days. Conception Day 1994 with Sean, Beth, Maziar, Cassandra, Michelle, Csilla and Simon. We analysed that movie to an obsessive degree, conversed in quotes. Mostly it reminds me of Beth. I wonder if the axolotyl is still at that address. I doubt if I will see any of these people again. Times change.
That summer will still remain in my memory as the most perfect, the best mix of friends, freedom and good times. Before things became serious, before the group began to splinter and we all joined subgroups, external groups even.
I know where some of them have gone, but what can I say to them? I am a different person now. I no longer share the things that we had in common back then. So what is the link, besides some ‘old times’ stories? I wouldn’t mind copying some of the photos to fill the gap. Some might even make it up here.