The Projection Booth - Episode 4 - Dune

Let all eyes turn to Arrakis as Mike and Mondo Justin defend David Lynch's flawed gem, Dune.

This much-maligned 1984 sci-fi epic was panned upon its initial release, expanded for television, and swept under the rug by all those involved. We look at the wild history of Dune and defend it against its detractors as a film that deserves a second chance.

Special guest this week, Ed Naha, screenwriter of Chud II and author of The Making of Dune.

Music by Shiryu, Peachy, and Astral Projection.

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Do it for Van Gogh.

One early morning in Ann Arbor I was doing my 6am to 9am shift on WCBN 88.3 FM Ann Arbor, the college station I had been disc jockeying at during the summer. Without planning or provocation, I started going through the record collection and dug out as many David Lynch soundtracks as I possibly could. Via the magic of live radio and multiple turntables, I did a good long mix of songs from Lynch's films. Well, the "good" is subjective, I suppose, but I liked it.

I went back and re-did a few clips, added a track from THE ELEPHANT MAN, and broke the one longer track with much more "elegance."

Im Abendrot	Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur	Wild at Heart
Slaughterhouse	Powermad, Tim Bomba	Wild at Heart
Wicked Game	Chris Isaak, Erik Jacobsen	Wild at Heart
I'm Bill	Eraserhead Soundtrack	Eraserhead
Blue Velvet	Bobby Vinton	Blue Velvet
Elephant Man	John Morris	Elephant Man
In Heaven	The Lady in the Radiator	Eraserhead
There's Sometime A Buggy	The Cowboy	Mulholland Drive
Love Letters Straight From My Heart	Kitty Lester	Blue Velvet
In Dreams	Roy Orbison	Blue Velvet
Llorando (Crying)	Rebekah Del Rio	Mulholland Drive
I'm Deranged	David Bowie	Lost Highway
Perfect Drug	Nine Inch Nails	Lost Highway
Moving Through Time	Angelo Badalamenti	Fire Walk With Me
Pink Room	Angelo Badalamenti	Fire Walk With Me
Sycamore Trees	Little Jimmy Scott	Fire Walk With Me
Falling	Julee Cruise	Twin Peaks
I've Told Every Little Star	Linda Scott	Mulholland Drive
Dune - Main Theme	Toto, Brian Eno	Dune
Rammstein	Rammstein	Lost Highway
Hierate Mich	Rammstein	Lost Highway
This Magic Moment	Lou Reed	Lost Highway
Give Me Back My Phone	Mystery Man	Lost Highway
Be Bop A Lula	Gene Vincent, The Blue Caps	Wild at Heart
16 Reasons (Why I Love You)	Connie Stevens	Mulholland Drive
Baby, Please Don't Go	Them	Wild at Heart

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X-mas Intrusion

My first fight of the Xmas season. Nothing major. Nothing thrown. Not even any profanity. Just a misunderstanding. But it signals to me what I dislike about Xmas; it's the intrusion. I love giving gifts and spreading joy but I like doing it on my own schedule. The rush to get everything bought and wrapped for a seemingly never-ending string of get-togethers just burns my buns.

It's not that I don't like my family. I do. I just like them more in small doses. In the month of December I've got five get-togethers with various factions; sometimes the same ones just in different settings. We give gifts at some, and not others. Each one gives a great opportunity for stress and bites into my time. Yeah, I know, I'm a whiny brat, I just get a little "family'd out" with so many occasions and I am a bit overprotective of my weekends.

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I need to get cracking on subtitling RUE BARABARE (which I'm calling SAVAGE STREET as "Barbaric Street" doesn't sound as nice). I want to get this done before the Goodiscon. At the moment I've got a beautiful DVD version that recently came out in France along with a really shitty English dubbed (and Spanish subtitled) version called "CRUEL AVENUE" from Video Search of Miami. Unfortunately, the audio on CRUEL AVENUE is for sucks and I've actually been doing better translating the Spanish subtitles into English -- but that removes me twiceover (at least) from the original French dialogue.

I'm cold kickin' it with the Mrs. today, sitting behind a big pile of gifts that we're sorting and bagging for future wrapping while DUNE: THE RECONSTRUCTED WORKPRINT plays on the TV. This is a mix of the big DUNE release of earlier in the year along with the original version and deleted scenes. I'm hoping that this gets another pass in the fan edit community by "Fan Filtration", the editor who fixed the lack of "blue withing blue" eyes in the extended TV version. I had hoped that this would have been taken care of by Universal before releasing their "deluxe" edition.

Oh, and, speaking of Xmas, the perfect gift this year can be found right here: http://www.cafepress.com/cashiers.