Since when is reasonably priced, fair trade organic coffee a bad thing?
I suppose all his little ventures are designed to help him maintain independence from the studios. But I felt ripped off by the two DVDs I bought from him. Neither the "Short Films of David Lynch" nor the aforementioned Dynamic:01 are very good values. His juvenalia are of interest to scholars and completists, perhaps. Your mileage may vary.
I don't think anyonbody has any right to criticize David Lynch. After all he does have his very own adjective (lynchian). The man's a frickin' genuis for crying out loud.
Only good artists are worth criticizing.
I think a lot of his movies' appeal is that they activate the part of your brain that gets activated when you are trying to figure out some problem or mystery. But there is just no possible resolution to the questions they raise. In other words, unlike say, a Michael Mann movie, what keeps you captivated by a Lynch movie is ultimately not what the movie is about. Mulholland Drive is a good example of this, when people try to figure out what happened, as it were, offstage. Of course, the answer is nothing. I think the "no hay banda" scene is the key to his entire body of work (Excepting Dune, Elephant Man, etc. And I don't mean to say that there is no meaning to his films. Just that it is futile to try to work out specific plot points as to who did what where. The movies aren't a window onto some coherent world.)
