Articles rarely carry titles written by their authors. My longtime favorite assigned to me was “About Face,” about the type foundry and magazine Emigre. Then came “The Man Who Fell for Earth,” an interview I did with science fiction author and environmentalist Kim Stanley Robinson. The crown has been passed to “Parable of the Mower,” on David Lynch’s 1999 movie, The Straight Story, which came out in between Lost Highway (1997) and Mulholland Drive (2001).
That’s in the new issue of The Wire, which has a special section dedicated to David Lynch’s work. It’s packed with cool stuff, like the role of finger snapping, backward speech, the wind, and other sonic elements — and of course, his scores.
