BEYOND HIS HOLINESS SAINT KEANU, if there is another universally beloved figure online, it is David Lynch. He is the internet’s eccentric grandpa: unfailingly ringing in the day with his daily weather reports, banging the gong for transcendental meditation and crafting miniature farmyard barns for his youngest daughter, Lula.
His other line, perhaps the most overtly Lynchian, is his daily lottery in which – for seemingly no other reason than gratuitous delight and enigma – he draws a random numbered ball. A confirmed numerologist, his preferred integer is seven. Dorothy Vallens’ apartment – the nexus of lust, violence and voyeurism in Blue Velvet – was on the seventh floor. So was the office of Gordon Cole, the FBI chief played by the director in Twin Peaks. David Lynch turns 77 on 20 January. So there is no better time to ask: how
