Subject: Is David Lynch David Byrne?
From: jgp@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Pellmann)
Date: 1991-02-01, 00:25
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.movies,rec.music.misc

from January-February issue of "Spy" magazine:

                          Is David Lynch David Byrne?

                            Something Wild at Heart

                       A Cutting-Edge-Auteur Scorecard
                       
                                 Lynch                 Byrne
                                 -----                 -----
First name David?                Yes                   Yes

Attended art school?             Dropped out of        Dropped out of
                                 Pennsylvania Academy  Rhode Island School
                                 of Fine Arts after    of Design after
                                 two years             two years

Early fame with 'head'           Late-1970s            Late-1970s
                                 experimental film,    experimental band,
                                 "Eraserhead"          Talking Heads
                                 
Continued fame with 'man'        Auteured 1980s film   Auteured 1980s song
                                 "The Elephant Man"    "Television Man"
                                 
Preoccupied with banal           Yes                   Yes
middle-class life and psycho 
killers?

Mainstream breakthrough          First TV series,      First feature film,
                                 "Twin Peaks", a       "True Stories", a
                                 darkly satric look    darkly satiric look
                                 at small-town life    at small-town life
                                 in Washington, close  in Texas, close
                                 to the Canadian       to the Mexican
                                 border                border

Crossover project                Wrote lyrics for      Wrote music for
                                 album (Julee Cruise)  ballet (Twyla Tharp's
                                                       "Catherine Wheel")
                                                       
Last name describes grisly       Yes                   Yes
form of homicide?

Oddly named collaborator         Angelo Badalamenti    Brian Eno

Preferred attire                 Big black suits,      Big white suits,
                                 shirt buttoned up     shirt buttoned up
                                 
Material has been performed      Yes                   Yes
at Brooklyn Academy of Music?

Has been on cover of Time?       Yes                   Yes

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