"A rare look behind the red curtain of one of the most influential artists of our time..."
Even if you're in the "just looking" category like me, this is such a great glimpse into the life and creative process of a true original. I loved going through this because it ranges the gamut from completely banal stuff like light stands to the personal like custom furniture he made by hand. And then there's stuff to the just plain wacky - a couple Mr. Coffee coffeemakers currently going for $1,250!?
Anyway - thought I might not be the only David Lynch fan out there, and you may get a kick out of this.
loehnsberg · 1d ago
The La Marzocco espresso maker at $7000 is cheaper than buying a new one.
Duanemclemore · 1d ago
They actually point the retail value out in that listing. Lol. The idea of shopping David Lynch's estate sale like you were looking for deals is one I think he'd chuckle at.
Edited to add - I think $1,200 for two Mr. Coffees is a little over retail though...
blitzar · 1d ago
> "A rare look behind the red curtain"
OMG he had a 10 year old Sony camera and a coffee table just like me! SanDisk Extreme Pro 128GB cards the choice of me and David Lynch.
The equipment might be the same, but the line between me and genius is wide.
petetnt · 22h ago
If anyone wants another glimpse behind the red curtain, I highly recommend the documentary David Lynch: The Art Life from 2016. It focuses on David Lynches upbringing and formative years as an artist up until the release of Eraserhead that completely changed the direction (or maybe rocketed forward?) of his career. It also shows Lynch working at this workshop, showing some of the tools you see on auction here too.
The collection has some absolute grails too for any fan, like the original script to Twin Peaks as Northwest Passage.
RIP to true master.
_elephant · 1d ago
I had the same feeling. Scrolling through it felt like watching the outtakes of a creative life.
What really struck me wasn’t the expensive items, but the strangely human scale of everything. The handmade furniture, the dusty coffee makers, the fragments of ideas that never turned into stories.
As someone who builds narrative systems, this felt more intimate than any documentary.
You're not just seeing what Lynch created. You're seeing what he lived with, and what he quietly left behind.
That’s what made me pause.
lou1306 · 23h ago
It really struck me that we both owned the same edition of Crying of Lot 49. Something about the democratization/massification of culture, I guess.
pnut · 23h ago
"damn fine cup of coffee" is one of the top Twin Peaks memes.
frereubu · 1d ago
I'm never sure about the estimates on auctions like this, but the fact that so many things are going way over the estimate reminds me of the Sotheby's auction of items from the failed Pharmacy bar by Damien Hirst where things were going for at least four times the estimate. I could sort of understand that for specially-made things like cocktail glasses, but it was also true of really mundane items. Clearly I just have a difference sense of value to someone else, but the fact that a really basic filter coffee maker is going for $1,750 feels pretty weird to me.
bathtub365 · 20h ago
Their estimates just seemed flat wrong in many cases. A high end espresso maker owned by David Lynch was never going to go for half its retail price like they suggested
wesselbindt · 1d ago
Taxes, maybe? Buy a fork for 1750, have it appraised by a friend to be worth much more than that, donate your million dollar fork to a museum to write it off.
jazzyjackson · 1d ago
It's because Lynch was an avid coffee drinker so it's a cute thing to buy, lots of people have enough money to spend thousands of dollars on a cute thing.
This is the auction setting the market value, no one is going to appraise the junk at 100x what it last sold for at auction
andrewchilds · 21h ago
It’s not just David Lynch’s own coffee drinking. Making coffee (“there was a fish in the percolator!”) and drinking coffee was one of the most memorable aspects of the original Twin Peaks TV series.
sneak · 1d ago
Being able to use David Lynch’s coffee maker each morning would bring me a lot more joy than my $3000 Macbook Pro has.
me4502 · 1d ago
I truly hope that some of this collection, such as annotated scripts/etc, eventually make their way into film or media museums.
There’s so many interesting items in here otherwise
Duanemclemore · 1d ago
I can only imagine that he pledged his actual papers to a museum or University film school a long time ago. It's not uncommon to do that well before you pass away. And you / your estate gets a very substantial tax break for it.
So I would -definitely- guess this is what's left after anything of scholarly or creative value was taken care of.
I mean - the sale of two of the three adjacent properties he owns just off Mulholland would be enough to keep those inheriting his estate going for a while on their own. I doubt "everything must go" to pay off creditors or something...
Anyway - yeah I can only imagine the actual papers are at a scholarly institution.
qmr · 1d ago
> very substantial tax break
How would this be valued precisely?
Duanemclemore · 1d ago
I've never gone through the process, but I imagine it would involve establishing the historical importance of the person who owned them, establishing their significance as instruments of the thing for which the person is known, and establishing their authenticity. Then from that an appraisal would be done and the proper documentation generated that would protect the donor from accusations of tax fraud. The donor and recipient would both agree upon the language of these documents and possibly on an officially recognized value for the donation.
zxexz · 1d ago
Yep, you've pretty much nailed it, at least in the US and UK.
Klaster_1 · 1d ago
Wow, that's a load of items. Is it normal to own so much stuff in US or that's a what a typical well-off person accumulates over their life time?
Duanemclemore · 1d ago
He owned three adjacent homes in the Hollywood Hills. He ran his film production company and musical endeavors out of them. So these aren't the random collectibles of a hoarder, the vast majority of this stuff would have been used for these business purposes.
Hilift · 23h ago
No, not this much, and for one person. Lynch was a bit of a mystery. The table router, saws, woodshop tools, the cabinet making books. Lynch was sometimes hands on for productions. A lot of the furniture is cool too. Like 1950's period pieces, but custom made. He had four wives and one partner (Isabella Rossellini) and four children. We probably never saw the real David Lynch. A lot of the stuff could just be accumulations from a lot of shopping trips.
"Eraserhead was finally finished in 1976. Lynch said that not a single reviewer of the film understood it as he intended."
Lynch produced Eraserhead on a shoestring budget ($100k) along with Sissy Spacek and her husband, Jack Fisk.
jazzyjackson · 1d ago
You see how big houses get in America? All the houses are FULL of stuff
Important to keep in mind that Lynch was a filmmaker, musician, and artist - and probably 2/3 of the listings are items from his studios.
rxtexit · 22h ago
Yes, as an American who is an absolute minimalist, people here own so much junk.
It is not just well off people, it is practically everyone. Everyone has an enormous amount of junk. Well off people just have more pricey junk.
chneu · 23h ago
Americans often have to rent multiple storage units to store their stuff. This happens after their garages begin to overflow with junk. Id say like 75% of Americans don't use their garage for their car, it's just storage for shit.
A lot of Americans also buy 5th wheel recreational vehicles(caravans) that they can't store at home so they have to store them at designated facilities. It's extremely common to see run-down caravans parked beside houses or in the driveway, too. It's crazy. People buy em, never use em, and then they rot. Same with boats and off road vehicles; sitting there rotting at storage facilities or next to the garage.
Americans own an INSANE amount of stuff. I'm American and I find it crazy how much shit people own. Remember that per capita Americans are the highest consumers in the world and it's not even close.
It has to do with the American exceptionalism thinking. That Americans are special and therefore more entitled to over consume. Manifest Destiny baby, god chose America! The extreme capitalism in America reinforces this mentality. The amount of crap an American owns is a status symbol. A lot of Americans are proud to own stuff they never use.
In the spring time, when folks start opening their garages, i like to see how much winter junk people have accumulated. A month or two ago it was comedic watching people move stuff out of their garages to reorganize so they could then put it all back.
d0gsg0w00f · 23h ago
> It has to do with the American exceptionalism thinking. That Americans are special and therefore more entitled to over consume.
This is quite a leap, and you're giving people too much credit for "consumption as a guiding principle".
Most people just have extra income and are bombarded with messages about how something will make their lives better. They try it out. They're stuck with it.
chneu · 22h ago
They try it out because Americans love owning stuff as status symbols. Gotta keep up with the Joneses with our "grass fed" steak dindins, 3rd truck, boat, rv and garage full of junk. We are hyper-capitalist and we use the manifest destiny/conquerer mentality to justify it. Advertising drives this mentality into people from a young age to the point they don't even realize it. The word "deprogramming" might be apt here.
Even if one doesn't consciously think about or admit this, it is everywhere in American culture, especially in rural-cosplaying folks. If someone isn't aware of it, and working to check their consumption, then they're probably engaging in it, unfortunately.
Americans have endless excuses for our overconsumption because it allows us to either justify or ignore the consequences of our actions.
Even mentioning overconsumption will result in many Muricans getting mad because you're challenging their privilege.
A really great example of this is the typical american's reaction to environmental causes. Look at how american media portrays environmentalists and reacts with pure vitriol most of the time (fortunately this has changed quite a lot in recent years but it's still pretty bad). Environmentalists challenge the privileged mindset of american culture. What did american culture do? We pumped up beef and dairy production while portraying it as "the natural way", "the carnivore diet", the "caveman diet" etc as if overconsumption is how it should be and has always been. Then American culture portrayed vegans/vegetarians as anemic weaklings, which is basically an attack on people challenging the privilege to overconsume. Make the enemy look bad instead of addressing the issue.
Once one starts to look for this stuff they'll see it is everywhere in US culture. I grew up in a town of 500 people on a farm/ranch in the US West. I was very conservative. I bought into all this shit for 20+ years. Then I traveled and talked to people outside the US with different viewpoints. It is really obvious how bad it is in the US once you start to pay attention and stop buying into this privileged mindset.
We can't begin to improve this until we can even acknowledge it. There are many forces in this country working to prevent people from even acknowledging this. Look at conservative media, especially. It's suuuuper obvious.
d0gsg0w00f · 13h ago
There's a lot to unpack here.
In my opinion (and observation), the majority of the population worldwide wants a boat. Whether it's attainable or socially acceptable depends on where you live. In America it is attainable and mostly socially acceptable. You can't fault people for grabbing their dream when it's within reach. Most immigrants want to move to the US because they can "buy a boat". It's literally the point.
People really really love meat. They don't need much persuasion to resist any message that says what they love is bad. Like, people love meat so much that it's probably something our bodies want and need over other forms of sustenance.
I'm not sure why so many people think that there's an effective brainwashing campaign behind all of this. I think it's just what individual, free thinking people want.
potato3732842 · 21h ago
>Id say like 75% of Americans don't use their garage for their car, it's just storage for shit.
>A lot of Americans also buy 5th wheel recreational vehicles(caravans) that they can't store at home so they have to store them at designated facilities.
I am involved in this business and I assure you you are vastly over estimating the fraction of the population that pays for storage.
chneu · 18h ago
I think you're misinterpreting what I said.
I said 75% of people with garages likely don't put their cars in their garages.
This is unrelated to the number of RV owners who store their caravan at a storage facility. I didn't talk about that and didn't specify a figure there. I just said people buy RVs and some people pay to store them.
potato3732842 · 17h ago
I meant to quote the first and fourth sentences, not 3rd and 4th.
>Americans often have to rent multiple storage units to store their stuff.
>A lot of Americans also buy 5th wheel recreational vehicles(caravans) that they can't store at home so they have to store them at designated facilities.
reconnecting · 1d ago
I like his choice: starting from the La Marzocco at home, through the Hasselblad camera, and all the scroll saw, drill press, etc. Every man's essentials.
But I was surprised by his choice of Bang & Olufsen for music. For example, his Sennheiser headphones are mostly for hearing sound as it is, while B&O always tries to 'enhance' sound in their own way. It doesn’t match much.
ch_sm · 22h ago
> But I was surprised by his choice of Bang & Olufsen for music. For example, his Sennheiser headphones are mostly for hearing sound as it is, while B&O always tries to 'enhance' sound in their own way. It doesn’t match much.
I feel like I can identify with that. I have a pair of AKG studio headphones for recording music and listening for "mistakes" in mixes, but otherwise mostly B&O Hi-Fi speakers. To me, the sound is more "immersive" and emotionally captivating than e.g. studio monitors, and they still have lots of detail. (Plus, there’s the issue of them looking as nice as they do and being very easy to set up — it makes them easy to live with). Just my 2 cents.
dole · 18h ago
imho, people buy B&O for the design, not for the sound quality
wtk · 1d ago
Could have been a gift, or experiment!
kriro · 23h ago
Might as well ask here because there will be some fans around. What was his relation to Weinstein? I always interpreted Mulholland Drive as a critique of Weinstein like things going on in Hollywood.
jiriro · 1d ago
If you buy all this stuff – does that make you David Lynch?
joeevans1000 · 1d ago
And now direct your attention to my APC Smart-UPS 1500 Battery Backup plus Emulex 355 SAN Storage Switch for MAC.
Yes... once owned by David Lynch himself.
nicholasbraker · 1d ago
Almost tempted to do a bid on the Black Lodge Style Red Curtain and Zig-Zag Rug. Almost.. ;-)
padjo · 1d ago
The man sure owned a lot of coffee makers.
chneu · 23h ago
Lynch famously used daily routine to allow his creativity to flow.
He drank, according to him, 10-20 cups of coffee per day.
He even had his own blend available for purchase.
sidcool · 1d ago
It's tempting. But too overpriced
HenryBemis · 1d ago
But hey, in case you don't have enough books lined up waiting for your eyes, there are some great ideas/suggestions. Viggo Mortensen is also an author? I saw the book "Coincidence of memory", I looked him up on Wikipedia, and yes, he has written plenty-a-books. So.. there are a few more now on my "future book buys".
cempaka · 21h ago
The subset of leftie conspiracy theorist Twitter I follow has taken note of some of the books in Lynch's collection like 'Trance Formation of America,' 'Behold a Pale Horse,' and 'Access Denied.'
kubb · 1d ago
Am I the only one for whom it's unsettling that as soon as someone famous dies, people sell their stuff online for exorbitant prices to make profit, like vultures feeding on their corpse?
It combines callousness with consumerism with greed with celebrity worship in the weirdest way. Maybe it's just my perception.
keiferski · 1d ago
The money presumably goes to his heirs, so I don’t know how that is vulture-like. The alternative is that this stuff just gets thrown away or donated to a thrift shop.
More broadly, it’s pretty cool that there are objects out there in the world that have been used by an artist or person you admire. Personally I managed to buy a scarf that Raymond Chandler wore, a few months ago at an online auction. It’s just a scarf, but there is something quite special about the fact that one of my favorite writers wore it. It’s a unique object in a world of manufactured identical goods.
IAmBroom · 20h ago
That merely makes it cannibalistic and incestual vulturing.
"The corpse is cooling! Quick, sell his clothes!"
bathtub365 · 20h ago
Where else should it all go?
IAmBroom · 20h ago
I'm not criticizing the redistribution of goods of the departed. Wills used to state where "my best garment" and "my second-best bed" would go.
I'm pointing out that mercantile opportunism isn't necessarily less repugnant when done by the surviving family.
0xEF · 1d ago
It's not just you. I won't call it wrong, but does it draw out some of the worst qualities in people? Absolutely.
One good thing you can do now is start unloading some of your own estate so you can enjoy a bit of the cash that comes from it, maybe spending it on a fun activity or experience istead of just buying more stuff. Or, donate useful items to local shelters so that people in need can benefit a bit from your excess, mild as though it may be. We don't have to be wealthy to help someone else out and when we unburden ourselves from our dust-collecting stuff, we also unburden the person who has to deal with it when we die.
bzzzt · 23h ago
I agree with you in the general case, but considering the number of bids above average I'm not sure it's such a burden to be the one who has to deal with it in this case ;)
I don't think David Lynch really needed that 'bit of extra cash' at the end of his life. Most of the items are memorabilia and worth a lot more since he passed away so even if the goal was to donate to charity it would have been wise to hold on to them.
comrade1234 · 1d ago
I don't think it's wrong at all. Better than a bunch of junk that you inherited but have no interest in sitting around gathering dust. Just thinking about my very old step-mother and very old father-in-law and all of the shit they've accumulated and how I'm going to have to deal with it after they die...
For example, my step-mother was a grade-school teacher and has a collection of old (some very old) children's books. I have no interest in them - some are even quite racist. But hopefully someone else will find value in them.
kubb · 1d ago
Yeah, but you'd sell it on a yard sale for cheap or something like that.
blitzar · 1d ago
If they were people of note the yard sale would be held at Christie's not in the street in-front of the house.
If the collection of books is of note likewise.
pfannkuchen · 1d ago
No the point is that a yard sale would accomplish the goal of getting rid of the stuff without maximizing profit. The only reason to hold it at Christie’s is to maximize profit.
blitzar · 23h ago
A yard sale is maximising the profit - stuff that doesn't sell at a yard sale goes in either the bin or to the charity shop.
apeescape · 21h ago
What's wrong with maximizing profit anyway?
_elephant · 1d ago
When a public figure dies, there’s a sudden rupture in their living story. Auctions then act as a collective ritual — a way society processes that rupture by distributing pieces of the narrative.
Whether it’s a scarf, a script draft, or a broken camera, the object becomes a proxy for unresolved connection.
It’s less about profit (though that exists), and more about anchoring meaning in the aftermath of disappearance.
pfannkuchen · 1d ago
Surely that could be accomplished better by donating it to a museum, where the public can actually experience the objects.
keiferski · 23h ago
It’s unclear if that actually means the public will experience the objects. The vast majority of items are kept in storage.
And in Lynch’s case: most of these objects are not really unique enough to be worth including in a museum exhibition.
Which museum would take 3 of the same espresso maker and 3 of the same drip coffee maker?
TrackerFF · 21h ago
It's not any different from regular estate sales. In the end someone inherited all this (probably his kids), and decided to just sell it away instead of keeping it in storage. Often times it is easiest to sell everything, and then split up the proceeds.
zombot · 22h ago
Ferengi famously sell the vacuum-desiccated remains of their dear departed. What do you think inspired their cultural traits?
rurban · 1d ago
The prices will rise much more later, so it might be a good investment.
forgotoldacc · 1d ago
I'm not saying you're wrong (and I didn't downvote you), but it's weird how every single thing today is some sort of potential investment. It's weird how you're probably right.
Pokemon cards. Crypto. NFTS (not anymore though). Something a famous person once touched (this one kind of existed in the past with things like saints and holy figures using something, but now it's transcended religion and it's everything anyone of note used). Something a famous person simply recommended. Meme stocks of companies that have no real product to back them up. Toilet paper. Hand sanitizer. Mugs.
Beanie Babies were mocked for being a clearly worthless thing that gen x went wild over and it all collapsed overnight. Now millennials are turning everything into Beanie Babies, and despite plenty of people thinking the "everything investment" bubble will pop, it just keeps growing forever and expanding into more areas of life.
I've been thinking "the bubble is going to pop" for years (decades?) now. But it seems to have not only not popped, it's accelerating.
latexr · 22h ago
> Now millennials are turning everything into Beanie Babies
A thousand years after the last millennial has died, they will still be blamed for every issue in society. Naturally, by that time we will have passed the year 3000, so there will be the “neo millennials” to continue taking the blame.
Of corse, that assumes humanity will last that long. Millennials will probably kill us all by then, am I right? I’m surprised millennials haven’t been blamed for the wars in the world, the pandemic, and the US sliding into fascism. Avocado toast eating bastards.
Here’s an idea: How about we stop scapegoating and shifting the blame to a nebulous and imaginary generational divide and all together assume the responsibility of making everything better? No no, wouldn’t work, Gen <insert your bias here> would never allow it.
dole · 18h ago
In 1875, there was a sucker born every minute. Now there's 2.7 of them.
ycombinete · 23h ago
One cannot start a hobby without someone else suggesting you try to monetise it's output.
It brings to mind Marx's labour theory of value. But does the theory describe this psyche; or has the theory itself suggested to us that all our labours must be "valued".
pfannkuchen · 1d ago
Simple - dollar stops fulfilling “store of value” function of money, other things fill that void.
IAmBroom · 20h ago
"will rise" = false certainty
"might be" = fair statement
"most likely won't" = most likely prediction
I've got an authenticated pair of socks worn by Miles Davis, that I'm willing to let go for just $250.
hobbitstan · 1d ago
I guess someone thought a David Lynch museum wouldn’t generate as much revenue as an auction. Sad to see.
jazzyjackson · 1d ago
I'm much happier that the espresso machines will live on making espresso rather than sitting behind glass with a plaque
Even if you're in the "just looking" category like me, this is such a great glimpse into the life and creative process of a true original. I loved going through this because it ranges the gamut from completely banal stuff like light stands to the personal like custom furniture he made by hand. And then there's stuff to the just plain wacky - a couple Mr. Coffee coffeemakers currently going for $1,250!?
Anyway - thought I might not be the only David Lynch fan out there, and you may get a kick out of this.
Edited to add - I think $1,200 for two Mr. Coffees is a little over retail though...
OMG he had a 10 year old Sony camera and a coffee table just like me! SanDisk Extreme Pro 128GB cards the choice of me and David Lynch.
The equipment might be the same, but the line between me and genius is wide.
The collection has some absolute grails too for any fan, like the original script to Twin Peaks as Northwest Passage.
RIP to true master.
This is the auction setting the market value, no one is going to appraise the junk at 100x what it last sold for at auction
There’s so many interesting items in here otherwise
So I would -definitely- guess this is what's left after anything of scholarly or creative value was taken care of.
I mean - the sale of two of the three adjacent properties he owns just off Mulholland would be enough to keep those inheriting his estate going for a while on their own. I doubt "everything must go" to pay off creditors or something...
Anyway - yeah I can only imagine the actual papers are at a scholarly institution.
How would this be valued precisely?
"Eraserhead was finally finished in 1976. Lynch said that not a single reviewer of the film understood it as he intended."
Lynch produced Eraserhead on a shoestring budget ($100k) along with Sissy Spacek and her husband, Jack Fisk.
Relevant George Carlin bit on the subject: https://youtu.be/JLoge6QzcGY?
It is not just well off people, it is practically everyone. Everyone has an enormous amount of junk. Well off people just have more pricey junk.
A lot of Americans also buy 5th wheel recreational vehicles(caravans) that they can't store at home so they have to store them at designated facilities. It's extremely common to see run-down caravans parked beside houses or in the driveway, too. It's crazy. People buy em, never use em, and then they rot. Same with boats and off road vehicles; sitting there rotting at storage facilities or next to the garage.
Americans own an INSANE amount of stuff. I'm American and I find it crazy how much shit people own. Remember that per capita Americans are the highest consumers in the world and it's not even close.
It has to do with the American exceptionalism thinking. That Americans are special and therefore more entitled to over consume. Manifest Destiny baby, god chose America! The extreme capitalism in America reinforces this mentality. The amount of crap an American owns is a status symbol. A lot of Americans are proud to own stuff they never use.
In the spring time, when folks start opening their garages, i like to see how much winter junk people have accumulated. A month or two ago it was comedic watching people move stuff out of their garages to reorganize so they could then put it all back.
This is quite a leap, and you're giving people too much credit for "consumption as a guiding principle".
Most people just have extra income and are bombarded with messages about how something will make their lives better. They try it out. They're stuck with it.
Even if one doesn't consciously think about or admit this, it is everywhere in American culture, especially in rural-cosplaying folks. If someone isn't aware of it, and working to check their consumption, then they're probably engaging in it, unfortunately.
Americans have endless excuses for our overconsumption because it allows us to either justify or ignore the consequences of our actions.
Even mentioning overconsumption will result in many Muricans getting mad because you're challenging their privilege.
A really great example of this is the typical american's reaction to environmental causes. Look at how american media portrays environmentalists and reacts with pure vitriol most of the time (fortunately this has changed quite a lot in recent years but it's still pretty bad). Environmentalists challenge the privileged mindset of american culture. What did american culture do? We pumped up beef and dairy production while portraying it as "the natural way", "the carnivore diet", the "caveman diet" etc as if overconsumption is how it should be and has always been. Then American culture portrayed vegans/vegetarians as anemic weaklings, which is basically an attack on people challenging the privilege to overconsume. Make the enemy look bad instead of addressing the issue.
Once one starts to look for this stuff they'll see it is everywhere in US culture. I grew up in a town of 500 people on a farm/ranch in the US West. I was very conservative. I bought into all this shit for 20+ years. Then I traveled and talked to people outside the US with different viewpoints. It is really obvious how bad it is in the US once you start to pay attention and stop buying into this privileged mindset.
We can't begin to improve this until we can even acknowledge it. There are many forces in this country working to prevent people from even acknowledging this. Look at conservative media, especially. It's suuuuper obvious.
In my opinion (and observation), the majority of the population worldwide wants a boat. Whether it's attainable or socially acceptable depends on where you live. In America it is attainable and mostly socially acceptable. You can't fault people for grabbing their dream when it's within reach. Most immigrants want to move to the US because they can "buy a boat". It's literally the point.
People really really love meat. They don't need much persuasion to resist any message that says what they love is bad. Like, people love meat so much that it's probably something our bodies want and need over other forms of sustenance.
I'm not sure why so many people think that there's an effective brainwashing campaign behind all of this. I think it's just what individual, free thinking people want.
>A lot of Americans also buy 5th wheel recreational vehicles(caravans) that they can't store at home so they have to store them at designated facilities.
I am involved in this business and I assure you you are vastly over estimating the fraction of the population that pays for storage.
I said 75% of people with garages likely don't put their cars in their garages.
This is unrelated to the number of RV owners who store their caravan at a storage facility. I didn't talk about that and didn't specify a figure there. I just said people buy RVs and some people pay to store them.
>Americans often have to rent multiple storage units to store their stuff.
>A lot of Americans also buy 5th wheel recreational vehicles(caravans) that they can't store at home so they have to store them at designated facilities.
But I was surprised by his choice of Bang & Olufsen for music. For example, his Sennheiser headphones are mostly for hearing sound as it is, while B&O always tries to 'enhance' sound in their own way. It doesn’t match much.
I feel like I can identify with that. I have a pair of AKG studio headphones for recording music and listening for "mistakes" in mixes, but otherwise mostly B&O Hi-Fi speakers. To me, the sound is more "immersive" and emotionally captivating than e.g. studio monitors, and they still have lots of detail. (Plus, there’s the issue of them looking as nice as they do and being very easy to set up — it makes them easy to live with). Just my 2 cents.
Yes... once owned by David Lynch himself.
He drank, according to him, 10-20 cups of coffee per day.
He even had his own blend available for purchase.
It combines callousness with consumerism with greed with celebrity worship in the weirdest way. Maybe it's just my perception.
More broadly, it’s pretty cool that there are objects out there in the world that have been used by an artist or person you admire. Personally I managed to buy a scarf that Raymond Chandler wore, a few months ago at an online auction. It’s just a scarf, but there is something quite special about the fact that one of my favorite writers wore it. It’s a unique object in a world of manufactured identical goods.
"The corpse is cooling! Quick, sell his clothes!"
I'm pointing out that mercantile opportunism isn't necessarily less repugnant when done by the surviving family.
One good thing you can do now is start unloading some of your own estate so you can enjoy a bit of the cash that comes from it, maybe spending it on a fun activity or experience istead of just buying more stuff. Or, donate useful items to local shelters so that people in need can benefit a bit from your excess, mild as though it may be. We don't have to be wealthy to help someone else out and when we unburden ourselves from our dust-collecting stuff, we also unburden the person who has to deal with it when we die.
I don't think David Lynch really needed that 'bit of extra cash' at the end of his life. Most of the items are memorabilia and worth a lot more since he passed away so even if the goal was to donate to charity it would have been wise to hold on to them.
For example, my step-mother was a grade-school teacher and has a collection of old (some very old) children's books. I have no interest in them - some are even quite racist. But hopefully someone else will find value in them.
If the collection of books is of note likewise.
And in Lynch’s case: most of these objects are not really unique enough to be worth including in a museum exhibition.
Adding to that, I believe that Lynch’s more significant work is being put into museums. Here is one specifically for his work: https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7791/artykul/3476309,poland-...
Pokemon cards. Crypto. NFTS (not anymore though). Something a famous person once touched (this one kind of existed in the past with things like saints and holy figures using something, but now it's transcended religion and it's everything anyone of note used). Something a famous person simply recommended. Meme stocks of companies that have no real product to back them up. Toilet paper. Hand sanitizer. Mugs.
Beanie Babies were mocked for being a clearly worthless thing that gen x went wild over and it all collapsed overnight. Now millennials are turning everything into Beanie Babies, and despite plenty of people thinking the "everything investment" bubble will pop, it just keeps growing forever and expanding into more areas of life.
I've been thinking "the bubble is going to pop" for years (decades?) now. But it seems to have not only not popped, it's accelerating.
A thousand years after the last millennial has died, they will still be blamed for every issue in society. Naturally, by that time we will have passed the year 3000, so there will be the “neo millennials” to continue taking the blame.
Of corse, that assumes humanity will last that long. Millennials will probably kill us all by then, am I right? I’m surprised millennials haven’t been blamed for the wars in the world, the pandemic, and the US sliding into fascism. Avocado toast eating bastards.
Here’s an idea: How about we stop scapegoating and shifting the blame to a nebulous and imaginary generational divide and all together assume the responsibility of making everything better? No no, wouldn’t work, Gen <insert your bias here> would never allow it.
It brings to mind Marx's labour theory of value. But does the theory describe this psyche; or has the theory itself suggested to us that all our labours must be "valued".
"might be" = fair statement
"most likely won't" = most likely prediction
I've got an authenticated pair of socks worn by Miles Davis, that I'm willing to let go for just $250.