Smiling Bags of Death

David Lynch passed on January 16th, 2025. In the Song of Lynchadelphia season opener, Julien Suaudeau travels sixty years back to January 1966 on 13th and Wood, where David Lynch has just moved in with Jack Fisk. As the song of the city echoes in Lynch's films and across the Twin Peaks universe, and as other voices familiar with his work chime in, Jack Fisk recalls how his best friend dreamed up his art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition to his collaboration with Lynch (Eraserhead, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive), Jack Fisk has worked as production designer and art director with Terence Malick (Days of Heaven, Badlands, The Thin Red Line, The New World, The Tree of Life, To the Wonder, Song to Song), Brian de Palma (Carrie, Phantom of the Paradise), Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood), Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon), among others. His most recent collaboration is with Josh Safdie, on Marty Supreme. Photo: Jack Fisk and David Lynch standing near 19th and Chestnut in December 1967 (Credit: C.K Williams) This episode contains audio from the following sources: Carrie Rickey's interview of David Lynch at Bryn Mawr Film Institute in 2014 Twin Peaks Kim Lin Short's The End of Howard's End Wild at Heart Mulholland Drive Gerard Malanga's Screentest: A Diary Twin Peaks: The Return Josh Hitchens' interview of David Lynch in 2022 Blue Velvet Room to Dream, by Kristin McKenna and David Lynch Lost Highway