Below are my Lynch personal web bookmarks, the sites I've found especially interesting, useful or well designed. I've chosen a short list, in contrast with most link lists on the web, because I think it's better to focus on a few sites that does catch the attention rather than make a list similar to what you could obtain using Google. And besides, it's easier to update !

I'd like to thank here dugpa.com for keeping me informed when I eagerly waited one of my two favourite Lynch films on DVD, Fire Walk with Me, and Glastonberry Grove for its helpful episode scripts, providing the exact dialogue line when I needed it, as well as for its jukebox feature that gave me the original idea to add sound to the Black Lodge.

The site you're currently browsing, lynch.batbad.com, is part of batbad.com, a group of three web sites I've created. These sites are all about imagination and visual art : this one is about David Lynch, another about a French comic, and the last one about "Batman : the Animated Series". Since they've been built out of passion and not for profit, I've tried different ways to browse and to display content, and wanted to prove being on the Internet doesn't always mean you sell something.

If you liked this site, its visuals and navigation, apart from the David Lynch content, you should like at least one other site of batbad.com. This link points to its heart, and you can easily go to another batbad.com site from there.

My web site tries to get you inside Twin Peaks, but you can actually go there, you know ! This blogspot web site is a tour in the "real" Twin Peaks, and visits its most (in)famous locations through gorgeous photographs.

More than 20 locations are covered, including the picnic spot with Laura and Donna, Benjamin Horne's Office, etc.

The pictures are very recent and incredibly close to the original shot locations, the site is well designed, and the whole effort oozes nostalgia. Very recommended.

The City of Absurdity is my favourite David Lynch site yet. First, I like very much the fact that this is a personal web site, with a soul, some real taste, an intimate universe, a huge passion for the Ronnie Rocket script Lynch never directed, a few drawings...

Then, you have there a lot of information and images I haven't found anywhere else, that really deepens one's knowledge of that David Lynch character : fascinating furniture he designed, quite interesting quotations, paintings and drawings, prints, papers, commercials, fairly abundant screen captures, etc.

All of this is set in a clear, easy to read, elegant style, with many references to Lynch's work with the design and colours. The only problem one may find is that it's not updated frequently, but there are so much stuff to watch and read already anyway that it's barely a flaw.

The Official David Lynch Site is (surprise, surprise) quite unusual. On the bright side, Lynch had the excellent idea not to limit its content to movie news or dull reports about his main activities, but rather make a personal and independent work out of it. I'm quite pleased with that because it's acknowledging web design and web sites are an art form of some sort - which, of course, is also my opinion and what I've personally tried to achieve here.

The disappointing thing, however, is that it's money oriented, the expensive kind. First, to have full access to the site, you have to pay 10$ per month, and if you don't subscribe, you only have access to... a store ! With items like a 20$ Eraserhead cap, plus, if you live in the USA, 10$ for the least expensive handling.

Add to this incredibly long download times (even with DSL) that aren't justified by the downloaded content, and you obtain something you don't know is worth the subscribing or not. Yet, it does have that Lynch feeling, some short films, a chat room used by Lynch himself, and I quite like the design... so, if you have doubts, I advise you ask people at alt.tv.twin-peaks !

David Lynch is best known for Twin Peaks, and any question about Twin Peaks can find an answer under the trees, at Glastonberry Grove. This site is indeed the reference for anything Twin Peaks, and also, excuse me, a damn good site.

Right when the main page appears you'll have memories going back to you : the colours are straight inspired from the Twin Peaks opening credits, and the site map is cleverly taken from the most mysterious Twin Peaks place. Despite the huge content of the site, you can't be lost no matter how much time you spend there - and it's so rich and dense it can be days.

A Twin Peaks complete Episode Guide and a Mythos Glossary will help you understand, or go back into, the world of the series, there are more multimedia (sound and movie) files I've ever seen before about Twin Peaks, and when you've had enough, a very detailed (alas a bit outdated) listing of links will get you to new interesting places.

Originally created to fight for the long awaited Fire Walk with Me deleted scenes, dugpa.com has evolved into the best news site about Lynch's upcoming products - mainly anything DVD.

It had the best scoops about Twin Peaks first season on DVD, about the making of Mulholland Drive, it provides very detailed reviews about transfer quality, and has generally been very reliable with its information. The design is simple but clear, you easily find what you're looking for, and there are news there you just won't find anywhere else.

So if you wonder, say, whether you should buy right away the Region 1 release of Fire Walk with Me or wait for the Region 2 MK2 release, this is quite definitely the place to go.

Thanks to the many people admiring his work, there are many overview sites of quality about David Lynch. One is yet far better than the others : the Universe of David Lynch. German but entirely written in English, the site was created by a talented fellow who also designed a site about my other favourite director, David Cronenberg.

Actually, davidlynch.de looks like an official web site. Its layout is gorgeous and professional, in perfect harmony with its content, and every main area the director has explored (films of course, but also music, photographs, drawings) has a devoted section - sometimes a bit short, though.

In a few clicks, you'll have a good idea of who David Lynch is, what he has done, where his career is going from and leading to, what people think about him, what this or that work is about, etc. There's also a fair multimedia content (movies, screen captures) and many, many press reviews - which is good news only if you don't consider them spoiling (like I do), that is !