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David Lynch And The Cow Return

Mark — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:43:52 EST

For those of you who found last week's David Lynch promotional stunt for Inland Empire too geographically inconvenient to attend, you have a second chance to catch the director, his trusty cow sidekick, and various signs celebrating Laura Dern's performance in person, where you can possibly absorb some of his cryptic wisdom on the origins of cheese. Alerts a reader apparently unaware that Lynch and his bovine prop previously graced a corner in Hollywood last Thursday:

david lynch is on sunset and holloway right now, sitting on a corner in a director's chair with a cow next to him. he's apparently shooting something for his new Inland Empire movie with Laura Dern, and doesn't mind a bunch of people taking pictures.

Video and/or photographs of the director and cow's latest appearance are still welcome, especially if they reveal a level of weirdness exceeding that of last week's visitation.

UPDATE: We've already received photos, and think it's safe to say that Tower Record's GOING OUT OF BUSINESS sign looming behind Lynch and the cow does add an appropriate touch of surreality to the scene. Pics after the jump:

[Photo: Warren Tabutol]

David Lynch And The Cow: The Video

Mark — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:26:18 EST

In what we hope completes our multimedia coverage of yesterday's publicity stunt, in which David Lynch mysteriously appeared on the corner of Hollywood and La Brea with a cow and copious promotional signage for Inland Empire, we pass along this clip, submitted by two guys who claim to have been driving by the site and who were so delighted by the bovine/auteur tableaux that they took a moment to talk to the infamously quirky director, capturing on video some Lynchian (really, how do you avoid that word in this context?) wisdom about the provenance of cheese.

David Lynch And His Favorite Cow Team Up To Drum Up Interest In 'Inland Empire' [Defamer]

Update: David Lynch And His Favorite Cow Team Up To Drum Up Interest In 'Inland Empire'

Mark — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:20:50 EST

This excited (though secondhand) report just landed in our inbox:

David Lynch RIGHT NOW is sitting on the corner of Hollywood and La Brea with a cow on a leash and a picture of Laura Dern that says For Your Consideration. He also has a sign that says "without cows there would be no cheese in the Inland Empire". This is one of those things that a person needs to see. I wish I wasn't chained to a desk.

Surely there are readers out there who can either chew through their shackled limbs and head on down to have a look, or who at least have chains long enough to reach a window, enabling them to either send in a cameraphone shot or a painstakingly detailed, first-person narration of the suitably surreal publicity stunt unfolding in Hollywood. You know where to find us.

UPDATE: You really never let us down. Yup, the scene pretty much looks exactly as Lynchian as previously described.