By diving within, they will attain a field of pure consciousness, pure bliss, creativity, intelligence, dynamic peace You enliven the field, and every day it gets better Negativity recedes."There's more. And so on.Students who meditate, Lynch assured the New York Post yesterday, will: "Start shining like a bright, shiny penny and their anxieties will go away. He calculates that introducing students to the discipline will help to lower stress, anxiety and blood-pressure in the country's classrooms Where there is bullying there will be bliss Excellence will replace mediocrity. It will, we assume, be a mystery of some kind.What may shock you, however, is the fact that, this morning, the director who recently turned 59 is starting up a philanthropic organisation with a less than catchy name: "The David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace" It appears to have various aims.
To raise lots of money - he hopes $7bn - to end all war and human strife and, first of all, to encourage every American schoolchild to sit cross-legged on the gym floor or in the playground and chant "om".To explain: Lynch hopes through this organisation to make the teaching of transcendental meditation (TM) available to students in every school in America. The easy news to digest is that Lynch does have a new film project on the go. It will be called INLAND EMPIRE (the capitalisation is deliberate) and will feature many of the actors he has used before, including Laura Dern and Harry Dean Stanton Beyond that, we don't know much about the film's content. Never mind that through much of the 1970s he went to the same Bob's Big Boy restaurant in Los Angeles every day at 2.30pm for a chocolate milkshake. And who cares if he walked away when George Lucas asked him to direct Return of the Jedi and made his own sci-fi epic instead, Dune, which was a commercial calamity? Lynch, ever in a shirt and a bootlace tie, and with an American Spirit cigarette in his lips, has never pretended to fit into the Hollywood system, and that is why he has so many fans.
Among small-caps, Savoy Asset Management gained 5p to 130p on the back of a solid set of results. The group, which is chaired by Kenneth Clarke, the former Conservative chancellor, reported a full-year profit before exceptional items of £630,000 compared with £240,000 in 2004.. If you have ever been touched by the work of David Lynch - perhaps it was the weirdness of his early 1990s television series Twin Peaks, or the twisted but intoxicating violence of his film Blue Velvet - then you will be ready to give him a little leeway when you hear about his next undertaking Remember, Lynch is just different, not a nutcase. SG also downgraded its recommendation on HBOS, down 3p to 875p. Cutting its stance on the banking giant to "hold" from "buy" the French broker said it was worried about the deteriorating outlook for consumer banking inthe UK.
