New SECRET MENU video is LIVE
Added 2025-03-01 19:30:24 +0000 UTCGreetings, GGN
I don't think I've made it a secret how much of a David Lynch fan I am and even though I had mentally prepared for his passing, it still left me with the desire to pull his work towards me, around me like a security blanket, so the result is this little video looking back at his film career. It's semi-scripted, semi-improvisational. Full of me just rambling about fan theories and favorite scenes and using the word "esoteric" a lot. For sure the guy made a lot of stuff beyond the 10 theatrical releases, but I figured I should give myself some measure of structure in revisiting his work and reflecting on how influential it all was. After watching it back I realized that though there are jokes in it and funny edits, it's pretty much all David doing the work. He was so funny even when he wasn't aware of it. I think the vibe comes off as a little more sentimental than my usual fare, but hopefully it will be entertaining.
I think I'll try to get out another Next Fest video if I can gather enough material before returning to work on Riddick in full, which I was already like 20 pages into. I really want to go nuts with that one and make it my own considering that shortly after it won the poll, a few other creators put out content about the series. I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT IT! I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT ANYTHING! So, I can't speak for the quality of any of it but I feel like I can for sure come out victorious as far as runtime! Sorry if the gaming content was all you were after, but I feel like I'd be in dereliction of duty within the GGN if I didn't make something Lynch related and I tried to stuff in as many asides about gaming within it that I could. If you've never seen any of his films or Twin Peaks and have any strong interest in doing so, I would recommend doing that before a dork ruins it for you.
As always, hugely appreciative for your support and allowing me to fish for this idea. Hope you're staying goth and gaming <3
- G(rim)
Comments
imagine my surprise, after signing up for the patreon, finding out that there is a 2+ hr david lynch retrospective here. great work.
Gladkill
2026-01-20 07:31:27 +0000 UTCI joined the Patreon specifically for this video!
Doomspiral Daydreams
2025-09-22 17:57:18 +0000 UTCfuck my heart
Pumpkin Warlock
2025-08-22 03:33:03 +0000 UTCYou should add this to the secret menu play collection here on patreon.
beammeupjosi
2025-06-19 14:55:58 +0000 UTCBy the end of the video I was in tears. Thanks
Me on TV
2025-04-27 14:35:27 +0000 UTCJust wanted to mention that I found the ending of your video really touching, with "In Heaven" playing over young David. He was quite something and I'll miss his bizarre talent.
feedergoldfish
2025-04-23 04:48:51 +0000 UTCWonderful video. And I just want to say.... Robert Blake. Jesus, he was amazing in Lost Highway. (And yeah, I know Blake is really fucked up.)
feedergoldfish
2025-04-23 03:18:35 +0000 UTCalso have you ever considered doing a secret menu video about the silent hill movie? would love to hear your ramble about it with a funny robot dog
Dino Klimis
2025-03-19 03:59:29 +0000 UTCthis vid was great truly, will forever be one of three people i give $10 a month to i think
Dino Klimis
2025-03-19 03:58:23 +0000 UTCI'm into whatever grim releases
Frogski
2025-03-12 23:53:27 +0000 UTCOk preem beard
Frogski
2025-03-12 23:52:54 +0000 UTCThis was perfect, thank you. The end bit with "Everyone have a great day" made me tear up, gonna go watch 2 years of weather updates again
Cherry Pez
2025-03-10 04:09:53 +0000 UTCI doubt your fans are only into video game essays! Your ghost hunting habit videos are genuinely some of my favorite.
Leo Torres
2025-03-09 12:19:50 +0000 UTCPlease inject Grimby long form content directly into my veins
Matt Crump
2025-03-09 09:27:19 +0000 UTCoh thank whatever! my brain is so rotted by current reality that i was afraid you were serious and that prospect was haunting me. kudos on yr excellent deadpan 🤘
Keph
2025-03-09 06:31:47 +0000 UTCI'm really excited to watch this one. It came out while I was far from home and I wanted to come back to my couch and my television to watch it properly. Every Lynch film I've ever heard of has interested me but I have never watched a single one - not even Twin Peaks, despite how many of my favorite things it has influenced. So I'm really eager to sit down tonight and finally learn about it from my favorite essayist.
KingyoNingyo
2025-03-09 00:17:35 +0000 UTCThank god at least someone (might have?) laughed at it
Landscaper of Eden
2025-03-08 07:31:02 +0000 UTCcannot stop thinking about this comment
Keph
2025-03-08 03:49:04 +0000 UTCReally loved this one, especially the section on Inland Empire. It was also cathartic to hear someone dunking on Ebert lol
John Sandfort
2025-03-04 02:41:18 +0000 UTCThis is a nice break from all the video game stuff you have been posting ,, not a huge fan of video games so this is a breathe of freshed air
Landscaper of Eden
2025-03-03 16:21:52 +0000 UTChow tf do you make such an intelligent heartfelt comprehensive tribute in just a month, what the hell man i second the creature who said you should unleash this on the youtube public (if you want to) it's too good, we're not worthy well maybe the other patrons are worthy, it's presumptuous of me to speak for anyone else, but i, specifically, am very not worthy of such delectable content ima watch it again anyway tho
Keph
2025-03-03 06:13:14 +0000 UTCGrim, this is an astounding and valuable video. It may sound trite, but there's no better description than to call it a tribute to someone whose works clearly means a lot to you (and to me, and to most of us, I'm confident). I cried a bit, but I finished the video feeling good and positive and full of wonder. It's a celebration of Lynch's work, and I think you should be very proud of it.
Jeremy Impson
2025-03-03 03:52:41 +0000 UTCI think few people “get” Lynch like you do Grim.
Joon Choi
2025-03-02 22:10:39 +0000 UTCAhh hell yeah
Arknark
2025-03-02 21:38:26 +0000 UTCYou have a command and respect of the work thank you I was brought to tears by the end
Me on TV
2025-03-02 16:45:59 +0000 UTCThank you TrimBeard!
prozax
2025-03-02 15:55:32 +0000 UTCGreat video, Grim. I had no idea that Strait Story was Lynch! I don't know if this is a popular opinion, but I'd be fine with you dropping this one on the YouTubes. Help people mourn.
Dirt Person
2025-03-02 12:43:29 +0000 UTCI'm only halfway through, but I can't believe that fucking Siskel and Ebert held America's attention with their milquetoast, egomaniacal gatekeeping for nearly 25 years. I hate people. Anyway...
Audrey's Last Dance
2025-03-02 08:55:34 +0000 UTCI watched and loved The Elephant Man before I learned about Lynch and became enamored with his vision and creativity through Twin Peaks and the rest of his oeuvre. Lost Highway was big for me and my friends and the movie soundtrack got a lot of playtime in our respective car stereos. I didn’t see The Straight Story until I was much older and I have to say it is one of my favorite movies, just absolutely beautiful cinema. Maybe it’s because I’m a sentimental midwesterner and it tugs on the right strings, but Richard Farnsworth’s performance is spectacular and so true to life. I’ve only felt legitimately saddened by two celebrity deaths: Norm Macdonald and David Lynch. RIP!
Ozzie
2025-03-02 04:11:22 +0000 UTCAmazing work! Thank you for an amazing tribute to the man who has meant so much to so many.
Richter.Strauss
2025-03-02 03:09:02 +0000 UTCJust finished watching it, and needed to say this a was beautiful tribute, and made me emotional in the best way. Time to go out and take some photos of rusty industrial ruins.
Eben Sullivan
2025-03-02 02:48:26 +0000 UTCLynch's loss was a blow in these trying times. It feels like a strange redux of leading Bowie in 2016 right before the world shifted for the worst and kept going. But, similarly most of the grief period has been more enlightening though. Sinking back into these places of pondering and positivity through th darkness corners of the woods, the suburbs and life. This update genuinely made my day.
Korie Conyers
2025-03-02 02:22:13 +0000 UTCI saw Eraserhead in the cinema - the UK's oldest cinema in fact (it was once a porn theatre. It's now been shut down because the world sucks). To say I saw it however would be a misnomer. It was my first and only time seeing it and I will never see it again because that one viewing was one of the most incredible, awe-inspiring and fucking transcendent moments I've ever had in my entire life. It's so hard to explain to someone who hasn't seen the movie in a cinema, that to see it any other way is a complete bastardization of Eraserhead. I've never once in my life experienced a movie where the sound literally never stops. The entire movie is like listening to an AC electrical hum through a subwoofer at 1000 db. It's like when you go see a band and between songs the amps are just left humming and all you can feel and hear is the heat of the room. You realize how you're all locked into that moment. You're like that physics example of chickens all jumping at the same time inside of a truck. For that moment, it's you and a bunch of strangers sweating and feeling a strange atmospheric pressure pushing against your head. To say I was captivated by Eraserhead would be difficult to even tangibly explain to someone. It was like nothing is ever felt. People say it's like being in a dream or a nightmare but it really isn't because I've had dreams and nightmares and they don't feel like this. Dreams are mostly images, barely any sound. Eraserhead is 99% sound and to experience that in an of cinema, on velvet red seats whilst the AC didn't work... Its a memory I don't want to record over by seeing it again. Ever. I never want to experience Eraserhead again because I experienced the perfect version of it for me. The Eraserhead documentary that came with the DVD (and is on YouTube) is one of the greatest behind the scenes I've ever seen of anything ever. Knowing David lived in those stables, inside of that set, hiding from the guards for 4 years... I can't imagine anyone else doing that. Not that it would be too scary for me to do it, I think it's the idea of the boredom. Be alone with my thoughts without any stimulation whatsoever. I think that's what made David so special. I think his thoughts were clean and precise. whenever I heard him talking about depression it was never for the usual things that many people get depressed about like love, or loneliness, a sense of impending doom. David's depression was always very pragmatic. It was due to tangible obstacles that stood in his way that he struggled with. A lack of budget, a lack of experience, a lack of paper for an idea. A lack of cake to eat. Also, i will disagree on one thing. I don't think David understood everything he did. I think genuinely some of his ideas were just like paintings, that he knew what they COULD mean to him, but he always felt they could mean something else. Throughout my life I've been obsessed with writing down things out of context that I like and recontextualising them. Something poetic a friend might accidentally say about a fast food meal. A line in a B movie that is deeper than the writers probably intended. I feel like David did that with his ideas. He had a vision and he knew what it meant to him but that's not what it meant. It means many things. Love you Grim.
Novel
2025-03-01 23:43:46 +0000 UTCHell yeah
Dongs.exe
2025-03-01 22:54:38 +0000 UTCI am beyond excited to watch this! Thanks, as always, for all these delicious creative juices 🤌
RaceYaToSpace
2025-03-01 21:51:00 +0000 UTCGlad to hear another Next Feat video is on the way. Love those
closed_tanyao
2025-03-01 21:04:39 +0000 UTCThere are certain films of Lynch's which I love (The Elephant Man, Fire Walk with Me) and others which I enjoy (Mulholland Drive) while the rest, I respect but don't necessarily actively like. His version of Dune is so unique, Denis Villeneuve's version doesn't have half as amazing an aesthetic.
gbrading
2025-03-01 20:36:43 +0000 UTCThanks GB. As someone who was perhaps irrationally but deeply affected by the passing of someone half a world away whom I never met but often thought about over the years, this is very comforting.
Marc Flackett
2025-03-01 20:34:18 +0000 UTCGodspeed gamer
That Iru guy Loves You
2025-03-01 19:42:03 +0000 UTClets goooo thank you sir
Cinebeast
2025-03-01 19:39:09 +0000 UTCThe man was a pioneer, and I can't wait to walk back through his work through your lens.
Sabwones
2025-03-01 19:34:26 +0000 UTCYes! And on my birthday!
Richard Inness
2025-03-01 19:33:44 +0000 UTCI've been feeling similarly, I think. Really thankful you made this!
Alex Prodanovic
2025-03-01 19:32:49 +0000 UTChell yeah brother
wes
2025-03-01 19:31:40 +0000 UTCLet’s freaking go. I’ve been eagerly anticipating this one.
TheHairiestHare
2025-03-01 19:31:24 +0000 UTCFuck yes. Thanks grimbo
dog vomit slime mold
2025-03-01 19:31:18 +0000 UTC
