Happy Almost-Friday and happy National Popcorn Day! Birthdays: Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cézanne, Patricia Highsmith, Julian Barnes, Janis Joplin, Edwidge Danticat, Dolly Parton. What fragrance are you wearing?
For the 2001 film Mulholland Drive, which I have seen twice (but not recently), I am wearing Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds (vintage, and showing its age, which works even better for the community project).
Reminder: 1/20 is David Lynch’s birthday. Pick a favorite Lynch work or character and wear a scent to match, or pick a theme (split roles? doppelgangers? surrealism?) and work with that for your fragrance choice. If you don’t know (or care about) his work, you could just wear something a little weird or off-kilter.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2023, where I’ll try (but obviously sometimes fail) to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive. Bonus reading: Why Mulholland Drive is the greatest film since 2000 at BBC; Mulholland Drive at 20: David Lynch’s audacious puzzle remains a mystery at The Guardian, Is ‘Mulholland Drive’ Really The Greatest Film Of The 21st Century? (Or How I Learned To Love David Lynch) at Slash Film.
