''For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee - with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's.''-- David Lynch (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks)
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Great stuff from a filmmaker near and dear to me.
My wife, for a short time, managed a Starbucks (that's right, I married my pusher). Anyway, she'd bring home all the overstock bakery because she was instructed to send it all straight to the dumpster by day's end.
At least two scripts that I know of were fueled by a massive intake of doughnuts, scones, and muffins, all washed down with Starbucks most powerful coffee blend, the venerable Komodo Dragon.
Probably shaved five years off my life but at least the projects got done.
Lynch's anecdote, of course, brings a tear to my eye... I haven't seen a BIG BOY restaurant 'round these parts for at least 10 years... their cheeseburgers alone were a holy dining experience.
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