what's in the bucket, david?

david lynch does a daily weather report from his website. he sits at a table with his morning coffee and proclaims in a monotone voice what the weather is like outside his window. the window is never pictured. i was taken with this concept from the very start, and, if i had a camera, i would probably perform traffic reports for the nearest suburban intersection as a sort of homage.

david states the date, the approximate temperature outside, and whether or not there are clouds in the sky. i've been tuning in for about a month now with no expectations but to hear if the clouds in l.a. are "wispy" or not. but this past week, things started to get interesting. first some crumbs appeared on his table next to the coffee. "probably from his morning muffin," i figured. then, an upside down bucket with a question mark on it appeared to the left of the crumbs. i was completely intrigued. what was under the bucket? the muffin? another cup of coffee? a live animal? a dead animal?

i logged on today, and the bucket with the question mark... has been replaced by a bigger bucket with an even bigger question mark. and i can't stop thinking about it.

only david lynch could take a simple weather report- compiled without any scientific data or charts or even a thermometer or window- and turn it into the mystery of the year.