David Lynch surprise dropped the enigmatic 17-minute film ‘What did Jack Do?’ this week on Netflix, and the grainy police procedural included Jack Cruz‘s haunting rendition of the Lynch/Dean Hurley penned song “The Flame of Love.” Staring Lynch as a police detective opposite the monkey crooner Jack Cruz, the film’s cop vs. crook dialogue turns around the supposed murder of Cruz’s chicken lover Toototabon.
Lynch’s ability to haunt the imagination using the most absurd of circumstances is often augmented by his sound and music choices, and ‘What did Jack Do?’ is no exception. With the film’s dialogue growing increasingly disorienting, and the emotional impact more and more inscrutable, the suited primate breaks into a quavering song of unrequited love. And with that, the film’s strange circumstances are not so much solved or resolved, but given an emotional bridge by which the viewer can approach this bizarre riddle.
Luckily for us, Sacred Bones reports that not only did Jack Cruz leave us with “The Flame of Love,” but also a track entitled “Dancin’ in the World of Love.” The label will release the two cuts as a 7″ on both black and clear vinyl this coming Spring, and it is currently available as a digital download.
