Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a frogmoth, or whether I am now a frogmoth, dreaming I am a man
― The Marmadook (latebloomer), Sunday, 17 September 2017 18:33 (seven years ago) link
https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/twinpeaks/images/2/2c/Naido.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170814222034 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJ_gwdRWAAA3xC2.jpg
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Monday, 18 September 2017 12:16 (seven years ago) link
Kind of a cross between naido and https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFyGf6gVYAAPBQs.jpg
― streeps of range (wins), Monday, 18 September 2017 12:20 (seven years ago) link
hahhaaha I saw that spicer picture and had the exact same reaction but was too lazy to go find images for it....
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 September 2017 14:26 (seven years ago) link
Jesus
― flappy bird, Monday, 18 September 2017 16:36 (seven years ago) link
nice interview with Lynch up on p4k:
Why did Phillip Jeffries take the form of a tea kettle?I sculpted that part of the machine that has that tea kettle spout thing, but I wish I’d just made it straight, because everybody thinks it’s a tea kettle. It’s just a machine.
I sculpted that part of the machine that has that tea kettle spout thing, but I wish I’d just made it straight, because everybody thinks it’s a tea kettle. It’s just a machine.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, good interview. But after Lynch started talking about how awful it was to dial stuff in episode 8 back for television, I really wish they'd asked him if there were any plans to show it on the big screen.
― Position Position, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:32 (seven years ago) link
that would be sweet. Part 8 would work fine in isolation
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link
18 continuous hours only, no bathroom breaks allowed
― Moodles, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:44 (seven years ago) link
taking the sole credit for sound designer when you've got at least two other guys "working their butts off" making stuff for you is kinda shitty
― circa1916, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 18:12 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I don't know how it normally works but it seems like that should be a shared credit
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 18:14 (seven years ago) link
fyi anyone who misses the TPTR vibe would do well to check out LUCKY when it arrives in your town. really beautiful final role for harry dean stanton and lynch has a great part
― maura, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 18:26 (seven years ago) link
nice! the trailer looked great but i haven't heard from anyone who has actually seen it. can't wait.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 18:28 (seven years ago) link
things like sound design operate/are credited from the top down. I didn't read the interview and don't intend to. If you want to go further, assistants don't get credit in the art world (where DL lives most of his working life so...).
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 18:30 (seven years ago) link
also, he gave opening titles credit to Badalamenti for score, for a handful of cues across 18 hours - for the first four eps, I was astounded that the score credit wasn't for Lynch. In that light, giving himself primary sound design credit looks like gracious modesty, not hogging.
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 18:35 (seven years ago) link
They were credited with something like additional sound design, seems fine to me.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 18:46 (seven years ago) link
oh, i thought they were totally uncredited. nbd if that's the case.
xp did he actually compose the bulk of this music in this? i mean there's ambient sound and music that was chosen, but that's not composing.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 18:49 (seven years ago) link
He def composes parts of the ambient music/drones figured. If you know his album The Air Is On Fire, it's pretty obvious. He likes making dark industrial drones.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link
I didn't read the interview and don't intend to.
we gotta tough guy here
― Shart Dressed Man (kurt schwitterz), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 20:34 (seven years ago) link
That conga line musical queue is truly odd
― Moodles, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 01:05 (seven years ago) link
a popular analysis (even in this thread if I recall?) was Lynch was offering an elaborate comment on his own work and response to it. Which... is boring. Much more exciting to think any similarities were the result of him pouring so much of himself on screen there couldn't help but be overlap
I don't think it's overlap so much as evolution, the next step. It has a lot of recurrent images and ideas from his other work, because it's all David Lynch, but this one does things differently and has new ideas too. There's a lot of stuff in The Return that isn't like anything he's done before, because he's on the other side of Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire now and he knows how to do a lot more things than he knew when he originally did Twin Peaks. Some of it is pretty obvious commentary -- it's not like he hasn't thought about these things -- but a lot of it is just him exploring.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 02:50 (seven years ago) link
i would have preferred that jeffries was portrayed a bit conventionally - i dunno, an empty armchair with a blur or as a silhouetted outline of interference or something. I hate the tea kettle thing tbh, i think it's stupid even if it's not a tea kettle.
― Kat Slater Slag meme (jed_), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 03:02 (seven years ago) link
The kettle seems appropriate because those scenes are so Mad Hatter/Cheshire Cat.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 03:14 (seven years ago) link
it's eraserheady so i like it
― Shart Dressed Man (kurt schwitterz), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 03:20 (seven years ago) link
It’s a tin machine.
― Alba, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 05:37 (seven years ago) link
i made that joke upthread!
― Shart Dressed Man (kurt schwitterz), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 07:00 (seven years ago) link
Apologies
― Alba, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 07:46 (seven years ago) link
no need. great minds.
― Shart Dressed Man (kurt schwitterz), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 08:54 (seven years ago) link
I love that it's steam, the precursor to electricity.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 10:15 (seven years ago) link
why in the world would anyone hate the representation of Jeffries????
― akm, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 12:32 (seven years ago) link
I'm sad that, as per the Lynch Pitchfork interview, Bowie felt so ashamed of his Louisiana accent that it had to be revoiced.
― Alba, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 12:47 (seven years ago) link
yeah, having him be a weird steam machine holed up in a room is way more interesting (and classically Lynch) than a ghostly silhouette in a chair or w/ever.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 12:50 (seven years ago) link
imagine being mad about steam machine jeffries
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 14:18 (seven years ago) link
I wanted to punch that stupid thing right in the spout.
― Scott Staph (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 14:23 (seven years ago) link
Get a handle
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 14:55 (seven years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KOyXahwBUf0/UrtkLrEg28I/AAAAAAAAFyU/Em4uL4oqfMc/s1600/22+page+20.jpg
― 🔱 Holger Jowday ^🌑^ (Dancing on the Pylons), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 15:27 (seven years ago) link
Oops, posted enthusiastically before fully reading those panels: offensive choice of words there from our man Carl Barks, another reason to prefer Erika Fuchs's brilliant German translations
― 🔱 Holger Jowday ^🌑^ (Dancing on the Pylons), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 15:32 (seven years ago) link
Dennis Lim is on the latest Film Comment podcast talking about twin peaks, haven't listened yet
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
I thought this conversation between Liz Ryerson and Joel Bocki was a really nuanced and wide-ranging early response to The Return as a whole, especially around issues of gender and trauma. The first hour focuses on Twin Peaks and Lynch's work in general, the second focuses on The Return:
https://archive.org/details/beyondthefilter18theworldoftwinpeaks_joelbocko
― one way street, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 18:04 (seven years ago) link
*Joel Bocko, that is
― one way street, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link
fuuuck I really should have thought of the editing gag they did on the discourse collective episode
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 18:20 (seven years ago) link
have a lot of trouble listening to podcasts that are just two men expressing themselves poorly
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 19:49 (seven years ago) link
or even three men
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 19:52 (seven years ago) link
I still don't know what you're talking about
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 19:53 (seven years ago) link
lol sorry neither do i, was talking about the discourse collective thing
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 19:55 (seven years ago) link
Ah got it, haven't heard that one yet - Bocko (one of the four) is usually p eloquent
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 19:57 (seven years ago) link
i should admit that i generally have a terrible time listening to podcasts bc i unconsciously zero in on speech patterns and get frustrated when people are struggling to complete their thoughts and i'm like "the word you're looking for is (x)." bocko's great in video essay format, i have a tough time with him on podcasts (probably, again, my problem)
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 20:01 (seven years ago) link
'Dougie & Me' on CBS w/ @Kyle_MacLachlan & @joshfadem pic.twitter.com/WExO9wC4VA— Skeleton Realm (@SkeletonRealm) September 21, 2017
― na (NA), Thursday, 21 September 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
I don't remember seeing this pop up here:
https://i1.wp.com/68.media.tumblr.com/ca95b5cef0664b283dc14405135703a2/tumblr_ovk1xggTW11qaraieo1_1280.jpg
― Scott Staph (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 September 2017 14:42 (six years ago) link
i should admit that i generally have a terrible time listening to podcasts bc i unconsciously zero in on speech patterns and get frustrated when people are struggling to complete their thoughts
this is at least in part a byproduct of the fact that most people don't properly edit their podcasts and IT DRIVES ME INSANE (not that I am meticulous with every episode lol)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 21 September 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link