would never think to describe anything that occurs in episode 8 as “overblown fantasy”
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 10 December 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
or as “tv”
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 10 December 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
/ excruciating eighth episode /instant opinion DQ
― circa1916, Sunday, 10 December 2017 22:03 (six years ago) link
If you can't accept that TV is just rife with abstract studies of the irruption of evil into the world via the black magick of nuclear technology over the accompaniment of Penderecki and the Platters, I don't know what to tell you. Let the genius of Gentlemen Broncos (2009) into your heart and sin no more
― one way street, Sunday, 10 December 2017 22:18 (six years ago) link
this does little to budge my years-long conception of brody as a good stylist but a bad thinker
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 10 December 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
reviews from the alternate world where stan brakhage had a tv series
― mh, Sunday, 10 December 2017 22:44 (six years ago) link
"Welcome to the Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes! I'm Bob Ross, and today we're going to explore the unthought horror of our own bodies considered as matter and as form."
― one way street, Sunday, 10 December 2017 22:50 (six years ago) link
Guy's too into only having challops or camp for something like ep 8. I mean, his favourite Star Wars is Revenge of the Sith, iirc
― albvivertine, Sunday, 10 December 2017 23:39 (six years ago) link
come on, brody’s taste is too reckless and arbitrary to be directed by contrarianism (n.b. that’s also my favorite star wars movie)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 11 December 2017 01:42 (six years ago) link
he wrote a really good piece on the return a few months ago that also had a few totally bullshit sentences in it
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 11 December 2017 01:45 (six years ago) link
wow that is really disappointing from Brody, I like him. he's definitely not an Armond White contrarian (tho I love Armond)
― flappy bird, Monday, 11 December 2017 01:57 (six years ago) link
Great essay by Sara Swain
http://offscreen.com/view/circling-the-void-twin-peaks-return
― Moodles, Monday, 11 December 2017 03:30 (six years ago) link
yesssss
― Simon H., Monday, 11 December 2017 04:16 (six years ago) link
agreed, that was an excellent writeup
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 11 December 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
Great
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, 11 December 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
best thing I've read about the show. Also the most satisfying take on the Audrey storyline, too
― Evan R, Monday, 11 December 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
any feedback on the extras yet? I ordered the DVD since I don't have a Blu player so I'm quite annoyed that I don't have access to those blu-exclusive extras. I dare say they will become *available* at some point though...
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Friday, 15 December 2017 00:37 (six years ago) link
DVD arrived today btw. a kind of complicated many-folding soft-jewel case which I've never seen but there is Zero info on the box. No inserts let alone postcards or anything else. It's cool because it works out at around £2 per disc/ £1 per episode and I'm certainly not complaining at that price (£20 inc. delivery!)
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Friday, 15 December 2017 00:44 (six years ago) link
rewatching this for what is essentially the third time has been a real blast
my flashlight’s broke
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 16 December 2017 16:43 (six years ago) link
all of the minor characters are so well realized
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 16 December 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
Who 😤Gives 😤A fucking SHIT😤How long a scene is😤
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
Is there a site that TL;DR's Frost's books? I gave up on the first book after a few starts and the second one has zero appeal.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Monday, December 18, 2017 10:34 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
david lynch otm
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link
https://78.media.tumblr.com/680b7d5464f02656649c746a27b91431/tumblr_oqdz53hfA91rd80hmo1_400.gif
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
Omg u guys what did wins mean by that blank post I think it represented judy
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
Well nowI'm not gonna talk about that
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
ZOMgggh
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, 18 December 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
that scene where gordon and albert visit the prison and first see mr. c is so heartbreaking. i also love how kyle maclachlan speaks every word of his monologue as if it were summoned from the bottom of the blackest ocean
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 05:29 (six years ago) link
on the new episode of the lodgers, they were talking about a dream feature that would allow you to shuffle the scenes of the whole series at random and now i can't stop thinking about it as something that should exist
― na (NA), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 20:28 (six years ago) link
someday...
― Simon H., Tuesday, 19 December 2017 20:30 (six years ago) link
I too would like randomised ambient twin peaks the return, possibly taking up an entire wall of my space age bachelor pad
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
I wrote a whole piece about the Gordon/Cooper prison scene. My favorite of the series... David Lynch acts his off on that. The disappointment of not being given the reunion you were promised, the betrayal Cole seems to feel when he has to play along and flash a thumbs up at the end of their conversation. “Yes, Coop. I too have missed our good times together.”
― Evan R, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link
Is that available to read somewhere?
― Simon H., Tuesday, 19 December 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
yeah, It's a little rushed and scrambled in its attempts to process the show's finale, but it was nice to spend some time with that scene (and the idea of Cole as an audience surrogate)
https://www.sportsalcohol.com/end-twin-peaks-denied-us-good-times-together/
― Evan R, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
Nice one
― Moodles, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
The entirety of THE RETURN is screening at MoMA for free in January, for you lucky New Yorkers
― Simon H., Tuesday, 19 December 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
i'll be there if possible
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
lol i'm already rewatching the whole thing and i can't wait to do it again in a theater with people :\
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
I'm in New York in January! ...a week after this finishes. This is an outrage
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
Finished my rewatch, which was great. I notice that 17/18 aren't considered a unit on the DVDs. I'm mostly just thinking about the structure - what things are artistic decisions and what are artifacts of the medium. In what ways are (1+2) and (3+4) discrete in a way that (17+18) aren't? Not important, of course.
Also watched the extras that aren't on the extra disc (on the DVDs); would like to get drunk and talk folk music with David Patrick Kelly.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
the docs on the last disc are SO good. I still haven't watched the panel yet but I would kill to get Lindelof on the 'cast.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 20 December 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
I powered through all the non-extras disc stuff because I promised I would lend the set to my neighbour before xmas. I can take longer on the final disc.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
Lindelof was a frequent guest on the entertainment weekly podcast. My main takeaway was that he's one of those dorks who think that Cooper is inhabiting the body of Dougie Jones lolNot that he didn't have interesting things to say, it just left an impression that an acclaimed tv writer would consistently fail to grasp something so simple
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
bought the final dossier, put it for sale without reading it cuz i'm broke af - take it from this thread that i'm not missing much?
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
I liked it. But then, when I was young, I liked the book of the film of Ghostbusters 2, so ymmv.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
Haha I wish I'd done that (cuz also broke)
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
i think it's worth a quick run through, you can probably read it in half a day
― akm, Thursday, 21 December 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
^ yeah probably do that before I sell it tbh
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Thursday, 21 December 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
as a guy who enjoyed the Gremlins 2 novelization as a kid, I endorse dowd’s comment
― mh, Thursday, 21 December 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link