like that piece upthread that dan selzer posted is fantastic, really sharp, made me see various things in a different way, etc. Love it.
At the same time, I found myself thinking "wait, if the original series season's are all Cooper's guilt-induced fever dream, why is there all that crap that has absolutely zero to do with Cooper or dead-girl-guilt like the whole Ben Horne/Ghostwood/the Packard Mill storyline?" Lynch's work always has things like this, little forking paths or tangents that suggest an alternate reading to whatever one you're currently enamored of.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 January 2020 17:12 (four years ago) link
the Winkies/dumpster monster in Mulholland Drive is another one that doesn't seem to have anything to do with the most commonly accepted interpretation of the film. And that's one of the film's best moments!
― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 January 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
My one real lingering curiosity about Lost Highway (which I will steadfastly insist is his weakest film) is Lynch explicitly stating that it's set in the same 'universe' as Twin Peaks. Like what do we even make of that when the 'universe' of Twin Peaks seems so multivalent and malleable.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link
nah Wild at Heart is his worst
― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 January 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
I dunno about 'universe' but there's some obvious thematic linkages between Twin Peaks and Lost Highway and then on through everything he's done since - dreamworld doppelgangers adrift in sex and violence etc
― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 January 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
WaH has some amazing sequences but I find it kind of hard to watch
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
xxpost Tied for last, at the very least. Fuckin' Gifford. The Eugene Landy of Lynchdom.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
hahaha
― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 January 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
i rewatched lost highway a few weeks ago. it's definitely not his weakest, and it's absolutely his scariest
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
there's a saxophone quotient that should be taken into account when rating his work
― babu frik fan account (mh), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
Scariest LH scene imo
https://media.giphy.com/media/3oEhmKIPQeB2YUH9C0/giphy.gif
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
the OG twin peaks series really seems like an extended dream
before you came here, twin peak was a simple place. my brothers sell drugs to the teenagers and truck drivers. one-eyed jack's is open to the businessman and tourist. quiet people living quiet lives. then, a pretty girl die. and you arrive. and everything change. my brother bernard is shot and left to die in the woods. a grieving father smothers my surviving brother with a pillow. arson. kidnapping. death. destruction. suddenly, the quiet people here, they are quiet no longer. and the simple dream? it become a nightmare. maybe, i kill you, you will be the last to die. maybe, you brought the nightmare with you. maybe, when you die, the nightmare end.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 24 January 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
the whole Ben Horne/Ghostwood/the Packard Mill storyline
I CAN'T TAKE ANY MORE OF THIS!!! BOXES WITHIN BOXES!!!
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 24 January 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
Is difficult listening hour part of the Twin Peaks universe?
― Alba, Friday, 24 January 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/TC7jhTH.jpg
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 24 January 2020 17:37 (four years ago) link
Is this real, Ben, or some strange and twisted dream?
― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
all i did was come for a funeral!
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 24 January 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
laurie anderson is definitely park of the twin peaks extended universe
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
xpost love that bowie pic
Incidentally my from z to a box arrived this week, on lynch’s birthday no less. #21,350/25,000 (the nerd in me wishes they had produced just one more set)Haven’t had any time to watch at all but I’m playing the complete roadhouse performances while tidying my flat. “Ladies and gentlemen, the roadhouse is proud to welcome... Hudson Mohawke”
― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Friday, 24 January 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
circa the mid 00s i watched a performance of hudson mohawks's bad hip hop duo, who were supporting caribou, and i was like 'ha, this is bad', feeling all superior. fast forward a decade and a half and he has production credits on a kanye west album and appears on an episode of twin peaks. karma got me
― bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 24 January 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
I expect many ppl experienced this karmic whiplash at the Michael Cera appearance as well (not I, whomst has always had love and respect for Mr. Cera)
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 24 January 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link
"juicebox"?https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fakns-images.eonline.com%2Feol_images%2FEntire_Site%2F2013516%2Frs_560x415-130616131836-560.cera..cm.61613.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 January 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link
xpost Nah, I expected and got great results from Cera, as always.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Friday, 24 January 2020 20:39 (four years ago) link
lol jimtbf he’s only in it for like 45 seconds as the kind of thing that plays when you’re on bad drugs and have a nasty armpit rash but... I’d take it
― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Friday, 24 January 2020 20:40 (four years ago) link
my z to a CERTIFICATE OF YTICITNEHTUA's #14,701. was two eps away from the end of a rewatch of the return when it arrived; immediately stopped and restarted at the original pilot lol. basically, the luminosity of the moment before death shone, but i did not recognize it, and so, i have to wander here
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 24 January 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
https://happymag.tv/david-lynch-releases-two-singles-with-same-monkey-from-his-short-film/
btw, i thought that short was actually pretty good and funny! i was surprised because while a vein of lynch's sense of humor runs through all his work, i usually haven't enjoyed the things that place it at the forefront - on the air, the cowboy and the frenchmen.
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 25 January 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
my GOD, Audrey's reintroduction scene was as bad as I'd heard.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 March 2020 01:24 (four years ago) link
Any theories on what's happening there?
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Friday, 27 March 2020 01:26 (four years ago) link
Lots
― Οὖτις, Friday, 27 March 2020 01:33 (four years ago) link
should I watch this for a third time? I should
― k3vin k., Friday, 27 March 2020 01:36 (four years ago) link
I see on Wikipedia that Chrysta Bell's voice and musical style are described as “ethereal” and “sensual”.
From my observation, her acting style is "nonexistent".
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 March 2020 01:43 (four years ago) link
audrey's stuff pays off miraculously but i def was like "wtf is this shit" on contact
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 27 March 2020 01:47 (four years ago) link
bell's total lack of affect grew on me over time, it's bizarre
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 27 March 2020 01:48 (four years ago) link
Miguel Ferrer's stony reaction shots while the French gamine took 2 minutes to leave Cole's room were textbook deadpan.
But ep 12 highlight was Dougie's game of catch with Sunny Jim.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 March 2020 01:50 (four years ago) link
arf
(do I remember that Morbs rewatched the old series before he started S3?)
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Friday, 27 March 2020 01:57 (four years ago) link
Part 12 is the one that most tested my patience.
― Chris L, Friday, 27 March 2020 02:39 (four years ago) link
I did, sic, as I hadn't seen it in 25 years
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 March 2020 11:16 (four years ago) link
Weird of Lynch to cast a musician with a flat affect whose acting style mainly involves moving their head around a lot https://66-media-tumblr-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/66.media.tumblr.com/b4470245661935847d7b3203c33c8130/tumblr_ne6f5644Mz1rpotpgo3_r1_250.gif
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Friday, 27 March 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, March 26, 2020 8:43 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
There is a fairly wide gulf between her singing and her acting, it's true.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Friday, 27 March 2020 12:09 (four years ago) link
I guess it was around the time of Twin Peaks where Lynch really started throwing together excellent actors with total non-actors. It may have happened earlier, but Leo Johnson is the first instance of this that really sticks out in my mind. Sometimes it works better than others but it's definitely a Lynch hallmark and often creates an interesting vibe. Could also have something to do with him never having actors read for parts.
The non-actor that played the Cowboy character in Mullholland Drive had to have his lines pinned to his acting partner's chest so he could read them like a cue card.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 27 March 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link
The irony is that "total non-actor" actually gained fame in Hollywood by casting total non-actors in mostly lead roles (eg, Mick Jagger in Wings of Ash, Debbie Harry in Union City, Robert Gordon in The Loveless).
but Leo Johnson is the first instance of this that really sticks out
Always helps when your mom is David Lynch's regular casting director.
...but you missed the very biggest non-actor elephant in the room, Lynch himself!
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 27 March 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
i don't know if andy was a working actor or not but lynch found him working as a driver
― na (NA), Friday, 27 March 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
The non-actor that played the Cowboy character in Mullholland Drive had to have his lines pinned to his acting partner's chest
same as Brando from Godfather on
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 March 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
The cowboy (Monty Montgomery) co-directed Katherine Bigelow’s first film!
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Friday, 27 March 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
C Bell's screen time in this series is several multiples of Isaak's in FWWM
also I don't remember him being this inept
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 March 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
btw doc you have heard at least one chrysta bell song, the very beautiful “polish song” from inland empire. Not hugely into her music otherwise tho I like it fine - acting-wise, as I say Tammy Preston = Chester Desmond
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Friday, 27 March 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
Oh xp I don’t find either inept as such, I think they do as required
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Friday, 27 March 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
Chris Isaak did a far better job
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 27 March 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link
isaak was in married to the mob before FWWM. it's not a part that requires much heavy-duty acting but he had some experience at least.
― na (NA), Friday, 27 March 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link