Oh, sad!
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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-t - Jan 16, 2025 2:26:41 pm PST #3457 of 3461
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
-t - Jan 16, 2025 4:55:52 pm PST #3458 of 3461
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My fondness for Lynch is maybe more theoretical than actual practice of seeing his stuff. I always enjoyed hearing about what he was doing but have sampled his movies more than chased them all down. But, boy, Twin Peaks got into my psyche. From the premier, watching this strange new show with a few of the people that stayed in the one dorm room that had a TV after the Simpsons crowd cleared, listening to the soundtrack constantly, pouring over Laura Palmer's Diary and discussing it with coworkers at the movie theater. I still remember some article somewhere with an interview where he talked about how delighted he was to play with the concepts of ad time and maybe movie theaters should interrupt screenings to sell doughnuts. What a wonderful weirdo.
I'll always remember when DH and I would yell Pabst Blue Ribbon at each other at, like, hipster burrito places that served it as an homage to Blue Velvet and our friends had no idea what we were on about, they were drinking the PBR because it was $1 a can.
Steph L. - Jan 16, 2025 6:54:58 pm PST #3459 of 3461
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I'll always remember when DH and I would yell Pabst Blue Ribbon at each other
Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!
-t - Jan 16, 2025 7:10:37 pm PST #3460 of 3461
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
You get it
DavidS - Jan 16, 2025 8:35:34 pm PST #3461 of 3461
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Like Ple, I saw the writing on the wall with Lynch's post last year about his emphysema. Having watched it with my FiL I knew his path.
I'm enough of a Lynch fan that I still regret not getting the TV Pilot version of Mulholland Drive at Kim's Video when it was originally conceived as the beginning of a series like Twin Peaks.
I saw Eraserhead on film (the only option then) at a theater. I saw Blue Velvet in its first scandalous release. Saw The Elephant Man and Dune in their theatrical releases. Wild at Heart.
Watched Twin Peaks from its first episode to its last as it aired.
I have an anthology of stories written in the Lynchian universes and style.
Own and have read Lynch's memoir (which is fantastic) and seen his documentary (The Art Life).
Saw a show at Sketchfest last year with the Red Room Orchestra play the music of Twin Peaks with Kyle McLachan and Carl Struycken (the Giant on Twin Peaks) performing.
Yet I would not consider myself a Lynch super fan.
He has, though, completely shaped my visual sense, my cinematic aesthetic, just so much of my cultural intake.