David Lynch / a really cool guy

Svetlovska

Maybe it was this:

Maybe Christopher Lee in drag blew too many minds

(Gotta love a man who loves his work, btw.)

Sadly no, no idea re streaming. I’m old school, bought the extended cut on disc in a super expensive collectors boxed set with a cd of all the songs years ago. I like to hold all my precious things.

HotStrange

@Gavinski said:

@HotStrange said:

@Gavinski said:
Thanks, might have to give it another go. I rewatched the Wicker Man last night (original version of course, not the god awful Nic Cage remake, though that one is kind of amusing in its own way I guess). Original Wicker Man is weird in all the right ways, was great to revisit it!

@HotStrange said:

@Gavinski said:
I watched the first 2 episodes of the new series and absolutely hated it haha. Just a surreal mess imo, like Lynch was doing a parody of himself. Maybe it got better 🤷‍♂️

As a HUGE fan of seasons 1-2, season 3 is my personal favorite of the bunch. I loved it from the get go but it all starts to “make sense” the more you watch it once all the new things start coming together. Season 3 is supposed to be one long movie so it has an arc much like a movie where it peaks in the later middle of the season and then concludes.

Please lemme know what you think! I’m sure everyone around me gets tired of me talking endlessly about Twin Peaks/Lynch but what can I say I love the guy.

I’m also a big Nic Cage fan so I love the “NOT THE BEES” version with his insane screaming lol. His more recent work with Mandy, Color out of Space, and Pig is fantastic. Back to classic 90s Cage.

Speaking of both of these people have you seen Wild At Heart? One of my favorite Lynch movies and Cage performances. Has a great villain from Willem Dafoe, too!

Wild at Heart is BRILLIANT. Mandy is one of the best horrors ever, one of the most visceral and trippy movies ever, destined for cult status. Color Out if Space was fun but can’t compete with Mandy, and yes, the Cage Wicker Man remake is good, but only in the ‘so bad it’s good’ sense lol. Pig I haven’t seen, will check it out!

Yes! I love “so bad it’s good” movies so maybe that’s why I have a soft spot for it. Definitely check our Pig. It’s perfectly weird and niche lol

Svetlovska

@DavidEnglish said:
David Lynch Theater Presents

I Have a Radio

That is… wonderfully disturbing

HotStrange

@Svetlovska said:
@Gavinski : With you on The Wicker Man. If Lynch taught me arthouse, that movie taught me Folk Horror, my second favourite thing in all of Culture. The extended cut, which puts back more of the brilliant faux pagan folk songs by Paul Giovanni, supports my contention that the movie is basically a musical!

And a big thumbs up for Cage’s Colour Out Of Space, because 1) Lovecraft, obvs, 2) Nicholas Cage, obvs. (Have you seen Renfield? Prime Crazy Nic ) and 3) because it is that very rare thing, a Lovecraft themed movie which is actually good. Played completely straight with the high seriousness proper Lovecraft demands, it really does a decent job of capturing the weirdness of the original story. I also like the absolutely necessary pitilessness of it, (probably why it didn’t win much of an audience on release - not feel good enough!). It reminds me of another rare good Lovecraftian influenced thing, The Mist, Frank Darabont’s movie of Stephen King’s very Lovecraft influenced story.

Couldn’t agree more! I’ve been wanting to see Renfield but I missed the theatric run. Hopefully it’ll come to streaming soon.

There’s an earlier version of Color Out of Space from a few years before that’s not quite as good but still decent! No where close to the Cage version though.

Gavinski

Ah yeah, Renfield, totally forgot about that! Should be good! Have any of you seen Lars Von Trier’s The House That Jack Built, by the way? Not up there with his best stuff, perhaps, but pretty damn intense - the violence is really gratuitous but I guess there are arguments to be made that it had to be that way - and it is kind of fun to watch Matt Dillon play a psychopath.

HotStrange

@Gavinski said:
Ah yeah, Renfield, totally forgot about that! Should be good! Have any of you seen Lars Von Trier’s The House That Jack Built, by the way? Not up there with his best stuff, perhaps, but pretty damn intense - the violence is really gratuitous but I guess there are arguments to be made that it had to be that way - and it is kind of fun to watch Matt Dillon play a psychopath.

It’s on my watchlist! Haven’t seen it yet but I’m a fan of Von Triers work.

Svetlovska

On my (literal) watchlist too. I gave up all my streaming subs and went old school in a Lovefilm style, with Cinema Paradiso:

https://www.cinemaparadiso.co.uk/

For £9.99 a month they send you actual discs, one disc, DVD or BluRay, at a time, in the post. If you are efficient with your viewing and turnaround that is at least one a week, maybe more. So I get a massively expanded list, all art house, current releases, classics, tv series drawn from across all the streaming platforms, the works; and the discs come with all the extras, documentaries, commentaries etc you don’t get with a streaming platform. So: cut my subs costs, expanded my choice - win/win!

Just finally caught up with American Psycho via this: loved the original book, and what an excellent, dark, funny movie!

Gavinski

@Svetlovska said:
On my (literal) watchlist too. I gave up all my streaming subs and went old school in a Lovefilm style, with Cinema Paradiso:

https://www.cinemaparadiso.co.uk/

For £9.99 a month they send you actual discs, one disc, DVD or BluRay, at a time, in the post. If you are efficient with your viewing and turnaround that is at least one a week, maybe more. So I get a massively expanded list, all art house, current releases, classics, tv series drawn from across all the streaming platforms, the works; and the discs come with all the extras, documentaries, commentaries etc you don’t get with a streaming platform. So: cut my subs costs, expanded my choice - win/win!

Just finally caught up with American Psycho via this: loved the original book, and what an excellent, dark, funny movie!

Ha, I remember Cinema Paradiso, used to use that back in the day. American Psycho the book…masterpiece, albeit an extremely disturbing one. Great movie too, Christian Bale played it so perfectly. Pretty sure he would never have been cast in Batman if he hadn’t been cast in American Psycho.

tyslothrop1

@echoopera said:
Anyone remember “On The Air” by Lynch and Frost after Twin Peaks?

It was short lived but boy was it comedy to make R.A.W. proud.

Are you talking about Robert Anton Wilson? I watched On the air a couple of years before reading RAW and liked it a lot. Maybe I should try to find it somewhere and watch again. What about it reminds you of RAW?

HotStrange

@Svetlovska said:
On my (literal) watchlist too. I gave up all my streaming subs and went old school in a Lovefilm style, with Cinema Paradiso:

https://www.cinemaparadiso.co.uk/

For £9.99 a month they send you actual discs, one disc, DVD or BluRay, at a time, in the post. If you are efficient with your viewing and turnaround that is at least one a week, maybe more. So I get a massively expanded list, all art house, current releases, classics, tv series drawn from across all the streaming platforms, the works; and the discs come with all the extras, documentaries, commentaries etc you don’t get with a streaming platform. So: cut my subs costs, expanded my choice - win/win!

Just finally caught up with American Psycho via this: loved the original book, and what an excellent, dark, funny movie!

American Psycho is great! Been a favorite for a while. That’s a pretty cool idea. May have to look into something like that. Thanks for the tip! Do they do anything stateside?

cramdog

The impressions of David Lynch described by those who have seen episode 8 of Twin Peaks Season 3 (2017) and those who have not seen it are probably slightly different. In other words, those who have watched episode 8 might watch all the rest of episodes in one sitting. After that, they might seek out commentary/spoiler/wiki sites and might want to share their excitement with someone else.
(But I have no intention of recommending Season 3 to anyone who has not watched Twin Peaks before.)

HotStrange

@cramdog said:
The impressions of David Lynch described by those who have seen episode 8 of Twin Peaks Season 3 (2017) and those who have not seen it are probably slightly different. In other words, those who have watched episode 8 might watch all the rest of episodes in one sitting. After that, they might seek out commentary/spoiler/wiki sites and might want to share their excitement with someone else.
(But I have no intention of recommending Season 3 to anyone who has not watched Twin Peaks before.)

When I finished with season 3 I basically lived on the Twin Peaks subreddit for….a long time. Even watched the whole 4+ hour Twin Perfect video on it, which is great! I don’t agree with everything in it but the super in depth analysis is really impressive.

And yeah Episode 8 is something else. Crazy that something that ‘out there’ was on a huge cable TV channel. I hope we get one more thing from Lynch before the inevitable happens. I know he has some kind of workings going on with Netflix. Or he did at some point.

LinearLineman

Lol, no one mentions TM which was the whole thrust of his tour. So here’s another shot at it with Seinfeld

Gavinski

@HotStrange said:

@cramdog said:
The impressions of David Lynch described by those who have seen episode 8 of Twin Peaks Season 3 (2017) and those who have not seen it are probably slightly different. In other words, those who have watched episode 8 might watch all the rest of episodes in one sitting. After that, they might seek out commentary/spoiler/wiki sites and might want to share their excitement with someone else.
(But I have no intention of recommending Season 3 to anyone who has not watched Twin Peaks before.)

When I finished with season 3 I basically lived on the Twin Peaks subreddit for….a long time. Even watched the whole 4+ hour Twin Perfect video on it, which is great! I don’t agree with everything in it but the super in depth analysis is really impressive.

And yeah Episode 8 is something else. Crazy that something that ‘out there’ was on a huge cable TV channel. I hope we get one more thing from Lynch before the inevitable happens. I know he has some kind of workings going on with Netflix. Or he did at some point.

The 90s was a paradise time for indie cinema, definitely not so much for TV. Broey Deschanel has an interesting YouTube video related to that. But yeah, today we live in a relative paradise when it comes to TV shows, but the mainstream movie landscape is really really low level compared to 20 years ago.

I'm really glad I was around to enjoy those pre-millenium and pre-mobile days.

echoopera

@tyslothrop1 said:

@echoopera said:
Anyone remember “On The Air” by Lynch and Frost after Twin Peaks?

It was short lived but boy was it comedy to make R.A.W. proud.

Are you talking about Robert Anton Wilson? I watched On the air a couple of years before reading RAW and liked it a lot. Maybe I should try to find it somewhere and watch again. What about it reminds you of RAW?

Yep. Just his love of the absurdity of the Marx Brothers. On The Air was an homage to the great comedians of the 30-40s in my foggy recollection. RAW loved surreal and absurd humor and it took me this long in my life to make these kind of connections 😉

Plus anytime i can remind a kindred soul to reread RAW is a good thing for my soul. 👊🏼™️

tyslothrop1

@echoopera said:

@tyslothrop1 said:

@echoopera said:
Anyone remember “On The Air” by Lynch and Frost after Twin Peaks?

It was short lived but boy was it comedy to make R.A.W. proud.

Are you talking about Robert Anton Wilson? I watched On the air a couple of years before reading RAW and liked it a lot. Maybe I should try to find it somewhere and watch again. What about it reminds you of RAW?

Yep. Just his love of the absurdity of the Marx Brothers. On The Air was an homage to the great comedians of the 30-40s in my foggy recollection. RAW loved surreal and absurd humor and it took me this long in my life to make these kind of connections 😉

Plus anytime i can remind a kindred soul to reread RAW is a good thing for my soul. 👊🏼™️

Makes sense, ideally good for all the souls involved and it keeps the lasagna flying, too.

echoopera

@tyslothrop1 said:

@echoopera said:

@tyslothrop1 said:

@echoopera said:
Anyone remember “On The Air” by Lynch and Frost after Twin Peaks?

It was short lived but boy was it comedy to make R.A.W. proud.

Are you talking about Robert Anton Wilson? I watched On the air a couple of years before reading RAW and liked it a lot. Maybe I should try to find it somewhere and watch again. What about it reminds you of RAW?

Yep. Just his love of the absurdity of the Marx Brothers. On The Air was an homage to the great comedians of the 30-40s in my foggy recollection. RAW loved surreal and absurd humor and it took me this long in my life to make these kind of connections 😉

Plus anytime i can remind a kindred soul to reread RAW is a good thing for my soul. 👊🏼™️

Makes sense, ideally good for all the souls involved and it keeps the lasagna flying, too.

Prometheus Rising is such a great book.

Paulieworld

In heaven.
Everything is fine.
You got your good thing...
And I got mine.

I did a version of that about 20 years ago.
It's now on my to-do list.
Thanks for reminding me.

tyslothrop1

@echoopera said:

@tyslothrop1 said:

@echoopera said:

@tyslothrop1 said:

@echoopera said:
Anyone remember “On The Air” by Lynch and Frost after Twin Peaks?

It was short lived but boy was it comedy to make R.A.W. proud.

Are you talking about Robert Anton Wilson? I watched On the air a couple of years before reading RAW and liked it a lot. Maybe I should try to find it somewhere and watch again. What about it reminds you of RAW?

Yep. Just his love of the absurdity of the Marx Brothers. On The Air was an homage to the great comedians of the 30-40s in my foggy recollection. RAW loved surreal and absurd humor and it took me this long in my life to make these kind of connections 😉

Plus anytime i can remind a kindred soul to reread RAW is a good thing for my soul. 👊🏼™️

Makes sense, ideally good for all the souls involved and it keeps the lasagna flying, too.

Prometheus Rising is such a great book.

One of my favourites, too. Although I have never gotten around to consequently doing all the exercises. Especially this one I find worth rereading every couple of years and it's never the same read... Or reader.

I love his fiction too. I wish somebody would make a long TV show of Illuminatus or Schrödinger's cat.

It's cool how many lectures and interviews are online nowadays, I particularly like the Infinity Factory Interview with Richard Metzger and Genesis P. Orridge.

SteveElbows

I wont bore everyone with all my thoughts on Lynch and the various Twin Peaks series right now. But I will say I was sad about the passing of Julee Cruise and Angelo Badalamenti in recent years, and that the Dupont Jacky channel on youtube has kept all of the rare versions of music from Twin Peaks available:

https://www.youtube.com/@Croquetou1/videos

Also I love In Heaven from Eraserhead.

Also, look at my knees!

HotStrange

@Gavinski said:

@HotStrange said:

@cramdog said:
The impressions of David Lynch described by those who have seen episode 8 of Twin Peaks Season 3 (2017) and those who have not seen it are probably slightly different. In other words, those who have watched episode 8 might watch all the rest of episodes in one sitting. After that, they might seek out commentary/spoiler/wiki sites and might want to share their excitement with someone else.
(But I have no intention of recommending Season 3 to anyone who has not watched Twin Peaks before.)

When I finished with season 3 I basically lived on the Twin Peaks subreddit for….a long time. Even watched the whole 4+ hour Twin Perfect video on it, which is great! I don’t agree with everything in it but the super in depth analysis is really impressive.

And yeah Episode 8 is something else. Crazy that something that ‘out there’ was on a huge cable TV channel. I hope we get one more thing from Lynch before the inevitable happens. I know he has some kind of workings going on with Netflix. Or he did at some point.

The 90s was a paradise time for indie cinema, definitely not so much for TV. Broey Deschanel has an interesting YouTube video related to that. But yeah, today we live in a relative paradise when it comes to TV shows, but the mainstream movie landscape is really really low level compared to 20 years ago.

I'm really glad I was around to enjoy those pre-millenium and pre-mobile days.

I still love a lot of movies coming out today but the 90s had so much cool stuff to offer. 80s too, with the Coen Bros and Jarmusch getting their start. Down By Law is amazing if you haven’t seen it.

Twin Peaks had a huge impact on TV in general. Hard to oversell its influence in modern television. The Sopranos as well.