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Captain Midnight 
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 Topic: RIP David LynchPosted: January 17 2025 at 00:46 |
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Yesterday marks the unfortunate passing of legendary film director/artist David Lynch, any fans here?
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Logan
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Posted: January 17 2025 at 00:59 |
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Horrible news, and huge fan.
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Grumpyprogfan
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Posted: January 17 2025 at 04:41 |
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"In Heaven, everything is fine
In Heaven, everything is fine In Heaven, everything is fine You've got your good things And I've got mine In Heaven, everything is fine" Edited by Grumpyprogfan - January 17 2025 at 04:43 |
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Jared
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Posted: January 17 2025 at 04:55 |
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never a fan tbh, but I realise he was an important film maker...
may he RIP
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Floydoid
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Posted: January 17 2025 at 06:37 |
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One of my favourite directors of all time - maker of such classics as 'Something Wild', 'Blue Velvet', 'Mulholland Drive', 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me' and 'Wild at Heart' amongst others.
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Is it any wonder that the monkey's confused?
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Posted: January 17 2025 at 08:11 |
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I'm trying to find one film that I actually liked from him (not that I've seen them all), and I'm coming up empty. I followed everything from him (somehow involuntarly) until Wild At Heart, which was the drop that overflood the bucket. RIP anyways.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Posted: January 17 2025 at 09:10 |
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RIP
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omphaloskepsis
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Posted: January 17 2025 at 09:17 |
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Big Fan. Sad news.
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Logan
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Posted: January 17 2025 at 11:05 |
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This actually hit me like a ton of bricks when I read this yesterday. I had not been following the news.
It really was not until after Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) came out that I would say I took a very big interest in Lynch (even if his much criticided, including by him, Dune was a favourite of mine). Because of that I decided to finally watch the original run, Fire Walk With Me, and The Return (I think the Return is an amazing continuation to a show that came out decades before). Twin Peaks became super special to me. Just saw this video someone put together as a The Return trailer (fan-made trailer thing): When I was in a playwriting class back in 2000, the students and instructor were together for a smoke break (great bunch of people, favourite class I ever had by far, all felt like friends) the conversation turned to Fire Walk With Me. All seemed to know it but me. Well now I do and know what I was missing out. Some of the following I had seen before, but I watched with more appreciation than ever after getting into Twin Peaks. After Twin Peaks I watched Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Wild at Heart, and for some reason his Dune adaptation (which he didn't like and disliked the studio interference) I have loved since it came out. I have no idea how many times I have played that. But it's something I have on my PVR, and I had it on my last PVR.. It is my ultimate comfort food film . Nary a day goes by that I do not think, "And how can this be? For he is the Kwisatz Haderach!" It makes me smile. My avatar if it's not clear is a reference to Twin Peaks -- someone made it on the internet and I took (I should have asked). Note cherry pie, black coffee, the red curtains, the peaks topping the pie. It hit me harder because I have listened to David Lynch talking a lot over the past seven or so years because of my infatuation with his works. He was an unusual guy with unusual thoughts (even wacky one might say), is inspired by his dreams, and endearing even if he had some morbid fascinations. I really like the short film What Did Jack Do? by Lynch. It's on Netflix. Here is an excerpt. And he directed various music videos, including for Moby, Nine Inch Nails, Donovan, Rammstein. Edited by Logan - January 17 2025 at 11:42 |
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Posted: January 17 2025 at 14:09 |
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Ah, sad news indeed. He's probably my favourite director too. I often think of his movies, they've had that much impact on me. Rabbits is one of the oddest, scariest, weird, mind-bending piece of film/tv I've ever seen. Certainly a genius and will be greatly missed. RIP.
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Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen
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Posted: January 17 2025 at 18:40 |
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Rip David Lynch. He was my favorite director. Always wish he would have collaborated with Robert Fripp. I don't think a celebrity death has affected me like this since Bowie.
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Posted: 21 hours 2 minutes ago at 09:17 |
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Strange, very strange - I just watched Mulholland Dr. again last weekend and got sucked into that hazy weirdness all over again. Had planned to watch a few more Lynch films during the cold spell this weekend - then this. Totally Lynchian - a guy casually thinks/does something/anything, nothing complex, just a simple passing thought/action, which causes a series of events that leads to tragedy, but that tragedy spawns an equal reaction - a comedy. Lynch movies were fun, creepy, scary, funny, thought-provoking, weirdly attractive or attractively weird. RIP Mr. Lynch - you defined a style of filmmaking that so many have dug - not going to watch Lynch this weekend. Then again, what if that is the action that spurs the reaction that.....or what if it's the thought of the action that may spur the......
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I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Posted: 20 hours 29 minutes ago at 09:50 |
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From The Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet guy.
What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I’ve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We’d talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything. |
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Posted: 16 hours 42 minutes ago at 13:37 |
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I think the trick with Lynchian films is not to try too much to work out what's going on. I prefer just to enjoy them as pieces of art.
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Is it any wonder that the monkey's confused?
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Posted: 9 hours 31 minutes ago at 20:48 |
Big time!! Everything he did was genius!
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