Really curious if I’ll have a Twin Peaks nightmare after this episode, the way I did after both of the last two episodes
TBH I’m kinda enjoying this, it’s like David Lynch is hijacking my dreams to air Bonus Content
The Three Temperature Units
What about Rankine?
See Kelvin.
I’ve been in a 100°C+ hot room at a banya, so not accurate.
Twin Peaks dialogue templates, because I love dialogue
- Albert Rosenfield: Subordinate clause addressing whatever asinine thing was just said by the other character, followed by a long, stylish rapid-fire stream designed to prep the other character for their inevitable annihilation: Three word insult. A rule-of-threes list of things he does not like, do, or care about, preferably alliterative, and always decimating. Dismissal.
- Gordon Cole: THE SECRET TO GORDON COLE IS SHORT SENTENCES! I MEAN REALLY SHORT! NOW THE ONLY EXCEPTION TO THIS IS WHEN YOU'RE ENDING A PARAGRAPH, AND THEN YOU CAN USE TWO CLAUSES!
- Windom Earle: A quaintly ironic, perhaps even polite black humor observation about the other character's (likely unfortunate) situation, followed by some charming purple prose that would truly be the essence of good manners if he wasn't--shall we say--homicidal. Oh, but Windom loves to ask baiting questions, doesn't he? My, he loves to monologue--preferably about all of the terrible things he's going to do to the other character, but never seems to get around to actually doing! Well, no matter. If he gets too carried away, you can always cut him off with an initially innocent sentence that SUDDENLY BREAKS INTO A HOMICIDAL OUTBURST!!!!
- Dale Cooper: Character name, followed by an excited, bright-eyed announcement of a new discovery or idea. [Brief pause to consume food object.] An immediate transition into a precise, almost Spock-like dump of obscure information that is unnecessarily detailed and almost totally incomprehensible to the other character. This description can go on for several sentences. In fact, the longer and more technical it is, the better, as the intended effect is for the other character to be in a totally obfuscated daze by the time Cooper is finished. In short: Concise summary. [More consumption of food.] A resolute, serious suggestion for action gleaned from his findings. But first: a non-sequitur framed as an observational question?
- Diane: Fuck you, Gordon.
The Tower
hey man there’s a hole in my head where information goes
(loosely continued from The Subprime Directive)
I.
1 And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another: ‘Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.’ And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
4 And they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.’
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.
7 Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.’
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. (Genesis 11:1–9)
In Sunday School or Illustrated Classics, we are taught that God punished humanity for hubris, for daring to disobey Mesopotamian zoning laws. That’s not what it says here.
This is a good 2 hour read. Probably the most valuable thing I have ever read on Tumblr and it looks a lot like the back side of my breadboard (i.e. it works with the same diodes and chips but draws different connections). The number of great, poetic sentences is astonishing.
David Lynch’s mom.
From the 2016 documentary on David Lynch called The Art Life
That’s some lady!
It’s official
S3E08 has surpassed S2E22 as my favorite hour of television of all time. I am speechless.
Is this Twin Peaks? I feel like this is Twin Peaks.
It is Twin Peaks.
YESS. I just finished watching the old show on Netflix and am making my way through The Return now. I don’t get a good third of what’s happening, but I like it.
If you haven’t seen 8 yet… just wait till after the 9″ song.
It’s official
S3E08 has surpassed S2E22 as my favorite hour of television of all time. I am speechless.
Is this Twin Peaks? I feel like this is Twin Peaks.
It is Twin Peaks.
It’s official
S3E08 has surpassed S2E22 as my favorite hour of television of all time. I am speechless.
Anonymous asked:
what movies have the best (fun stuff / boring stuff) ratio?
broteampill answered:
Maybe The Big Lebowski or Snatch
Eraserhead :p
#movies to watch
I was partly kidding. I mean, it’s a really deep David Lynch movie. But I also remember being kinda bored the first time I watched it.
I trusted you, you partly-eaten ragoon.
I think I was a freshman. It’s a really good movie. Just, weird. And hard to follow without multiple viewings or a fiber optic implanted interface into David Lynch’s brain.
I love Lynch, but “fun” is not exactly constant. Riveting/boring ratio fine, but I don’t know if the fun is exactly relentless.
I’d look at Edgar Wright… one thing you cannot say about him is that his movies ever modulate into any mode but “fun.”
Lots of 80′s cocaine fueled comedies come to mind. Not much down time in Blues Brothers or After Hours.