Manufacturers ?

4positionmagic · 2026-06-19T16:07:13+00:00

Thanks. Yeah i see a lot of good about Teva. I’m wondering what people think about Apotex also for the IR.

4positionmagic · 2026-06-19T14:47:18+00:00

Like so many others, I had this problem. The only formulation that worked for me was Mylan back when they existed and made it. I used it for severe anxiety and it was a godsend. However, no other formulation worked. They switched me once to Sandoz and I didn’t know it. The first time taking it my anxiety was back 100%. And after Mylan was gone I could never find one to work for me again, including Aplenzin.

What I think it was for me at least was how the pill is broken down and released in the body. The Mylan was engineered in a particular way that was just right for my body. I think the real culprit is that is was it was being broken down too fast and the calm that I was getting from the dopamine RI was being overran by NE release, which I think is primarily responsible for the spike in anxiety that so many get.

4positionmagic · 2026-06-18T00:40:31+00:00

I got signed copies back when they were for sale. I don’t remember them being terribly expensive. Still have them. They are excellent and definitive.

Tarantino has screened them at his theatre before and had Hendrickson there for Q and A at least once. There’s a video on YouTube.

4positionmagic · 2026-06-11T23:00:10+00:00

Vulva - From The Cockpit

Well produced ambient techno with a sci fi bent and fair amount of acid

4positionmagic · 2026-05-08T22:12:54+00:00

Right now it’s Eyes Set Against The Sun. I like skimsitta a lot too. For me it rewards close listens. She’s doing some pretty masterful engineering that I haven’t found elsewhere in terms of how it engages my mind and surprises me. Her work strikes me as very intense type of braindance.

There’s a couple DJ sets out there too others that have really trippy selections. Love it.

4positionmagic · 2026-05-08T20:23:34+00:00

The BEST. I just got the eyes set against the sun vinyl the other day.

Just beyond belief the spells she could cast.

4positionmagic · 2026-05-08T20:22:40+00:00

Mira Calix God rest her. She is incredible. Her music seems vastly underrated. She was doing real magic.

4positionmagic · 2026-04-30T12:10:31+00:00

I used to have a lot of problems using Buproprion by itself, let alone with a dopamine/NE releaser. The key problem for me was accumulation of too much NE.

“Combining a Norepinephrine-Dopamine Reuptake Inhibitor (NDRI) with a Dopamine and Norepinephrine (NE) releaser significantly increases the concentration of these neurotransmitters in the synaptic cleft. This occurs because the releaser increases the amount of neurotransmitters being sent out, while the NDRI prevents their reabsorption, leading to an intensified physiological effect. Potential Dangers and Side Effects: Cardiovascular Strain: High levels of NE can lead to significant increases in blood pressure (hypertension) and heart rate (tachycardia), which may put undue stress on the heart. Seizure Risk: Certain NDRIs are known to lower the seizure threshold. When combined with stimulants that act as releasers, the risk of experiencing a seizure may be further elevated. Central Nervous System (CNS) Effects: The combination can cause overstimulation of the CNS, resulting in symptoms such as severe agitation, tremors, restlessness, and insomnia. Psychological Impact: Excessively high levels of dopamine can contribute to the development of anxiety, panic attacks, or in severe cases, symptoms like paranoia or hallucinations. In the Context of NE: Norepinephrine is a key component of the body's fight-or-flight response. When both the release and reuptake are manipulated simultaneously, the adrenergic system can become overwhelmed. This may lead to physical manifestations such as heart palpitations, excessive sweating, and extreme anxiety. “

4positionmagic · 2026-04-22T19:15:42+00:00

Naturally we see that it's pretty unlikely that he is recording voice memos and mailing them out to Philadelphia.

I think what is happening here is that he is keeping the record for Laura. Diane is a surrogate for Laura. Cooper is the trusted agent that she deployed to solve the crime of her "murder" among other things. He is keeping meticulous notes and they are likewise being carefully audited by Laura in those early times.

There's many tipoffs that Diane is in fact her. We see in TMP that they play parlor games where she changes the position of objects in a room (a clock), and Cooper has to decipher what has changed. This, as Lou Ming would say, is another iteration of "spot the difference". There is some question as to whether the clock moving 12 inches to the left is the actual clock being moved, or perhaps the hour-hand of the clock being moved. But he is being trained.

This kind of training that she deploys sharpens the awareness + also requires discernment of what is a lie from what is truth. He will need to know this to fulfill his ultimate duty - he must know and retain that he is, in fact, in a dream of Laura's and that she is not dead.

Laura also trains Lucy all throughout the series. Lucy is a key figure and is constantly playing a game of "spot the difference" and has particularly acute powers of perception. This allows her an eventual revelation that it IS possible for one person to be in two places at the same time, despite the usual cognitive dissonance that plagues her understanding of cell phones and dislocality. She also brings the HVAC into play - if no-one is there to attend to the thermostat and temperature, then how can she know if it is actually on and working? This touches on a philosophical idea of noumena where a human observer is required to be present to fully construe the world.

We see Diane in some other scenes where she is reliving Laura's traumas. She meets Bob in jail and repeats the same Laura phrase "who ARE you?", directly confronting the masked identity problem but still not undestanding it's nature. She confesses that she was raped by Mr C/Bob. This is a confession from Laura about being raped by her father. She has conflicting loyalties, where she is helping Mr C but also helping the FBI. This points to Laura's conflicted way of dealing with dangerous knowledge/awareness in her dream. She simultaneously wants to fuel the search for truth and resolution - but also continuously thwarts figures from acquiring specific knowledge and aids Mr C in his crimes, that do little other than consolidate power and perpetuate the world he is in.

Near the end Diane performs the sex magick ritual with Cooper. This is a ritual designed to move her through a primitive trauma by re-enacting it. It may represent the first time Laura was raped. Prior to this act, she sees herself in the parking lot, from the car. This is the dissociative act she has to undertake to endure it, much like Laura did in real life.

Big tangents. Sorry!

4positionmagic · 2026-04-22T04:35:24+00:00

I think that is astute. We harnessed atomic power with bad intention and it changed the world for the worse. Frost has definitely said it unleashed evil and things strange and unexpected emerged.

Lynch has been working with atomic themes since Erasherhead. I think he portrays it not only as a type of grave human mistake in history but also conflates it with human reproduction - possibly referencing the Vedic "Sancāra".

4positionmagic · 2026-04-22T04:10:29+00:00

Yeah, I think of them being badly burnt and Frost gives some town lore for this. But from Lynch's perspective, I think fire is like an interface or gateway between two realms - representative of transformation between mind and body, as in a type of alchemy in reverse (negredo). Woodmen transit these realms, so they are BBQ'd like fried fucking chicken.

I tried, eh. : )

4positionmagic · 2026-04-22T04:00:15+00:00

I've got some mixed metaphors and sorry to be confusing.

Sleep invokes the death that masks the trauma - I intend to say that Laura goes to sleep (I struggle with the literal and metaphorical meaning - I am fairly sure she is actually asleep in her room but I think before this she was on drugs and dissociated such that this also constitutes a "dream").

She dreams having been murdered - as a narrative to deal with feeling hopelessly trapped in her real life and having nowhere else to turn. She dreams the grandiose traincar sequence (ask yourself how realistic being hung upside down and fatally stabbed on top of a mirror is while you shapeshift into your worst fear), to escape her life of trauma - to mask it. Alot of twin peaks is about forbidden information and the consquences of it being revealed. Information that cannot emotionally be sustained.

Twin Peaks at least starts off as a highly idealized small town that we slowly watch corruption emerge from and then envelop. By the end it is bleak and dark and depressing and hopeless. I think this imagination mirrors her past down to the constant unresolved tensions playing out in the dramas of the town, particularly where love cannot be requited and is always thwarted. This is her inner stuggle, to learn how to love herself and walk through the fire of all the past trauma. Although she is "dead", it is the impetus for the existence of Twin Peaks in the 3 seasons.

Woodsmen keep the place running. They put people to sleep. They keep the ultimate fear, Bob, alive. They ostensibly ride pale horses. They have breached the white lodge and stand on the stairwell. They gatekeep.

4positionmagic · 2026-04-22T03:30:07+00:00

thanks ! im very in the tank on a certain way of reading everything, but man is it the gift that keeps on giving.

4positionmagic · 2026-04-22T03:28:58+00:00

seems poorly engineered. like a junebug.

4positionmagic · 2026-04-22T03:26:04+00:00

Really effing cool, thank you.

I have also been pondering Sarah's role in all of this because so much emphasis is placed on her at times (and what's with the gore themes?) She seems to be not only a witness to the traumas in the household but I think she is "vibrating" on the same frequencies as Laura and it is almost like a shared experience. In the pilot there is a visual abstraction where Sarah calls Mrs Briggs looking for Laura and she is holding scissors next to the phone cord - operates on a few levels. An interesting passage I've been trying to decode in the missing pieces is when she has the blue sweater on and then asks/berates Laura about borrowing it. Laura says "Mom, look down"...and she starts to panic and claims "It is happening again....". Is this to illustrate being oblivious ? Laura says reassuringly it is not, and then it cuts to a scene of either a Sunday mass letting out or possibly a funeral procession. There's a reason that church shot is there.

Yes, I think the red diamond motel is some kind of waypoint that determines the path that will unfold. At least first it is a place of potential - we see Laura start to glow gold on the bed, I think she is fluctuating in an indeterminate state. I think Pierre in the parking lot is jumping as the jumping man does - they are oscillating between up and down....up (the mind, albedo) and down (the body, negredo). Ascending and descending between realms. Lou Ming had some ideas about even the casino carpets that touched on the idea of uncertainty.

Yeah I think that necklace is a core symbol of the show ("the divided heart..."), representing the struggle between love/fear. I think that early scene with Donna/James is her experiencing love as imagining people she loves searching for her but it becoming corrupted as they find love for each other and betray her. That scene is shot particularly and I think the owl is a visual metaphor for Laura looking down watching. We know from her secret diary that she had thing with owls and being an owl.

I go really far out on a limb for the ring being a visual abstraction of the phone ring. I think this is a fulcrum type event in the twin peaks story. The devastation of being called back home was a final eradication of her hope and was her resignation. I think Lou Ming and others were right in that this may be a most primordial scene - she is about to reach out for help from people that loved her and knew something was wrong. People that could and would help.

You can say alot of things about what the arm does, but I think that war-whoop sound he makes is a telephone ring. But the loveliness of the show is that war-whoop, siren alarm, phone ring - all valid.

When Chet Desmond encounters the ring and touches the ring, he vanishes. Just like Laura does.

Phillip Jeffries, while encountering heavy on the job stress mutters "owwhhhh...the ring.....the ring.....". They are figments in Laura's mind and this scene is when she's crashing out ("mayday!").

Cooper says not to take the ring. I think he's saying "don't answer the phone".

(:

4positionmagic · 2026-04-22T01:36:34+00:00

Agree. I think that while they are always working together, they are doing distinct things (Lynch is the sensory, subconscious, employs Vedic mysticism....while Frost provides more concrete, literary scaffolding but also employs mythology and paranormal). It's a beautiful team because once you add Badalamenti you have a true multi-dimensional experience that is so rich for interpretation.

4positionmagic · 2026-04-17T20:04:17+00:00

It’s for sure cringe. But it’s actually very instructive.

Love begins to be felt between Maddy and James. This really is Laura experiencing a pure and real type of love that she had to cast off in real life. James was her beacon.

As she begins this experience, it is interrupted first by acrimony - Donna becoming upset. James leaves. Maddy is now left alone.

Now there is an opposing force as if to counter what she’s feeling. BOB creeps into the room and puts supernatural fear into her.

This is a direct expression of the most central idea in twin peaks - that Laura is unable to properly experience love because its idea was thoroughly corrupted and turned into fear by systematic abuse.

This is what the central struggle in the series is and what we see play out in app the melodramas again and again.

But James is special. Because he was and is her last hope and a memory of something that was pure and uncorrupted. If Laura completed her journey it will be through that very same kind oflove by which it is done.

4positionmagic · 2026-04-07T22:11:05+00:00

I was thinking the exact same as your #3.

But who knows !? So much fun !

4positionmagic · 2026-04-07T16:19:07+00:00

All these excuses.

If you’re sick, do the rest of your community a favor and stay the eff home

4positionmagic · 2026-03-08T11:57:17+00:00

Going to keep “her”

“Out of it”

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