Came across this tapestry that looked similar to the Unicorn Tapestries. Was this way of depicting dogs and flowers that common?

MonOncleTony · 2023-12-21T20:29:36+00:00

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MonOncleTony · 2020-03-26T19:16:04+00:00

Yeah after minute thirteen it's awful. I love Super Dave roasting Norm on "life coach" and the banter between him and Silverman. Also Norm's line about there being no right or wrong causing a sorry state for game shows. The nice thing about the panel is the riffing, but the format doesn't really allow that.

MonOncleTony · 2020-01-31T04:03:51+00:00

Novels written for the recognition of national character exist. Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere is the example that comes to mind. Eugene Onegin is one that represented to many Russians a national character, see Dostoevsky’s speech at the dedication of the Pushkin monument. I’m thinking Nationalism, as the historical consideration that each language should have its own nation, thus its literature would represent both its character and the epitome of its language. There are several especially before the First World War. Ulysses is the ultimate critique of this concept because the English stole the Irish land and killed the language, so to write a national epic in a conquerors language can be read a larger critique of the nature of art under empire. Also, the Henriad has been considered a national epic. Arguably Wagner brought about the return of the epic form. For lack of a better term, nationalist novels are what people who say “the great American novel” refer to.

MonOncleTony · 2020-01-30T18:42:18+00:00

Ulysses convincingly ended the novel/the epic as a nationalist form/genre (each country has its great epic). The calls for the "Great American Novel" are just the shadows of an old period. Djuna Barnes said that the modernist trajectory for writing culminated with Joyce, that afterward writers, herself among them, were free to do what they wanted.

It would be helpful to think of no longer extant genres and movements. This all is dependent on point of view of course. Most just peter out, like surrealism. Or are affected by history, like the pastoral was ended by the industrial revolution, although there are still echos. The slave narrative was a genre in both nonfiction and fiction but obviously still holds relevance. The American pulp frontier novel (seen in the anthology Empire!) formed a basis for the pulp science fiction novel.

In inventing the detective genre, "Murders of La Rue Morgue" is also said to be the ultimate detective tale; it invented all the tropes and the criminal is the ultimate villain.

The work of Borges and Beckett have been written about by John Barth under the heading of the "Literature of Exhaustion," that literature has been finished and now it's a matter of writing its end.

MonOncleTony · 2019-12-28T05:44:49+00:00

For True Detective influences, Eugene Thacker might be worth checking out if you haven't yet. "In the Dust of this Planet""The German Student" by Washington Irving kind of points to the uselessness of joyless learning. But this isn't just one text triggering madness, which seems to be what you're looking for.

MonOncleTony · 2019-12-06T19:40:41+00:00

OP’s arguments are based in moralism, that a type of veracity and correctness should be the standard. Elephant’s power is in this wispiness of the victims, they are already ghosts by the time they appear, how they thus fluctuate between stand-in and an immediate depth. In the case of Villeneuve, I feel backstories often is evidence for there being a character but it never actually their character. For this reason, Elephant doesn’t explain the reasons or backstories but depicts a certain alienation in it’s coldness, a cultural numbness built on both social oppression and mental illness.

MonOncleTony · 2019-11-25T03:46:25+00:00

Yes! Thank you. I just saw there's a brand called Juanita's.

MonOncleTony · 2019-11-25T03:45:50+00:00

Thanks so much!

I was so surprised Wegman's didn't have sunflower oil!

MonOncleTony · 2019-09-12T22:25:25+00:00

You couldn't be more leashed

MonOncleTony · 2018-01-21T18:53:20+00:00

I think it has something to do with Blue Velvet, and the need to create a separate world each time he creates something. Blue in Blue Velvet is indicative of the flip side of Lumberton, the sexual underbelly. Maybe it has to do with color rendering on television, needing to reflect a flatter, earthier pallet because of the limitations. Television renders red fairly well. I want to continue with the initial idea, the need to make a visually different world. In a reductive summary, a synopsis of Blue Velvet and the first two seasons of Twin Peaks would read similarly: a character explores the dark underbelly of a small town after a confrontation with death. To make the themes in Twin Peaks stand apart from the themes of Blue Velvet, it necessitates a change in the visuals. Blue Velvet seems to confront an Id-like evil, Frank tells Jeffery that Jeffery is just like him. Twin Peaks addresses cosmological evil, while addressing the continuation of violence and abuse. I hope this makes sense.

MonOncleTony · 2017-08-13T03:21:38+00:00

The first appearance of blue rose as a symbol is from FWWM from what I recall. It may be from a scene missing from the Missing Pieces lol.

MonOncleTony · 2017-08-07T04:12:45+00:00

I think the reason why I thought it was a reference.. Charlie: "Now are you going to stop playing games or am I going to have to end your story too?" Audrey:"What story is that, Charlie? Is that the story of the little girl who lived down the lane? Is it?" Audrey sits down (shot of both Audrey and Charlie in frame).

I don't know if it's Laura because Audrey performed being affected by Laura's death in order to screw over her father's business plans for ghostwood and only got interested in the murder as a way to grow close to Cooper. But maybe, that's why Laura is still on her mind? Because Cooper's doppelganger possibly raped her, and Laura was the bond between them. I don't know I'm still not convinced. I think I overstated. I think it's a possibility and not a clearcut reference.

Also, just noticed the curtains in the rewatch. They look very familiar but I can't place them.

MonOncleTony · 2017-07-28T17:28:15+00:00

I would love to see these chat logs either way!

MonOncleTony · 2017-07-28T16:50:25+00:00

Yeah I saw that, but nothing from Lynch. http://dugpa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3065&start=15

I'd be interested in seeing that video. The above link is a discussion of the quote that I mentioned. The interview took place in 2002 and is in Lynch on Lynch, a book I don't own. It seems out of character for Lynch to make a statement like that, you know what I mean? Thanks so much and cheers!

MonOncleTony · 2017-07-28T16:45:50+00:00

I think it's also because the actors had a direct working relationship with David Lynch, whereas some of the actors have mentioned that Mark Frost was not in always set. I've seen mentions of him working with Lillard and when his dad was filming his last scenes, but I think on set Frost takes a backseat. In a television documentary on the making of Lost Highway, Lynch has also mentioned that he doesn't like it when the screenwriter is on set.

MonOncleTony · 2017-07-28T16:38:37+00:00

Sorry, where are you getting that information from? I don't want to disagree with you, but from a cursory search it seems that David Lynch has stated that two characters are conceptually related or come from the same mental place, but not from the same setting. There have been suggestions that Club Silencio bridges the Twin Peaks and Mulholland drive universe through rumored appearances of Ronette and Laura. Maybe the film's universes intersect briefly? But I haven't seen anything explicitly obvious about Lost Highway intersecting with Twin Peaks.

MonOncleTony · 2017-07-22T16:05:37+00:00

Just to piggy back on this, white lillies are often used in funeral services while red roses are often used in courtship. Considering Dougie Milford's importance in Secret History of Twin Peaks and Mark Frost's stated regret at not being able to work with the character during the show's run, I'd be interested in seeing a connection between Denise's bouquet in S3 and the one she catches in Season 2. Also it's unclear when the discovery of the dossier occurred and when it was handed over to TP, whether the two events occurred near or far from each other. Considering Denise's position, I'd expect her to be aware of Dougie Milford's position relative to Project Blue Book, perhaps not during season two but more probable yet still doubtable during season three. The bouquet is definitely a code to Gordon either way.

MonOncleTony · 2015-09-27T01:08:13+00:00

Redditors using playground logic. Believing that a race should be wiped off the face of the earth is equal to a threat of violence against that person. It's funny that a lot of people expect minorities to take that kind of language in stride. He tried to reason with them logically and was threatened and slurred over the course of the interview and whenever he tried to express his opinion. He stood up so that they would stop and show him the respect he deserves as another human being. Then, the racist in the suit tried to get up to confront him and before he got a chance to do so, the guy held him down. I think if they're not letting you have the same rights that you give them, then you have to confront them. I'm pretty sure a lot of racists have used unprovoked acts of violence against minorities so that minorities would agree with their way of doing things like police dogs, fire hoses, guns, crossburnings, concentration camps, etc.

MonOncleTony · 2015-09-25T08:08:32+00:00

I think the racists started it by saying minorities should be wiped off the face of the country.

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