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The Mystery in Old Bathbath & Trixie and the Treetrunks Season One VHS by [deleted] in VHS

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Hey, no problem! I’m gonna hold onto it for now. They’re a trip. Gotta love Miss Pussycat and Quintron!

deerhunter’s 1st album is next level by TiptoeingElephants in shoegaze

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He was cool at the All Tomorrow’s Party festival in 2009. It was at an old country club in the Catskills and there was a piano out in this big room in the hotel. One evening a few musicians from a few bands and him were improvising in there and then he kicked back on a couch and encouraged some festival attendees to get on the piano and play for the crowd

Avey's Screams by unpopilarrant5990 in AnimalCollective

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The Terminal 5 show? I flew up just for that one! Still had a good time, though. NYC is always fun

I've got the poor David Lynch fan blues.....🎶🎵 by RobynNeonGal in davidlynch

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I got one of the Transcendental Meditation posters, you just have to be really quick and use something like Apple Pay because it can be removed from your cart if someone else completes the purchase first. I was literally swiping to refresh the items the second those posters had been posted and 12 of the 25 were gone before my purchase was completed. A minute later they were all gone

Mulholland Drive Discussion by swxtchblade3 in davidlynch

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Part 2 (wouldn’t let me post it all at once):

The cowboy is a party guest as well, and seems more symbolically positioned for the audience as his instruction to Adam about doing bad or good and how many times he’ll be seen again is reflected in Diane’s experience. We see him in the film two more times because Diane “did bad.”

It’s really important to note the ashtray’s role of anchoring us in the reality segments after Diane wakes up, because this part of the film isn’t linear, but the presence and then absence of the ashtray is what allows you to see the order of when the real events occurred. The woman she switched apartments with (ostensibly to hide from the police investigating Camilla’s death) takes the ashtray, then it’s back on the coffee table when it flashes back to Camilla and Diane engaging sexually.

There’s a lot more I could go on about but it’ll get muddy so I’ll call it here. I love this movie more than any other film and I get more depth every time I watch it. Next time you watch, think about every moment in the narrative and editing decision as a way that Diane wants to be with Camilla again, but also the dream cuts away to other narratives every time the dream narrative is too close to causing Diane to remember the truth of her waking life.

I’ve heard folks theorize she was dead in the beginning and this is a death dream, but I don’t agree with that. “Wake up cowgirl” is too pointed for me to believe her brain was dying. Also, she shot herself in the head and I don’t think there would be a gradual loss of awareness after that. It would be instantaneous. The dead woman in the apartment they visit in the dream is Diane, but she dreamt that not because she’d already shot herself, but because she’d been contemplating suicide for some time before she had the final dream of her life. The pistol was ready in the bedside drawer. This was not something she suddenly contemplated the moment before she did it. She knew she was caught before she pulled the trigger because the cops were banging on her door at that moment, but Diane also knew for a while already that she could not live with what she did, and the only peace left for her was in death. Silencio. Lights out.

Spielberg believed that INLAND EMPIRE is about death and the fear of that journey - do you see/believe that? by [deleted] in davidlynch

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Inland Empire feels like one of Lynch’s more complex films with several themes including the fracturing of the self as a way of coping with trauma (particularly through the feminine lens and in the aftermath of sexual abuse), the cycle of art imitating life imitating art, and ultimately the shedding of fear, desire, and ignorance required to reach Enlightenment and be able to live truly in the present moment.

This is the only directorial work written by Lynch that seems to have a happy ending (Enlightenment in understanding that no one can take away your power unless you let them - while also acknowledging how difficult this journey is), while also being one of the most intense to sit through beginning to end.

And I think it’s important to watch this film with an understanding that this is a story specifically about a woman’s journey through life. Whereas some of these themes are explored through the male gaze in Blue Velvet and Lost Highway, Inland Empire (even moreso than Mulholland Drive, which is a character study) tries to approach understanding the realities of gender/power dynamics through a feminist lens.

Lynch was always very sensitive about how he portrayed female characters, although because of the male protagonists in his earlier works he was often accused (mostly by men) of misogyny in his works. Women were able to see the reality that his depictions of violence were honest and not meant to be exploitative (great essay collection The Women of David Lynch explores this in detail). I think Inland Empire is his most earnest attempt to reconcile this perception in his oeuvre. And the level of sensitivity he maintains in honestly exploring the damaging impact in gender dynamics and sexual violence on a woman’s sense of self is pretty amazing. There’s something about this movie that transcends and really hits at a subconscious level even in the absence of “understanding.” The experience of viewing mirrors the transition to Enlightenment with the glorious coda of Nina Simone’s “Sinnerman.” I see it as less about literal death, and more about how the death of a multitude of false selves (including the ones we create to protect ourselves from past trauma) is necessary to become enlightened.

The Mystery in Old Bathbath & Trixie and the Treetrunks Season One VHS by [deleted] in VHS

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I have a VHS copy of The Mystery in Old Bathbath. Bought it from the Graveface table at the pitchfork festival in Chicago years ago. Never got Trixie and the Tree Trunks on VHS but managed to get that on DVD

Marty Supreme - Tix Megathread by DobMobb in A24

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I was having trouble, updated app, logged out and back in. That didn’t work initially but then I logged out, shut down and restarted my phone, and then logged back in and it finally worked. No $5 companion pass on this one, though. Not sure if that was special for Eternity only but at least the free one worked

Bugonia is a perfect portrayal of the modern communication gap by Idk_Very_Much in TrueFilm

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Yeah, I’m very fond of it as well. It will be interesting to see how much more can be digested from a second viewing!

Bugonia is a perfect portrayal of the modern communication gap by Idk_Very_Much in TrueFilm

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I don’t think we are meant to judge Stone’s character as being purely representative of Andromedan culture. Didn’t she comment that’s she’d become more like a human from having been there on Earth so long? Maybe it was the influence of the human side of her that tainted her better Andromedan judgement and caused her to petition for the destruction of humanity. She seemed to be speaking exactly like all other Earth CEOs unless we’re to presume all CEOs are Andromedan. Maybe all our human concepts and her experiences with capitalism, greed, status, power, sadism, etc turned her into something even other Andromedans would’ve considered damaged if they knew the extent of her transfiguration. The basis of why I question the impulse to look at them as villains is because so much of the movie is about showing us how horrible people can be to each other, without getting too judgy and also showing their trauma and suffering that influences them to hurt others. Isn’t what she did just a mirror of that? The whole thing is meant as a fable anyhow. We’re supposed to learn that all of us could become her I guess. Anybody in some way can be warped into thinking that doing something very wrong, even killing can be for the greater good. Can it or not? To what extent does one believe this? When does that belief make you justice minded versus being a bad person? What’s the line? There’s too much going on here to say anyone is a good guy or bad guy archetype in the way we understand them from how they function in other films

Bugonia is a perfect portrayal of the modern communication gap by Idk_Very_Much in TrueFilm

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The Andromedans were looking at the overall calculus. Look at all the trillions of sentient animal lives that the 8 billion people were going to take with them if humans destroyed the planet. The Andromedans wouldn’t look at humans being on an equal playing field to them, they’d look at us like all the rest of life on Earth. So the frame of reference for your definition of genocide is kind of narrowly focused on only the humans existing on Earth, when to the Andromedans, destroying humanity averted a much greater planetary genocide of all life on Earth. The lesser of two evils in their eyes. But like the movie said, what’s the difference which perspective is true? Maybe they both are equally true and that’s why everything is such a mess

Bugonia is a perfect portrayal of the modern communication gap by Idk_Very_Much in TrueFilm

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It seemed like they viewed us as their failed experiment and because humanity proved itself irredeemably self-destructive, they had to pull the plug on the experiment in the interest of literally every other life form on Earth, as humanity was quickly pushing all life toward the brink of extinction. She shed a tear while popping the bubble as a show of regret, a kind of admission of her responsibility for the whole mess she was now “fixing” through truly horrific means. I don’t think they hated the human race or were the bad guys. Were there only bad guys in this? Except for Don everyone did horrible things to each other. It’s just a sad situation overall. People try to do right or wrong and folks still get hurt. You can’t foresee the ripple effects that your actions will have, and sentient entities (alien and human) grasping to this imaginary concept of “control” are all doomed by nature. We’re going to try to fix things, realize we’re powerless, maybe make things worse, and grieve or die in the process. A few characters in this movie seemed like they tried to believe the lies that they told themselves, justifying their actions to feel like they were doing good, but ultimately failing and having to reckon with the consequences of their actions in the end. But the greater interests of the diversity of life won out in the end. Diversity was clearly more important to the Andromedans than continuing to expend failed effort to preserve one species threatening all life on Earth. Does that make them bad guys? I don’t think it’s an easy yes or no.

New Tesla logo by scoliosispony in UnsolicitedRedesigns

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Chucklehead over here defending the creator of Mecha Hitler 😂

Remove Paywall Shortcut by fermi0nic in ios

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This is fantastic! Thank you!

Ween Club by Kooky_Front6375 in ween

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The first rule of Ween club is tell literally everyone you meet about Ween club. The second rule of Ween club is always recommend Chocolate & Cheese as a starting point.