NP Twin Peaks Return, season 1

[David Morris]

I think Lynch is a longtime Trans Med practioner, I think a tantric path.
The ancient roots of tantra is Kashmir Shaivism, which posits that the most
basic element of the Universe is a vibration, not a form.  Vibrations
thicken, and become form.  Lynch's fascination with forms of energy,
vibrations all, seems a part of this cosmos.

Kashmir Shaivism is Hindu, and long predates Bhudism.  It's wave-v-ness
seems a precursor to quantum physics.  It posits wave first.

David Morrir

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 5:49 PM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> After Eraserhead, Lynch spent years planning a film called Ronnie
> Rocket of which he said: "It's an absurd mystery of the strange forces
> of existence. It's about electricity... coal and oil and electricity."
> He also described one of its characters as "60-cycle alternating
> current electricity".
> I think a lot of that must have bled into his other work. Someone in
> The Return explicitly mentioned how fire and electricity are similar
> forces in the TP cosmos and various spirits and characters have
> physically travelled on electric currents. Plus there's the light
> spectrum - blue and red have particular meanings in Lynch's work.
> I feel the symbolism and choice of imagery in both Lynch and Pynchon's
> stuff is more loose and instinctive, though. Both tease the reader who
> wants to look for rigid codes that will 'decipher' the work.
>
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 2:42 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes. Lynch's electricity in TP:TR not unlike TRP's electric light in AtD.
> >
> > The [spoiler?] phantom miner types in TP:TR, for one thing. The multiple
> > overlapping, intersecting planes of being.
> >
> > Lynch is generally more overtly personal and less systematic/historical
> than
> > Pynchon, but I think the nature of the project brings out some
> affinities.
> > Lynch is bridging three decades in this quasi-real space--Twin Peaks
> being
> > more a Pynchonian kind of space than most of Lynch's other worlds, in my
> > opinion--where extrahuman forces effect a losing of something like
> > innocence.
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Anybody else feel Twin Peaks: The Return bears certain parallels with
> >> Against The Day?
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sunday, August 6, 2017, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> There's talk that it's the last TV/film thing he'll do (I imagine
> >>> he'll keep painting).
> >>> I'm struck by how self-reflexive the show is now. The movie Fire Walk
> >>> With Me opens with a TV screen being destroyed but this season has so
> >>> many moments that seem to be speaking directly to the expectations
> >>> people have of Lynch himself.
> >>> From the radio signal in part 8 to the New York box, there's lots of
> >>> meta-commentary on the insidious possibilities of media injure or
> >>> corrupt, but now we have the auteur himself appearing early on to say
> >>> "I don't understand this situation at all"!
> >>> There's a great recap of the last episode that notes how the extended
> >>> exit of Lynch's French lady-friend is so deliberate:
> >>>
> >>> "Watch the look of pure joy on Lynch-as-Gordon’s face as Gordon’s
> >>> French date sloooooowly makes her exit: She puts on her shoes, shows
> >>> off her legs, straightens her clothes, checks her makeup, reapplies
> >>> her lipstick, takes another sip of wine, and kisses him goodbye,
> >>> dragging everything out as long as humanly possible. And Gordon is
> >>> just thrilled to pieces.
> >>>
> >>> Albert, watching, is less pleased. He wants to sit down with Gordon
> >>> and talk business. When Gordon suggests that he get back to his date
> >>> and his glass of wine, Albert is stonefaced.
> >>>
> >>> Gordon puts a comforting arm on his shoulder. “Albert,” he says,
> >>> “sometimes I really worry about you.”
> >>>
> >>> The idea of talking business on this show is worrying. It’s as if the
> >>> show itself is asking why the audience is so invested in the idea of a
> >>> resolution. Why devote so much emotional energy to trying to solve the
> >>> mysteries when, after all, there is good wine to be drunk, and when
> >>> there are beautiful women to chat up? Twin Peaks wants you to relax.
> >>> Enjoy yourself."
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> > Very happy to read this message. Glad other people are experiencing
> >>> > this
> >>> > similarly.
> >>> >
> >>> > I was thinking today that one of the most distinctive things about
> the
> >>> > return, to me, in addition to how good it is, is the prominence of
> >>> > Lynch on
> >>> > screen. His character is probably eclipsing Cooper as the closest
> thing
> >>> > we
> >>> > have to a protagonist/hero we have--at least through the first dozen
> >>> > episodes or so.
> >>> >
> >>> > On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:15 PM, Ian Livingston
> >>> > <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> >>> > wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Absolutely.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 7:40 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> >>> >> wrote:
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> I love the last half of episode 8.  The Kubrick reference to the
> post
> >>> >>> Bomb couldn't have bee more literal.  Then things get freaky.  Pure
> >>> >>> Lynch.
> >>> >>> Such a treat.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> David Morris
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >
> >>> -
> >>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
> >
> >
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