Wednesday, November 30, 2022

THE GIANT
I will tell you three things. If I tell them to you and they come true, then will you believe me?

COOPER
Who’s that?

THE GIANT
Think of me as a friend.

COOPER
Where do you come from?

THE GIANT
The question is, where have you gone?  The first thing I will tell you is, there’s a man in a smiling bag.

COOPER
Man in a smiling bag.

THE GIANT
Second thing is, the owls are not what they seem. Third thing is, without chemicals he points.

COOPER
What do these things mean?

THE GIANT
This is all I am permitted to say. Give me your ring. I will return it to you when you find these things to be true.

THE GIANT takes the ring from COOPER.

THE GIANT
We want to help you.

COOPER
Who’s we?
DAVID LYNCH - THE ART LIFE
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Rick Barnes
Olivia Neergaard-Holm
Jon Nguyen
Art Porn
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Adam Chuck from the series Instant Gratification.
Mike Luckovich
No Shave November - Photographer unknown to me.
AN ANDRÉS SEGOVIA PROGRAM
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Andrés Segovia


Short Works by 
- Milan
- Händel
- Gluck
- JS Bach
- Fernando Sors
- Chopin
- Schumann
- Ponce
- Paganini
- Brahms
- Moreno Torroba
- Villa-Lobos


Originally Released in 1952.

KYLE McLACHLAN
Quoted in Room to Dream
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David's spiritual life has always been part of his work, and that's deepened in a way that's reflected in his work. I can't point to something and say, "Oh now he's doing this," because the change has been more subtle than that. It's like his work has gotten richer. Twin Peaks has confounded many people, but David's an artist and the work he does isn't supposed to be easy. I don't think he feels compelled to tell a story people want him to tell, and seems totally comfortable with that.


Daily Painting
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Pieter Clesz
Still Life with Skull and Writing Quill (1628)

Tuesday, November 29, 2022




TWIN PEAKS - THE RETURN
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David Lynch
USA, 2017
No Shave November - Photographer unknown to me.
STORYTELLERS
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Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson

DAVID LYNCH
Quoted in David Lynch Swerves - Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire
Martha P. Nochimson from a 2010 Interview
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If you see a snake, you see a snake, even if it's a coiled rope. The world is as you are.


Daily Painting
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Otis Huband
Fleeing Figures (2020)

Monday, November 28, 2022

TWIN PEAKS - THE RETURN
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David Lynch
USA, 2017
No Shave November - Photographer unknown to me.
FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION
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R.E.M.


Or was it 
RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FABLES?

DAVID LYNCH via MARGARET LANTERMAN
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Even the ones who laugh are sometimes caught without an answer. These creatures who introduce themselves, but we swear we have met them somewhere before, yes? Look in the mirror. What do you see? Is it a dream, or a nightmare? Are we being introduced against our will? Are they mirrors? I can see the smoke. I can smell the fire. The battle is drawing nigh.

I play my part on life's stage. I tell what I can to form the perfect answer. But that answer cannot come before all are ready to hear, so I tell what I can to form the perfect answer. Sometimes my anger at the fire is evident. Sometimes it is not anger, really – it may appear as such, but could it be a clue? The fire I speak of is not a kind fire.


Daily Painting
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Gordon Onslow-Ford
Determination of Gender (1939)

Sunday, November 27, 2022

TWIN PEAKS - THE RETURN
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David Lynch
USA, 2017
No Shave November - Photographer unknown to me.
TWIN PEAKS
Music From The Limited Event Series
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Angelo Badalamenti
David Lynch

Chromatics, The Cactus Blossoms, Au Revoir Simone, Blunted Beatz, The Paris Sisters, TYropuble, Sharon Van Etten, Nine Inch Nails, The Platters, Rebekah Del Rio, Shawn Colvin, James Marshall, Booker T and the MGs, Lissie, ZZ Top, The Veils, Eddie Vedder, Otis Redding, Julee Cruise








Daily Painting
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Jacques Doucet
Untitled (ND)

Saturday, November 26, 2022

TWIN PEAKS - THE RETURN
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David Lynch
USA, 2017
CLUB MOD
allclassical.org 
No Shave November - Photographer unknown to me.
COMPANY
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Borusan Quartet


Philip Glass
STRING QUARTET NO. 2 "COMPANY"

Arvo Pärt
SUMMA

Hasan Uçarsu
STRING QUARTET NO. 2 "THE UNTOLD"

Pēteris Vasks
STRING QUARTET NO. 4

MARY FISK
Quoted in Room to Dream
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While David was editing [The Elephant Man], EMI edited a version without him, then called Mel [Brooks] and told him they'd cut the film to show him. Mel said, "I'm not even going to look at what you've done. We're going with David's version." The studio guys will crush you, and they were going to crush David, and Mel was an unreal advocate for him.


STUART CORNFELD
Quoted in Room to Dream
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The first cut of the film ran for almost three hours and was edited down to a final version that's two hours and six minutes. There were lots of shots of people walking down long hallways and atmosphere stuff that ended up being cut, but most of what was shot ended up onscreen. Mel had final cut but he deferred to David on that, and he took no credit at all on the film because he didn't want his name to create any expectations about what the film was.


Daily Painting
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Joan Mitchell
La ligne de la rupture (1970)

Friday, November 25, 2022

TWIN PEAKS - THE RETURN
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David Lynch
USA, 2017
Currently Reading
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THE PASSENGER

Cormac McCarthy
No Shave November - Photographer unknown to me.
THE ELEPHANT MAN
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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John Morris

DAVID LYNCH
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We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to reconcile those opposing things. I’ve always liked both sides. In order to appreciate one you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too.


Daily Painting
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Anton Heyboer
Danseres (ND)

Thursday, November 24, 2022

TWIN PEAKS - THE RETURN
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David Lynch
USA, 2017
The Carter Administration Thanksgiving Day menu - 1977.

No Shave November - Photographer unknown to me.

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne
PHÈDRE
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Judith van Wanroij, Julien Behr, Tassis Christoyannis, Melody Louledjian, Jérôme Boutillier, Ludivine Gombert 

György Vashegyi
Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra

DAVID LYNCH via MARGARET LANTERMAN
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Can you see through a wall? Can you see through human skin? X-rays see through solid, or so-called solid objects. There are things in life that exist, yet our eyes cannot see them. Have you ever seen something startling that others cannot see? Why are some things kept from our vision? Is life a puzzle?

I am filled with questions. Sometimes my questions are answered. In my heart, I can tell the answer is correct. I am my own judge. In a dream, are all the characters really you? Different aspects of you? Do answers come in dreams?


Daily Painting
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Aurele Robert
Carthusian Monks Singing (1865)

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

INLAND EMPIRE
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David Lynch
USA, 2006
No Shave November - Photographer unknown to me.
ESPRIT DES BALKANS
[BALKAN SPIRIT]
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Jordi Savall
Hespérion XXI

GRACE ZABRISKIE
From Brad Duke's book Reflections - An Oral History of Twin Peaks
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The inhabiting spirit of Bob, I see as part and parcel of a lot of what Twin Peaks might have been about. A metaphor for the half of life that is true, the half that is false, and the half that is truer than true.


Daily Painting
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Hector de Gregorio
Solar Nurse (Date Unknown)

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

MULHOLLAND DR.
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David Lynch
USA, 2001
No Shave November - Photographer unknown to me.
THE STRAIGHT STORY
Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Angelo Badalamenti

DAVID LYNCH
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Lately I feel films are more and more like music. Music deals with abstractions and, like film, it involves time. It has many different movements, it has much contrast. And through music you learn that, in order to get a particular beautiful feeling, you have to have started far back, arranging certain things in a certain way. You can’t just cut to it.


Daily Painting
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Edward Hopper
Room for Tourists (1945)

Monday, November 21, 2022

THE STRAIGHT STORY
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David Lynch
USA, 1999
No Shave November - Photographer unknown to me.