#220: Dreamtime for the Diamond Dogs, pt. 3
Added 2024-08-02 07:27:59 +0000 UTCGetta Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Concentration Camp!
Help a family in Gaza escape genocide HERE
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My eyes popped out seeing this Gofundme reach 30k (goal of 50k). MSJ if you save even one member of this family you will never pay for another drink in the town of Galesburg, Illinois. (I'm positioning myself to chunk in a few more bucks but I think my situation is similar to yours, weird-cash-transfer-rules-wise.)
Rohmer Simpson
2024-08-07 21:42:45 +0000 UTCI'll give for you Maciek. I'll give in your name. May it be a blessing on your soul.
Rohmer Simpson
2024-08-07 21:38:40 +0000 UTCI’m kind of piss poor right now but I want to help the Gaza thing. Is there like a, fuck I hate asking this but maybe will the thing still be up in a week or two? I’m just catching up with some bills and it’d be wildly irresponsible of me to not pay those but ya. I want to help someone better than me.
Maciek
2024-08-06 13:30:50 +0000 UTCThis is also incredible analysis! I don’t think I know how comments work lol but very much appreciate everyone sharing, and especially MSJ! It’s got my wheels crackling ⚙️⚡️
Tammy
2024-08-05 21:54:18 +0000 UTCSad to hear about Lynch's emphysema diagnosis - the severity of which makes it so he can't leave the house anymore, much less direct any more pictures. He's quoted as saying he's finally quit cigarettes, so there's that at least.
Rohmer Simpson
2024-08-05 20:50:48 +0000 UTC(Which is not, likewise, to encourage spurious bad-faith "readings" – jesus christ I am so tired of that word – for personal benefit or social advancement or whatever. The whole point is that no one person knows what it's all "about," because it's not "about" any one discrete thing, and then you take the ride and see what you see.)
Michael S. Judge
2024-08-05 18:38:21 +0000 UTCBecause people are talking about it, I should say: what an artist thinks of his/her own work is, at best, a curiosity to me. I don't really care if Lynch "meant" anything I'm seeing, though I think some of it he clearly did; the personal detail that the artist can append to the work might contain something interesting that sends me in a direction I wouldn't have considered before, but if David Lynch personally told me "This is all wrong," it wouldn't stop me seeing what I see. If you record an album or write a book or paint something complex, much less direct a movie that dozens of other people work on, the idea that any artwork is the product of its creator's unitary conscious intention gets scraped off your brain pretty quickly.
Michael S. Judge
2024-08-05 18:34:45 +0000 UTCMe as well! Again, I've had the same concerns with Lynch and sometimes wonder how much of it Lynch actually intends. However, I think MSJ has helped articulate some buried strains in Lynch's work that don't really get talked about too much. The Eraserhead stuff was really interesting and was a far cry from the usual "It's about the anxiety of fatherhood." Which, yeah, that's definitely there, but I've always felt there's so much more going on with that film. I mean, Henry literally has a picture of the nuclear bomb in his apartment! I think that's some key evidence that Lynch has always had these concerns on some level. Also all the stuff with the radiator reminds me of the electrical vs. mechanical, and the Radiator Lady looks like the growths on her face might be a result from nuclear radiation??; Harry's hair maybe resembling a mushroom cloud?? All I know is, I'm loving this series and can't wait for more lol.
Mike Humowitz
2024-08-05 18:16:45 +0000 UTCYeah I am really loving the analysis so far.
Tyler
2024-08-05 17:05:29 +0000 UTCI can definitely understand where you're coming from in regards to Lynch's attitude towards his own work. He does come off at times like he's not too concerned with what it all means, or gives answers that seem inconsequential. MSJ gave a great answer in regards to this in one of the Q&A episodes a couple years back: MSJ said that he thinks Lynch plays up the whole weird, goofy, spacey guy persona so he doesn't have to have his opinions quested after and exposed to the public. Michael said that he thinks Twin Peaks: The Return knocked out some of the concerns of Lynch's work being just the strange obsessions of a weird guy, and how The Return grounds Lynch's work in a type of specific context of a post WW2, post nuclear bomb, American nightmare. There videos of Lynch where he's not acting as goofy or hokey, like if you watch the behind-the-scenes of Twin Peaks: The Return, Lynch does seem very focused on the work and seems intent on getting very specific meaning/intentions/feelings from the work (like the video where he's directing one of the woodsmen on how to pop the peoples' heads in the radio station). All the stuff MSJ has been talking about makes a ton of sense (like the electrical vs the mechanical for example), and has been some of the best Lynch analysis I've ever come across, so I'm excited for more.
Mike Humowitz
2024-08-04 02:16:13 +0000 UTCAbout car radios (very belatedly, apologies): I have a pretty newish car (2022) and you can absolutely pick up static across the band, as well as half-strength transmissions from stations whose main market is too far away to come in clearly. What distinguishes the post-digital (going on 25-30 years, give or take?) radio scanner from the pre- would have to be that today's dial moves across the spectrum incrementally, each increment being the same distance, like you'll be at 93.7 and the next one up is 93.9, and so on. (That's FM. AM has different increments.) Whereas pre-digital - no such increments. More like playing the theremin than changing the channel.
Rohmer Simpson
2024-08-03 21:27:13 +0000 UTCI love when an artists work gets elevated beyond what they intended tho!!
Tammy
2024-08-03 18:53:03 +0000 UTCthe earliest interview I’ve seen, from criterion extras on eraserhead, DL basically says that he othered folks in Philadelphia so much that he had a mutant baby about it.
Tammy
2024-08-03 18:52:25 +0000 UTCI've sent what I can. I really hope your friend and her family escape. It will be cold comfort with the spirits of the stolen in the air, but I hope that one day she, her family, and you will be able to gaze upon the sky and enjoy the world in peace in your own ways, in your own places, if even just for a moment. A reprieve. I'll listen to the rest of this later, but all I can think about is gazing up from the roots of a pine tree into the canopy with the rays of the sun filtering through the needles, and how viciously cruel the world is to deny her something like that.
Andrew Rassling
2024-08-03 18:07:43 +0000 UTCI think I got some of the homies to chip in some change. Not looking for kudos, just saying it was nice to see.
Rohmer Simpson
2024-08-03 18:05:07 +0000 UTChttps://www.newstatesman.com/world/middle-east/2024/08/what-a-surgeon-saw-in-gaza - Reading this just after listening to this episode was harrowing. Specially the 5th paragraph where Sidwha explains how his dreams of death and genocide are not nightmares... Someone who choose to go to the real world and now has his entire conception of horror reshaped by it.
Eduardo Navarro
2024-08-03 18:04:43 +0000 UTCNarrative chirality is a fascinating force in itself - it's like we need that sense of symbol balance on some level. The hebrew bible uses those structures as a literary device, and dante's contrapasso made it bloodier. I think we even see echoes of it in modern politics - a vague desire for human sacrifice
Frater XII Irrumabo
2024-08-03 11:40:08 +0000 UTCAlso I love that anecdote about Joyce. That’s awesome.
Mike Humowitz
2024-08-03 02:28:19 +0000 UTCYeah that was a sick series
Mark Murphy
2024-08-03 01:22:39 +0000 UTCDo you think that this is outwardly what Lynch is trying to say through his work? I totally agree with the analysis and can see it clearly in the work but every interview with him about his work his answers are just so aloof or inconsequential
Tyler
2024-08-02 21:32:54 +0000 UTCWhen brace dropped “4th reich” I got real stoked
Tyler
2024-08-02 21:29:52 +0000 UTCYes! I agree!! I think we would all love to hear an episode or more about The Anathemata and David Jones. Please MSJ, Paganism and the Logic of Metaphor, pt. 5 🙏.
Mike Humowitz
2024-08-02 19:07:12 +0000 UTCIncredible episode! I donated to your friend, thank you so much for sharing that poem!
Tammy
2024-08-02 16:37:18 +0000 UTCI hope we can get that family out. I’m doing what I can.
Rohmer Simpson
2024-08-02 15:55:37 +0000 UTCI could practically hear you hooting and hollering during the latest TrueAnon
Rohmer Simpson
2024-08-02 13:25:17 +0000 UTCThe most substantive tease of The Anathemata ep. yet. Ah gwan. Re Modernism and the Catholic Mass: Jacques Mercanton (iirc) said that Joyce went to only Easter services every year "to witness the rebirth of fire and water."
Madra na Móna
2024-08-02 09:44:57 +0000 UTC
