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When I get a spare 6 hours on my work machine, the patient and generous Doolittle is getting lossless rips of these.
And that’ll be sooner rather than later!
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Never got around to On the Air but Hotel Room is some good stuff and the Barry Gifford-written segment is like an early run for Lost Highway/Mulholland Dr with its identity blurring going on
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I actually haven’t watched Hotel Room yet! That’s my carrot for doing this task. That sounds rad.
I did do a transfer of OTA but had some careless sound issues so it’s gotta get a second go.
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Also hoped the inland resto would lead to similar processes for other miniDV films made around the same era that deserve the same love and attention (like Zero Years) given half the reason they did it in the first place was the digital degradation of the sources ZERO YEARS HD TRAILER - YouTube
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Maybe David Lynch regretted leaving “I like pancakes” out of the main film and the only solution was to make it more than four hours long.
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Whew, could it be 4k fwwm…?
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Just saw Being There and Dougie has that innocent/fried-by-tv-static way of moving through the world
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I absolutely hated Being There until lynch remade it with dale cooper
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My friend wants to watch Twin Peaks: The Return but saw the original a long time ago and wanted to rewatch some of the better episodes to catch him up to speed. I had the pilot (international cut) and the season 2 finale in mind but are there any in-between episodes I should also consider? (we did FWWM fairly recently)
I generally go for the season 2 eps where Lynch has directing credit: 1 / 2 / 7 / 22
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“We discussed possible approaches to the game design and we decided the risks were disproportionately higher than potential rewards and that Twin Peaks viewers and NES players were not likely to overlap much in a year or two,” Pidgeon tells us. “Our recommendation was to drop the license and the project. There was no design document created. And I don’t believe there is anything more to the story.”
“I thought the best approach would be a graphics and text adventure game with some RPG elements,” he tells us. "It would have required a sophisticated text choice-based system that frankly did not yet exist. BioWare did create and perfect such a system, but that would be almost ten years later. We were looking at Maniac Mansion for inspiration.
“Ideas we threw around were: playing as different main characters through segues or from the beginning, multiple satisfying endings, lots of NPCs like Log Lady, surrealistic settings and crazy plot twists that would echo but not duplicate the show’s story arc.”
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rip al strobel
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the dream is collapsing
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we gotta whip up some new dreams!!!
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i’ve been revisiting this series since al strobel’s passing, also that garbage disposal bit of the goings on thread since i keep thinking of the evil of formerly living or sentient substance (meat, really) being “wrapped in plastic” and going to a landfill. i don’t know if what happens at the waste water treatment plant is less diabolical but it’s at least not as imprisoned. i kept reading raves about this fertilizer substance “milorganite” and then i found out it’s some reclaimed sewage. maybe the bits for the disposal should be imprisoned too. i don’t know how rolling in a milorganite lawn couldn’t be at least a little poisonous. anyway… it’s turned me into a diehard composter since i can’t not hear jack nance as i walk toward the trash can.
i’ve actually rewatched till season 1 episode 4 or something, and these deaths but especially al strobel summoned me back. i think the characterization of philip gerard / mike / the arm are pretty muddled, not even so much in a bad way. but al really nails it either way! he’s hooting/hollering in fwwm (all time scene), and a spooky wizard in his initial poem recitation in cooper’s dream and honestly those are the two things that immediately come to mind when i think of this show. such an incredibly strange presence he brings. i wonder if he would have been in the return as much if michael j anderson did not have his problems, and i believe he’s actually credited as philip gerard, not MIKE in the return? maybe i’m wrong about that. and such a different muted performance he brings there. anyway, guy rules.
i started “researching twin peaks” which is full of little trivia bits and fantastic insights from random folks but mostly useless unless i want to read the frost books which… i don’t think i want to do. i think it used to be sick as hell to allude to your niche interests and forgotten media when you’re making art but it seems tiresome honestly in 2017 and i probably have it wrong to peg frost as some arch-wikipedian but there are a couple moments of exposition and very quotey dialogue in the return that grind my gears. i suppose i should blame the duo because i found out that the scene that has captured me for years, the fwwm convenience store, on which frost has no writing credit, has dialogue constructed nearly verbatim from random lines from blavatsky’s “the secret doctrine” and unfortunately did not actually descend from pure air. hate it when the inscrutable becomes scrutable.
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