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Offline Findecanor

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David Lynch has died.
« on: Thu, 16 January 2025, 13:36:40 »
Emphysema. He got to 78.
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Re: David Lynch has died.
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 16 January 2025, 13:47:43 »
He seemed like a great guy, but his work sometimes did cross the line into "too creepy for me"

I will never forget when I saw "Eraserhead" in the late 1970s at a midnight showing. Even though I had seen many "weird" art films and such, nothing prepared me for "Eraserhead". I had nightmares about it for quite a while.

Reading that it was Stanley Kubrick's favorite film at the time blew my mind.
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Bret Stephens (NYT 2025-03-10) starts with the tariffs, noting that every president since the Great Depression has correctly concluded that the ensuing economic crisis and World War that followed that calamity was attributable in large part to the notorious 1930 Smoot Hawley Tariffs.
That is, until the current occupant of the Oval Office. Until him, no U.S. president has been so ignorant of the lessons of history. Until him, no U.S. president has been so incompetent in putting his own ideas into practice. That’s a conclusion that stock markets seem to have drawn as they plunged following the Trump triple whammy: first, tariff threats against our largest trading partners, spelling much higher costs; second, twice-repeated monthlong reprieves on some of those tariffs, meaning a zero-predictability business environment; finally, his tacit admission, to Maria Bartiromo of Fox News, that the United States could go into recession this year, and that it’s a price he’s willing to pay to do what he calls a “big thing.” In short, a willful, erratic and heedless president is prepared to risk both the U.S. and global economy to make his ideological point. This won’t end well, especially in a no-guardrails administration staffed by a how-high team of enablers and toadies.
But Stephens goes further than simply castigating these pointless and destructive tariffs that Trump has taken such a pathological shine to. He explains how the fancifully created “Department of Governmental Efficiency, (“DOGE”) would be more aptly characterized as an engine of wholesale destruction. Because nothing Musk is doing is about “efficiency.”

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Re: David Lynch has died.
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 16 January 2025, 14:03:21 »
I got hooked on Twin Peaks when it aired again time in the mid '00s. Dale Cooper is my spirit animal.

IMHO. His Dune is still the most epic. (and Kyle McLachlan is the better Paul Atreides.)

Mulholland Drive is a masterpiece and perfectly understandable. (I'm not going to tell you how)

Wonderfully cooky person, in all the best ways. In recent years he had a YouTube channel on which he drew lottery numbers from a jar and reported on the current weather around his home.
And he did this (edited), and I admire him for it.

He loved American culture, and it showed in all his works. Let us all remember the lovable aspects of America in the years to come.
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Re: David Lynch has died.
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 16 January 2025, 14:04:28 »
Oooh, just read about it. Sad.
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Re: David Lynch has died.
« Reply #4 on: Thu, 16 January 2025, 15:16:55 »
Only saw dune and elephant man. Which other one is gud'.
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Re: David Lynch has died.
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 16 January 2025, 16:08:38 »
Very dower news
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Re: David Lynch has died.
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 16 January 2025, 16:20:46 »
Loved Eraserhead and Dune, very sad to hear :( . Rest in peace David.
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Re: David Lynch has died.
« Reply #7 on: Thu, 16 January 2025, 16:59:05 »
Quote from: tp4tissue on Thu, 16 January 2025, 15:16:55

Which other one is gud


I would say that Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive are safe bets.
As TV goes, Twin Peaks is slow and frustrating but also compelling.
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Bret Stephens (NYT 2025-03-10) starts with the tariffs, noting that every president since the Great Depression has correctly concluded that the ensuing economic crisis and World War that followed that calamity was attributable in large part to the notorious 1930 Smoot Hawley Tariffs.
That is, until the current occupant of the Oval Office. Until him, no U.S. president has been so ignorant of the lessons of history. Until him, no U.S. president has been so incompetent in putting his own ideas into practice. That’s a conclusion that stock markets seem to have drawn as they plunged following the Trump triple whammy: first, tariff threats against our largest trading partners, spelling much higher costs; second, twice-repeated monthlong reprieves on some of those tariffs, meaning a zero-predictability business environment; finally, his tacit admission, to Maria Bartiromo of Fox News, that the United States could go into recession this year, and that it’s a price he’s willing to pay to do what he calls a “big thing.” In short, a willful, erratic and heedless president is prepared to risk both the U.S. and global economy to make his ideological point. This won’t end well, especially in a no-guardrails administration staffed by a how-high team of enablers and toadies.
But Stephens goes further than simply castigating these pointless and destructive tariffs that Trump has taken such a pathological shine to. He explains how the fancifully created “Department of Governmental Efficiency, (“DOGE”) would be more aptly characterized as an engine of wholesale destruction. Because nothing Musk is doing is about “efficiency.”
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