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This book maybe doesn’t have the most revolutionary ideas and it’s written very casually, but in that the idea of the “genius” is demystified for me. I think that’s valuable.
Next time I want to experience something David Lynch shit out in fifteen minutes, I'll just watch (insert your least favorite, most nonsensical Lynch film here)
I've meditated for years and my son shared this book with me. Not sure I get how TM is different from what I do, but I'd love to learn more. Without shucking out hundreds of dollars. This satisfied my curiosity for now.
hopeful
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
cheesy with spiritualist pseudoscience, but so cheerful and loving and goofy that I can't complain. I love him!
Read for my soc paper about TM. Was weird and mostly non-sensical. But I get how the practice could seem beneficial, especially for aspiring artists, and especially for those people in a place like LA. I can see how someone could buy into this.
"Why I make film, by David Lynch." Short succinct snippets of technical advice intermingled with TM's Unified Field Theory of Consciousness.
David Lynch is one of the most genuine people to ever grace the Earth.
Favorite quotes:
“It would be great if the entire film came all at once. But it comes, for me, in fragments... In Blue Velvet, it was red lips, green lawns, and the song—Bobby Vinton’s version of ‘Blue Velvet.’ The next thing was an ear lying in a field. And that was it.”
“When you see an aging building or a rusted bridge, you are seeing nature and man working together... If it is allowed to age, then man has built it and nature has added into it—it’s so organic.”
“I don’t necessarily love rotting bodies, but there’s a texture to a rotting body that is unbelievable.”
“When I was young, I did a lot of things with pine. But then, I started falling in love with Douglas fir, vertical-grain Douglas fir.”
Favorite quotes:
“It would be great if the entire film came all at once. But it comes, for me, in fragments... In Blue Velvet, it was red lips, green lawns, and the song—Bobby Vinton’s version of ‘Blue Velvet.’ The next thing was an ear lying in a field. And that was it.”
“When you see an aging building or a rusted bridge, you are seeing nature and man working together... If it is allowed to age, then man has built it and nature has added into it—it’s so organic.”
“I don’t necessarily love rotting bodies, but there’s a texture to a rotting body that is unbelievable.”
“When I was young, I did a lot of things with pine. But then, I started falling in love with Douglas fir, vertical-grain Douglas fir.”
I just finished this little book. Its full of random musings from a very smart person. Like advice from your wise uncle. Enlightened, but limited in scope. A quick breezy afternoon read.
This is like being a fly in one of David Lynch's rotting meat paintings, listening in as he quietly muses about life while a small moth takes dusty notes.