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     XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 191 Registered: 01-2006 |
Anyone in the States seen this yet? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 300 Registered: 09-2006 |
I saw it in Seattle a couple months ago...loved it, but I'm a huge Lynch fan. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1709 Registered: 03-2006 |
Do you know anything about Lynch's book on meditation, Allen? Curious to know if its' worth checking out... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 303 Registered: 09-2006 |
It's worth checking out, with reservations: it's 20 bucks but you can read it in an hour and a half, tops. There's plenty of inspiration in it if one's debating trying meditation, but there's not much in the way of instructions or exercises. The kind of meditation he talks about is TM, and while it's obviously worked wonders for him (one surprizing thing he says in the book is that despite what many people think, he's only gotten artistic inspiration from a dream once in his life...the rest has come as a by-product of twice-a-day-for-20-minutes TM.) and others, I personally don't think one needs to pay for a mantra. The most fun part of the book is reading and hearing Lynch's voice in your mind, speaking the words...he writes in much the same plain-spoken, Midwestern, enthusiastic, slightly self-conscious way. My favorite part is when he masters TM in about five minutes flat (as I should have known would be the case): "The teacher took me into this little room to have my first meditation. I sat down, closed my eyes, started this mantra, and it was if I was in an elevator and the cable had been cut. Boom! I fell into bliss - pure bliss. And I was just IN there. Then the teacher said, "It's time to come out; it's been twenty minutes." And I said, "IT'S ALREADY BEEN TWENTY MINUTES?!" And she said, "Shhhh!" because other people were still meditating." I can just hear him hollering like that, too... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1713 Registered: 03-2006 |
You know, I think you've probably successfully relayed the highpoints, A, and the rest I can get in a bookstore browse... I'll save my twenty bucks for something by that other Zen master, Ian Dury... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 305 Registered: 09-2006 |
Sounds like the better deal, certainly...and if I'm doing a sumup I should probably mention the nice little story he tells about one of his best days ever: meeting Roy Orbison post-Blue Velvet and getting to meditate with him. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 194 Registered: 01-2006 |
Allen thanks for the info, I'm not sure what kind of release it's going to get over here. That meditation story with the Big O sounds hilarious, I love Roy Orbison and the way Lynch has used some of his music in his films. The scene in Mulholland Drive where the woman is singing Crying in Spanish is really powerful. Season 2 of Twin Peaks has come out on DVD on Region 1 but there's no sign of it coming out on Region 2 yet, hopefully it'll come out here soon... | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 196 Registered: 01-2006 |
I've actually just booked tickets to see INLAND EMPIRE this Sunday at the Irish Film Institute....nice coincidence!! | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1715 Registered: 03-2006 |
Cool story, Allen. I think the scene in "Blue Velvet", with Dean Stockwell lip-syncing "In Dreams" into a trouble light, was the quintessential Lynchian moment. One of those moments when you say to yourself, "damn, I haven't really seen this before". | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 308 Registered: 09-2006 |
Agreed...I remember my first viewing of that film at a midnight show on a big screen and how through the course of the film my mind just turned itself inside out. I walked home about two miles with this intense euphoria. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 310 Registered: 09-2006 |
Have fun XY...it's like all his movies, but even more so...don't expect a plot, certainly not what we on this level of reality would consider a plot... |