"He said I'm gonna live to be a hundred."
No life lived so fully is a life lived in vain. No life that touched so many people. A life that kept trucking no matter what, and doing it all his way.
There's no shortage of things I could write about how David Lynch impacted me. I've done it before right here on this website and I'll probably do it many times in the future. He really helped mold my artistic…
It really is a literary high, you dig? I haven't had something match up with my internal metronome in this way since my last re-read of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas on a plane bound for a work conference in Cleveland. This absolutely marches to the beating off of my drum. The crusty allure, the self-flagellation, the addiction to the creative process, the feuding inspirational points of the classics and the contemporary media zeitgeist and your peers' interests and…
When humanity finally kicks the ultimate bucket, I hope this document remains as a testament and tribute to the highest heights of which we were capable. Possibly the greatest artistic endeavor ever accomplished. The way this transports you right there, a true portal to another time, so many people just being people, living and balling and dancing and living. The use of splitscreen in this is one of the single best cinematic techniques ever devised. The performances, holy moley. Every…
I don't know if there's ever been such an unbridled and earnest display of true optimism and hope for the future. Pure, shining, transcendent. Before our eyes were opened to the artifice of it all and doomed us to an eternal state of fear and loathing, before we saw what the government really thought of those students in Ohio, before the Angels put us all under their thumb, before those desert freaks had us running helter skelter, before the Democrats…
Oh yes, I have seen it, I have seen the third revelation, and it revealed unto me that there will be blood. Again, I say, there will be blood, and there is power in the blood. One day, I hope to bathe in that blood, the wonder-working powerful blood of the lamb, but until that final day of judgement arrives, the blood will wait. Below our very feet, the blood lies in wait, stewing in stygian depths unknown, conspiring with…
Thinking there's some kind of trinity of "existential geezer roadtrip movies" to be made. The Straight Story, Wild Strawberries, and this.
It's always a good time to go blind into a movie theater, doubly so when it's a 16mm show, triply even when it ends up being a surprise masterpiece. This was exactly what I needed, a nice glass of scotch and plain water, all the vitamins and flax seeds and shoulder massages I could have asked for.
Not only…
