From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 11 April 2002<P>

Rhet ~ as we've pleasantly determined in the past, you and I share a lot of the same character traits (though I'm not interested in gerentology, per se, as much as I'm attracted to grey haired men in very expensive Jaguars). I am exceptionally analytical (not TOO anal) and I'm always striving to understand things on multiple levels. I'll let you know my thoughts and reactions to "Muholland Drive" if you'd like to hear them. After all is said and done, at the very least my name shares some letters in the title! (How's THAT for shallow?!)<BR>
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-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=638">Hopeful</a><BR>
Date: 11 April 2002<P>

Oh darn it...<BR>
Now I am going to have to make a Blockbuster run after class tomorrow.  I don't want to be left out of the Lynchapalooza and I was all about Twin Peaks.<BR>
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As an aside, did I hear Memento mentioned.  Now that was a film.  I like a little bit of every type of movie.  Different ones for different moods.<BR>
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Sounds like I will need to be feeling studious for tomorrow's rental.  Can we have like a Mulholland Drive study group?<BR>
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Too sleepy to think tonight tho...<BR>
Megs
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=109">Stephen</a><BR>
Date: 11 April 2002<P>

BK~~ <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.10.23.07.16598">You Know I Love You!</a> was great...love the technique you used... when words that go together like songs.. <BR>
"Love beads<BR>
Daisy chains<BR>
And moonstones              simply great...<BR>
That all sing<BR>
Love me do"<BR>
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wistful~~ <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.10.03.05.1581">Ug!</a> lol.. yea.. definately..  Women do stupid things too though :-)<BR>
Oh and..<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.08.03.26.23124">Time Heels</a> was just god awful(or good?) awesome.<BR>
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Misti~~ Couldn't completely understand <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.09.07.20.29889">Some Will Argue</a>, but it was very good<BR>
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hopeful~~ <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.09.11.20.18771">Simple man.</a> <BR>
and<BR>
jon~~ <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.10.15.44.20124">In this poem</a><BR>
interesting how 'I love you' becomes not enough, and overused.. so true.<BR>
<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.08.18.50.7121">You're not fat!</a> .. I feel your pain Jon.. *sighs*<BR>
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Gudkarma~~ Whoa...<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.08.23.37.24503">Passion Goodbye</a> was personal.. very good tho.. dang<BR>
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splatipus~~ good points in <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.04.17.28.24060">sayings</a><BR>
and <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.04.17.31.26301">paradise</a> was great too.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 11 April 2002<P>

Varda and Violet~<BR>
Thanks! I'm going to submit some new scenes now.<BR>
Stephen~<BR>
Thank you, too.<BR>
Megs~<BR>
Great idea! David Lynchology 101. Okay, this weekend I need to rent "Muholland Drive," "Lost Highway" and "Eraserhead."<BR>
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Chocolate Chip Pancakes and Coffee w/ 1 Cream/2 Sugars<BR>
(NOT Sweet-N-Low or Equal! Real sugar!!!)....<BR>
Misti<BR>
(Agent Dale Cooper knows the importance of details)<BR>
(and "damn fine coffee"...ha!)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 11 April 2002<P>

Oh gawwwd. AOL is gettin' funky on me. I only meant to submit those scenes ONCE. I kept hitting "reload" and the scenes wouldn't come up! Very, very sorry about that.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=751">SummerSun</a><BR>
Date: 11 April 2002<P>

I just wanted to say hi to everyone and that you all are such wonderful writers. I'm sure you have been told that a lot though. lol <BR>
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SummerSun
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 11 April 2002<P>

Okay, it's 10:30 am and I'm dragging my ass. David Lynch kept me up till 2am and I'm wondering if he was non copis mentis. I definitely would not wish for that man's brain. Not to say I didn't 'like' the movie. Though I do wonder at it's value. <BR>
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I didn't find the "David Lynch's 10 Clues to Unlocking the Thriller "Muholland Drive" list to be very useful. As a matter of fact, I'm wondering if the list isn't a red herring. Regardless, I tossed it. <BR>
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What I will present, for now, (as I think I'm to bed again)is that the importance of the film lies at the club Silencio. We are told that these things are a recording. On tape. That what we think is happening is not. But several times we 'forget' that what we are seeing, or hearing, is not real and we are brutaly reminded of that fact, particularily when Rebekah sings Llalandro (sp?). We get caught up in the beautiful sadness of her voice. We are immersed in the song and the voice and the emotion. Then the singer falls to the floor and the song continues on. "IT IS NOT REAL!" we are reminded. This is reflected in the movie as a whole. The first half of the movie is relatively realistic. The two main female characters are sweet and likeable. The story seems to makes sense...at the very least we are patient to let the story unfold and reveal itself to us and we are still trusting that it will at this point. Then the second half of the story becomes disjointed. Surreal. Improbable, if not impossible, events occur. Things condradict what we thought to be true. Things don't add up. Just as they did not add up at Silencio. <BR>
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Maybe that is Lynch's message. Things are not as they seem.<BR>
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(Also, Betty and Rita get the blue box that fits the blue key Rita had AT Silencio. This seems to be symbolic. Does the blue box represent the 'proof' that things are not as they seem? NB: when the blue box is opened is when things become very illogical and disorienting. And the ugly monster man behind Winkies had the blue box....where the old man and the old woman came crazily hopping out of).  <BR>
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I think it's important to note that the story is about Hollywood too. He mixes a lot of 'old Hollywood' in the story. Like Coco, and making Betty look like an innocent 60's type star, the GILDA poster and Rita's name. I think part of his message is that today's Hollywood is not at all what it seems, and what you think is beautiful and pure is truly whorish, manipulative, and bitter.  <BR>
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Well, I'm still tired, but I wasted my sleeping time writing this, so I'm off to work out and do some housecleaning. <BR>
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Arcanum arcanorum ad absurdum,<BR>
-Teej<BR>
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PS...<BR>
If anyone knows where to find a GOOD download of the song Rebekah sings at Silencio, let me know!!!!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=644">wordley</a><BR>
Date: 11 April 2002<P>

To Galadrial, read your poem after watching 'Hannibal'........and after the last line of <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.11.03.31.19606"></a>......"with some fava beans and a rather fine chianti...THSS..THSS..THSS..THSS..!!!!!<BR>
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wordley
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=644">wordley</a><BR>
Date: 11 April 2002<P>

To Galadrial, read your poem after watching 'Hannibal'........and after the last line of <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.11.08.31.19606">One I Could Touch</a>......"with some fava beans and a rather fine chianti...THSS..THSS..THSS..THSS..!!!!!<BR>
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wordley
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=644">wordley</a><BR>
Date: 11 April 2002<P>

Perhaps I'm mistaken, not having seen 'Mulholland drive' yet,... but I find that Mr.Lynch has a habit of starting his films in so much detail that, one and a half hours later, it's suddenly" oh shit!! ..we've only got a half hour left, what can we lose??....." and that's where things come apart.<BR>
IF you like films that are esoteric and make you think then what about my two all-time favourites.... 'DUNE'..Sting is f*****g brilliant!!... and 'BLADERUNNER'... Two absolute classics....'course, if you want an oddball film that is an absolute SCREAM then look no further than 'DARK STAR'... and my apologies to Benson, Arizona.....<BR>
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wordley
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=684">Gudkarma</a><BR>
Date: 11 April 2002<P>

ah, finally a lynch message board!<BR>
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my joy.<BR>
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david lynch is actualy a penn name.<BR>
the real david lynch is  Janet Birch.<BR>
She lived in Germany and moved here in 1983.<BR>
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A big article was just written about her in MOJO.<BR>
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ok.<BR>
so i lied.<BR>
come spank me.<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=644">wordley</a><BR>
Date: 11 April 2002<P>

Gudkarma, consider yourself well and truly SLAPPED!!!.... that's the trouble with cyber punishment...it only hurts if your ONLINE man
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 11 April 2002<P>

Oh! Wordley!!!! You are soooo right. Actually Gala, I prefer your poem the second time 'round. Read with that psychotic slant that Wordley recognized! Too cool.<BR>
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ars moriendi,<BR>
-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 11 April 2002<P>

Gudkarma ~ Mmmmm........Now? Or later?<BR>
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alere flammam,<BR>
-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=644">wordley</a><BR>
Date: 11 April 2002<P>

Actually, TEEJ,  your present penchant for signing off in latin rminds me of the guy ( and this is not getting at those of us out of work because of genuine reasons!!) who was always off work with one imagined complaint after another. His M.D., getting a little pissed off, signed his last sickness note as "suffering from Plumboscis Ocillus". The guy thought he'd hit the jackpot!!.... Not knowing his boss read latin!!... he was sacked the next day!!!... Wonder why??... Answers on a postcard to...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=706">splatipus</a><BR>
Date: 11 April 2002<P>

Greetings Poetic Ones<BR>
<BR>
Will not even attempt to join the David Lynch discussion as due to long periods of time spent in another world have only seen Wild at Heart (but did enjoy)<BR>
Chrissy - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.09.23.15.29246">30 Days or Your Money Back</a>was toptastically fantabulous. Hope you managed to exchange.<BR>
Ug! - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.09.23.15.29246">30 Days or Your Money Back</a>, I know a few of those.<BR>
Stephen, thanks for the comments.<BR>
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Sp<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=706">splatipus</a><BR>
Date: 11 April 2002<P>

sorry, my copy freaked, that should have been <BR>
wistful -<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.10.03.05.1581">Ug!</a> i know a few of those!!<BR>
ooops<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=660">Vishal</a><BR>
Date: 11 April 2002<P>

My Dear Splat,<BR>
 The Happiness Tax, I love this one, it's beautiful.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=34">Just Some Girl</a><BR>
Date: 11 April 2002<P>

SomeDaySoon:<BR>
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I enjoyed the simplicity of your two submissions, especially "Take Home Test: 12AM." I loved the "ping, ping" of the bug. Nice touch!<BR>
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Rhet:<BR>
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Yes, banana-walnut like Rose's!! They bring tears to my eyes!
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