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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Rest In Peace, David Lynch🌹

Artwork for DAVID LYNCH: A COMPLETE RETROSPECTIVE at the Music Box

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

anyone with half an ear knows lana is better than taylor but real ones know carly rae is the one taylor wishes she was

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

thanks mang. i am trying to bring the jumper back. we’ll see how it goes. 😂

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

every single time I’m like…wtf did i do this time. 😂

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

that time you told me she wasnt even into me

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

man do i remember that era. may it disappear into history forever.

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

whats the word for the literary type who pretends theyre hard left but the moment theyre offered any power or prestige they become a card carrying member of the regime? asking bc you know there seem to be a uh lot of these people about.

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

man do i miss those fkn video stores. used to work at one.

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

yeah that shift just hit fiction in the past ten years or so.

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

was 20 or 30 years ago particularly with film bc film is so dependent on cash. there are just...brief periods of culture in certain places where the money and the industry is behind the best artists. but it doesnt last long. we are moving out of that period rapidly. or are fully out of it already.

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

being made in america right now. the same thing has happened in literature; almost everything that is truly really good but more importantly interesting is being published outside of or adjacent to the mainstreams eye. good art is still happening but its hard to argue the quality is as high as it

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

they are not big budget. they are sci fi and horror and historical and well done. not great films but well done. some of the most imaginative stuff coming out of US film. they are adjacent in seemingly every way to what is happening in mainstream film. really they are some of the only good films

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

watched late night with the devil last night. there is a category of american film that has emerged in the past few years...im not sure how to describe it but its like...late night with the devil / vast of night / broadcast signal intrusion / shadow in the cloud / etc. they are not indie but

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

i can see it in some of my students too; a real sense of wanting a fuller sense of art. its quite moving to see actually.

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

also to be clear it’s not readers your students age who seems only fit for YA. my hope is that there is still hope for kids that age.

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

ive been seeing this more and more. makes me v sad tbh.

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

there is a whole gen of young americans who are not fit to read adult literature. a different kind of lost generation: utterly unprepared for adult reality. they should not be allowed to read anything but YA. and the people who taught them to read this way should be sent to an offworld prison.

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

one sign american literary realism was going into hard decline was when people started writing sequels. sorry—except in the rarest of instances sequels and trilogies are for the other genres. im not even sure why. thats just how it is.

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

its the mode now. people wouldnt know appreciation if it kicked them in the ass.

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

being out in public spaces in seattle and hearing all the rock music playing gives me hope.

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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

rather than come off as an enemy-in-waiting, Strohl always reads as the filmmaker's best friend, the one who can be trusted to craft an interpretation that lights the film up. It's deeply generous and rewarding criticism. Hard to Watch is worth it just for his take on Titane. 3/3

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Nick Riggle @nickriggle.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

his power as a critic is instead in his ability to value film far more deeply, profoundly, and sympathetically than others, and to draw us in to the intense and loving attention he pays to films through his lucid and mercifully jargon-free writing. One consequences of this approach is that, 2/3

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

had the great privilege of reading this book before pub and writing a blurb for it. matt has written two important books about film now: why its ok to love bad movies and hard to watch: how to fall in love with difficult movies). cannot recommend them enough.

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain @mrhwm.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

yes but long essays are the fucking best

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