June 17, 2005

• That's the best thing I've ever seen. And happy birthday! Another gemini monkey! *jumps up and down, screeching*
• What? No smog index?
• how many monkeys? i just arrived in LA...!
• Happy birthday, sexyrobot!
• Happy birthday sexyrobot! we have a tight bunch of birthdays here. some year we should all gather in one place and raise hell.
• happy birthday sexyrobot
• Happy birthday, sexyrobot! Gooooo, Geminis!
• happy birthday sexy!!!!! hahahahahaa... yeah, i'm here in LA right now soaking up the palm trees and having a grand old time... and i'm with sexyrobot right now! so yeah. not talked to you monkeys in a long time, how are you all?
• p.s. everyone should come to the bbq!
• flickr.com/photos/sexyrobot
• Have a burnt on the outside / raw in the middle sausage for me. Happy B.day, SR.
• Happy birthday sexyrobot! have a good time monkeys!
• hee! Happy birthday! We want pictures of the bbq! Are you having a birthday cake?
• Happy sexday, birthyrobot! *hic*
• heh
• *dun-dun-dun-dun-DU-NAH!-dun-DUN!* YOU SAY IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY! *dun-dun-dun-dun-DU-NAH!-dun-DUN!* IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TOO, YEAH! Seriously, it is.
• birthy hapday, sexy! and many more. cockpunch all around.
• happy sexday, robot birth... and teepee too... robot teepee! heehee! HA! *staggers, falls, bounces*
• BIRTH THE HAPPYSEX ROBOT!!!! *passes out*
• *throws reviving bucket of water over flashboy*
• *wakes up ten hours later, wonders why he's soaking wet*
• I met Muffy last night! And the_bone arrives in LA on Sunday! And it's sexyrobot's birthday! TOO MUCH MONKEY GOODNESS! *faints, recovers, has more coffee in preparation for Best. Weekend. Ever*
• Hoist a glass for another Gemini birthday girl ol'lady. I wanna go to the bbq *pouts
• Happy Birthday, Sexyrobot!
• Eeeeeeeeeeee!!! Happy Birthday, sexyrobot! Wish we could make it to the BBQ, but hey, we could always have dim sum gathering in a few weeks. It will be later in the morning, I swear!
• Happy Birthday! I tried to make it, I really did. But a 13-hour driving day today only got me as far as Tucson. And since there is absolutely nothing to do in this city but drink and download porn, I will be performing both of these tasks in tandem, in your honor. Have fun tonight (I expect drunkdialing).
• oh, and a joyous natal day to TenaciousPettle as well!
• Happy Final Assembly and Power-up Day, sexyrobot! And to TenaciousPettle too!
• May the goddess smile benignly on you both during these hours. And all remaining years. Are there really this many geminis around here? /this could explain a lot of things...
• It probably is to blame for all the double posts. (Gemeni, twins... I'm leaving, you don't have to push.)
• SR- For you, a photo of a meteor shower. Via Wolof on #mofirc
• coooooooolllll! i <3 meteors/meteorites! thanks boney and wolof....the party fianally wound down (4am. ish.)....so much fun! yay monkeys!
• sorry, that last post was me...muffs was using my computer...
• That's the last time I leave a monkey party early. It took me TWO HOURS to get home. I really hope the pilot's ok.
• (and the drivers, doy)
• I guess I am going to be the one who posts about the freaky-deaky woman who peed in a bottle. I was too late on the scene to capture video of the aforementioned event. These LA meetups are just getting curiouser and curiouser. Oh, and video will be posted in the next couple of days.
• Encoded with something other than H.264, pretty please..? : )
• david lynch organic coffee
• Mmmmm, that's damn fine coffee!
• I saw "Inland Empire" the other day. I realise that David Lynch's films play with narrative orthodoxies to create moments of uncanny horror by confronting the viewer with the illusory nature of their expectation of "narrative control" over the work, and thus remove the very grundnorms which would support a dialectic analysis of successive elements in a "causal chain", in turn thrusting questions such as "what's with the fucking bunnies, dude?" into the mirror of their own inherent meaninglessness, but I just wondered if anyone could tell me - what's with the fucking bunnies?
• He probably just likes bunnies. Don't you like bunnies?
• Maybe the bunnies represent women? I didn't see the film, but this I know: David Lynch film = Women get beaten. It's like his 2003 classic "The Beaten Woman" where the hero temporarily loses his mind in a dark fit of uncontrollably women beatery and beats the woman. It's one of the few things the modern moviegoer can count on these days. The latest Star Wars? Suspect. The new Scorcese movie? Mmmmmmaybe. David Lynch movie? Aww yeah baby - here comes the woman beatin' scene. It's the reason I don't watch David Lynch films ever. Also, I'm still kinda pissed that Twin Peaks was so awesome at the same time as it went to shit. wtf. It's called a coherent storyline, look into it. /David_Spade_hairflip
• pete, I think you're talking crazy-talk again. I can only think of 2 woman-beatings offhand - in Blue Velvet and in Twin Peaks (and that was off-camera -- unless Leo hit Shelly on camera). None in Eraserhead, nor in The Elephant Man, or Mulholland Drive, or The Straight Story. I haven't seen Wild at Heart or Lost Highway in a while, so I can't say for sure about those. Why you hatin' on my buddy Dave?
• I read an interesting essay by Slavoj Žižek about David Lynch and women, but what I want to read is an interesting essay about David Lynch and bunnies - preferably by someone with even more carons, breves and/or umlauts.
• Mulholland Drive = some top notch "bunny lovin'", if you get my drift...
• This makes me wonder which cultural theorist currently living has the greatest number of diacritical marks in her/his name?
• Kit, if you go by his birth name.
• Rabbits (film) Rabbits is a 2002 film written and directed by David Lynch. It consists of an 8-episode series of short videos. The series was formerly shown exclusively on DavidLynch.com, but is no longer available there. Both the set and some footage of the rabbits are reused in Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE. Each episode takes place in a single room inhabited by three humanoid rabbits. The series' format is that of a sitcom, complete with a canned laugh track. However, there are no jokes, and the audience applause and laughter comes at apparently inappropriate times. The action is extremely sparse, with long pauses between characters' dialogue. Rabbits is presented with the tagline: "In a nameless city deluged by a continuous rain... three rabbits live with a fearful mystery".
• See? Loves bunnies.
• Thanks, rōrýķ.
• I thought it was řōŗýķ?
• Ŵĥǎŧęνěŗ.
• The violence aside, "Wild at Heart" also exercises the consistent streak of misogynism in Lynch's work. He has a particular knack for humiliating women in his films, and this time the primary target is Diane Ladd, as Mariette Fortune, the town seductress and vamp. See? Some jerk on the Intertubes agrees with me!
• You the Man pete!
• Mr. Lynch, who co-produced "Hotel Room" with Monty Montgomery, has lost none of his trademark misogyny. IMDB: David Lynch, keyword: misogyny Lost Highway has revived charges of misogyny against Lynch, first aired after Isabella Rossellini's loving embrace of S&M in Blue Velvet; in the new movie, Arquette is forced to strip for Mr Eddy at gunpoint. She starts off terrified, but then appears to get into it. "David's not a misogynist," says Arquette emphatically. "My experience with him was very gentle; he was always delightful to me. I think, though, he is obsessed and confused by women."
• Lynch's themes tend to be the darker side of human nature and the subconscious, so it's not surprising that fear or hatred of women would be included from time to time, among many other dark aspects of human nature. Singling it out and calling his overall work misogynist seems to me to be missing the big picture (if you will). But I can understand if violence in general isn't your bag, in which case most of Lynch's work isn't for you. I've personally never found his work to be misogynistic, and I am a woman (last I checked).
• *offers Koko a mirror* *awaits petebest3's response* And what about Dune?
• It's intersting to note that this thread, prior to the david lynch organic coffee link, had absolutely no discussion of the man himself. I can see how some people might associate Lynch with misogyny - but as Koko mentioned, I think this is a bit unfair to associate all of his work to this label. I have a dear friend who is both one of the most ardent feminists and David Lynch fans that I have known... I'm tempted to get her take on this, as it's a Lynch angle that we've never discussed.
• Lynch's themes tend to be the darker side of human nature and the subconscious, so it's not surprising that fear or hatred of women would be included from time to time I think I'm missing how those two things fit together - is fear or hatred of women a subconscious element for humans? Or just Lynch? Or men filmmakers? True, I shouldn't butt in because the graphic violence does not make for entertainment for me. Although there was a lot to like about the original season of Twin Peaks, and I often wish Lynch would use his powers for good. I heard an interview with him once where he seemed like an okay guy. I think he's supremely talented, just that all of his films involve some kind of woman-getting-hurt element to them afaik. Unlike most, if not all of the other filmmakers I could name.
• Fear (to some degree) of women is a subconscious element for a lot of men. all of his films involve some kind of woman-getting-hurt element to them afaik As I said, many of his films do not involve violence against women in any form: Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive - none of them. *looks into mirror, sees Bob, screams and screams and screams and screams*
• Fear (to some degree) of women is a subconscious element for a lot of men. Hmm, I just don't think of Lynch as speaking to (or of) men specifically otherwise. I mean, assuming the whole fear-of/violence-against women in his movies (such as there is) is exploring that subconscious fear that men have - I don't otherwise think of his stuff as expressing anything else male-oriented.
• That's just one color in the whole human nature feel-bad rainbow, pete! Be like the boy!
• Meh, I still think he likes to show women getting beat up because he has problems with women. But I'll allow that I haven't seen all of his stuff and maybe it's not as prevalent in his oeuvre as I thought initially. Tell ya what. Give us a cuppa that tasty organic coffee and we'll call it even.
• The David Lynch Foundation teaches Transcendental Meditation. And is apparently behind Stress Free Schools Which is cool. Kudos, Mr. Lynch.