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“everyday, once a day, give yourself a present. don’t plan it, don’t wait for it. just let it happen. it could be a new shirt at the men’s store. a catnap in your office chair. or two cups of good, hot black coffee.”
in heaven everything is fine
rest in peace david lynch..
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to david lynch has me bawling over my morning coffee.
“his love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other.
i will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear.”
Jan 17, 2025
I learned about David Lynch from my brother. Today is also my brothers birthday. We talk about him all the time, send gifs of him to each other. About two hours ago we were texting about What Did Jack Do as I was wishing him a happy birthday. Really devastating news. Rest in peace David Lynch.
Jan 16, 2025
It’s been a little over two weeks since David Lynch’s passing and my partner and I are almost halfway through the second season of Twin Peaks (the notable ninth episode to be exact). It’s hard not to see thematic similarities between it and what’s going on in the world.
For those unfamiliar with the show, underneath the cliches of a 90s whodunnit TV drama, a lot of it deals with ideas of where evil comes from, where it resides within humanity, and how we are to grapple with it, especially in a modernized world. How do we bring it to justice? How do we fight back against the seemingly inescapable dark forces that surrounds us? Both the show and Lynch are infamous for leaving a lot of these questions shrouded in mystery though it does make one thing abundantly clear — we can’t do it on our own.
The show actually takes great lengths in showing the audience just how important it is to have good community and communication within that and how detrimental it can be when we don’t.
It can be easy for us to forget that just because we are all connected via the vast landscape of the internet that we don’t inherently share communion with one another without intentionality. In fact, I’ve been finding myself guilty of this quite often. Doomscrolling through my friends and family’s posts, reacting mindlessly without intention to go deeper — asking how they’re doing and what’s been going on in their world. We often take the face value of what people post and leave it at that and that is where I find myself failing the most.
The feelings of dread and despair can creep up on us so easily when we aren’t putting forth the work to seek community with one another, when we face our demons alone. As the adage goes: misery loves company. In that same vein: joy thrives in camaraderie!
How can we feel miserable when we’re in fellowship with people who genuinely care about us?
Everything can seem so big and scary when we are on our own but in the companionship of others, there isn’t anything we can’t overcome together.
There is a line in that particular episode spoken by the series protagonist Agent Dale Cooper in response to another character who argues whether it really matters or not what evil’s true nature is to which he responds: “Yes, because it’s our job to fight it”.
Whatever your personal belief is, whether it be based in any spirituality or science, we know that evil is out there. Call by any name you’d like: the darkness, the evil that men do, wickedness — none of us can deny its existence. The world very much is in a state of disarray and uncertainty, something a lot of us can’t help but feel overwhelmed by. Myself included. Yet the comfort I’ve been seeking has been in my friends; the community I’ve built for myself not just in Los Angeles, but back in Texas as with everywhere else in the world where I have made friends.
The only way out is through, there is no running away or hiding from the realities of what is happening and what will continue to happen in the future. But we don’t have to do it alone. That is probably the greatest disservice we can do in times like these, convincing ourselves that we have no one. Lynch knew this then, when he was writing this wacky show. Nobody can survive the horrors of this world alone.
Wherever you are, whether we’ve spoken yesterday or in years, I hope you know you have a friend in me. Reach out to others, stay connected in any ways that you can within your own limits. Just don’t keep at it alone. We’re all we’ve got and the light that derives from that is far stronger than anything the darkness can throw at us.
I love you all and stay safe out there.
Feb 6, 2025
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i know for a fact that i’m guilty of wanting that dopamine hit of having people see my posts and like them, but i’m trying to change my mentality around that here. i’m finding myself more at peace just posting my recommendations and taking solace that someone might find them in the future and enjoy what i suggest, rather than needing an instant gratification of a like. i feel as though i’m adding a brick to the communal building that is this cool userbase of interesting people.
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in honor of david’s passing, today is a great day to listen to all the incidental music and various versions of songs from twin peaks that never received an official release until 2011 when david released them as part of the twin peaks archive. some of my personal favorites are all the versions of audrey’s dance/dance of the dream man with different solo instruments. thank you angelo and david for some of the best music ever written for television!
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