The Twilight Zone: Mirror Image (1960) dir. John Brahm // Twin Peaks, S02E22 “Beyond Life and Death” (1991) dir. David Lynch
CARRIE PAGE LIVES in a rented bungalow in Odessa, Texas. The decor is spare to nonexistent. The smells are Pine-Sol, Bounce dryer sheets, something wafting up from the concrete, the mustiness inside a jar of old, dried thyme, and the rotten-banana fume of drugstore nail-polish. She wears a dirty blonde, iron-curled bob that looks inspired by photos of Miranda Lambert, three years ago, in People. Her jeans are 'heritage blue' and bootcut, size twenty-nine. Her jewelry is 'antique silver.' She’s a waitress. Her entire circumstance has the air of a great find at the thrift store. You would say: Oh, is that a new life? She would reply, with a self-conscious shrug: It’s new to me. She looks like a woman who used to be a girl named Laura Palmer.
Sarah Nicole Prickett, "Point of No Return” — Artforum, Jan 2018
I like trees and I love wood. I like to cut wood. Tonight, we’re going to a place where the trees are primarily Douglas firs.
Douglas firs are a beautiful tree and if we’re very quiet, we can hear the wind rustling the needles as we move through the forest, getting closer and closer, and now we’re here.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the world of Twin Peaks.
David Lynch
The Glory.
Shalom Harlow in Alexander McQueen S/S 1999
the famous okupas squat near Parc Güell, overlooking Barcelona.
“squatting was a prominent part of the emergence of renewed anarchist movement from the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s.”
On the roof read two words which have remerged during the second decade of the 21st century: "Occupy and Resist"
i kneel down like a
collector of jewels before
you. i am singing
one long necklace of love my
mouth a sapphire of grapes.
sonia sanchez / Tonka
Hawk, electricity is humming. You hear it in the mountains and rivers. You see it dance among the seas and stars and glowing around the moon. But in these days, the glow is dying. What will be in the darkness that remains? The Truman brothers are both true men. They are your brothers. And the others, the good ones who have been with you. Now the circle is almost complete. Watch and listen to the dream of time and space. It all comes out now, flowing like a river, that which is and is not. Hawk, Laura is the one.
“You walk into this room at your own risk. Because it leads to the future. Not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world. It is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It is patterned after every dictator who has planted the ripping imprint of a boot upon the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements. Technological advancements. And a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule. Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.”–Rod Serling, The Obsolete Man (1961) The Twilight Zone
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Amidst the glossiness of late capitalism, we are fed the notion that all difficult feelings—depression, anxiety, loneliness, rage—are simply a consequence of unsettled chemistry, a problem to be fixed, rather than a response to structural injustice or, on the other hand, to the native texture of embodiment, of doing time in a rented body, with all the attendant grief and frustration that entails.
Olivia Laing, ‘The Lonely City’ (via rojospinks)