"Cop history and cop politics, cop dynasties, cop heroes and evildoers, saintly cops and psycho cops, cops too stupid to live and cops too smart for their own good ... Insulated by secret loyalties and codes of silence from the world they'd been given to control."
Alasdair...MacIntyre...They called him Big Mac. He wrote After Virtue...What comes after Virtue? Nobody knows! I called him and I said, "Alasdair, no one can understand this stuff. What the hell does it mean?" But we loved Big Mac, a great, great guy with a beautiful brain.
Something very funny about Dracula is that Jonathan describes his dinners at the castle as delicious and assumes unseen servants are cooking them. He is later horrified to discover that there are no servants which means Dracula himself was thanklessly cooking his succulent meals.
People complain about the largely benign tarot and woo-woo sections in bookstores. This is the actual black magic section. The rites and formulae in these grimoires have a lot to do with the rise of the current political right, and with the success of Donald Trump in particular.
There's this short clip of Lynch directing Kyle MacLachlan in TPTR that I always go back to, I think it's just a great demonstration of the rapport he had with his regulars that he could take such abstract scenes and let them turn it into a great performance, best to ever do it
Best thing about twin peaks is that cooper rolls into town and Truman likes him and vice versa . There is no smart city slicker butting heads with yokel sheriff stuff.
Truman just goes with all coopers weird ideas and cooper truly loves them and the town.
You'd see Mulholland Drive and so would your peers and you'd spend years batting around the ideas and images -- a generational watershed, something finally and perfectly for you and yours. You'd pass your clumsy, giddy reads back and forth till they were fraying at the seams.