Slammo

failed painter.

[William Wilkinson @willw]

Paul Thomas Anderson on set of OBAA laughing at Jim Downey

[Javo, Lack of surprises @javier078]

KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR hits streaming this Friday (5/22) at PEACOCK.

Thanks for the info @BrettRedacted.

[The Rewatchables @TheRewatchables]

A PSA to all streaming services from @BillSimmons

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

Thoughts and prayers for everyone suffering from CALIFORNIA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME this morning.

California's economy is pulling ahead and growing faster than the ENTIRE NATION!

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

David Lynch: "You're operating with a limited mind and don't realize it"

"If you have a golf ball-size consciousness, when you read a book, you'll have a golf ball-size understanding. When you look out, a golf ball-size awareness. When you wake up in the morning, a golf ball-size wakefulness. But if you could expand that consciousness, you read the book with more understanding. You look out with more awareness. You wake up with more wakefulness."

Lynch explains what lies beneath:

"There's an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us. It's right at the source and base of mind, right at the source of thought. It's also at the source of all matter. Modern physics calls it the unified field. All matter, everything that is a thing emerges from this field."

He describes what the field contains:

"This field has qualities like bliss, intelligence, creativity, universal love, energy, peace. It's not the intellectual understanding of this field, but the experiencing of it that does everything. You dive within, transcend, experience this field of pure consciousness, and you unfold it. It grows. The final outcome of this growth of consciousness is called enlightenment. And a side effect of enlivening this consciousness is that negativity starts to recede."

Lynch shares what happened when he started meditating:

"When I started, I was filled with anxieties. Filled with fears. Kind of a depression. And anger. I took this anger out on my first wife. After two weeks of meditation, she comes to me and says, 'What's going on?' I was quiet for a moment because it could have been any number of things she might have been referring to. I said, 'What do you mean?' She said, 'This anger, where did it go?' I didn't even realize it had lifted."

He explains why negativity kills creativity:

"Anger, depression, sorrow, these are beautiful things in a story. But they're like poison to the filmmaker. Poison to the painter. Poison to creativity. They're like a vice grip. If you're super depressed, you can hardly get out of bed, let alone think of ideas or have creativity flowing."

Lynch describes what grows when you expand consciousness:

"It's money in the bank to get that beautiful consciousness growing. Creativity flows. The ability to catch ideas at a deeper level. Intuition grows. This field is a field of pure knowing. You dive in there, and you just know how to go. You know how to solve problems. It's like an ocean of solutions."

He shares the ultimate benefit:

"The ultimate thing for me is the enjoyment of the doing. The enjoyment of life grows huge. I love making films now more than ever before. Ideas flow more. Everybody has more fun on the set. People look like friends, not like enemies. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing."

Lynch addresses the myth that you need anger to create:

"People say, 'You gotta have anger. You gotta have an edge to create.' No, you gotta have energy. You gotta have clarity to create. You gotta be able to catch ideas. You gotta be strong enough to fight unbelievable pressure and stress. And this gives you more and more ability. It just looks beautiful. It's way, way, way better."

On the nature of true happiness:

"They say true happiness isn't out there. True happiness lies within. I always wondered, where is this 'within'? And they don't say where it is. They don't even say how to get to it. But it's there. And when you're in it, you know you're in it. It's familiar. It's you. Right away, a happiness, but it's not a goofball happiness. It's a thick beauty. A thick beauty to appreciate life and living. And suffering starts to go."

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

$1.5 BILLION. Let me say it again - a $1.5 BILLION BET.

Bigger than any futures purchases made at the time.

5 minutes before Trump's post.

Who was it? Trump? A family member? A White House staffer?

This is corruption. Mind blowing corruption.

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

NEW: Clemency for Tina Peters would be unprecedented, based on my analysis of Gov Polis' 25 commutations. Peters hasn't shown remorse, taken accountability, or sought to restore harm. No Polis commutation was for a harsh sentence alone and Peters' would be the shortest by 30+ yrs

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

He’s right.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Laura Dern dropped out of college because UCLA would not allow her to take a leave of absence to film "Blue Velvet."

She gave David Lynch's script to the head of the film department in order to convince him, but he fired back at her: “First of all, if you make this choice, you are no longer welcome at UCLA. You’ll be out. But secondly, having read this script, that you would give up your college education for this is insane.”

Dern says that "today, if you want to get a masters in film at that school, when you write a thesis there are three movies you are required to study. And you know what one of them is? Pisses me off."

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

VENTURA: "I blame the United States people for this too. They're getting what they deserve because the last election was simple. You had the choice of the Constitution or the criminal. And for some reason they took the criminal."

[Larry Krasner @LarryKrasnerDA]

State prosecutors absolutely can and absolutely should bring charges against federal officers who commit crimes within their jurisdiction.

[sigfrid monleon @sigfridmonleon]

Maybe I can do something right

Paul Newman #botd
* The Verdict (1982) / Sidney Lumet

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

KRISTI NOEM MUST RESIGN.

[Kyle Keegan @realKyleKeegan]

I wonder if it bothers Trump that he is the only President in history who never won an election against a man.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Christopher Nolan has called 'SINNERS' river dance (Rocky Road to Dublin) scene "the most spectacular musical inversion since Kubrick's 'Singin in the Rain' (in Clockwork Orange)".

[a. rye @angela_rye]

“Freedom to me is NO fear.”✊🏾💕
- Nina Simone

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD, THE COMMANDER OF THE GREATEST MILITARY ON EARTH, HAS BEEN BROKEN AND CRUSHED BY A LONE HECKLER. CLEAN UP IN AISLE 47!!

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@ezraklein: “What is, to you, the ‘rage economy’?”

@JamesTalarico: “The billionaires own the algorithms and the news networks. They have created for-profit platforms that divide us on an hourly basis — by party, by race, by gender, by religion. They elevate the most extreme voices very strategically to provoke our outrage, because that leads to more clicks, which leads to more money for them.

They are selling us conflict right into our bloodstream, and they’re calling it connection.

And I think it’s left people starving for actual community.”

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

🚨WATCH: Jesse Ventura ATTACKS Trump

“He’s a rich white boy. We are a 3rd World Country.”

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

We cannot forget who was complicit on January 6th.

Ted Cruz fanned the flames of insurrection.

Ken Paxton provoked the rioters before the assault.

John Cornyn refused to investigate the attack.

They have forfeited their right to represent us in our nation’s Capitol.