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All we needed was a net to break our fall
Oh, thank God, I finally figured out who James D'Arcy as Jarvis reminds me of. Not vocally, but visually, Jerry Orbach. This shot from a behind-the-scenes set clinched it. I'd seen the actor before in Master and Commander: On the Far Side of the World (2003), but that wasn't what kept clicking away in my brain as I watched Agent Carter. Now I've got "Razzle-Dazzle" stuck in my head.
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rushthatspeaks last night that I can think of many shows that remind me of Twin Peaks (1990), but only because of its influence on them. It has no obvious direct ancestors; if the show feels like anything beside itself, it's weird fiction, not other television or film. Walking around Wilson Farms with my niece this afternoon (read: being enthusiastically towed by a thirteen-month-old whose primary form of locomotion is running until stopped by Newtonian physics or an intervening adult), I realized this is not entirely true. There is a cinematic precursor to Twin Peaks. It's David Byrne's True Stories (1986). Imagine Byrne's Narrator and Dale Cooper discussing coffee. The Log Lady passing the Lying Woman at a town function. The handling of the realism of small-town life, which is anywhere from sur- to irrelevant. They're not examining identical cultures or asking the same moral questions, but they're in the same universe. And I have no idea if David Lynch has ever seen it. Attempting to answer this question via the internet went nowhere. Help?
rose_lemberg is now reading unsolicited submissions for Spelling the Hours: a poetry anthology of forgotten and marginalized figures in science and technology. Do you like science? Do you write poems? Go for it.
I was saying to
rushthatspeaks last night that I can think of many shows that remind me of Twin Peaks (1990), but only because of its influence on them. It has no obvious direct ancestors; if the show feels like anything beside itself, it's weird fiction, not other television or film. Walking around Wilson Farms with my niece this afternoon (read: being enthusiastically towed by a thirteen-month-old whose primary form of locomotion is running until stopped by Newtonian physics or an intervening adult), I realized this is not entirely true. There is a cinematic precursor to Twin Peaks. It's David Byrne's True Stories (1986). Imagine Byrne's Narrator and Dale Cooper discussing coffee. The Log Lady passing the Lying Woman at a town function. The handling of the realism of small-town life, which is anywhere from sur- to irrelevant. They're not examining identical cultures or asking the same moral questions, but they're in the same universe. And I have no idea if David Lynch has ever seen it. Attempting to answer this question via the internet went nowhere. Help?rose_lemberg is now reading unsolicited submissions for Spelling the Hours: a poetry anthology of forgotten and marginalized figures in science and technology. Do you like science? Do you write poems? Go for it.
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...BTW a phrase of yours from "The Boatman's Cure": "a distance runner or a high jumper, some other lanky discipline"
lanky discipline. I *loved* that. How do you have such a way with words?
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Yes! I am looking forward to Spelling the Hours as much as I am to An Alphabet of Embers itself.
lanky discipline. I *loved* that. How do you have such a way with words?
I don't have an answer to that right now, but thank you. That's one of the oldest lines in "The Boatman's Cure." The very first piece written on the story was the paragraph beginning "He must have had a faun's face once" and ending "since she was fourteen."