A few weeks back I was wondering how to watch Game of Thrones, then a friend posted on Facebook a link to watching it each week, so that desire found quick manifestation. Then after watching the second episode I realised there are lots of current movies showing on their and current tv series and such also. A few months back I had been wondering how I could watch the new season of Twin Peaks and boom, it's also on here.
Now for some reason it doesn't always play smoothly, I have to wait for it to load a bit, but in general not too many setbacks. During this time everyone was telling me to wait till episode 8, it's completely crazy, it's a game changer, etc, etc... So I was slowly making my way through the episodes until 8, yesterday I started it. And it was barely playing, like a minute at a time, then a loading, then another, and another. So I almost gave up. But I think it taking so long was also part of the process for me, to have to work so hard to see something I had so much expectation around was moving through a blocked energy pattern almost for me.
I finally after 4 hours, not consecutive, finally have seen the whole episode. It was the craziest hour of television probably every made, but I slowly realised a few things. David Lynch makes everything that is "normal" so strange and everything that is completely off the wall seem so normal. Like a guy trying to break through from another dimension to reinhabit a body of a doppelgänger he somehow produced 25 years ago was smooth and easy to watch, flowed nicely, made sense and then a scene of a cop and a the desk clerk just chatting or having a phone conversation is drawn out, makes you feel crazy and want to strangle someone, maybe even yourself for watching it.
He makes the mundane seem so bizarre and the bizarre seem so mundane. This is how I've always viewed life, those things like being a housewife and all its duties seem like anethema to me whereas the converse seems more normal. It's normal for me to feel energy shifts, but to think of going home and cooking dinner for someone, let alone for me makes me feel terrible. So I get his art.
Another thing is that it is the strangest stuff you can possibly see, and seems to make no sense at all mostly. You're wondering what's going on and how did we get to Nine Inch Nails playing from the first atomic bomb being set off?!? LOL...
India, you know what your street looks like, what your house is like, what your town is like, but when you come out to meet it each time you never know what is going to be there. One day you come out and there are cows grazing in your yard, one day there is no power, one day the river is very high, the next very low. Each moment there is no way to predict what will happen or in what order it will happen, or how it will happen, but it will likely happen whatever it is.
And isn't this like real life? Moreso than a very planned and scheduled existence? Do you find that you can make plans and they often get sidetracked into another way of doing them, or to a whole other day, or traffic is horrible and you have to reschedule, or, or, or...
I've always noticed since I saw the first movie of his way back in the 80's, Blue Velvet it might have been, that his movies and Twin Peaks always stimulated creativity in me. And this is what I always heard was supposed to happen from witnessing great art, like Picasso or something like that. But in my youth this never happened for me until David Lynch, and then recently in Germany I saw some work in a museum by Gerhard Richter and it stimulated me into a great period of writing and creative thought. So now I'm older and am finally getting it!
I'm finally understanding that art imitates life and life imitates art. They are both very strange and very unpredictable, as is India, so no wonder I feel so stimulated and creative when I'm immersed in her. Very cool.
Now I've written this and had felt like I would write some and see what great stories came out, but now I'm feeling like a nap, so maybe after that haha. Good day...
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