Friday, May 14, 2004

David Lynch? What's happening to me?

I've been on a David Lynch kick. I can't stop watching his movies. Over the past week I've watched Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks-Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Drive. I'm either slightly more insane since this movie watching adventure began, or a little bit better because of it. I never thought I'd get into his films. My first two years of college were spent at a liberal-hippy-commie-artsy-school where "being into" Lynch was hip, so out of spite I only watched one of his films and didn't pay much attention. Living in the woods and having oodles of free time and no one to be cooler than has given me the opportunity to really appreciate what he does. Worth checking out!

7 Comments:

Blogger Vampire Rabbit said...

Man, learn some self-control! :-P

1:23 PM  
Blogger shookfoil said...

Just thought I'd drop in and look around, being that you and I are the only bloggers to include geese on our list of favorites. Come to find out we have many things in common, such as a similar taste in literature, and our Christian faith, amongst other things (though I do not hope to presume too much based on reading an internet self-description, of course).
Out of curiosity, what do you as an Orthodox believer here in America think of Alexander Schmemann, if you're familiar with him at all? I had the privilege to go to St. Petersburg, Russia last Spring, and it is my understanding that he is quite controversial in Russia, whereas he is widely revered here in the States. I have enjoyed his book "For the Life of the World" immensely.
And sorry that this discussion doesn't follow your post; it's the only place I could find to comment.

7:33 PM  
Blogger Zac Thomas said...

I saw Mullholand Drive and I still don't get it. I consider myself to be reasonably intelligent and that movie made my head spin. Maybe it's just above me, I don't know

2:05 AM  
Blogger Anna said...

Yaay for commenting on blogs - I'm glad you started. Like 'shookfoil' I found your blog out of common interests in things Russian, and of course, the instant bond - C.S. Lewis. I was curious in relation to your post from April on faith (of which I have had a similar late-night struggle) if you have read The Screwtape Letters. I find that my self-accusation of using faith as a crutch or an ego boost only happens when I am brooding alone - out amongst the living I find that the struggle is often a subtle and fierce one that never materializes into any 'showy' walk of faith because most of it is in my own mind. If anything I feel that there is not much to show for all the work! What do you think?

8:50 PM  
Blogger Ms. Flaneur said...

Pity you abandoned your blog.

1:43 PM  
Blogger layne (herman) said...

hello.

looks like i found your blog the way another did... common interest, though mine was a similar enjoyment of the bad brains.

9:02 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who doesn't question their faith? Just know you're not the only one. I go to a huge church with a huge number of people, and I have to ask myself all the time what my motivation is. I think, although I do have a sincere faith in God, that there are some Sundays when I drive to church with no thought of God at all. What's the purpose in going, then? That's the question. The purpose is so that He can reach me in some way. Because once I get to church, I often am struck by something that will point me back to God.

John the Baptist said in John 3:30, "He must become greater, I must become less." This is what we, if we call ourselves Christians, should all live by. Thanks for bringing up that verse, because it's true, and your priest was right. At church I find that I am less all the time, and God is greater!

And the Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment are excellent books. I just discovered Dostoevsky a few months ago. He really had a way of revealing man's motivations.

9:47 PM  

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