The Leftovers, Season 3! Let's discuss!

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[–]hennaojisan 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (28 children)

Love me some Lynch

[–]Ash[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (27 children)

Let's get serious, jokes aside. I didn't know that they made a sequel. I only found out because of SaidIt. The Best (at least in my top 5) unfinished TV show got a sequel from the original creator and I don't know shit about it. Only finding out about it years after it was screened. Something is not right with this place. Thanks for the link

[–]hennaojisan 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (22 children)

Blue Velvet was Dennis Hopper's big comeback after a couple of decades on speed. The old kind, not meth. "Don't you look at me. Don't you flippin look at me." It scared me too and was partly filmed about fifty miles from my hometown: Lumberton, NC (Lynch has a thing about lumber.). Rolling Stone asked Lynch what was in the gas bottle Hopper carried around. He said: it's whatever you want it to be.

When Hopper's ex-wife was asked about his acting in Blue Velvet she answered, "That wasn't acting; he was like that all through the seventies. Do you remember his immortal line in the movie: "Let's Fuck"? A truly disturbing movie that will live forever.

The song: Clearly both Lynch and whoever wrote the Bobby Venton song had a fetish or fetishes which was easy for an introvert hitting puberty in the sixties.

I guess you didn't see Twin Peaks when it first came out. It was a sensation. People were bringing each other Beta copies to work (connoisseurs only used Beta in the Middle Ages.) and asking probing questions like: Who is your favorite Twin Peaks character? Gays, that I worked with then, were wild for the program.

I could go on but, are you a wo...wo...woperson? Because I look a bit like Lynch and it could be fun. :)

Thanks for the response and think about it. I wonder where in the world you are but I don't expect an answer. It's Five AM in New York so if you're Swedish or German that's fine with me. Ukranian also fine. Dutch, the ex-Yugoslavian republics...Poland. I don't want to sound too eager.

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    [–]hennaojisan 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (20 children)

    what's an O-tap?

    Hopper had gone on ahead to the great speed rush in heaven :) but you should watch it again. I've seen Brownings' Freaks a few times and I think Blue Velvet is better, more trippy. Too bad Hooper has gone on to the big gas mask in the sky. One of his best and directed by him was one about going to Peru to make a movie and the locals make their own movie equipment from reeds. It's very meta and funny. I hate Starbucks on many levels. Yes, I was in E. Asia when foreign movies took ages to get here. Now they release the same time as in the US. Woperson should be one word but I was only goofing on the PC movement that is ridiculous but has many youngsters hypnotized. You clearly have a phobia for dwarfs that should work on. Never met one but I think they are honest. I used to smooth out English subtitles for Japanese movies. Have you heard of Xanax?

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      [–]hennaojisan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (18 children)

      Good morning.

      I grew up in the US—not New York—but have been living in East Asia for a while, broken up by two years in Mexico fairly recently. I also lived in Thailand for about two years. So, you guessed right and I am amazed. I'll go back and read what I wrote to see how you got it right.

      Not so classic but have you seen Badlands (1973) directed/produced by Terrence Malick with a very young Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek? In True Romance, Tarantino makes multiple references to it. True Romance is a sort of modern classic itself.

      Of course, I've seen Metropolis a few times and nothing is more classic than that. It still looks modern after all this time. The Blue Angel, Tin Drum (Not old enough), Der Himmel Uber Berlin. Wim Wenders is Dutch I think but I liked his early films like Stranger Than Paradise, Down by Law or anything with Tom Waits. I'm not coming up with many classic German films right now.

      Is your username a reference to the Ian Holm android character in Alien?

      Yes, unfortunately, Dennis Hopper is not with us anymore. The Big C got him but he had a good life I think. By the way, he had a fairly short but memorable part in True Romance.

      Sending a virtual hug and an apology for this being short but I need some lubrication of some sort to get me going on long rants and am recovering from a bit too much lubrication, in the form of vodka, last night.

      Just looked up Bad Boy Bubby on IMDB and will be looking for a copy. Honestly, I never heard of it but if you like it that is good enough for me.

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        [–]hennaojisan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

        That was really funny and maybe you won't regret it. I could pass a test right now because this country is really damn severe about the kind of fun you have. I'd come up positive for vodka though but that's not on the list. Good on you for standing up.

        No, I am American, at least that is the passport I have but I may have changed over the years.

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            [–]hennaojisan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

            Oh, I forgot about Evil Dead...Bruce Campbell. He is so funny in the time travel movie: Armies... something, something. Yes, it's a good name. Did you see the one where he's in an old folks home and insists he's Elvis? Bubba Hotep. Funny. I was a sci-fi nut as a kid and also like horror, especially comedy horror. Only once did a horror movie really scare: John Cusak is a paranormal writer who goes to a supposedly haunted hotel room...I'm not going back to IMDB but the title is just a number (of the hotel room) and Stephen King wrote the book. That one really scared me. "We've only just begun..." I'll bet you saw it.

            Bad Boy Bubby is an Australian movie? They do make some good ones. And I didn't know the other things you said about Mel. That explains a lot. Do you remember one of his first: Year of Living Dangerously with Signoury (sp?) Weaver?

            Midnight Oil? It belongs to them—Let's give it back.

            They made the Coca-Cola Kid with Eric Roberts (talk about drug abuse) and I think they have a great sense for comedy. The men have a wonderful sense of friendship—if you're a mate, they will take care of you till the end. I know 'cause I had such a mate, who was older than me and has gone the way of Dennis Hopper.

            I put off writing to you until late because I have to be in the right mood but writing to you gets me keyed up. It is now about one PM in the UK but time for me to have some dinner and turn in with my Patrick O'Brian book. I'm just checking—you don't know him, do you? Because that would be too weird.

            I will check your links and call it a night. Good day to you Ash.

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              [–]hennaojisan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

              By the way, I have nothing against sexy androids. :) That paragraph is amazing.

              [–]hennaojisan 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

              Jason, is that you?

              [–]Ash[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

              Didn't get it and deleted my first response because of Shame.

              [–]hennaojisan 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

              Oh, now I understand O taps so no need to spell it out for all to see. Enjoy one of God's great gifts to mankind, used in moderation.

              [–]Ash[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

              I'm just looking for the fucking hug button on here. I need it Right Now!