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Woe to the ones who thought Twin Peaks would be easy. The show is nearly as long as every one of Lynch’s features put together. 
At this point I’ve read a lot of different interpretations and even the most plausible don’t hold up under scrutiny. There are so many unanswered questions and contradictions that the intention seems to have been to create a labyrinth. Twin Peaks season 3 is whatever’s in the blue box in Mulholland Dr.
That doesn’t mean there isn’t any thematic purpose to the thing or that the plot is arbitrary. The plot unfolds in a more linear way than some have suggested. For the most part the show’s played straight. It’s full of mystery and atmosphere but it doesn’t get “pure heroin” weird until the last two episodes. Most people thought they were following it okay until Cooper’s head became superimposed over the screen.
From the beginning, this season was a story about the story of Twin Peaks. Every episode begins with Laura Palmer’s homecoming photo, the same photo in the golden orb that is dreamed into existence by the Fireman. Fire Walk with Me asked us why Laura is important, and the new series answers this question. Because she represents something pure - the story, the idea - and the finale illustrates the incorruptibility of that purity. We desperately wanted Laura to be alive and happy and reunited with her mother. But Laura’s reality will never change. Her pain transcends our expectations for a happy ending because her pain is true to her character, and her pain is what birthed this mystery of Twin Peaks. Her pain is a bomb, and her scream at the end is the counter to the atomic explosion we see in Part 8.
To make sense of the ending, look to a short story by Jorge Luis Borges called The Garden of Forking Paths. In it, a man sets out to accomplish two tasks - to write a novel, and to build a labyrinth so dense that every person who enters it will get lost. He dies before he can construct his labyrinth and he leaves behind a novel that nobody can understand. In the novel, a character dies in one chapter, and is alive in the next. It’s dismissed as the ramblings of a crazy man until someone realizes that the man did construct his labyrinth. The labyrinth is the novel. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Cooper wakes up by sticking a fork in an electrical socket.
Had Judy trapped Laura/Carrie in some alternate universe? When Laura screams and the lights go out in the Palmer house, does that mean Laura has woken up from her dream? Will she be alive? If there is a season 4 (which is a little bit more likely than some may think it is), don’t expect these questions to be answered. The beauty of Twin Peaks is in its mystery.

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Alex and Marissa #rickyshore #rsstb #blowingraspberries #comedy #horror #film

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Here’s a short write-up from Horror Society on the trailer for our next film, Blowing Raspberries!

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check out this vhs sleeve i did

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Ricky Shore Sings the Blues- My Friend Tingo

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RSStB - Breaking Mad

Notice how movies and tv shows have become hot button issues?

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Ricky Shore Sings the Blues - Night In

We’re back! Again. We started filming this one at around 8 last night, finished at 10. That’s pretty common for a video of this length. I like them to be around three minutes but I also think it’s good to have a variety of runtimes.

Hope you enjoy! It had us busting a gut.

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Hope you enjoy the season premiere of Ricky Shore Sings the Blues!

RSStB’s celebrating its ten year anniversary! I don’t know what season we’re on. We used to make a new episode every day. Maybe the sixth season? Seventh?

Anyway, thanks to our friends and Darknet homies out there on the Interwebs or whatever.

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Movies

The Neon Demon, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, is about heaven and hell, angels and demons, young and old, pure and dirty. It’s about a 16 year-old model named Jesse, played by Elle Fanning, who gets lured into a vampiric LA fashion scene. It’s almost like Jesse’s never meant to be seen as a real human, but more like an idealized vision of beauty. Not the most original idea but the execution is pure Refn. Few directors have such a strong signature, which is why I love Refn even when his films get booed at Cannes and the only people who seem to like them are pretentious film nerds and extreme horror nuts.  

The Sea of Trees continues Gus Van Sant’s descent into alcoholism or drug addiction or whatever it is that’s wrong with him. Truly feels like Van Sant’s lost control over his craft, like what happened to Frank Miller in the late 90s. This isn’t as stupid and lame as Promised Land is, but it’s close, and I don’t know if the director will ever recover from his last three movies. I hope he has a problem with substance abuse because it would explain why his films have become like anyone else’s films. At least the photography is pretty and Naomi Watts delivers a nice performance.

Wiener-Dog, written and directed by Todd Solondz, is sort of a sequel to Welcome to the Dollhouse. It’s an anthology film strung together by the titular Dachshund, who shares a nickname with Dawn Wiener, the main character of the director’s 1995 breakout hit. Dawn appears in Wiener-Dog in the second of four vignettes about death. Solondz has been pre-occupied with death and dying since Life During Wartime, and this is probably his most poignant meditation on the subject. It’s mordant and depressing and unlike any film but Solondz’s own. There’s one particularly amazing scene where an elderly woman, played by Ellen Burstyn, has a vision of the people she could’ve been. Solondz’s fans will eat it up and nobody else will care. I’m a fan. All of his films take place within the same world, with intersecting characters and themes. He’s probably done a better job of achieving this type of unity than any other director. To better understand his work, get familiar with cartoonist Daniel Clowes. Solondz usually riffs on ideas that originated in Clowes’s comics.

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Give a listen to the newest episode of our podcast. Hope you enjoy!

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Second episode of our podcast about micro-budget filmmaking. This week’s topic is YouTube. Hope you enjoy!

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We started a podcast! How original. It's called Microbudget with RSStB. Here's the first episode. We tell the history of RSStB and discuss our filmmaking methods. We're going to try to release a new episode every week, each centering around a different topic related to indie filmmaking, probably sticking to a half-hour format. Hope you enjoy!

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Mixtape - World Wide Mob Figgaz

Clips are from:

Nekromantik Static Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

Song is "World Wide Mob Figgaz" by 2Pac.

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Mixtape - White Light

Clips are from:

Annie Hail, Caesar! Poltergeist II: The Other Side

Song is "Knockin' Boots (instrumental)" by Candyman.

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Twin Peaks and the Stomach Flu

A few weeks ago, I started putting together a video analysis of Twin Peaks. I got carried away with it, did too much work and research, and right now the project runs over an hour and a half, seems like a woolly dissertation. I’m about halfway through writing the narration, and shortly after that’s done I should be able to get the vid online. I was laid out with an atomic stomach flu for the past several days and I fell a little behind. So that’s what I’ve been up to. Once this thing’s in the bag, we wanna get back to posting RSStB and other regular updates. Thanks!

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“Moths” by Norfik

This one’s for a friend who’s been putting a lot of work into his music lately. Check out Norfik’s music here.  

The clips are from:

Putty Hill The Wolfpack