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The clip of Angela and the Twin Peaks music was especially poignant - music does that for us, doesn't us? Well done, Clint!

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Glad I’m not the only only one who found that clip so moving. Twin Peaks is one of the first times I realized how much music can impact my experience of a tv show. It had before, obviously, but I wasn’t quite old enough to realize it. Also, being as visually-driven as I am, music can take me a minute to appreciate. Their collaboration remains spell-binding…I play the soundtrack often.

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Thank you for this tribute to a brilliant man.

I mourn with you Clint...

My yesterday evening included doing that over vodka at (an almost deserted) local bar, uncannily summed up by your final 'empty stage' image.

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Thanks, Simon. I think a lot more folks—of a certain age—are mourning than I could have imagined. Whether you were a BIG fan or not, Lynch helped reshape the way many of us look at the world. He made the surreal so real. Cheers with whatever cocktail floats your boat.

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I was lucky enough to see Eraserhead on first release, at an 'arthouse' cinema, here in Sydney. It opened my mind to cinema possibilities & began my inspiration & passion for this artform. A few years later I joined the first cohort in Film Theory & Criticism at Sydney University's intriguingly named 'Power Institute of Fine Arts'.

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Very cool! The film classes I took in college gave a cursory look at his work, but preferred to focus on older work that had more historical context. So I was left to explore what I could find. Eraserhead and Elephant Man freaked me out then, but they helped me see film as a truly artistic medium. Which I knew, but didn't appreciate until I started seeing work I didn't fully understand...or even like. :-p

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Reckon you'll appreciate Stupid As A Painter

https://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/exhibition/stupid-as-a-painter-4th-biennale-of/vrfqq

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WOW…I definitely appreciate that painting. Epic! Wish I could see it in person. Cheers!

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There was some kind of bequest (?) from a family named Power... Same bunch also had a hand in establishing our the Museum of Contemporary Art at Circular Quay in Sydney.

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The Power Institute gallery was first to exhibit Juan Davila's STUPID AS A PAINTER (? 1983) which was shut down by nsw morality police. Later exhibited to wide acclaimb👍🏿😎😘

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Thanks for the share, Simon. Reminds me of all the hoopla here in the US in the late 1980s and early 1990s about National Endowment Of The Arts funding several LGTBQ artists and photographers. Clutch-the-pearls religious zealots annoy the hell out me. But they did help me find some work I wouldn’t have known about if they hadn’t popped off. Love how that works. Same happened in Germany when Hitler did his “degenerate” art exhibition. 2+ million people flocked to see it. Not all to mock it. :-)

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