4.16 Creative Basics, Visions, and Fog

“In the Fog, Deep” (@ 0:00) — Season 4 finale — Grief — Doors closed — An Iceland Symphony — Progress in life — Age and new directions — Making music — People driven to art and people doing art as a hobby — Creating something new — David Lynch and his life’s work — Inspirations — Ideas — Never copy — Basis in reality — Possible misinterpretation of my aims — Ray Bradbury — Pierre Estève — Vangelis — Twin Peaks — The last thing anyone should expect from me — The real thing — Waste of talents — Our special things — A turning point — Receiving and creating — Journey through the history of music through its recorded forms — Late 19th century — No longer getting something from something — Repetition and repertoire — Horrifying — Beethoven — Wagner — Enough — Future generations — Bob Dylan — A supposed basic truth — Wiped out — Taboo — A dystopian vision for future children — Mozart — Schubert — Anton Bruckner — Just examples — Speaking to young hearts and souls — Endless, oppressive obligation — Limits — Fresh things — An adult mistake — 1,000 years from now — New music speaking to people now, in the future, and perhaps for all times — Outgrowing things — Superheroes — Enjoyable shared experience watching some of the films — Marvel — Specific context — Correction about Alexander Toth — DC Comics — Layouts — Educated guess about what happened — Told to tone down his creativity — Warren Publishing horror comics — Happens over and over in the world of art — Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) — Quentin Tarantino — Twin Peaks season 3 — Like fine wine — Importance of leaving things out — Uses of language — Faddish creative styles — References — Longevity — Later audiences and audiences around the world — Changing perspectives — “Weird” — Philip Glass — You can’t address the present — Here now, gone tomorrow — Sense of responsibility — Theoretical frameworks — Missing the point — Genuinely possible to do new things — Formula scenes — “All is lost” — Calculating manipulation — Mr. Lynch’s freshness — Inner lives — “Inciting incident” — “The idea tells you everything.” — Wrapping up — “Land of Youth & Beauty” (@ 35:03) — Full audio from the “Lake Presentation” video for Land of Youth & Beauty: Early Poems — Farewell for now