4.9 2nd Anniversary Special

“Season 4 Theme — 2nd Anniversary Opening Version” (@ 0:00) — Two years from recording the first episode at Hótel Vellir in Iceland — My mother’s passing — My parents — “2nd Anniversary Lyre” (@ 1:52) — New leather couch from Denmark — “Passages Dark and Light — Part 1” (@ 2:40) — Note regarding earlier symphony discussion — At Dawn: Early Short Stories for a later episode — The three first Psycho films — Anthony Perkins — Lasting use of language — David Lynch and Ray Bradbury — Henry Purcell: “What Power Art Thou” from his opera King Arthur (1691) — David Lynch swearing — The music of Ron Jones — Sleeve notes from Film Score Monthly — What Star Trek was originally meant to be — Once upon a time — A person like a dragon — Philip K. Dick quote from his novel VALIS (1981) — Ideas — Intuition — Everything connects — Authentic and right — Don’t fake it until you make it or you may break it — Negative space — A novel can be any length — Freshness from leaving out all the extraneous things — The Hours (2002) — The Elephant Man (1980) — Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) — INLAND EMPIRE (2006) — Healing devastation — Best possible advice for dealing with trauma — Readings of Ray Bradbury — “The April Witch” (1952) — How can we forget beauty? — Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) — The suburb scenes — Roy Neary played by Richard Dreyfuss — Metaphor for creativity — Artists can eat their cake and have it too — Northern Exposure did that often and well — John Williams quoting from “When You Wish Upon a Star” from Pinocchio (1940) — Happy ending? I think not — Immature vs. mature — Field of Dreams (1989) — Dignity — Actors with dignity often get exploited for undeserving stories — Bryan Cranston — Jonathan Banks — The emotional toll this takes on the makers and viewers — I must speak my own convictions — Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones as examples of immature storytelling — Modularity as a creative principle — Quote about good teachers — Paul Chadwick’s Concrete — Melissa Strangehands — Art commenting on art — Drawing from life itself — Art in your favourite TV series — A rock garden — Fragmentation — More on art in story worlds — Do comedians exist? — Moments that would shatter the psychotic intensity of many series — “C’mon, man. Don’t be stupid.” — Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, Seinfeld — Dreams of Norm Macdonald, Philip Glass, and David Lynch — All the things stories are — One thing, two things, three… — A series for the young at heart — Dear listener of the future — Drink cans — H. P. Lovecraft poem: “The Garden” — “Lovecraft’s Garden” (@ 42:41) — “Passages Dark and Light — Part 2” (@ 43:49) — Fake drinking in films and TV series — Imagine a world without potatoes — I had a dream of you today — About half done with the remaining notes — Cheering anecdote — All the music has been composed and performed by me — The future of my music — A video can give the best possible sense of how a book looks and feels — Good wishes to good people — Much love — “Season 4 Theme — 2nd Anniversary Closing Version” (@ 53:20)