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Read on...by Robert Quigley | 4:46 pm, April 8th
20 years ago to this day, ABC put a fish in America’s collective percolator by unleashing David Lynch‘s weird and wonderful Twin Peaks upon us. The show was ostensibly centered around a murder mystery, but it involved a backward-talking hallucinatory midget, an awkward lingering camera and surreal dialogue, and an obsession with pies and chainsaws — and that was in its relatively grounded first season.
Despite its overwhelming weirdness, Twin Peaks somehow managed to become a massive pop cultural phenomenon, at least for a while (shades of LOST?), until it got too weird and lost viewers with an increasingly unhinged plot.
Writing for NPR, John Powers fondly reflects on the show — and argues that it’s still a relevant force today:
Read on...by Robert Quigley | 11:52 am, March 12th
So: After endless anticipation, Lady Gaga‘s music video for “Telephone” is here, featuring Beyonce. True to form and expectation, it’s really weird: In a good way, though, IMO.
For one thing, “Telephone”‘s nonmusic/music ratio rivals Martin Scorcese‘s 18-minute music video for Michael Jackson’s “Bad”: the thing is nine-and-a-half minutes long, with about three minutes of highly stylized female prison drama and Lady Gaga naked-making before you hear a single note.
But then… there’s the stylization itself. Lady Gaga told E! that “There certainly is a Tarantino-inspired quality in the video;” while there are other influences swimming around in there (we’d like to propose Twin Peaks), the Tarantino shines through the most.
You may recall that Beyonce’s “Video Phone” started off with a reference to the slow-mo walk in Reservoir Dogs; where’s the Tarantino in “Telephone”?
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