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News Briefs 07-10-2014

Do students of Zen sing “If you’re happy and you know it clap your hand”?

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Through the darkness of future’s past, the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds… “Fire… walk with me.”

Twin Peaks

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  1. It must be challenging for
    It must be challenging for Lynch to one-up that very unique tension he created in the original Twin since the techniques he used then became so widely adopted since then.

    1. The closest thing to TP I’ve ever seen after
      I hope this inspires Lars von Trier to continue his Twin Peeks inspired series Riget. A series that ironically also just lasted two seasons. The Lynch inspired surrealism and mood was completely lost in the Stephen King adapted version The Kingdom. They even wrote out one wonderfully weird character played by german actor Udo Kier who learned his lines in phonetic danish. I would even love if Lynch and von Trier would collaborate on a common project.

      1. I didn’t know Von Trier had a
        I didn’t know Von Trier had a TV series. I have only watched his “Dogville,” “Melancholia,” and “Dancer In the Dark – all first rate. What do you think of “The Kingdom?”

        1. The Kingdom
          When I first saw it on tv nearly 20 years ago, one thing that draw me to it, was how similar to Twin Peaks it felt. By that time von Trier still hadn’t admitted to where his inspiration came from. Set in a hospiyal rather than in a small town doesn’t matter. It’s all about the atmoshphere, the quirky and odd characters mixed with some seemingly more normal such and the pour the occult into the mix. Also by chosing to cast swedish actor Ernst-Hugo JĂ€regĂ„rd as Dr Stig Helmer, mirrored by the doctor played by Bruce Davison in the american version, he could also play off the centuries of rivalry between the two scandinavian nations, although in a funny way. Sometimes it’s not only about things getting lost in translation, but more getting lost in transition, as the case might be. Which is why I’m not too keen about Hollywood remakes of foreign material. Rumour has it that americans are too lazy to read subtitles. Which is such a shame. I hope that will change in the future though. It’s also a grat way to learn another countries culture, which is not always as different as many might think. Only in some aspects of course.

  2. other news
    Cricket: Every notice this happens a lot in other countries? A cricket in this guy’s ear from India and I know of a hispanic family who had roaches in their ears. And whenever people travel to other countries they come back with some kind of bugaboo in their heads or intestines….really makes me want to avoid travel.

    Aliens: Didn’t we already prove this with the “red worms” of Mars in the mid 1990s? This article got my hopes up and I don’t know why, I guess I half expected a “Gray” to be shaking hands with Obama 😛

    RPG meets GH: Awwwwwww that’s sweet :3

  3. That looks fun for sure, and
    That looks fun for sure, and this American speaking here can handle subtitles:

    Det ser sjovt for sikker, og denne amerikanske taler her kan hÄndtere undertekster:

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