belated December 2023 Patreon round-up: EXCLUSIVE - Twin Peaks Conversations podcast w/ Rob King, editor of David Lynch and the American West (including public teaser) + ADVANCE - TWIN PEAKS Character Series entry & new introduction to patrons (w/ public status update/32 Days of Movies video revision)

David Lynch's work is often connected to specific locations like sunny suburbs, industrial cities, and the backlots and bungalows of Hollywood, as well as to genres like noir, horror, and melodrama. The broad Western landscape, and the Western genre, are less frequently associated with Lynch (aside from Lynch's short film The Cowboy and the Frenchman and his cameo as none other than John Ford in The Fabelmans). In his recent anthology of commissioned essays, David Lynch and the American West, Rob King gathers a number of perspectives particularly focused on how Lynch's works play with the history and mythology of the actual region. The terrain stretches from the parched deserts of the Southwest to the foggy forests of the Pacific Northwest, the timespan from ancient indigenous civilizations to the modern highways running across this landscape today. I spoke with King a couple months ago; technical difficulties unfortunately cut our discussion short and we were unable to resume, but for a half hour we dug into how he and other scholars approach this material. Because this is a shorter Twin Peaks Conversations episode than usual, most of it has been reserved for $5/month tier patrons. I published a brief teaser on YouTube, rather than the much longer public "first half" I normally share.

I'm also previewing another character entry for the $1/month tier - in this case, very interesting revisions to someone featured in the earlier series. And I've officially updated my tier structure, as explained in the following video:

+ read the public announcement:

Updated tiers, new intro & new directories (+ December update)

For more details and other updates, check out the above public post, shared in mid-December. As mentioned in there, I've recently added some new pages to this site's directories so that now you can navigate patron rewards without having to scroll past public material. The directories are as follows:

All Available rewards (by Topic) // EXCLUSIVE Films in Focus // Twin Peaks // EXCLUSIVE Film Capsules // Political Topics on Podcasts // Random Topics on Podcasts // All Available rewards (by Entry/Episode) // Essays

What are the December rewards?

$5/MONTH TIER

Exclusive to this tier...

Twin Peaks Conversations w/ Rob King, author of David Lynch and the American West

+ listen to the public excerpt here:

$1/MONTH TIER

Advance for all patrons...

become a patron to discover their identities:

TWIN PEAKS Character Series #22

(public release for #30 - 22 is unscheduled, probably next year)

+ public status update: 32 Days of Movies chapter 21 - "Welcome to the Arthouse" has been revised

This has nothing to do with Patreon, but I don't really have anywhere else to put it - a minor footnote from the past week and I'm trying not to do as many status updates. So here is the new version I've created for chapter 21 of my 2011 chronological clip video series. The idea at the time was to end each chapter with a song from the period in question, and for this particular collection of clips - covering 1972 - 74 - I chose Bob Marley's "Coming in From the Cold" Unfortunately, I only recently realized that the song is from 1980 (oddly enough, I included the album Uprising, with the correct year, in a 2013 listening line-up but didn't catch the discrepancy back then).

I've replaced, or rather supplemented, the original selection with "Stir It Up" from Marley's 1973 Catch a Fire. You can hear the revision below:

revision at 7:00

The original video with the old track is still available too; I'm generally averse to changing an old piece especially this far out so now both versions now co-exist, with the newer one emphasized most places people would discover the series for the first time. (Well I was at it, I also fixed another mistake by adding a subtitle for the last line of the video.)

You can explore the "32 Days of Movies" project here.