I was going to do a whole essay about this but then these people just tweeted it out.

[numb3r_5ev3n]

[Bluesky tweet from Emily Quinn, saying: "If anything, david lynch is the literal antidote to “make america great again” ideology because the core of most of his work is the thought “what if nice things were actually nice? things seemed nice in my memory but i didn’t know about all the horror beneath them—that it all runs on abusing women.” An image of The Fireman is included, with his quote "It is happening again."]

(I would add, the horror beneath it all also runs on abusing People of Color and LGBTIQ+ and disabled people, etc. But David Lynch touched on all of that, too in his time.)


[Follow up-tweet in the same thread, by Gertrude The Squid. "David Lynch’s work is right wing coded if you never bother to scratch below the surface of "Damn good pie." He uses a hazy nostalgia to lure you in and then slowly pulls that rug out from under you. Lynch’s work is maga ideology the way The Stepford Wives was: “Wasn’t that era perfe… oh hang on."]

In other news, I saw Sinners again. It's awesome in a way that sort of sent me into an existential crisis, but it's one that needed to happen. More on that soon.