Hey now, i think that’s me in the upper right corner. Of course i have an @uvahealth.org email through UVA, but I’ve kept my AOL address since the 80s and don’t plan on changing it. At this point, it’s just orneriness, but I’m ok with that.
26 Likes
I would say “I’ll see you my Hotmail,” but I think you got me beat. Fold.
19 Likes
Since the 80s? Holy shit, were you like the first person to get an aol email address?
19 Likes
Before that we used this:
19 Likes
K (kilo): I wish to communicate with you.
27 Likes
I’m still rocking my hotmail address as well. 
18 Likes
My dearest Mindysan33, i write to you in appreciation for the message you have sent to me. Delivered by crow on a stormy night lit by a blood moon…
22 Likes
18 Likes
Up until about 10 years ago, if I wanted to contact the marina that stores my boat they only had a radio phone. I’d have to call the operator and ask for the radio phone operator, and they’d have some confusion; even the regular operators had to scramble for the information on how to get ahold of the radio phone operator.
22 Likes
Did they use semaphores?
19 Likes
Hmmm; that might have been faster than the radio phone.
19 Likes
19 Likes
16 Likes
I think there’s quite a bit of conservatism in his earlier works, although I think this mostly disappeared around the beginning of the 21st-century. Mind, when I say conservative I mean something closer to its more traditional meaning rather than being a code word for “reactionary” or “fascist.”
17 Likes
I generally got the sense that Lynch expressed an apolitical sensibility, in his work and outside of it. But then, that can amount to a conservative point of view. His films were very white, with women serving largely as objects for male desire and action. I’d have to rethink Mulholland Drive in terms of gender, or maybe I’m thinking of Inland Empire.
Anyway, a “rightwing coding”? That sounds extreme.
17 Likes
There’s also the 50’s nostalgia of Blue Velvet, the distrust of sex in numerous films, the Americana of The Straight Story, the copoganda of Twin Peaks. There’s quite a bit in there which could appeal to a “conservative” mindset. (There’s also the treatment of homosexuality in Dune and Blue Velvet, perhaps no worse than the culture of the time but certainly more emphatic. Also, I don’t remember it well, but I think Wild at Heart’s treatment of black men may have left something to be desired,)
There’s also a lot of not so conservative stuff, but people often see what they want to see and ignore the rest.
Right-wing coded implies to me intent. I think Lynch worked out of his subconscious too much for that to be completely accurate, but I understand people seeing these “codes,” whether approvingly or disapprovingly.
12 Likes
That’s very true… it’s one aspect that’s always annoyed me about his stuff…
With regards to the 50s, I think there is also a critique there, too… I think he frames it as not as quite, straight, and safe as nostalgia would have us believe…
Could be… I have not seen it in ages, but it was one of my favorite films by him…
16 Likes
I agree, but in Blue Velvet (and Twin Peaks which has similar retro vibes) one can also think of Frank and Bob as invaders (good ‘50s paranoiac/political word) of this once pure world. Especially in Twin Peaks, there is ample proof that the central mystery is not the only bit of rot in the town, but it can be easy for audiences to overlook that.
Looking back, the extremely brutal killing of a black man at the beginning by the hero, paired with Calvin Lockhart’s voodoo(?) schtick makes me suspicious, but admittedly I don’t remember it well.
11 Likes