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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is a place that fuels creativity, ignites minds, and provides inspiration. Its extraordinary exhibitions and collection of modern and contemporary art are dedicated to helping you understand and enjoy the art of our time.

art is bread, art must be accessible like bread, and--just as the degenerate tastebuds of the fluffy white-bread-eaters (who inherited that dessert-like stuff which fattened Louis XV before the French Revolution) must be challenged with rough old sourdough rye, crusted with the smell of cedar coals which bake it--so the elitist art consumer must be provoked...

Thousands watch YouTube videos of 45-year-old 'Burmese Bin Laden' who preaches against country's Muslim minority

Wira Thu “The Burmese Bin Laden”

#burma #south and central asia #religion #islam #buddhism

Butoh-MA is the way to make the invisible visible. The minimum movements allow one’s expression of feelings and situations to grow to the highest intensity. It is more important to keep the balance between energy, tension and control than to care for the esthetics of the movements. The dancer shall not dance - but should be danced.

Tadashi Endo http://www.dance-enthusiast.com/features/view/CHICAGO-The-Dance-Enthusiast-Asks-Butoh-Master-Tadashi-Endo-2015-06-23

With the sweetness of passing time, this hour will soon seem like a day

Benjamin Horn ala Shakespeare

Harry and Packer

Packer is a terrible Orientalism. I remember she manipulates Harry pretty basically and bluntly for her own financial gain. She’s demure, blossoming beauty but always in distress made somewhat intriguing by straddling bereaved. Mystical Asian (pan Chinese/Korean/Japanese) weaving her tapestry.

They speak little but truly to one another. He looks too much like me. Josie does fight with Andrew’s sister over industry over the business of the Mill. Josie:

(in green komono, walking down the grand staircase to the kitchen) On top of the morning to you Pete.

Pete: (making breakfast) No, Josie, the expression is “top of the morning to you”. (later with Pete, establishing esoteric wisdom)

Josie:

(in reference to the last words she heard Laura Palmer say)

I think I know how you felt after Andrew’s death. I can’t stop hearing it, in my head. (to Sherif) Like some haunting melody.

Sherif:

Mmhmm.

(she excuses herself)

Cooper:

So, Harry, how long you been seeing her?

Harry:

(astounded)

How’d you know?

Cooper:

Body language.

Harry:

Jeez Louise.

Not long. Six weeks.

Harry and Dale loving to learn and compete is exquisite.

Cooper’s Beginner’s Mind is hella tight.

“I suppose you want me to follow them at a discreet distance?” “Harry, you’re alright.”

Self-sustaining characters.

Lucy is the best. What’s her intro? Totally defined by equanimity the job demands even at the most basic.

One character being provided information

& mimicry Donna’s Sister (as Donna sneaks out through her bedroom)

(twirling a pencil with a pad in bed)

Donna, which do you like better; “the blossom of the evening” or “the full flower of the evening”?

Donna:

Now listen to me this is serious.

Sister:

Well this is serious too!

Donna:

Shhhh. I’m going out the window in a few minutes and I need you to cover for me.

Sister:

Aren’t you aware that there’s a curfew? They just announced it on the radio.

Donna:

&Yes I know there’s a curfew Einstein that’s why I’m asking you to cover for me.&

Sister:

I suppose this is going to involve a phone call with Mike. Mr bonehead boyfriend.

Donna:

No this is about Laura. It’s really really serious.

Sister:

Check.

Donna:

Thank you. (embrace)

Donna climbs out the window, looking back as she stands on the limb, her chin to the windowsill.

Oh and I’ll need to borrow your bike.

Sister:

Oh then put a little air in the back tire, would you?

Donna:

Yeah. (parenting) Oh, and, Harriet, don’t forget to brush your teeth.

Sister: (smiles, to the cat)

Actually, now that some time has passed, I like “the full blossom of the evening”.

For Later Dialogue

All first questioning scenes.

Bobby’s

with beautiful intro of Bobby’s parents, interesting mix of emotionally aware parenting couple and military honor at the end in the vestibule to the police station.

Donna’s

Leo controlling Shelly

Shelly would you please turn the television set off?...

Shelly sit down her a minute and help me out...

You smoke one brand of cigarettes

because if I ever see two brands of cigarettes in this house again I’ll snap your neck like a twig.

Benjamin Horn, The Glad Handing Dandy.

Cooper’s huge perspective at the town hall meeting speaking as the FBI telling the whole town about a precedent murder in a town “in the southeast corner of this state”.

Jame’s and Donna’s first kiss.

Exposition Rich!

Sweet intermittent scene with two teenage lovers, Palmer’s best friend wronged by a football player, and the gas station owner with the horrible one-eyed wife. “They both know how to pick ‘em”

Cooper reads the diary and physical evidence to Diane. Some interjections from the Sherif to keep us questioning Cooper’s expertise.

Lots of exposition from Cooper, still glowing from the examination room scene.

Introducing information one character doesn’t know.

forwards with character’s deprived or provided with information ***,

forwards with audience deprived or provided info :() Palmer’s body is on the examining table covered in plastic wrap. Harry to the right (Camera’s eye perspective) of her torso and Cooper to the left, an attendant in scrubs standing at her feet looking at the ceiling as the fluorescents flicker. The table examining lamp stays illuminated. Attendant:

I have to apologize ***again for the fluorescents. I think it’s a faulty transformer.

Cooper: (examining her left hand’s fingernails with pocket magnifying glass)

Oh it’s quite alright. (moves lamp closer)

Sherif

Agent Cooper we did scrap those nails when we brought her in.

Cooper:

Here it is. There it is. Oh my God here it is.

Sherif:

What?

Cooper:

(to attendant, head turned away from the camera :() information withheld from audience :() )

Would you leave us please...

Attendant:

(Cooper’s expression communicates exceeding polite discomfort which the Attendant interprets as...)

Jim.

(***, Attendant waits satisfied, thinking he’s addressed Cooper’s request. ***, Attendant hasn’t understood)

Cooper:

(Tone and behavior synonymous with his business he asks again in the same polite cadence)

Would you leave us alone please.

Attendant: Oh certainly.

Cooper:

Find something to grab onto this with.

(retrieves tweezers. presses into her nail. pulls out tiny particle.)

Cooper with dictaphone

Cooper:

Diane. I’m in the Twin Peaks County morgue with the body of victim whats her name

Laura Palmer

Palmer. I got her at the autopsy ward. It’s the same thing. I told you we’d see this again.

Sherif

What do you got?

Cooper

Ring finger. Under the nail.

Let’s see what he left us.

(places object on pane of plastic, holds up to the light with pocket magnifying glass)

It’s an R.

***. :() Diane give this to Albert and his team. Don’t go to Sam.

Albert seems to have this a little more on the ball. We need to bag and tag this.

(&we’re focused primarily on his idioms, the phraseology we as an audience need to stay connected to if we’re going to follow this Hamlet’s ghost (re: conflicted protagonist with important information) through the unbelievable story he’s going to tell us. We get Cooper’s private language because he’s letting us and the Sherif in on the way he speaks in a hurry about something he dearly cares about to someone he trusts completely (Diane). The information about what’s going on in the room is pretty fairly distributed between characters and spectators. We’re comfortable to keep moving).

Sherif:

OK Cooper you’re gonna let me in (commanding) on whatever the hell is going on here (asking)?

Cooper:

(smiling)

Sherif we got a lot to talk about.

Introducing a Character with significant exposition.

(doors open on the first floor. Coming out the door from the stairwell)

Jacob:

Harry!

Sherif:

Hey Dr Jacoby

Jacoby:

Terrible. Terrible tragedy.

Sherif:

Yes

(Jacoby waits)

Sherif:

This is Special Agent Dale Cooper.

Dr. Jacoby:

(removing ear plug)

Gary Cooper?

Sherif:

Agent Cooper

(Cooper skeptically sizes Jacoby up)

Jacoby:

FBI!

Cooper:

Right.

Jacoby:

Dr Lawrence Jacoby Agent Cooper. Laura was a patient (emphasis) of mine.

Listen you’re on your way to the morgue right now do you mind if I join you?

Cooper:

Yes I do. Why would you want to?

Sherif:

Sort of against procedure, Doctor.

Jacoby:

Well no offense. I thought I could be of some help.

Cooper:

You still could be. At another time.

Dr Jacoby: (fingering the hula girl’s skirt on his neck tie) I understand completely.

(fingering the hula skirt of the dancer on his tie)

Oh by the way Laura. Laura’s parents... They didn’t know that she was seeing me. heeh heeh heeh heeha.

(steps aside)

Cooper:

(walking down the hallway)

That guy’s a psychiatrist? Sherif:

Yeah.

Agent Cooper Sherif what kind of trees you got growing around here?

Harry S Truman Douglas Firs.

Agent Cooper Douglas Firs.

Sherif can you get me a copy of the coroner’s report?

If we had to respond to every gun death or assault in the world they way they do on “Twin Peaks” how would we mourn? Could every day be this slow?

Last Community Circle

That terrible passive aggression that permeates every conversation.

The fatigue that grows in sincerity, belittling and siphoning it.

The constant surveillance of each other’s group, each other’s cheers.

The shrill screaming in their Big Ten rally every week, happy braying herds unaware of the consequences of their enthusiasm for the yard.

Happy Valley. Happy Valley. Happy Valley. There is a murder, a crowd allowing murder, in those cheers!!! We’re practicing rabbling, hero-worship of the self “SCHOLARS ARE GOING TO COLLEGE! SCHOLARS ARE GOING TO COLLEGE!” hungry to hoist their own heroics, to promote their me champion.

What kind of mob let’s the hero live after he’s raped the girl? Or their neighbors kids? What town allows for the sacrifice of the most innocent for the gladiator pit? What kind of people would have the most sacred, the un-touched game day rather than a municipality that prosecutes an avaricious predator?

What kind of generation want’s the one following it screaming for their own glory? Bellowing in unison for their own ascendancy into the pantheon of normalcy?

Letting Alana tie her shoes has it’s benefits for the cool and calm, the slower than that.

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