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‘Pneumatic tubes are systems that propel cylindrical containers through a network of tubes by compressed air or by partial vacuum. They are used for transporting solid objects, as opposed to conventional pipelines, which transport fluids. Pneumatic tube networks gained acceptance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for offices that needed to transport small, urgent packages (such as mail or money) over relatively short distances (within a building, or, at most within a city). Some installations grew to great complexity, but were mostly superseded.

‘Pneumatic capsule transportation was invented by William Murdoch. It was considered little more than a novelty until the invention of the capsule in 1836. The Victorians were the first to use capsule pipelines to transmit telegraph messages, or telegrams, to nearby buildings from telegraph stations. While they are commonly used for small parcels and documents – including as cash carriers at banks or supermarkets – they were originally proposed in the early 19th century for transport of heavy freight. It was once envisaged that networks of these massive tubes might be used to transport people.

‘The failure of pneumatic tubes to live up to their potential as envisaged in previous centuries has placed them in the company of flying cars and dirigibles as ripe for ironic retro-futurism. The 1960s cartoon series The Jetsons featured pneumatic tubes that people could step into and be sucked up and swiftly spat out at their destination. In the animated television series Futurama, set in the 31st century, large pneumatic tubes are used in cities for transporting people, whilst smaller ones are used to transport mail. The tubes in Futurama are also used to depict the endless confusion of bureaucracy: an immense network of pneumatic tubes connects all offices in New New York City to the “Central Bureaucracy”, with all the capsules being deposited directly into a huge pile in the main filing room, with no sorting or organization.’ — collaged

 

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We shot a camera through a pneumatic tube system, just to see what was inside.

 

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‘The world of tomorrow we are creating for ourselves and our children will be one of traffic congestion, pollution, and an ever-dimmishing natural world being covered in asphalt. We need to change our transportation policies — we all know this — but the question is: in what way? Pneumatic tubes transporting people via individual pods, operating on Internet based protocols is, as has been shown, the best solution. The Inteli-Tube system will give people their freedom and space; reduce pollution, both chemical and noise; end costly, stressful, and unproductive traffic jams; increase safety; decrease dependence on foreign oil; and, most importantly, usher in the future that technology has been promising us.’ — collaged

 

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‘Petit Bleu is referred to on page 437 of Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way (Remembrance of Things Past) as a pneumatic tube used to carry express messages in Paris at the beginning of the twentieth century. Proust used these frequently for his most urgent notes to friends and acquaintances. In the novel, when the young Narrator meets “the lady in pink,” who, he later learns, is Odette de Crécy, she is captivated by his gallantry and suggests that he send her a ‘bleu’ in order to make a date to come for tea.’ — collaged

 

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‘George Medhurst was born in Shoreham, Kent, England, in 1759. He manufactured scales from premises in Denmark Street in London, however, also invented uses for compressed air in his spare time. In 1810 Medhurst published a pamphlet, in which he proposed the use air for conveying letters and goods. He stated that “the pressure required will nearly agree with the square of the velocity”, and hence, he believed, speeds of 100 or even 1000 miles per hour (mph) could be achieved. In 1812 Medhurst mused on the possibility that such a system might be used for the transport of passengers, but was concerned that passengers might not take kindly to be transported within tubes. He sought to develop a means by which passengers could be moved outside of the tube, but by some form of pneumatic propulsion.

‘John Vallance, of Brighton, England, took out a patent based on ideas contained within Medhurst’s 1812 pamphlet. The extent to which Vallance was aware of Medhurst’s work is unclear. Vallance built a prototype at his home in Brighton. The system had a diameter of 8 feet, and was 150 feet long, with a pair of rails laid inside the tube upon which a capsule ran. The capsule, with 20 passengers was propelled through the tube at a speed of 2 mph. Unfortunately retardation of the capsule was achieved by opening the door to the passenger compartment, which made for an unpleasant experience for passengers, and the system soon ridiculed as ‘Vallance’s Suffocation Scheme’.’ — collaged

 

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‘Until it closed in early 2011, a McDonald’s in Edina, Minnesota claimed to be the “World’s Only Pneumatic Air Drive-Thru”. The Drive Thru was only connected to the restaurant by a Pneumatic air chamber (like a bigger version of a bank teller tube). So if you ordered from the Drive-Thru, they sent your food out through the Pneumatic air system to the small booth that you pulled up to.’ — collaged

 

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‘Mercury Rev and Midlake member Jesse Chandler’s debut album as Pneumatic Tubes harnesses nostalgia so vividly, produced in an attic amongst home movies and family relics for a few decades.’ — boomkat

 

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‘In a bank’s daily operations, the transfer of documents and other items in various volumes and sizes is a common practice. Most of these documents are confidential in nature which is why the means of transporting them must be both efficient and safe. Doing drive thru transactions is no exception, which is why Drive Thru Tubes in banking are very much in demand. There are several types of Bank Drive Thru Tubes that banks can use.

‘Side-opening bank drive thru tubes: This type allows users to load or unload items from the sides of the tubes. The size of Side-opening bank drive thru tubes used will depend on the requirements of the bank. End-opening bank drive thru tubes: With end-opening bank drive thru tubes, the openings are located at either ends of the tubes. Using this type would depend on the preference and needs of the bank’s personnel.

‘Box bank drive thru tubes: This is the least common type used in a Banking Drive Thru Tube System. It is in box form and comes in various sizes and can be fitted according to the carriers to be used. The reason why it is the least used compared to the previous two types is that most users see the box type as outdated.

‘Banks can design the system that they wish to install according to their specifications to perfectly match their needs. Manufacturers of these systems also provide their banking customers the option to alter or expand them later on if the need arises. Use our Interactive Selection Guide to help you find the model numbers you need.’ — collaged

 

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The Shadow (1994) – Pneumatic Mail Tube System Scene

 

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‘The Tubes Pneumatique, or the Pneumatic Mail Service, of Paris dated as far back as 1867. The first tubes connected the Bourse and the Grand Hotel beginning what would become an enormous system several hundred miles in tubes. Like the system used in America, the tube is filled with compressed air in a partial vacuum. Instead of using air pumps or any engines, the Parisian system worked using power from the city’s reservoir. Originally there were three large connected iron plated vessels that could hold 1,200 gallons each. The first vessel was filled with water, which was pushed into the other two vessels, which were filled with air. The air becomes compressed and once a valve was opened the air escaped rushing with force into the tubes.

‘Until 1898 when private cards and envelopes were admitted, the use of the official postal stationery was obligatory for pneumatic mail. The decree which opened the tubes to the public was signed on 25 January 1879 by MacMahon in the last days of his presidency and came into effect on 1 May 1879. It prescribed two franked forms: one, open, at 50 centimes, and one, closed, at 75 centimes, in modern parlance respectively a card and a letter-card although the latter was on thin paper. The height of pneumatic post in Paris was in the 1930’s where a letter, which the French called a “pneu” could get anywhere in the city in less than two hours. 240 miles of tubing created the net like system that laid just underneath Paris, carrying letter at an average speed of 40 m.p.h. After World War II the system was expanded and modernized but eventually began to decline and the Parisian pneumatic postal system ended in 1984.’ — collaged

The underground pneumatic post of Paris from Truffaut’s 1969 film Baiser Voles aka. Stolen Kisses.

 

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Pneumatic Diversity Vent

 

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‘Jeff Highsmith realized that with the vast increase in world population over the past few centuries, the Tooth Fairy must be increasingly pressed for time. So he built a pneumatic tube system that delivers his son’s teeth from their home to the Tooth Fairy’s house.’ — collaged

 

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‘Before the U.S. Postal Service started carrying packages on foot or by car, mail made its way around New York City through an intricate system of pneumatic tubes, built four to six feet below the surface.

‘Traveling at 35 miles per hour, mail wasn’t the only thing sent through these tubes—someone decided a black cat should take a ride. According to a passage from the autobiography of one mail worker, Howard Wallace Connell, the cat lived, but appeared disconcerted:

‘“How it could live after being shot at terrific speed from Station P in the Produce Exchange Building, making several turns before reaching Broadway and Park Row, I cannot conceive, but it did. It seemed to be dazed for a minute or two but started to run and was quickly secured and placed in a basket that had been provided for that purpose. A suit of clothes was the third arrival and then came letters, papers, and other ordinary mail matter.”‘ — Vox

 

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‘Chicago-based inventor Joseph Stoetzel proposed a system of pneumatic tubes that were larger than the nine miles of existing pneumatic tubes that the city had underground for mail.

‘He wanted to transport both freight and passengers through the network of snaking tubes.

‘To prove how effective and safe it was, he put his own son, Robert, inside one of the canisters.

‘The boy had one word for reporters afterward: “Whew!”’ — Popular Mechanics

 

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“Sub-Rosa Subway,” a song written by the band Klaatu, describes Alfred Ely Beach’s efforts to create the Beach Pneumatic Transit, which came before the New York City subway. In 1977, the song reached its personal height at No. 62 on the Billboard Hot 100.’ — Popular Mechanics

Here are some lyrics:

“All aboard sub-rosa subway

Had you wondered who’s been digging under Broadway?

It’s Alfred!

It’s Alfred!

It’s Alfred…”

 

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‘In Lost, the Pearl station had a pneumatic tube system. In the Pearl Orientation video, Mark Wickmund (a.k.a. Pierre Chang) instructed that the pneumatic tube was to be used to transport data collection notebooks back to “us”. Prior to watching the video, Locke put his drawing of the blast door map in the tube without a capsule. It was sucked up into the tube, showing that it was still working. (“?”) The tube from the Pearl led to the capsule dump, a dumping ground for capsules. The dump was the destination of all the capsules or items sent through the pneumatic tube located in the Pearl, including Locke’s copy of the blast door map. The capsules contained logbooks written by the inhabitants of the Pearl. It appeared that the capsules had not been recently collected or studied (or may never have been collected). This may be because no one was left to collect them following the Purge (“The Man Behind the Curtain”) or because the real purpose of the Pearl was not to keep these logbooks. The goal of the experiment and the reasons for its long duration (evidenced by the number of capsules at the dump) have not been explained. (“Live Together, Die Alone, Part 1”) Because the capsules appeared in piles, it could be concluded that there may have been more stations that had similar pneumatic tubes leading to the same place, but the exits no longer remained. It could also be assumed that this was the only way the producers could get that many capsules to stay in one place and not roll down the hill.’ — collaged

 

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Very impressed by Kevin Clague’s pneumatic creations, I wanted to build some nice pneumatic sequencer gizmo. Unfortunately my pneumatic collection is more restricted than Kevin’s, but with a little thinking I came up with this pneumatic actuated wheel that uses just 6 pistons and 6 switches (many Kevin’s designs use LOTS of pneumatic switches…). The principle is simple: A piston is pressurized and contract. This contraction causes an arm to pull out the wheel. This arm pushes on ground and make the wheel tilt and advance. It also flips the pneumatic switch that controls the contraction of the next piston and expansion of the previous one. Construction details.

 

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‘A vactrain (or vacuum tube train) is a proposed, as-yet-unbuilt design for future high-speed railroad transportation. It is a maglev line run through evacuated (air-less) or partly evacuated tubes or tunnels. The lack of air resistance could permit vactrains to use little power and to move at extremely high speeds, up to 4000–5000 mph (6400–8000 km/h, 2 km/s), or 5–6 times the speed of sound (Mach 1) at standard conditions. Though the technology is currently being investigated for development of regional networks, advocates have suggested establishing vactrains for transcontinental routes to form a global network.

‘Vactrain tunnels could permit very rapid intercontinental travel. Vactrains could use gravity to assist their acceleration. If such trains went as fast as predicted, the trip between Beijing and New York would take less than 2 hours, supplanting aircraft as the world’s fastest mode of public transportation. Travel through evacuated tubes allows supersonic speed without the penalty of sonic boom found with supersonic aircraft. The trains could operate faster than Mach 1 without noise. Researchers at Southwest Jiaotong University in China are developing (in 2010) a vactrain to reach speeds of 1,000 km/h (620 mph). They say the technology can be put into operation in 10 years.’ — collaged

 

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‘Pneumatic Post is a place to file notes about the life of pneumatic tube systems (particularly in hospitals) alongside other postal, medical and museum related discoveries. Pneumatic tube systems are systems of pipes used to transport solid objects by vacuum. Once resplendent in European and American cities, they are now mostly used in hospitals, banks, pharmacies and other networked institutions. I would love to hear your comments, on the blog or by email: a.harris@ maastrichtuniversity.nl’. — collaged

 

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2011: Whooshh Innovations invents the Fish Cannon

 

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‘Japan’s Love hotels operate based on a principle of total anonymity. During your stay, the odds are you will never see anyone face-to-face. Not a concierge, not a maid, nobody. If you need customer service you talk to somebody on the phone. You pay upon departure using a pneumatic tube (think bank drive-throughs), that shuttles between your room and an office in another part of the hotel.’ — Ramen Chemistry

 

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‘Aslak Borgersrud of Oslo, Norway recently sent a GoPro camera through a pneumatic tube system at Norwegian Parliament, capturing first-person video of what a trip through the pipes would look like.’ — Laughing Squid

 

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Grim Fandango
by Luisfe

 

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How to calculate force inside of a cylinder inside a pneumatic tube system? How to calculate the velocity of a cylinder in a pneumatic tube system can we use the force is equal to power/velocity formula to find velocity?

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Cool. I suppose huge success could have made Old Skull’s story even sadder, but at least Aerosmith would have been muffled. Although I do have a guilty pleasure thing for ‘Janie’s Got a Gun’. Ha ha, I used to be addicted to ‘Survivor’ in its early years. I have no excuse for that. The last time I was in LA my roommate there watched the latest episode, and it is still exactly the same as it was decades ago, which is … charming? Love replacing every escalator and elevator with a pneumatic tube and with apologies about what that does to everyone’s hair, G. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, B. Boy, I would be really surprised if ‘Twin Peaks’ goes another round, but … Lynch doesn’t seem to be doing much of anything else, so … ** T. J., Me neither. It was all news to me. Renaissance artist, who’d have thunk? I’m happy Shit+ Shine found a berth in your head. Your reading activities are warmly applauded by me, especially ‘Project for a Revolution …’. Nice film viewing too. And that you’re managing to write and record. Anything you’re making especially exciting you? Thanks about the film. Yeah, can’t wait. ** Tosh Berman, Hey. Oh, I did a post ages ago about actors and celebrities who are also painters. I’m going to find and restore that. And maybe do a part 2. Huh. Thanks, Tosh! ** Misanthrope, Oh, right, I remember about the one day a week thing now. That’s better. It’s not just the guv’ment, but yeah. Tops dogs are the worst. There’s a football team called Eagles? I know nothing. I’ll try to remember to call you Icarus from here on out. ** David Ehrenstein, I’m probably going to go to bed at 10:30 pm like I usually do unless it’s not that cold outside in which case I might walk down to some viewing spot and watch the fireworks erupt over the Eiffel Tower. And you? ** CAUTIVOS, Thanks! Oh, that was Piper Laurie (who was also in ‘Twin Peaks’) who played the mother in ‘Carrie’. I actually did a post about her too a while ago, strangely. I don’t know what the arrival of the Three Wise Men is, so maybe we don’t celebrate that here? Curious holiday, that. Like Boxing Day, which we also don’t celebrate here. Are you doing New Year’s Eve in any festive fashion? ** Nick., Hey, N! The guy who played Bob in ‘Twin Peaks’ ran a used furniture store just down the street from where I live(d) in LA. You could go in and say hi to him and stuff. He was a very a very odd, extravagant queen in real life. Organic clothes are a hassle, but you just get used to being very unfashionable after a while. Thank you for reading my books. That’s cool. ‘Book of Lies’! One of my very, very favorite books in the entire world! Isn’t it so fucking amazing? Yeah, great reading list there. Thank you for the music links. I’ll listen today. I don’t know that Bareback project at all. Huh. Listening, me? A bunch of sort of random noise music that I’ll have to hunt to find the names of. Guided by Voices are my favorite band, so I always listen to them. I’ve been really wanting to hear Ethel Cain, so I’ll use your directive as my beginning. I’m in a bit of a reading lull at the moment because the film project is kind of eating my brain., but, when I do, uh, I’m reading the Kathy Acker biography mostly. Cartoon? Wow, I never watch cartoons, I don’t think? Weird. Do animes count? If so, maybe ‘Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space’. If you could travel to anywhere in the world (all expenses paid), where would you go? What’s your favorite food? You live in NYC! Whereabouts? I’ve lived there twice, once in the East Village and once in Soho before it became the boring hell it seems to be today. I hope Thursday totally belongs to you. ** jade, Yeah, I was very surprised by her sculpture too. IOW, no, that’s not nuts. I’m glad I was chill when we met. It was at the ‘Permanent Green Light’ screening near Lincoln Center, wasn’t it? I could be wrong. I did know those tracks you mentioned. The only band that ever gave me mild permanent hearing damage when I saw them live was Melt Banana. Yeah, if Dagan wants to say hey here, that’d be cool obviously. I want a magazine link, yes! And I’m sure I’m not the only one. When I first started publishing my transgressive stuff? Hm, I suppose it was probably really liberating, I can’t remember. It was pretty much equally hated and liked. It was weird that people assumed I was some kind of sadistic serial killer or something. I guess some people still do. Guys used to come up to me at readings and ask me where they could get snuff films and stuff. I guess I must have mostly enjoyed all of that because it didn’t stop me. Oh, don’t take a break on my account. I enjoy talking with you, but lay low if that feels right. Door’s always wide open, obviously. xo. ** malcolm, Thanks for the report about the new Solondz. Fingers crossed. I assume he probably has a hard time raising funds since his films aren’t big hits. And I know very well how hard it is to raise even the modest amount Zac and I need, much less the presumed million(s) he needs if he wants known actions to be in his stuff, which he obviously does. That’s so great about your parents. I think having that level of understanding and support is pretty fucking rare for, well, any young artist but especially a daring one like yourself. That’s great! My mom hated it when my work started becoming well known. Like, when my books would get reviewed in bigger places, she was horrified that people would think she was a really bad mother and person to have raised someone like me. I don’t think she ever read my books, no. I think my dad did read my ‘nice’ book ‘God Jr.’, but that’s all. But, no, my mom never came around. Her last words to me on her death bed were that her biggest regret was that she hadn’t taught me to do something that earned a lot of money. Oh, well. Enjoy your bed, if you’re in it. Or the surrounding area, if you’re not. ** l@rst, Thanks, pal. I need to go read that piece on ‘Solenoid’, and I will. Have the most awesome day! ** ShadeoutMapes, Hi! Yes, I especially think that third Crystal Castles album is a flawless perfect masterpiece. The only time I saw them live was in the post-Alice era with Edith Frances, but they were still really exciting. I hope they regroup. If you can’t see ‘PGL’ on your own, let me know and I can send you a link to the screener. Ha ha, your mom, wow! What you say about the things you’re working on just makes me more and more excited. You sent me something? I did see anything. Hm, I’ll go scour the different folders and try to find it. Thanks a lot! Talk again ultra-soon. ** Bill, Hi, Bill. Oh, wow, that ‘Myth Makers’ show is huge. And packed with interesting artists. Not bad! Thanks for the link. I’ll go watch that parade in a minute. Lucky you, even. How much longer are you there? ** Right. I had remembered making a Pneumatic Tube Day here ages ago, but, when I went to go look for it, there was nothing, so I made a (new?) one because, god knows, Pneumatic Tubes warrant their own 24 blog hours. See you tomorrow.

 

‘”I’ve seen people almost question if I should be walking around free,” admitted the actress the first time I interviewed her, while she was working on the 1999 L.A. premiere of Woman as Battlefield, a play about the horrors of war in the Balkans. “It’s very easy for me not to place judgment between me and the character, so I can be there in a heartbeat.” Indeed, if you’re going to be engaged in believable, bloodthirsty torture on-screen, as Zabriskie is in David Lynch’s Wild at Heart (1990), you’d better understand something about madness and how to get there.

‘A daring actress, a published writer of poetry and erotica, and a visual artist who designs fine art boxes, as well as kaleidoscopic photo collages, Zabriskie is a New Orleans-born autodidact who says she learned to act by reading, talking about it, and paying attention. “My father’s pet name for me when I was 3 was ‘little bastard actress,'” said Zabriskie in a recent interview with BSW, “and I suppose I’ve never had a day in my life that I wasn’t just that.” Perhaps best recognized for her role as the grief-stricken mother Sarah Palmer in Lynch’s Twin Peaks (1990)—a woman prone to odd, drug-induced visions—Zabriskie explained how she is able to approach the fringes of extreme emotion.

‘”I have done a bunch of interviews in my life for roles that were just extremely bizarre,” said Zabriskie. “One of them involved having just killed my parents and now I was munching on the hand of my mother or some damn thing. I asked myself, How in the world would you get there? Can I imagine eating the hand of my mother? No. Killing my mother? No. Hating my mother enough to kill her? No, not really. The fleeting wish? Not really, but I’m a little closer. Can I imagine being very angry with her? Yes. You just have to keep going back until you find the place where you can come in, and work from there.”

‘Standing around as a local, three-day extra on the set of Norma Rae (1979), Zabriskie found her career took off when director Martin Ritt decided to extend her role and she was instantly offered representation. Though she insists it was never her goal to see her name on a movie marquee, Zabriskie was then able to build a solid film reputation, playing such roles as the irritable, concerned mother of Matt Dillon’s character in Drugstore Cowboy, or the haunting seductress Alena, who picks up a narcoleptic young hustler (River Phoenix) in My Own Private Idaho (1991), or Granny, that sour rattlesnake of a woman in Bastard Out of Carolina (1996). But it was the television series Twin Peaks that gained Zabriskie more widespread recognition, with a challenging performance for which Lynch pushed her, take after take, toward an extreme intended to teeter on melodrama.

‘Blessed with enormously emotive eyes, sharp cheekbones, and an unmistakable voice that ranges from sexy to sinister, Zabriskie returned to the stage last spring in the L.A. premiere of Murray Mednick’s absurdist, language-based play 16 Routines, portraying a deranged, snappy, bantering vaudevillian.

‘When asked what keeps her going, despite the challenges of securing good roles as she matures, Zabriskie responded, “The fact is, as actors, everything we do, bad or good, is a contribution. To me, it is a positive thing to give people as wide a range of human behavior with some sense of understanding of that behavior or some clue to it. It may be a very small thing in terms of the problems that exist in the world, but it is a thing, and it’s something I can do, and like to do—am thrilled to do actually.”‘ — Laura Weinert

 

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Further

Grace Zabriskie Site
Grace Zabriskie @ IMDb
GZ @ instagram
GZ @ Facebook
GZ @ MUBI
GZ @ Letterboxd
‘Poems’ by Grace Zabriskie @ goodreads

 

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Extras

Grace Zabriskie & Jonathan Rundman death scene

Grace Zabriskie as Laura Palmer

Grouplove – Youth (Starring – Grace Zabriskie)

“Baby Blue” Starring Grace Zabriskie

Big Love – Lois wants to see Santa

 

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The Hideout Series

‘Hideout #1 is the first of a projected series of sculptures I’m making. Each will be a concretization of emotional, intellectual, spiritual and physical places of refuge…such as we might have called “hideouts” as kids.

‘I have come to see all human endeavor as pastime, as refuge from constant awareness of mortality, futility; therefore terribly important and of no consequence whatsoever. This idea could be utterly dreary to contemplate, and at times it is, but for the most part my life has been a fairly constant attempt to make it -my life- joyful.

‘Memory, it seems, in this construct, is the most constant pastime, as it is also the filter through which the present is experienced. Memory, association. So almost any image that recurs to me with a certain persistence has only to be incorporated, somehow, technically. I am but a technical assistant to my need to make manifest the images of my interests, understandings, passions, and memories. My pastimes. I’m there to build the parts and figure out how they go together, not to comment or edit too much or try to figure out what they mean. When the piece is done, it tells its story, and I’m free to figure out what the hell I was talking about.

‘The Hideout construct turns out to be a limitless umbrella for such a series as I am now officially embarked upon…assuming I actually do at least a few of the ones I envision next.’ — Grace Zabriskie

 

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Interview

 

Twin Peaks Archive: How did you first get into acting and when did art enter your life?

Grace Zabriskie: I have always, since early childhood, been a writer, an actor and a visual artist. I acted in a few things as a child in New Orleans, but preferred painting sets to acting in high school plays. My father, who had been an actor himself, was advised by friends from L.A. to keep me out of acting as long as possible, to make sure I had a normal life, growing up. I majored in French and art in college, took no theatre courses, but was commandeered by seniors for their senior directing projects. I did a couple of plays in New Orleans as a young adult, and was pregnant with my daughter, Marion, when I played my last ingenue at the Gallery Circle Theatre in the French Quarter. For many years my writing was foremost at times, and then my visual art. I did occasional plays in Atlanta as my children were growing up. I started doing commercial voice-overs for all manner of things, including expensive perfumes. Those were fun. Then I did a few movies. “Norma Rae” was the fourth or fifth professional film project I did, and, long story short, moved to L.A. within a year of its release, as there were several agents interested in representing me, and I was ready to leave Atlanta.

Twin Peaks Archive: Talk about working with David Lynch on Twin Peaks and Wild At Heart.

Grace Zabriskie: I had seen enough of David Lynch’s work to know that I wanted to work with him when I was brought in to meet him on Twin Peaks. ( I had been told I was being seen for the role of “Lucy.” ) We talked for a long time during that meeting, and I told him a funny theatre story about a Cajun play I had done at Le Petit Theatre in New Orleans. I did it in the Cajun dialect. It was then that “Juana” was born in his mind, I think. Needless to say, we never talked about “Lucy.” Or “Sarah,” for that matter. I was soon very happy to be offered the role of Sarah.

A year or so later he called and said he’d written something for me, that it was pretty wild, and if I didn’t want to do it he would understand.( I don’t know that he ever described her to me except to say that the role was pretty out there.) I thought “fat chance” I wouldn’t want to do it, but when I read it, it was very difficult…I’m not sure I ever thought I wouldn’t or couldn’t or shouldn’t do it, but a decision can be very difficult even when you know the decision you’re going to make. Someday I’ll root out the script of Wild at Heart, and send you the monologue he wrote and shot for Juana. I never got to see it. It was cut after the first test screenings. What’s left are the snippets you see when Harry Dean gets killed.

Twin Peaks Archive: Did you take any photos or keep any props or costumes from the set of Twin Peaks?

Grace Zabriskie: I asked for and was given the bathrobe I wore in the final episode. In the cafe, with Don Davis. I have attatched a Polaroid I asked David to pose for, with his megaphone. I got a kick out of that megaphone. I think I asked for the bathrobe because I was happy with the Polaroid.

I was heavily into making photo collages during the Twin Peaks years. I was in love with C-stands, and took hundreds of portraits of C-stands. Several C-stand collages and boxes came from those photographs. I used to think of them as the little soldiers of the movie industry, standing around in their little battalions, waiting to be needed. There are some C-stand boxes on my website. I don’t think I photographed people, really. Except a great shot of David standing behind some C-stands.

Twin Peaks Archive: Did you take any photos on the set of Wild At Heart?

Grace Zabriskie: The only day I shot people on set was the day we did the banquet scene. I had my camera with me for the first time on that shoot, because I knew the whole banquet scene would involve hours and hours of waiting. (I just remembered that that was the day I told my agents they could come, since I would have so much free time. I was thinking somebody could take some pictures of me with them.) As soon as I saw the china plates that were to be placed before each of the beautiful young women in that scene, I knew that I wanted to “frame David in asparagus.” So I shot the plates, focusing on the asparagus, and David and Calvin and D.P. Kelley, and I gave my camera to David and he shot me. I shot the clap board, electrical stuff on the floor on the set, a radiator in the room, whatever is in the Wild at Heart collage and probably a lot of other stuff that didn’t make it into the collage…which is not about Wild at Heart, so much as a tiny moment in a big film. Not a moment that actually occurred in the film; just the moment when I imagined David framed in asparagus.

Twin Peaks Archive: How did Inland Empire come about?

Grace Zabriskie: It came out in the trades that David had begun to work with Laura Dern and a video camera on some tiny internet movies. The next day or maybe a few days later David called to say that he had written a scene for me and Laura. I said great. Send it to me. He said he’d send it very soon, he wasn’t finished “tweaking” it. I eventually forgot about it. Months later I heard he was back in the country to shoot here again, and knew I was about to be unavailable and I called over there to see if maybe he’d sent it and somehow I hadn’t gotten it. No, no, it was still coming. By the time it came, I was busy with Big Love, and when he tried to set up a shoot day, I was booked. He didn’t seem too worried, so I wasn’t worried. Months and months later I thought about it and figured he’d already shot the day with somebody else. But then we got a day booked weeks in advance, I started working hard on the scene, and then three days before we were to shoot, he told me he was thinking I should do “an Eastern European accent.” I freaked a bit, called my fabulous dialect coach, Larry Moss, (who calls himself “not the Larry Moss,”) and did the best I could in the time we had.

Twin Peaks Archive: Talk about Big Love. In particular the amazing cast!

Grace Zabriskie: Big Love has been an utter joy for me. It really is an amazing cast, isn’t it? I don’t even know whom to single out, other than to say that there are just too many fine actors involved to give everyone enough to do, and in some cases, that’s especially a shame. I have been happy with everyone involved, and have gotten quite close to a few. I am more in love with some of the directors than others of course, as is everyone on any series. But Mark Olson and Will Scheffer, the creator/writer/producers make up the difference on any given day with any given director. They stay hands on and creative throughout the day, and in addition to all that brilliant casting, they have assembled a team of writers, producers, post-production people, etc, who are really good in their jobs.

Twin Peaks Archive: What’s next for Grace Zabriskie?

Grace Zabriskie: I don’t know what’s next. I hope we’ll do a third season of Big Love. I wouldn’t mind another “hiatus film” coming along about now, but on the other hand, I’m pretty happy to have time in my workshop. Last year’s hiatus movie is about to open on July 4 – “License to Wed” with Robin Williams.

 

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24 of Grace Zabriskie’s 165 roles

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Martin Ritt Norma Rae (1978)
‘Since making her feature debut in “Norma Rae” (1978), the New Orleans-born actress has gone on to leave an indelible mark on both the small and big screens. She has been particularly effective in movies playing mothers, albeit not the kind that would be embraced by June Cleaver.’ — RT

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Bruce D. Clark Galaxy of Terror (1981)
‘Amid the host of films that came out attempting to exploit the success of Alien (1979), Galaxy of Terror, from Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, is one of the more interesting. It is only Alien – or even more so Planet of the Vampires (1965) – crosshatched with Forbidden Planet (1956) where the familiar slime-drooling monsters and wrecks of alien spaceships have been combined with some confused but fascinating ideas about monsters from the unconscious. Galaxy of Terror certainly has an interesting cast including Erin Moran from Happy Days as the principal female character, not to mention Freddy Krueger himself Robert Englund, David Lynch favourite Grace Zabriskie, and erotica director Zalman King in a rare acting appearance.’ — Moria Reviews

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William A. Graham M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (1983)
‘Mariette Hartley earned herself an Emmy nomination for her whole-hearted performance as Candy Lightner, the Californian mother who launched a national campaign after her young daughter was killed in a hit-and-run accident. To his credit, director William A Graham presents clear-headed arguments rather than scoring easy melodramatic points, and keeps a tight rein on a supporting cast that includes David Huddleston, Paula Prentiss and Grace Zabriskie.’ — David Parkinson

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Jim McBride The Big Easy (1986)
‘As with a lot of New Orleans neo-noir, a commitment to a sense of place consistently threatens to descend into kitsch, though at least McBride palpably loves the milieu whose idiosyncrasies he can’t help laying on a little too thickly. Grace Zabriskie, on the other hand, sounds like she was asked to perform Jamaican. Tonally all over the place, which might be for the better anyway given the forgettable machinations of its bad-cop antics; a film that’s ultimately more interested in pondering the musculature of Dennis Quaid’s ass or hanging out at a neighborhood barbecue than it is in uncovering corrupt conspiracies or moral inquiry.’ — jrhovind

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William Friedkin Rampage (1987)
‘Originally shot in 1987; after premiering in some European countries, the film was shelved when production studio DEG went bankrupt and sat unreleased for five years. In 1992 director William Friedkin re-edited the movie and slightly altered the ending (supposedly because in the meantime his feelings about the death penalty had changed) before its USA release. The European video versions usually feature the original ending.’ — IMDb

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John Herzfeld The Ryan White Story (1989)
‘The Ryan White Story is a 1989 ABC network television movie which aired on January 16, 1989. The movie is based on the true-life events of Ryan White, a teenage hemophiliac who contracts AIDS through contaminated blood and his fight to attend school after he is forbidden to go due to his condition.’ — M4TV

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Gus Van Sant Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
‘The tragic scene of Dianne and Bob visiting his heartbroken, scolding mother (Grace Zabriskie) when she lowered the blinds and locked doors when he came to get some clothes (“He is a thief and a dope fiend, and that is more important to him than I am”).’ — filmsite

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David Lynch Wild at Heart (1990)
‘Played by Grace Zabriskie, the contract killer Juana Durango is just so odd in her cocktail dress and campy horror-film makeup with her warped posture. I particularly like the way her white foundation rubs off on Calvin Lockhart’s dark Bahamian face when they’re making out right before they murder Johnny Farragut.’ — emily winsauer

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J. Michael Riva Tales from the Crypt (“The Secret”) (1990)
‘Mrs. Colbert (Grace Zabriskie) was a villainess from Tales From the Crypt’s second season finale, “The Secret” (airdate July 31, 1990). She and her husband adopted 12-year-old Theodore from an orphanage, and they mainly stuff him full of sweets and keep him in his room, under the watchful eye of their servant, Tobias.’ — The Female Villains Wiki

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John Lafia Child’s Play 2 (1990)
‘In noteworthy contrast to the darker original, Child’s Play 2 is the first in the series to incorporate a more campy, comedic approach, however it contained a more violent tone.’ — CPF

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David Lynch Twin Peaks (1990-1991)
‘Working with David [Lynch], who loves to take an actor and push them just that much over the edge, so that an audience that has tears rolling down their cheeks will start laughing — or some of them will look very angrily at someone who just laughed. You know the scene in Twin Peaks where Sarah Palmer finds out that her daughter is dead and she starts freaking out? I was in an audience watching. People are crying — they’re crying with Sarah’s grief — and some people are laughing because I’ve just gone that little half-step too far. They got it. They’re laughing, but the other ones, they didn’t get it, and they’re pissed off that someone would dare laugh at this terribly sad thing. Everything for me comes down to tone. One of my favorite things in the world to do is to make someone laugh and cry at the same time, and it’s rare material that offers that kind of opportunity. And it means basically, as an actor, you have to invest so completely in what you’re saying that the end result is funny. It’s just that tiny little push.’ — Grace Zabriskie

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Gus Van Sant My Own Private Idaho (1991)
‘In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV,” Mike Waters (River Phoenix) is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor (Keanu Reeves) is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike’s estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.’ — IMDb

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Jon Avnet Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (1992)
‘Flagg’s book never calls Ruth and Idgie lesbians — and Evelyn doesn’t ask Ninny to label them, either — but it does make it a fact that they are a couple. In that sense, there are some key differences between the book and the movie (adapted by Flagg, Carol Sobieski, and Avnet, who didn’t receive a credit). Ruth never dates Buddy in the book, for instance — she and Idgie meet only after Mama Threadgoode asks Ruth, a family friend, to come help her rescue Idgie, who has gone off to mourn Buddy by the River Club (and sometimes into the arms of Eva Bates, who is played in the movie by Grace Zabriskie, though her character in the film barely registers. “Eva didn’t know about a lot of things, but she knew about love,” writes Flagg, as Eva takes a bereft Idgie into her bed).’ — Kate Aurthur

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David Lynch Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
‘Grace Zabriskie on Sheryl Lee’s performance in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me: “She gave everything she had, she gave more, she gave more than she could afford to give, and she spent years coming back…’ — wttp

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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Premiere: Grace Zabriskie Exclusive Interview

 

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Gus Van Sant Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993)
‘Though the director’s sensibility worked extraordinarily well when applied to hard-edged subject matter like “Drugstore Cowboy” and even “My Own Private Idaho,” combining it with Robbins’ flimsy jokiness has resulted in a film whose tedium is painful.’ — Kenneth Turan

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Philip Ridley The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995)
‘THE PASSION OF DARKLY NOON has much in common with THE REFLECTING SKIN: an isolated rural setting bathed in blinding sunlight; ubiquitous religious imagery; and a view of human sexuality as a mystifying, frightening possibility for an immature soul who has not yet experienced it. But while THE REFLECTING SKIN was ominously suggestive about the nature of evil in the human spirit–imagine “The Turn of the Screw” mixed with THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939), with substantial debts to David Lynch and Peter Greenaway–THE PASSION OF DARKLY NOON is a relatively simplistic tract about the anti-human nature of religion. The same general criticism applies to the entire production: every element seems a blander retread. The rural scenery–shot, surprisingly, in Germany–is lovely, but not so striking; Nick Bacat’s score, which includes two eerie songs, sung by PJ Harvey and Gavin Friday, is evocative, but not so spellbinding. Of course, it’s unfair to judge a work entirely in relation to another by the same filmmaker. On its own, THE PASSION OF DARKLY NOON would seem an intriguing but overwrought effort by a talented filmmaker who needs to focus on his goals. Viewed in tandem with THE REFLECTING SKIN, it seems more likely that Ridley is mistakenly going in the opposite direction: he needs to give his imagination freer, rather than tighter, rein.’ — TV Guide

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Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld Seinfeld (1997-1998)
‘Zabriskie may best be remembered as Mrs. Ross, a recurring character on the sitcom Seinfeld. She played the mother of another doomed daughter, Susan Ross — George Costanza’s fiancée — who died after licking cheap envelope adhesive when mailing out her wedding invitations. Zabriskie’s character’s husband on the series, who also appeared in a recurring role, was played by her former Twin Peaks co-star, Warren Frost.’ — peoplepill

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Dominic Sena Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
‘Perfectly dreadful in every respect, this big-budget remake of the late H.B. Halicki’s 1974 indie hit may well rep the nadir of the Bruckheimer (and Simpson) franchise, and doesn’t even rate on the most basic level as a good car-chase picture.’ — Variety

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Mark Anthony Galluzzo R.S.V.P. (2002)
‘An irreverent comedy romp, R.S.V.P. cleverly mixes the spirit of Frank Capra’s Arsenic and Old Lace with Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope. Set in the heart of sin city itself, Las Vegas, Nevada, R.S.V.P. follows a group of twenty-something’s on their last – and we do mean last – night of collegiate bliss. The film stars: Glenn Quinn, Jay Mewes, Rick Otto, Jonathan Banks, and Grace Zabriskie. At the West-Coast premiere, LA Times film critic, Kevin Thomas declared the film to be “Diabolically Clever!”, whilst others praised it as “An Art-House Scream.”’ — MABINOGI

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Takashi Shimizu The Grudge (2004)
‘Emma Williams is a character of The Grudge, portrayed by Grace Zabriskie. Emma is a dementia-ridden elderly woman, mother of Susan and Matthew and mother-in-law of Jennifer. Emma is disturbed by an unseen force, inhabitant of their newest house.’ — ju-on

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David Lynch Inland Empire (2006)
‘Visitor #1 (Grace Zabriskie) is a mysterious figure who gives Nikki her first hints about the curse. The Visitor is first seen on the Lost Girl’s TV, on fast-forward, walking toward Nikki’s house. Shortly thereafter, these events play out.

‘The Visitor comes to Nikki’s house claiming to be a new neighbor who lives just down the street, in a brick house “tucked back in the small woods,” difficult to see from the road. The Visitor knows that Nikki is up for a new role, and asks if the film is about marriage. Nikki responds, “Perhaps in some ways.” The Visitor then asks if Nikki’s husband is involved. Nikki says he is not. The visitor then tells “an old tale” and “the variation.”

‘The Visitor asks Nikki if the film involves a murder. Nikki denies this, but the Visitor insists that the film involves a “brutal fucking murder.” Nikki, disturbed, asks the Visitor to leave. The Visitor good-naturedly replies: “I can’t seem to remember if it’s today, two days from now, or yesterday. I suppose if it was 9:45, I’d think it was after midnight. For instance, if today was tomorrow, you wouldn’t even remember that you owed on an unpaid bill. Actions do have consequences. And yet there is the magic. If it was tomorrow, you would be sitting over there…”

‘She then points her finger and seems to transport Nikki through time and space to the following day, when Nikki receives a phone call that she has been cast as Susan Blue.

‘Kingsley later references a “ninety-year-old niece” who has been fascinated by Smithy since the day the film went into production. She keeps asking who is playing Smithy in her “ancient foreign voice.” Given the Visitor’s knowledge that Piotrek would be involved in the film, it is possible that Kingsley is talking about the Visitor, who has a thick Polish accent.

‘Footage of Visitor #1 replays at the very end of the film after Nikki has broken the curse. She smiles at Nikki.’ — Inland Empire Wiki

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Werner Herzog My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
‘The first collaboration between legendary filmmakers David Lynch and Werner Herzog, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done was inspired by a true crime story of a young stage actor who, obsessed with a Greek tragedy he’s rehearsing, slays his own mother with a sword. Academy Award Nominees Michael Shannon, Chloë Sevigny, and Willem Dafoe headline this psychological thriller directed by Herzog, produced by Lynch, and featuring Grace Zabriskie, Udo Kier, and Brad Dourif.’ — VVS F

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Graham Streeter Blind Malice (2014)
‘Karen, a visually impaired teen (Angelina Prendergast) and her grandmother (Grace Zabriskie) make a routine visit to clean the family-owned rental property. But things become unsettling when Karen finds herself alone and childhood memories surface.’ — IMDb

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David Lynch Twin Peaks: Season 3 (2017)
‘Can we all just take a moment to appreciate Grace Zabriskie as Sarah Palmer? Like SHE’S SO FRICKIN AWESOME. Her performance in the first episode is the essence of twin peaks. She captures the pain and devastation so well that it sets the tone for the entire show. Twin Peaks isn’t a show where you can gawk at suffering and misery like other TV. The pain is given a spotlight until you don’t know how to feel about partaking in watching it.’ — Barbricky

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p.s. Hey. ** Nick Hudson, Hi, Nick! Wow, it sounds like your new locale is paying dividends (as they say, and whatever that means). You had me at daily micro-dosing. Novel! Wowzer! Anyway congrats, pal. I need to go look at pictures and read up on Georgia ‘cos I have no mental image other than a fair amount of generally nature-based beauty. New film: uh, it’s about a family that builds a haunted house attraction in their home and chaos ensues, in a nutshell. xo, me. ** CAUTIVOS, Hi. The main holiday effect in Paris other than the pretty lights and stuff is the city is really packed with tourists. Walking takes longer. Do you mean what French writers have I only discovered since living here and especially liked? Lots, I guess. I would say Edouard Leve maybe the most. Liliane Giraudon, Mathieu Lindon, … lots. I love Sebald. Not so interested in Ellroy. Can’t remember if I’ve read Offut. Warmth to you in return. ** Jack Skelley, Bon post-Xmas to you too, J-J. Did you ever see Old Skull? I saw them at the Whisky way back, but I don’t remember if you went too. ‘TMS’ is kind of Xmas-y in a way. So sorry about the ups and downs. Your head is a bitch! Looking forward to seeing you too (IRL), and figuring out when I will. Love, me. ** Misanthrope, I can imagine. I’ve never had a job where I had to be somewhere to do it. Well, except Beyond Baroque, but that was only once a week. Fly like an eagle or something of that nature. ** Thaddeus, Hey, Thaddeus! So fucking cool to see you here! How are you? You must’ve seen Old Skull live in their heyday? It would be so nice to see you in person again one of these days! ** malcolm, Awesome, glad they grabbed you. Your parents sound incredible, I must say. Mine were very not friendly to my artist dreams. My mother had wanted to be a concert pianist when young, but she gave it up, and I think she thought I should bite the bullet of normal life too. Oh, I’ll probably mention my birthday. I’m just not into this particular age that I’m about to become. It seems like it’s been ages since a new Todd Solondz film. Is he working on something? Do you know? I hope and trust you made it home okay. Wednesday’s yours. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi. There was a kind of warmth and inter-scene friendliness in those days. I’m out of the scene, but I always hope that’s still the case. ** Nick., Hi, Nick! I’m glad you liked the post, cool. I have this weird allergy to fabrics and dyes, so I have to wear organic clothes, and I’m even kind of allergic to dark organic dyes, so I actually wear white or off-white clothes almost all the time. Well, not pants. I just have to wash my jeans tons of times when I buy them. So wearing white is second nature to me. I should think about what the effect of seeing me or, well, anyone wearing white clothes is. Maybe it radiates innocence? That would be nice. Your description of you could be a description of me. Except I have siblings, but I’m not close to them at least. High five. Monday’s a good favorite day. I’m guessing it’s most people’s least favorite day? Hm, well, I won’t say my favorite is Monday because you just did, so maybe … Tuesday because it seems like the most overlooked day or something. What are some of your favorite books and music, if you don’t mind saying? Oh, and where do you live? I hope your today felt like a Monday! ** Maya, Hi, Maya. Thank you! I’ll go read that Juxtapoz article. Thank you for thinking of me. How are you? ** jade, Hi, jade. I’m happy you liked the Skull. Nick does seem great, yes! Thank you again for introducing us. Oh, wow, I think I remember someone asking me to sign my book with eyeliner. So we’ve met at least briefly. I’m always really nervous and distracted when I’m doing public events. Being forcibly a center of attention is not my favorite thing. I liked your playlist! I actually knew some of the tracks, believe it or not. A couple of the imbeds were dead, I don’t know why. But, yeah, super happy to get to listen to all of it, maybe especially Yves Tumor, Boredoms, Merzbow, Melt Banana, Crystal Castles. But I liked everything. Thank you raising my stakes. When will the magazine come out? Let me/us know. Fun and fucked up and already hated are very good signs, yes! Congrats! I haven’t yet tried that secret route into z-Lib, but I will soon. I hope your … morning (?) is being great. ** T, Do spring the Skull on your students. And remember exactly what their facial expressions are. And tell me. So you went home for Xmas, or, wait, ‘home’. Then welcome ‘home’, or, wait, home. Oh, the legendary novel, of course! Excellent! The cannibalising effect is a good sign if my opinion has anything to do with the truth. Yes, there must be cool stuff for us to mutually investigate. Let’s sort it. ** Bill, Hi, Bill. Yeah, sad story that didn’t seem like it would be at the beginning. But there you go. The buche eating was highly satisfactory. So you’re way, way down there. I hope you can find something or other outside that impacts. ** ShadeoutMapes, Hi. Cool, yeah, just send it anytime that’s convenient for you. I’m around. Well, thanks to copy-and-paste, your heart was easy. I really, really like the sound of that book you’re writing. Both the idea itself and the formal ideas too. The last film I made with Zac was about a boy who wanted to disappear and be forgotten, but, in our film’s case, he decided to explode himself. All of which is to say your idea is really exciting me. Wow. I really want to encourage you to write/finish that book because I’m really jonesing to read it. Really, it sounds completely original, and the stories/poems formal thing is enticing. Let me know how I can be a successful cheerleader, and I’ll do my best. I hope you get to hang out with your friend today. It’s morning here, and I will do my best to max out the remaining daylight hours. If you read this in the morning, you too. xo. ** Okay. The other day I thought about Grace Zabriskie for whatever reason, and I started wondering what her career as an actor was like outside of her Lynch appearances, and so I investigated, and, as I did, I made the post you see up above containing select examples from her overall oeuvre. So if you have ever been similarly curious about her, today’s got you covered. See you tomorrow.