The Full Blossom of the Evening: A Podcast about David Lynch and Twin Peaks

David Lynch's comic The Angriest Dog in the World ran for ten years in the LA Reader, but most of the strips have not been seen since their original publication...until now. Jeff Trexler of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has assembled a nearly complete archive of "Dogs" and hosted a series of panel discussions on Lynch's comic art. In this episode, Jeff joins Indigo and Hilary to discuss the significance of comics and animation in Lynch's oeuvre.  Thank you to Jeff for providing this slide deck with some of the strips and images mentioned in the episode: https://rb.gy/vi875g  

Rita Hayworth appears only briefly on a poster in Mulholland Drive, but her life and work are deeply woven into the fabric of that film. Indigo and Hilary intended to focus on Gilda, but instead woke up to the magnificent star behind the eponymous character.

Fans of Twin Peaks have long discussed the uncanny resonances between the series and Peter Weir's 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock. Indigo, Hilary, and Mileta enter this ongoing conversation with an additional focus on the 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay that inspired Weir's film.    Show notes from Mileta: If you would like to help support to Aboriginal people's ongoing efforts toward self-determination, please consider donating to Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network Empowering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people to protect Country, culture and communities. *** A moving discussion of displacement, both historical and contemporary:  Sydney Writers Festival 2021 Opening Night Address. 'Writers Melissa Lucashenko, Tara June Winch and Evelyn Araluen discuss literature, who gets a voice, and the ways that stories define and shape us all.'  *** I meant to talk about the Aboriginal tracker character in Picnic, who is given no dialogue and, to add insult to injury, fails where white-knight Mike succeeds. In the film he appears once in the background and then only briefly.   The film Tracker turns a critical gaze on this aspect of Australian history:      TRACKER - Trailer

David Lynch said, “There is not a day that goes by when I don’t think of the Wizard of Oz.” Exploring the story through its origins in defining cultural movements of the early twentieth century, Indigo and Hilary discuss the meaning of this American fairy tale and how it echoes in Lynch’s life and work.

Mark Frost's inspiration for naming Horne's Department Store in Twin Peaks came from a Pittsburgh institution he encountered during his time at Carnegie Mellon University. Indigo and Hilary spend their Frost-awarded "bonus points" sharing details from the history of the real-life Horne's, as well as some personal memories of the store.