O'Reilly vs. Manson (Interview)

Fantastic interview/conversation between Bill O'Reilly & Marilyn Manson.

DJ Shadow: Sessions @ AOL (Interview)

Interview with DJ Shadow (aka Josh Davis) for Sessions@AOL. Davis describes the significance of his album title, 'The Private Press,' which refers to records pressed by amateur individuals. He discusses the sampling process used on his album amongst other things.

Norah Jones on Songwriting

Hunter S. Thompson: Conan O'Brien 2-6-2003

Rod Serling Interviewed by Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes 1959

Here is the infamous 1959 interview by Mike Wallace of the creative genius Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone.

"Some background from the webmaster: Censorship flourished in the Fifties as an outgrowth of the Cold War. Paranoia was in the National Interest, and Sponsors ruled the "new medium" called Television. They paid the bills and felt within their rights to suggest program content. Too young to know better, Television obeyed.

Rod Serling bristled under these restrictions.

He was the New Medium's most decorated writer, and its most controversial. Both because he dared to write about his strong sense of injustice—especially concerning race. Don't believe Serling's assertion that he intended no social relevance for Twilight Zone. He was protecting his investment. Rod Serling hated censorship and used fantasy to fool the censors into ignoring him. It worked for a while.

The following interview was conducted on September 22, 1959, on the 'eve' of Twilight Zone's network premiere."

You can read the full transcript here:
http://www.rodserling.com/mwallace.htm

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David Lynch: The Alphabet (Dub)

Credits:

Directed by:
David Lynch

Writing credits:
David Lynch ... writer

Cast:
Peggy Lynch ... Girl

Produced by:
H. Barton Wasserman .... producer

Cinematography by:
David Lynch

Film Editing by:
David Lynch

Sound Department:
Robert Cullum .... sound mixer
David Lynch .... sound
Robert McDonald .... sound editor

Animation Department:
David Lynch .... animator

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Sound Remix & Music: Ky Olsen

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Plot:

(from imdb user jodiac ):

Another Phobia Envisioned by David Lynch, 29 May 2002
Author: jodiac from Lexington, KY

David Lynch says this film was an attempt at visualizing the "fear of learning." In it, a young girl is tortured by the alphabet in a competely abstract nightmare. Lynch has always been fascinated by the darker side of dreams, the seemingly nonsensical black procession of symbols and fears, and this film simply adds another phobia to the canon.

We are shown images of a head with information going in one side, and this eventually causes the head to erupt into a black mess. Lynch juxtaposes the most innocent of subjects (the alphabet), which usually marks the beginning of our schooling, with disconcerting images of blood and vomit. Disturbing? Yes. Lynch apparently formed the idea after hearing of a girl who was found reciting the alphabet during a nightmare.

On a more profound level, the film examines a fear that perhaps appears for most later in life: the dread of knowledge. There's quite a bit of truth to the oft-repeated line "ignorance is bliss." Gradually, we realize that the more we learn, the less we understand, and therefore, the less control we have over our situations. It's a problem that has vexed people since the conception of "science." We ask questions out of curiosity, find there are no accessible answers, create a religious penumbra that satisfies a great deal with a few simple passages, and then science comes along and we are confronted once again with the inconsistencies of our faith. Thus, we fear that which turns the rock-solid black and whites of our existence to a confused mass of gray.

Also, The Alphabet hints at what linguists and intellectuals and songwriters have known for centuries; words are wholly inadequate to describe even the simplest of human perceptions. And once one has etched that list of letters into one's mind, in a sense, there is no turning back. Life becomes shapes patterned on paper, and conceptions of reality will no longer be formed purely and internally; they are immediately attached to an imperfect language and remained tethered to that which will never truly suffice.

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The Film:

Lynch on The Alphabet



Original Film



The Alphabet Dub
(Original Film with audio remix and music)

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Sources:

The Alphabet on IMDB.com

The Alphabet on Lynchnet.com

David Lynch Home Page

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