The fourth chapter of Earth Horse Beats Fire Horse Dead, Dead, Dead, titled “Wood Goat Moat“, is up at my Substack, so check it out.
Yesterday I mentioned my research into David Lynch’s dark, inverted world to some Christian men because I found a curious passage in Lynch’s book about creativity.
Here’s the passage:
What Biblical sentence so inspired David Lynch that his own creative work was suddenly seen by its creator as “a whole”?
While Lynch stayed mum about the specifics, a sentiment expressed in Romans (3:5-8) got my attention a few weeks ago in relation to this excerpt from the Missoula-born Hollywood director:
This sentiment expressed by historic Jews is a sentiment that I think persists in the modern era because we can’t accurately discuss the world’s Tiny Hat problem.
And why can’t we do that?
When I re-watched Donnie Darko for the hundredth time, on my birthday, I didn’t expect to see traces of Epstein because Donnie Darko came out 25 years ago next month.
Sure, I’ve connected weird things in Missoula to Epstein, like the set-designer for the Ellen Degeneres Show who lives up Pattee Canyon, and I’ve tracked movie references to this humble little mountain town, like Jake Gyllenhaal’s Roadhouse reprisal of Patrick Swayze’s Dalton as a MMA fighter from Missoula, but that still didn’t prepare me to see the temple pattern on the couch where Donnie gets his “therapy” sessions.
If it was just this visual echo, I might dismiss it, but the background symbols in this scene also include a panda and a map that looks suspiciously like the Gulf of Mexico (sorry, conservatives, I’m not playing the rename game):
If you don’t see how this symbolism adds up, let me offer this disturbing explanation of the term “racoon eyes” for more context on what the Panda might mean:
Moving on from this disturbing implication, there’s a final connection I’m going to make between two geographic locations associated with David Lynch–Missoula and Philadelphia–that I think is relevant to the larger forces of narrative control at work that I’m tracking on multiple levels, and that’s the two most important Jews most people have never heard of: Ira Einhorn and Leslie Fiedler.
Ira Einhorn called himself “The Unicorn” before murdering his girlfriend, hiding her body in a trunk in his closet, then fleeing when the private investigators zeroed in on him. Without getting too much into the rich history of this odd cultural figure, I’ll just throw out some of the people he associated with and was inspired by: Uri Gellar, Andrija Puharich, Barbara Bronfman, and Nikola Tesla.
Leslie Fiedler, who spent many years as a professor in Missoula, had a cultural perch where he was promoted at a MUCH HIGHER level, according to the context from this fascinating piece of cultural analysis I found this morning:
During the “new” permissiveness of the era, did Leslie Fiedler enable his young son, Michael, to experiment with LSD at the age of 9? And did he enable the poet, Allen Ginsberg, to molest him? I hope the answer to both questions is NO, but I have good reason to suspect otherwise (I’m covering this more in depth at Substack and in my unpublished manuscript).
I think I’ll stop here before I get put on a Catalyst Montana hate list or something.
Thanks for reading!
