I went back and watched episodes 1 and 2 of the revived Twin Peaks. Unsurprisingly, they cast an interesting light on the final episode, especially some scenes/dialogue in episode 2 I’d forgotten about. I’m not going to make the mistake of imposing meaning on the show, but obviously Lynch and Frost scattered clues throughout the series as to what might be happening, some of which may be red herrings, but the final episode was planned, not random.
I may do a fuller post about the show in the future.
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In my post of 16 August, I talked about various options for improving sound quality on my audio gear.
I confirm that the Sony speakers from eBay, with cable wire from Amazon, are a great success, and have revitalised the old cd player.
The experiments in the living room have been a mixed bag: resiting the speakers on bamboo boards has worked as has isolating the cd player and amp. I think the semi-isolation of the turntable has worked a bit as well. I’ve run into an odd problem though. I am losing a little high-frequency hearing, and that has been behind some of my dis-satisfaction with the sound; but improving the isolation of the components has had the odd effect of improving LPs and cds with open production and showing up the problems with source discs where the production is more muddy or compressed.
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And further to my post of 6 March, Googling is still a pain for some kinds of initial research, ie for identifying a first swatch of references to get me going with the real research. This has caused me to curse several times recently when looking for background material for writing. Attempting to find serious commentary on anything to do with the Hebrew Bible, the early church, or gnosticism, immediately threw up either evangelical or esoteric sites for the first several pages, with no sign of what I really wanted. Likewise trying to dig into anything to do with “Celtic” mythology brings up loads of new age, Wiccan, or other modern mystical sites. I’m not knocking those who find that material meaningful, just moaning about the difficulty in getting to dryer academic sources.
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