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Friday Fun Thread for January 17, 2025

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David Lynch died yesterday which was terrible news. I have written dozens of short movie reviews here and may have even uploaded ones of Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet. They are both great movies, unlike most I have seen, you actively think about them for hours on end and can have valid interpretations that differ a lot from others. I haven't watched much of him, I'll write a review of twin peaks once I start that.

This weekend is ufc 311, this is the best card of the year and features the absolute pinnacle of mixed martial arts. The main event is Islam Makhachev taking on Arman Tsarukyan in a rematch 5 years in the making. Islam is the best mma fighter on the planet alive, period. Technically, tactically and defensively sound, very different from his teammate and now coach Khabib Nurmagomedov. Khabib was a freak physical athlete like his current opponent Arman though I favor Islam. These two alongside Ilia Topuria represent a better future for the sport where people are not just gopd athletes but also very sound with their fundamentals.

David Lynch died yesterday which was terrible news.

It felt weird to find out about his passing via a post on /r/guitar. I didn't know he was a guitarist, nevermind that he played a Parker Fly. The man was as eccentric in his choice there as in his movies.

His lifestyle is what made me get into his movies. He would eat the same meal for years, everyday at the same time, follow a strict routine, meditate and leave all his creative capabilities for his artistic work. Everyone on frog twitter was super charitable to him which is not the case for most deaths, especially artists.

His final words publicly were Jai Gurudev which is a slogan some use in India for various different things, in his case meditation. He squeezed as much out of life as one could, lived well.

tangent, but would you please name one frog twitter person you would recommend to follow (so i can follow them and add variety to my inputs)

What the heck is frog twitter?

the dissident-right/alt-right/white-identitarian faction of twitter, which adopted Pepe the frog as their symbol back during the 2016 election race.

I learned about this from a buddy who learned about it from some hipster goth cashier chick at the Dollar Tree on his lunch break. He didn’t snap a candid photo of her like I asked.

We’re going to revisit his short films this weekend.

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