Bowie, Let's Dance, Lynch, Twin Peaks, Flash Gordon, Fire Walk With Me, Dune, Wild at Heart, Wizard of Oz, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, The Man Who Fell To Earth, True Detective, Labyrinth, Alan Partridge, 24 Hr Party People, Shutter Island, Minority Report, Crowley, Tree of Life.
Your understanding of this post will be somewhat dependent on your familiarity with the above media pieces. Do bear in mind that I've not even seen Lord of the Rings (none of them), or Labyrinth, but it certainly didn't stop me! :)
A big thanks go to the folks from my previous post, and the useful comments they provided.
Thank you, everyone. This post is very "graphics" heavy, there's flashing imagery too, but that goes with the territory.
Video/music (here) is for blog post auto-play, turn it off if you prefer.
Let's Dance (Down Under) and Let's Rock (Under the Sycamore)
The Lightning Flash/Bolt
Flash Gordon - Masonic "Ring" Ming (Von Sydow) - played in Lynch's Dune.
Activate the lightning (pyramid) shield...Queen & (Lightning) Flash
Flash...aaaahhhhaaa!!! Ends with the Flash 'struck crown' (see Bowie/Cooper) :-)
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Flash Gordon was played by Sam Jones. David "Davy Jones" Bowie.
Bowie and Mars. Mercury and Queen.
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Jeffrey (Jeffries) name - is etymologically connected to "traveler". Masonic traveler is a common term.
The Man (Traveler) Who Fell To Earth...Ziggy-Zaggy from Mars.
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Oh look...Candy "The Man Who Fell To Earth" Clark plays Sheriff Truman's wife in Season 3! :)
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She's seemingly"well traveled" too!
Earth faller, Bowie aka a just visiting Phil-ly - Phillip "over-travelled" Jeffries (FWWM).
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Von Sydow/Bowie (Children's Hospital)
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Dune: "Travelling without moving" - like the Twin Peaks portals.
Jeffries/Bowie - "I've been to one of their meetings, it was above a convenience store"
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Flash Gordon: "The ring, the ring, the ring." - FWWM (Bowie): "The ring, the ring..."
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(the very next line =) Flash Gordon: "Dale, what a damn shame."
Dale: Don't take the ring Laura, don't take the ring. (Twin Peaks).
Don't take the ring Dale, don't take the ring. And literally! (Flash Gordon).
All happening inside Ming's Red (Palace) Room.
Dale"the ring" Cooper - "Gordon" is Lynch, as in Philly based Gordon Cole.![]()
The 'struck crown' Tower, as a lightning struck tree (Belgian Tarot). Under the Sycamore/Plane Tree.
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Surely you remember the Arborian "tree men" - from (Lightning) Flash Gordon?
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"Wheel of Fortune" via a David (black star) Bowie man - news item a few weeks after Bowie's actual death. (link)
Bowie, is regularly referenced in the film "24 Hour Party People" - mainly via Ian "Hanged Man" Curtis.
WB Yeats - another of Bulwer 'dweller' Lytton's proteges (with Crowley etc) for the Isis/Urania Temple.
"24 Hour Party People" - The Wheel of Fortune.
With Alan "AHA!" Partridge (Coogan), and Chris "Dr (Time Traveller) Who" Ecclestone.
Bowie had his own Crowley phase, it was Crowley who wrote the mystical poem "AHA!"
"Let's dance...to the song(s) they're playin' on the radio." (Pear Tree, Radio DJ)
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Alan "ABBA - Knowing Me, Knowing You" Partridge. ABBA -"the father" - Chokmah on tree the of life.
Partridge used "The Lightning Tree" (track, The Settlers) at the close of Welcome to the Places of My Life.
Bowie and Mars. Mercury and Queen.
The Man (Traveler) Who Fell To Earth...Ziggy-Zaggy from Mars.
Earth faller, Bowie aka a just visiting Phil-ly - Phillip "over-travelled" Jeffries (FWWM).
Von Sydow/Bowie (Children's Hospital)
Another link between these aspects is Dino De Laurentis - Dune/Flash Gordon were both his films.
Dune: "Travelling without moving" - like the Twin Peaks portals.
Jeffries/Bowie - "I've been to one of their meetings, it was above a convenience store"
Dale: Don't take the ring Laura, don't take the ring. (Twin Peaks).
Don't take the ring Dale, don't take the ring. And literally! (Flash Gordon).
All happening inside Ming's Red (Palace) Room.
Dale"the ring" Cooper - "Gordon" is Lynch, as in Philly based Gordon Cole.
The 'struck crown' Tower, as a lightning struck tree (Belgian Tarot). Under the Sycamore/Plane Tree.
Twin Peaks - "wheel and tree(s)" to the ziggy-zaggy lightning lodges...
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Bowie, is regularly referenced in the film "24 Hour Party People" - mainly via Ian "Hanged Man" Curtis.
WB Yeats - another of Bulwer 'dweller' Lytton's proteges (with Crowley etc) for the Isis/Urania Temple.
"24 Hour Party People" - The Wheel of Fortune.
With Alan "AHA!" Partridge (Coogan), and Chris "Dr (Time Traveller) Who" Ecclestone.
Bowie had his own Crowley phase, it was Crowley who wrote the mystical poem "AHA!"
"Let's dance...to the song(s) they're playin' on the radio." (Pear Tree, Radio DJ)
Partridge used "The Lightning Tree" (track, The Settlers) at the close of Welcome to the Places of My Life.
"Flash...AHA! He saved everyone of us."
The "777" (tree of life) lightning flash and struck crown...Crowley wrote "777".
The "777" (tree of life) lightning flash and struck crown...Crowley wrote "777".
Sirius=seirios (Greek)"
Let's Dance via the moon, sirius (seirios) and Oz.
“come my love, let us dance/to the moon and Sirius!” I.e., the Sirius Moonlight. Aleister "moonchild" Crowley.
The Loft on Sirius/XM had a David Bowie Channel recently, and in memory of him.
Compare Bowie's "DB" 90s symbol with Crowley's "A" (penis), above.
Mr "666" Crowley and "AHA!"
Hell Or Bust, 1996. Bowie artwork for the Prince's Trust.
"Your pretty face is going to hell", Bo '96" on the reverse, and 666 stencilled on the forehead.
Listen to the opening sounds of Let's Dance - "Ahhhh, haaaa, haaa, haaa!" (Aha!)
Bowie in Oz. "Put on your red shoes..." - Let's Dance via The Nile (producer Rodgers) and in Oz/Aus.
The canicular 'hate and heat' aspect (a la dog days) perhaps accounted for, 'seirios = burning'
The Let's Dance single 'b side' was Cat People (Putting Out Fire).
The 'Let's rock' - dancing dwarf man. Well, Bowie (Jeffries) did meet-up with him in the film.
Corridor creeping with Labyrinth Bowie. TV series climax black lodge pre-cognition (via the film).
Toto is (Canis/Sirius) connecting to the Sirius Rainbow Bridge (Over The Rainbow) see Alice Bailey.
Briggs went thru the black lodge, Jeffries is also connected to it. "Can you hear me, Major Briggs (Tom)"
...also evokes the barren/dilapidated room (above convenience store, Twin Peaks FWWM).
Black (Lodge) Star - travelling via the ether and electricity.
TP's Convenience Store "jumping man" is black (afro-american) - there's a black man in the Black Star room (above).
Blackstar/Black Lodge "shakers".
Judy, also relates to the masked monkey (moon-key) - it's the last shot and word of FWWM.
Bowie's real name Davy Jones, which was also the name of one of The 'Day Dream Believer' Monkees.
Bowie - the (sirius moonlight) diamond dog (star). Sirius, the diamond dog star in the sky.
A black lodge tear/rip in the fabric of space/time
Lazarus
Under The Sycamore Tree (of Life). Kether to Malkuth - the '777' zig-zag, lightning tree of life pathway.
Kether to Malkuth - The lightning path passes thru 'da'ath/sirius/abyss' and the veil (Isis) - dweller on the threshold.
Zig-zag, flash Bowie, also worked with Lynch in "Lost Highway" (Pathway) - he bookends the soundtrack.
Bulwer "dweller on the threshold" Lytton's proteges - Crowley et al - allegedly formed the Isis/Urania Hermetic group.
Crowley and Isis - Hathor/Isis, the sycamore tree queen. Sirius is also the star of Isis.
The last sentence is a in-joke, the Isis being inferred was (obviously) the "Egyptian goddess".
Lightning-struck crowns.
Laura's "zig-zag" heart - broken in two
It's a broken heart that dreams, it's a broken heart you left me. Only love can live in my dream.
I'll wish, and the thunder clouds will vanish.
Wish, and the storm will fade away. Wish again, and you will stand before me while the sky will paint an overture
And trees will play the rhythm of my dream.
(Bowie - When I Live My Dream)
Lynch/Bowie - Elephant "Dream" Men from Mars. "Quite grey" - like the elephant and alien (greys).
Lynch would direct the 'Elephant Man' film, Bowie would feature in the Broadway play. When Lynch's film (which opens with a dream) was generally released on October 10 (10/10) 1980, Bowie was on his Broadway run as Merrick. Bowie would also provide music for the opening/closing credits for Lynch's film 'Lost Highway' (1997). Bowie (Ziggy from Mars), Lynch (Jimmy Stewart from Mars). Alien resonant Bowie and Lynch, it was Alien star John Hurt who played 'The Elephant Man'.
“We were born upside down, born the wrong the way round...” (Bowie - Lazarus, Black Star)
The Upside-down Hanged (Suspended/Bent Legged) Bowie Man
The Upside-down, Suspended Cooper Man (see also Harold "Hanged Man/Electric Dreams" Smith).
Bowie - Upside-down
The sign of Osiris Risen. Death and rebirth - rising from the tomb a la Osiris. The sphinx of the wheel.
Twin "Thumbs Up" Peaks - Crowley was also an accomplished mountaineer.
Nox (nɒks ) noun. The Roman goddess of the night. Greek counterpart - Nyx. Egyptian - Nut.
The "thumbs up" theme likely ties-in to the Crowleyian NOX Vir sign.
Attitude of pan/baphomet/the beast (and the penis, one-eyed Jack).
First Method. Let the Exempt Adept first train himself to think backwards by external means, as set forth here following.
("d") Let him practise speaking backwards; thus for "I am He" let him say, "Eh ma I".
Crowley - Magick.
The "Eh Ma I" Beatles. I've done "The OTO Beatles" in other posts, see Sgt "Crowley, Winged Beetle" Pepper.
("b") Let him learn to walk backwards.
("c") Let him constantly watch, if convenient, cinematograph films, and listen to phonograph records, reversed, and let him so accustom himself to these that they appear natural, and appreciable as a whole.
"There's always (backwards) music in the air..." Literally. :)
Let's dance, to the (backwards) songs they're playing on the radio..."
Twin Peaks (Cafe) - Let's Dance (Bar)
Electrical/utility pole - Let's Dance/FWWM. Is that a type of 'zig-zag' on the pole (above)?
Fat Trout - A black lodge "hotspot" - Carl (Stanton) has likely been to the black lodge.
The 12 trout at the grove were an indicator (echo) from the series.
Harry Dean (FWWM) Stanton starred with Bowie in The Last Temptation of Christ. Alien Bowie and Alien Stanton. It also featured Wild at (Oz) Heart, Dafoe, as Christ. Dafoe, who starred opposite Cage, and with FWWM Isaak on the soundtrack. Chris "Agent Desmond" Isaak, also features on the Eyes Wide Shut (Dream Story) soundtrack.
Dancing Girl (Lil) - put on your red shoes and dance.
"Let's sway...sway through the crowd to an empty space
Let's 'sway' Dance - (in an empty space) on a chequered floor...Audrey.
Let's Dance - the song with the red shoes "dream" section...aboriginal dreamtime.
The dreamtime/vision section that happens in-between these two gifs. (above/below)
None of it is real...the restaurant, the road scene, factory etc - it is just imagined 'dreamtime'.
"Put on your red shoes"..."swaying" Audrey (again)
The good witch and the wicked witch (duality)
Laura (Lee), as the good witch, and dreams.
The Oz "red shoes" that transport between worlds - the dreamworld and the real world.
"There is no band. It's is all an illusion" (A dream a la Oz). Mulholland Drive. Red drapes/curtains.
"Let's dance. Put on your red Oz/Aus shoes and walk on blue..."
Anderson (MFAP) - it was Hans Christian Andersen who wrote The Red Shoes.
"Let's Roque (Rock)" - Red Dwarf and the Owl Ring. The black lodge "draped corridors" evoke the labyrinth.
The Red (Oz) Goblin/Gnome King
Bowie, Labyrinth Wizard/Magician - Goblin/Gnome Kings
"The gnomes are ruled over by a king, whom they greatly love and revere. His name is Gob; hence his subjects are often called goblins. Mediæval mystics gave a corner of creation to each of the four kingdoms of Nature spirits, and because of their earthy character the gnomes were assigned to the North--the place recognised by the ancients as the source of darkness and death."(Manly P Hall, TSTOAA).
MFAP (red dwarf/gnome), and 'Mr Roque/Rock' (Roquat the Red), there's Oz related "Winkie's/Winkies" too.
Labyrinth - "The owls are not what they seem." Jareth (Bowie) bedroom based owl form to human form - like Bob, Twin Peaks.
Athena, from the cleft head of lightning Zeus. There's a character called Ambrosius (Ambrosia/Garmonbozia).
Labyrinth is influenced by The Wizard of Oz. Frank "Muppet" Oz puppeteers The Wiseman.
Sarah (Connelly) as a version of Kansas, Dorothy.
There's no (man from another) place like Gnome.
The laughing gnome (dwarf). The "red caps/hats" and "yellow caps/hats" (Tibet, Buddhism).
Well, he (Bowie) did witness this Convenience Store meeting!
Dugpa (Tibetan ’brug pa) is a word used by H. P. Blavatsky and the Masters of Wisdom as a synonym for a black magician or sorcerer, frequently referred to as "Brother of the Shadow." These are the non-reformed sects that did not follow Tsongkhapa’s new order, the Gelugpas (yellow caps).
The Emerald Table(t) to the Emerald City
Behind the (Oz) curtain (drapes)
There's no place like home...Palmer house
"The man under the fan is looking for the book with the pages torn-out."
Wild At (Oz) Heart...
It's Pete "Toto" Martell - discoverer of Laura's body. Nance, did also feature in Dune (Toto).
Paul Atreides - Travelling without moving (a la Jeffries/Bowie)
In Greek mythology, Atreus - "tremble", "fearless", Greek: was a king of Mycenae in the Peloponnese, the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. Collectively, his descendants are known as Atreidai or Atreidae. In a later Herbert prequel, it is revealed that the Atreides in the Dune series are directly linked to the mythological Atreides.
Let's Dance - contains lyrics for both "fear" and "love".
Twin Dunes
The 4H Club - Where Jupiter and Saturn meet.
Symbol for "tin" (as in the "tin man'). Bowie was recording for "Tin Machine" during his FWWM phase.
The Aleister "666" Crowley linked Brotherhood of Saturn.
Saturn/Cronos - death, time and "cereal/serial" reaping/killing (a la the sickle), - and you are reborn, but into the same life that you've always been born into (sickl-ical rebirth). He played a Saturn-linked 'Cooper' in Interstellar. Related "Nathan Crowley" does art production for Nolan.
Liber Oz (Book 77) Crowley and Oz. 777 (another Crowley title) is "the lightning flash of creation"
777 - the lightning flash. Bowie - "One magical (777) movement from Kether to Malkuth".
Where (Lightning) Jupiter and (Ring Lord) Saturn Meet...
Lightning Bolt Zeus/Jupiter...see Twin "Mt Olympus" Greaks. Oz Red Shoes, Bowie tried-out for Gandalf.
A vanishing ring and In Dreams (see soundtrack).
Jeffrey/Cooper, with (Oz) Dorothy 'red shoes' Valens (Rossellini) - In Dreams, Blue Velvet.
Dune
I don't care what Lynch thinks about his film "Dune" - I absolutely love it! :)
Sat(urn)/(Kait)an - The Emperor/Lord of the Rings.
Rust "Dreams" Cohle - Interstellar's Saturn-linked, Cooper. He also played a Palmer (Joss) in Contact.
Cooper/Jeffrey, sent to (Red Room) Hell - In Dreams (literally).
(Fire) I Walk With You - In Dreams. (Blue Velvet)
Candy-coloured Clown (lipstick)
Dune - a Desert Planet with (Fremen) Sandmen. (like Mu'adib/Paul)
Under the (second) moonlight, the serious moonlight.
Dune - The Ring, The Dream.
Cooper/Paul - a waking dream and the hawk ring (Ducal signet ring)
Laura - a waking dream and the owl ring (via Cooper/Paul)
Von Sydow (Ming the 'ring' Merciless) featured in Dune.
The Hawk was the symbol of the House of Atreides. Hawkmen were an aspect of Flash Gordon.
From one Emperor (Shaddam) to the next - Emperor Ming
The Ring. Dale and Ming's wedding is officiated by Philip "The Shining - Delbert Grady" Stone.
Bridal Chorus (Ring cycling, Wagner), Wedding March, Mendelssohn's piece linked to 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
A ring for travelling via the ether.
Dreams
Dune - Astral dream travelling is likely being implied (as well as physical), this from Paul's dream.
Literally, travelling without physical movement. Like "ring" Jeffries.
Let's Dance - Let's Rock. The desert (Oz) sleeper must awaken.
It's DB Cooper (geddit?)
Travelling without moving...recall that Jeffrey (name) is etymologically linked to "traveller".
Lightning-bolt Bowie...who got "flashed" to Gordon in Phila-delphi-a (Delphi, dreams/oracle).
Lightning Flash Gordon (1980)
Ben from Blue "In Dreams" Velvet (Dean Stockwell)
The owl cave diamond that leads to the grove (and Queen Annie).
Diamond Audrey being "conditioned" for services at One-eyed Jacks.
Dune: It's Dr Yueh - aka Ben (Blue "In Dreams" Velvet).
Flash Gordon (1980)
The Monkey, and the Owls are not what they seem.
The Owl and Ming Ring
A magic ring that seduces and controls women.
Von Sydow - Shutter "Dream/Traum" Island, the film also had a Red Shoes homage. (see spiral staircase).
DiCaprio does "dream theme" overkill in "Inception", a film that I've still not yet seen.
He also featured with Cruise, in Minority "dream/precog" Report, with Total"Dream" Recall, Farrell.
Back to Flash Gordon, Ming Von Sydow and Klytus - "The Bore Worms".
Dune - the literal "desert boring sand-worm"
Lightning
Dune - Sting (another Crowley/Thelema disciple)
Flash Gordon - Sting, literally, the spaceship of Klytus (who heads the secret police).
Sting and The (Secret) Police
Talking of torturing and executing the police...
Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, who was also in attendance (Cannes, where FWWM was booed), said in a 1992 interview, "After I saw 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me' at Cannes, David Lynch had disappeared so far up his own ass that I have no desire to see another David Lynch movie until I hear something different. And you know, I loved him. I loved him."
Tarantino - wouldn't know a good movie if it bit him on his ass! He's stolen most of his career from Lynch, he should be thanking the man! Where do you think he got the idea for the "cut-off" ear in Reservoir Dogs? It was Blue Velvet - a cut off ear, and scissors cutting police tape.
The Blue Velvet shots below are sequential - ear to police and cutting scissors.
The "clowns and jokers" (song track) element has been lifted too (candy coloured clown).
Tarantino has tried to copy Lynch for much of his career, you see the influence in his fetishised depictions of violence, but it's mainly all pointless and empty "hipster" violence - with no deep or profound meaning (hence it being fetish). Lynch is an artist, Tarantino is a corporate film-maker.
Lynch disappeared up his own ass? That's it - I'm shutting Tarantino's butt down! :)
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Twin Peaks (Original series esoteric overview) -
Under The Sycamore Tree - Redux
Twin Peaks - The Return - Season 3
(Early thoughts on the new series and the first 5 or 6 episodes)
The Cooper Switch Project
(Explains Cooper's return to Twin Peaks and the switch)
Bowie - From Kether to Malkuth
(A general esoteric piece written soon after Bowie's death)