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<\/a><\/p>\n\nIn case you missed it, here’s my friend Keith’s re-cap (although this series is redefining what a recap even IS and I say GOOD) of episode 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n Episode 8 felt like a mini-retrospective of Lynch’s career. Up to and including Club Silencio. The only thing I’ll say is that Elvis Presley “hit” in 1956, and obliterated all that came before him (not really, but that was the perception.) Overnight, he made the current radio hits obsolete. The Platters’ “My Prayer” – also released in 1956 – may as well have been released in 1936 as opposed to 1956. A sound exploding up from the South, pushing upwards and outwards in a Big Bang, overtaking the universe, an explosion of energy that could not be controlled, creation and destruction, both. (A guy from Nashville who played guitar at the Grand Ole Opry said that – in the years of 1955, 56, 57, “Elvis vaporized country music.” It took 15 years for country music to recover its confidence in itself after Elvis.) The explosion of sexual and creative energy unleashing a rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem? Or the rough beast may actually be a bug-frog hybrid – just as all of the different music genres, isolated on their own radio stations, merged to become what is still – to this day – known as pop music – crawling inside the mouths of teenage girls across the land? <\/p>\n Teenage girls are always at the vanguard of any revolutionary cultural upheaval. <\/p>\n This is what David Lynch has done to me, allowed me to traipse around in my own store-room of associations, and I am very grateful. I haven’t even begun to absorb that episode. <\/p>\n On the other hand, I found it to be one of the more straightforward episodes in the entire series thus far. An origin story. Lynch-style.<\/p>\n Here’s Noel Murray’s “recap”: White Light White Heat<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In case you missed it, here’s my friend Keith’s re-cap (although this series is redefining what a recap even IS and I say GOOD) of episode 7. Episode 8 felt like a mini-retrospective of Lynch’s career. Up to and including … Continue reading