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    David Lynch has died

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    1190 points wut42 | 13 comments | 16 Jan 25 18:20 UTC | HN request time: 1.552s | source | bottom
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    jonhohle ◴[16 Jan 25 18:39 UTC] No.42729130[source]▶
    During Covid I started watching his daily weather update, even though I didn’t live in LA. Virtually every day was the same. Very clear. Very still.

    I’m not sure if anyone could ever “get” one of his movies completely beyond the experience and the narrative. He always left so much unsaid and open to interpretation, just like life. They are movies designed to make the viewer feel a certain way, rather than literally what’s in the screen. He was one of the few directors that I thought of as making weird things that I would enjoy (most of the time), but how could anyone else?

    “I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.”

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    1. antognini ◴[16 Jan 25 18:49 UTC] No.42729245[source]▶
    It took me a little while to be convinced that he was actually reporting the weather as it was like at his home rather than saying the same thing every day. But, no, he was really reporting the weather and the weather is really just always like that in LA.
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    2. tanseydavid ◴[16 Jan 25 19:38 UTC] No.42729875[source]▶
    "Los Angeles, every day, hot and sunny, today, hot and sunny, tomorrow, hot and, for the rest of the… hot and sunny, every single day, hot and sunny. And they love it. 'Isn’t great, every day, hot and sunny?' What are you, a @$%^& lizard?"

    - Bill Hicks

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    3. jamestimmins ◴[16 Jan 25 20:17 UTC] No.42730328[source]▶
    I've been in LA for 14 years, and I always say LA has great weather in the same way a mall has good weather. It's never unpleasant and is always "perfect", but at some point you miss the feeling of breeze and slight variations and it feels like you're breathing air from a can.
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    4. sitkack ◴[16 Jan 25 20:20 UTC] No.42730378[source]▶
    That is funny, when I see David I see Bill and vice versa.
    5. mhh__ ◴[16 Jan 25 20:25 UTC] No.42730441[source]▶
    I was also under the impression that sometimes his weather report was more like a him stating how he was feeling that morning
    6. toast0 ◴[16 Jan 25 20:38 UTC] No.42730573[source]▶
    LA weather is either "coastal low clouds will burn off by late morning, it'll be a lovely day", StormWatch(TM), or Santa Ana winds.

    There's no other options :P

    7. sharkweek ◴[16 Jan 25 21:24 UTC] No.42731082{3}[source]▶
    I’m in Seattle and during the summer heat, the city dries and sometimes ends up with smokey haze from wildfires.

    Then comes that random rainy day at the end of the heatwave, gives the city a shower it needs and the fresh smell is unbeatable.

    I’m not sure what heaven smells like, but if I had to guess it’s like the air after summer rain in my city.

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    8. jvergeldedios ◴[16 Jan 25 22:45 UTC] No.42731859{3}[source]▶
    I mean we get wind. But that usually comes right before fire.
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    9. pstuart ◴[16 Jan 25 23:01 UTC] No.42732015{4}[source]▶
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor
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    12. sharkweek ◴[17 Jan 25 00:18 UTC] No.42732637{5}[source]▶
    Pleasantly surprised there are candles with this scent. I’ll have to try a few.
    13. jamestimmins ◴[17 Jan 25 04:09 UTC] No.42733973{4}[source]▶
    Hah yeah plus it always feels sinister. We don't get nice breezes.