Girl In The Diner

Today's riff is derived from two entries, one going back to 2002 with the release of Mullholland Drive, one of my favorite films. Lynch reminds you that filmmaking is an art no different from making abstract paintings. The tune would be more of a "vintage" rocker. It's interesting that the girl in the diner is a "would-be" silhouette, suggesting that she could be a silhouetted figure in a Roger Brown painting. The nature of pop songs, in terms of how language is used, is that the rhythms are driving it--and either the rhythms are driving it, as it is here, or words are mapped over the existing rhythms. This forces a natural abstraction, as someone would abstract figuration in a painting. It allows you to play with ambiguity for a range of possible meanings, which is different than sitting down to write something specifically topical.

4/25/2002

Re-watched Mulholland Drive. On second viewing, I realize that one of the characters is dreaming, but I'm not quite sure who. I think it's the girl in the diner.

 

Roger Brown, "Runaway," 1968, Oil on canvas

George Tice (Ideal Diner)
1980

4/25/2022

Almost 6 weeks listening to track order on Frontiers and making teeny tweaks. Cover art is a similar tiresome process, but the Roger Brown works seem to work well. He has an amazing body of work with a strong signature style inspired mostly by current events. He wasn't a political artist per se, but to the extent that current events are 80% politics, he was political (small p). If you were to describe his work to someone, it would be "silhouettes".