JB Minton

If this Warner Brothers deal bankrupts the Ellisons, that will a kindness to humanity.

Hollywood didn’t fail because the audience changed. It failed because the people running it stopped believing the audience was worth anything more than a ticket price.
That’s not a business problem. That’s a moral one.

Paramount taking on massive debt to lock up IP is as stupid as investing in crypto during an admins run by pirates and perverts.

I could cancel all streaming services right now and watch my DVDs and Blu Rays for the rest of my life, and still never run out of shit to watch.

WELCOME TO ENLIGHTENMENT AND TWIN PEAKS! A Book That Changes How You See Twin Peaks — And Yourself

My new book "ENLIGHTENMENT AND TWIN PEAKS" was written for both audiences, and for everyone living in the silence between them.
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Fifty years of daily Transcendental Meditation didn't soften Davdi Lynch'sfilms. It made them possible. That's not a quirk. That's the whole architecture.

The #TranscendentalMeditation community thinks #DavidLynch is too dark. The #Lynch community thinks meditation is beside the point. Both camps have built a wall around the most important thing he ever made.

Real writers aren’t afraid of semicolons.

I have watched the original Twin Peaks several times and Twin Peaks: The Return more than anyone I know.
There is no show in the history of TV more strange than...
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

The suffering artist myth is a permission slip to stagnate. Pain is universal, and clarity is earned. Every person has suffered enough to create something extraordinary, but most don’t. That’s not about access to suffering, but the refusal to transcend it.

Most people watch movies inside the director’s head.
I watch movies. The director doesn’t factor in.
That’s not a method. That’s a liberation.

Perhaps it’s time for #IBM to get out of the #COBOL business.

Rule #13 of AI: “If it can be automated, it will be.”

Survivor didn’t reflect American culture.
It trained it.
Fifty seasons of prime-time rehearsal for the idea that trust is a liability and alliance is just betrayal on a delay.
The Walking Dead used monsters as a metaphor. Survivor used people.

Criticism isn't a failure to get with the program.
It's a refusal to let the program run unexamined.
The people most offended by a critic are those who have built their identity around the thing being examined. That's not a coincidence. That's the whole point.

You asked how to fight an idea?

With another idea.

Most Twin Peaks content gives you trivia, props, and Hollywood fossils with microphones. This book gives you something the fandom industry can’t sell: a challenge to the core of how you experience art and yourself. Those aren’t the same product.

My new book could not be more different than this new book.

One has never been written about seriously before. The other is retreading very old ground.

One will have an audience of hundreds, the other will have thousands.

This is as it should be. We live in a universe of balance.

[BOOK PROJECT] ENLIGHTENMENT AND TWIN PEAKS - INTRODUCTION & CHAPTER 1 "OPENING: THE MYSTERIOUS POWER OF TWIN PEAKS"

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We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

I don’t use AI. I employ AI. And when you understand that nuance, you’ll stop bitching about change and get your ass to work.

Casinos profit on 53% of transactions. That 3% edge builds empires.
Government was supposed to work the same way — collect the house's edge, redistribute it into the floor that keeps everyone standing.
Now the house keeps the floor.

My copy is on the way. I can't wait to see this on the big screen and hear it in glorious Dolby 9.2 Atmos.

ANNOUNCING THE NEW BOOK "ENLIGHTENMENT AND TWIN PEAKS" BY JB MINTON Finally, someone takes David Lynch's meditation practice seriously as the source of the work rather than biographical trivia

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Wild Wild Country is the greatest documentary about what happens when enlightenment gets a marketing department. I’ve watched it four times and bought the DVD because streaming giveth and streaming taketh away. The eternal warning in that story is one most people still haven’t learned.

If you take the time to tell a story, tell the whole ass story. Leave readers hanging once, and they'll never forgive you. I know—I'm a reader with grudges.

And I’m seriously considering adding a 4th.

YOU CAN’T BE BOTH ORIGINAL AND POPULAR; NOT FOR LONG…IF.
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I’m writing another book right now that tells these artists’ stories and reframes why they matter.
Can you guess all four?

You are responsible for yourself.

There are no victims in this life because victimhood is a psychological state you choose.

Grow up.

What if Twin Peaks isn't just a murder mystery but a map of consciousness? My new book explores Lynch's 50+ year meditation practice, and why YOU are key to completing The Return. Serial starts Feb 20, first chapter free. 50% off subscriptions until May 15.
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Cinema didn’t die because of streaming. It died because we stopped sitting in the dark with strangers. Algorithms serve you what you already believe. A theater forces you to confront what you don’t.

In 1930, movie tickets broke $100K per week for the first time. Not despite the Depression. Because of it. People don’t flock to stories when life is easy. They flock when they need to feel something true about their shared condition.