Night Blooming Jasmine : A Twin Peaks Podcast, loving on David Lynch & Spirituality

What does it costs to live inside a fantasy built by men? On this episode we prod that viper’s nest. David Lynch loved Kubrick’s film adaptation of Nabokov’s Lolita, so much so that he conjured his own Dolores Haze with Laura Palmer. JOIN PATREON We move between fantasy and wreckage. Between Desire, danger, and the American girl—through the eyes of genius. So put your heart shaped glasses on, pop a lolly in your mouth, and settle in. It’s about to get disturbing.

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The Black Dahlia murder shocked postwar America and ignited a media frenzy that reduced her to pulp headlines and grotesque speculation. The LAPD’s bungled investigation faded into silence, until the incest trial of George Hodel thrust the Dahlia’s specter back into the spotlight.

In episode 3 of This Body - The Black Dahlia, we trace a line from Elizabeth Short’s depersonalized body in Leimert Park through Tamar Hodel’s testimony, and into the next generation of Hollywood daughters: Michele and Chynna Phillips, Mackenzie Phillips, and Bijou Phillips.

From Chinatown to Lolita, from the Mamas and the Papas to Scientology, this is a story of how Los Angeles devours its daughters, and how some live to tell the tale.

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Elizabeth Short’s life began with abandonment—and ended as a grotesque surrealist tableau, her body transformed into a nightmare that still haunts Los Angeles. But she wasn’t the only girl destroyed by the darkness of mid-century Hollywood. In this episode 2 of The Black Dahlia, we trace the fractured childhood of Elizabeth Short and the parallel story of Tamar Hodel, daughter of the wealthy, decadent physician George Hodel.

We follow Elizabeth’s vulnerable path to Los Angeles, her hopes colliding with predation. We enter the surrealist world of George Hodel’s Franklin Avenue “Jaws House”—a space where art, sadism, and sexual perversion merged, and where his daughter Tamar became both witness and victim. Her testimony would spark one of the most disturbing incest trials in California history.

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Elizabeth Short’s life began with abandonment—and ended as a grotesque surrealist tableau, her body transformed into a nightmare that still haunts Los Angeles. But she wasn’t the only girl destroyed by the darkness of mid-century Hollywood. In this episode 2 of The Black Dahlia, we trace the fractured childhood of Elizabeth Short and the parallel story of Tamar Hodel, daughter of the wealthy, decadent physician George Hodel.

We follow Elizabeth’s vulnerable path to Los Angeles, her hopes colliding with predation. We enter the surrealist world of George Hodel’s Franklin Avenue “Jaws House”—a space where art, sadism, and sexual perversion merged, and where his daughter Tamar became both witness and victim. Her testimony would spark one of the most disturbing incest trials in California history.

Content warning: This episode contains discussions of sexual assault, incest, child abuse, and graphic violence.

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Welcome back Peaks Freaks! We’re going to Heaven in this episode of Night Blooming Jasmine. In Twin Peaks, heaven is not eternal. Angels appear and vanish, offering only brief mercy in a violent world. This episode follows Laura Palmer, Dale Cooper, and the fleeting visions of grace that haunt David Lynch’s universe. Also: Mary Magdalene, the Upanishads, The Dweller On The Threshold, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Lana Del Ray, & The Veils. 🌟 SUPPORT THE POD ON PATREON! 🌟

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Meow meow... it's time... The Black Dahlia murder remains unsolved 78 years later, and Los Angeles has never stopped dreaming about her.

Elizabeth Short's story is the story of Hollywood itself. A city that projects it's dark fantasies onto the female body like film on screen, and devours what it gazes upon. A place where beauty and brutality are bound together.

We follow the threads that connect the Black Dahlia murder of 1947, to Joan Didion's Helter Skelter 1960s on Franklin Avenue, and the paranoid circle that surrounded it. Welcome to Episode 1 : The Body In The Lot. Join Patreon for the rest!

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Welcome back Peaks Freaks! In this installment of Women in Trouble, we enter The Surreal Housewives of Twin Peaks. From Nadine to Sarah, to Shelly to Norma, we explore how Twin Peaks gives space to women at every stage of life — their pain, resilience, shadow selves, and survival. Along the way: rescue fantasies, menopause, family trauma, and what Bravo’s Real Housewives can teach us about visibility, melodrama, and the messy beauty of women’s lives.

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A midsummer night’s tease from deep inside the Mojave desert. Join PATREON for the full kit & kaboodle. This week: Dante’s Inferno, The Black Dahlia murder, and morphines’ long journey from poppy du jour to Dilaudid, heroin, and beyond!

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On this episode of Night Blooming Jasmine, we open the file on Women in Trouble—beginning with the blonde of all blondes: Marilyn Monroe.

Marilyn Monroe and Laura Palmer—two luminous blondes devoured by image, myth, and men.

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What does it mean to live — or die — in a place where the map fails you? Also - the transformation of Dr Jacoby, Ben Horne's failed attempts at redemption, the evolution of Bobby Briggs, plus the psychic self-defence of Marina Abromovic. We look at the Highway of Tears, and the kind of murdered girl that America loves: blonde, white, loved by all. Meet me at the Roadhouse after 9.30.

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