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Notes from the Bookhouse is my new weekly column! My hope is that this will be a place to do some theorizin', some speculatin', and to generally discuss the big topics of the Twin Peaks world. This week, we hammered out exactly which of the many competing and complementary theories tickled our fancies and rocked …
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“Black Lodge/White Lodge” is the 25 Years Later version of the popular point/counterpoint style of debating, wherein two sides take opposing views and hash it out on stage. Here, we’ll be debating the finer points of Twin Peaks lore, in writing, for your reading pleasure. Today’s debate features: Ali Sciarabba and Mat Cult The topic …
Here I am. Watching Fire Walk With Me for the first time since Series 3. It's a film I have watched more times than any other but now it comes at me with new meaning. So what clues, if any, will we discover on this new journey? First we meet Chet Desmond who is in …
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America is a fascinating place for a multitude of reasons. For artists and storytellers, one of the most interesting aspects of this diverse and contrasting country is that it has such a strong sense of identity and a powerful narrative about its position in the world. A key component of that fundamental American story is …
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Among the motifs present in the Return was the constant image of the red balloons throughout the Las Vegas scenes: in the home of the Drugged-Out Mother and her Son, in the Jones’ house after Sonny Jim’s birthday, and once more attached to the sculpture outside of Lucky Seven Insurance. The first two times we …
As Twin Peaks fans, we will often be asked by other fans which character we are the most similar to, or we relate to the most. It’s a game we all like to play, and often there are several answers as we consider the people we were in 1989 compared to the people we are …
In Season 2, Episode 9 Deputy Tommy ‘Hawk’ Hill tells Agent Dale Cooper, “You’re on the path. You don’t need to know where it leads. Just follow.” Wise words coming from one of the more beloved characters of Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: The Return. Hawk was not only an honorable man, but I consider …
Fans of Lynch are already well aware of his story - it has been told in several forms already. The book-length interview Lynch on Lynch, compiled and edited by Chris Rodley enables readers to learn about the artist's life and works in his own words. The 2016 film The Art Life covers some of the …
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Chris Carter never quite seems to understand what kind of show the X-Files is: he wanted it to be about Aliens and UFOs and Black Oil and Clones. What the audience wanted the show to be was a story of Friendship and Respect and Hopefully Romantic Love between Mulder and Scully as they fought for …
Notes from the Bookhouse is my new weekly column! My hope is that this will be a place to do some theorizin', some speculatin', and to generally discuss the big topics of the Twin Peaks world. Today we've got a trio of Bookhouse Babes (Eileen, Jenn, and myself) in the house to talk about the …
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