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“I feel most free onstage,” admitted Kim Gordon, member of the band Sonic Youth, “The audience, it’s an abstraction. You don’t really see anyone out there, but you feel the audience inside you.” [1] (emphasis mine) When David Lynch called Bob, the demonic presence that had begun to permeate my nightmares since early in Twin …
The “Damn Fine Coffee: Twin Peaks Fan Theories” panel this morning at the IFC Center in Greenwich Village was everything it promised to be. Seven presenters showed us their best theories and ideas about what Twin Peaks means, what it suggests to us about life and art, and in some cases how it all fits …
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Fear and love open the doors, but all perceptions or conditions must begin with the self. A path is formed by laying one stone at a time but remember: Hiding from your fear doesn't make your fear go away. Not even the biggest fear of all – the possibility that love is not enough. In …
Author's Note I didn’t originally set out to write a set of articles on this subject, but here we are on the third of the series. This should be the last one. In Maybe It Doesn’t Matter What We Call It – Thoughts on Judy as a Metaphor, I explored the idea of Judy as a metaphor …
Symbols. Waterfalls. Basements. Mythology. The maps of Twin Peaks. The red curtains. Laura, Teresa and Maddy. The secretive work of Major Briggs. Alchemy. Rivers. Portals. Demons and entities. The sound at the Great Northern. Mountains. Caves. Visual analysis. The Black Lodge. Rivers. The palace of the Fireman and Señorita Dido. Mike. Time. And, maybe most …
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Out of all the returning characters in Twin Peaks, The Return, Sarah Palmer might be the one whose life turned out to be the harshest and most cruel. Thinking about how her life was back in the original run of Twin Peaks, it really wasn't even close to good then, either. SARAH PALMER IN THE …
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Who killed Ruth Davenport? This still stands as one of the burning, unanswered questions of Season 3. The kill shot to the eye would seem to be the calling card of Bad Cooper, but if he was there, why does he need the coordinates that were written on her body? Perhaps it was Bill Hastings, …
Now listen to me. For 25 years, I’ve kept something from you, Albert. Before he disappeared, Major Briggs shared with me and Cooper his discovery of an entity, an extreme negative force called in olden times, Jowday. Over time, it’s become, Judy. Major Briggs, Cooper and I put together a plan that could lead us …
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Welcome back, dear readers. This will be my final article in the Third Day Theories series. It's been a fun ride, at least until the end here. I'm not going to sugar coat it, I was bitterly disappointed by the last two episodes, but I'll write about that experience elsewhere. Right now, there’s work to …
Welcome back, dear reader. Amazing episode. If Part 8 was pure heroin Lynch, then Part 16 (double-8?) was pure heroin Twin Peaks. In the fan community, there is near universal agreement. It scored a 9.8 post-episode survey result on Reddit – completely blowing the previous high score of 9.2 for Part 14. That said, now …