Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

my life has been filled with many bizarre moments that i can never explain fully to anyone else. this is one of them.

ah, i see you tried to eq an acapella whereas you should have gone for a pitch-shifted version of kylie's skin-crawling appearance on the des & mel show in 2004

hahahaha

in retrospect, it was the most obvious of mistakes!

best part is, inland empire right

There was this auction to have coffee and pie with Kyle MacLachlan, winning bid def more spare change than I have lying around

nearly finished my first watch through of this (watching it with housemates + never not with a joint)...two moments were completely fucking transcendental

1) bob killing maddy (i have legitimately never in my entire life been so scared by something i was watching. I remember closing my eyes really hard at one point and literally praying for the scene to end. horrific)

2) leland's scene in the cell with the sprinkler system going into overdrive.

FUCK HAROLD SMITH BTW

In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion.

Listening to Biosphere?

My socks are on fire!

dale and major briggs are v. often my favorite characters

I think the scene where jerry interrupts ben's family dinner with the sandwiches is my favorite.

All the scenes with ben and jerry are my favorite. I'm obsessed with them

Jerry Horne and Dr. Jacoby are style icons

I love that baguette scene but it always really makes me want a baguette and there is never one around

a baguette and some good brie

pretty much any scene with food is awesome

I really have to rewatch the baguette scene because going over it in my head it feels like something I dreamed.

In some behind the scenes thing, they talked about Lynch making them do that scene a couple of times because they weren't taking huge enough bites.

The best part is they take a huge bite in the middle of the baguette, not the end like any rational human being would. Ever since seeing that I always want to eat baguettes that way.

Yes!

Hold the baguette on the tips of your fingers, take a big whiff, and chomp the middle. Turn to any interested onlooker, "you know what this reminds me of?"

There's something comically imperial about it, like Caesar returning from conquest and interrupting a meeting with these great foodstuffs for Mark Anthony - they're so powerful and fixated on their own pleasures that they go into epicurean ecstasies while the senate looks on, invisible and uneasy.

lol

don't forget the leg of lamb

There's something comically imperial about it, like Caesar returning from conquest and interrupting a meeting with these great foodstuffs for Mark Anthony - they're so powerful and fixated on their own pleasures that they go into epicurean ecstasies while the senate looks on, invisible and uneasy.

― the so-called socialista (dowd), Friday, June 14, 2013 1:28 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

so I went to one of the local weekly screenings of Twin Peaks eps last night and the dude running the screening preceded the episodes with an episode of On the Air (from a Japanese laserdisc). I don't think I'd seen any of that since it originally aired, was great to be reminded what a bizarre oddity it was. Someone else described it as a show "about humor" by people who don't know how to tell jokes. Squiggy as the stage director with the impenetrable accennt was genuinely lolzy tho

according to Wiki only 3 episodes of On The Air were shown in the States? we had the whole series on the BBC back in the day.

I remember it being properly awful. Improved with age/interesting failure?

i certainly don't recall laughing much when i saw it and i laughed at any old rubbish when i was 15.

I haven't seen it after it originally aired, but yeah, I don't recall it being very funny either, just utterly bizarre.

The first ep was amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYef8OjlNBw

my new favorite line in TP (from the period dfw says he likes best because it's got the spectacle of lynch trapping himself in a position "where his own weaknesses as an artist were going to be exposed ... on national tv") is when harold smith looks almost into the camera and disgustedly says "ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SECRETS?" just before he garden weasels his face

it always makes me lol but i don't mean it like that

lol yeah Harold in general is a pretty ridiculous character

(from the period dfw says he likes best because it's got the spectacle of lynch trapping himself in a position "where his own weaknesses as an artist were going to be exposed ... on national tv")

i don't think i've read that, where did he write about TP?

this article for premiere about lost highway but i think that's the magazine version and it doesn't have that quote or as much non-lost-highway stuff in general. expanded version's in a supposedly fun thing.

poor mark frost, no respect. he reportedly had a much more active role than lynch at that point

anyway, that looks good though, thanks for the head's up dlh

the unaired episodes of "on the air" just got progressively weirder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub2ueMsSmU0

re-reading Cloud Atlas last night, there's a scene involving a bomb in a safety deposit box and it was killing me trying to remember the movie/tv scene reminded me of. :)

David Lynch To Shoot New Twin Peaks Material, Probably As A Promo For The Upcoming Blu-Rays

would attend casting session

blu-ray seems as much a part of the distant cultural past as twin peaks does

Pretty sure that's still the preferred format for owning a physical copy of a film or TV series, but OK.

will it still be in 4:3?

13:33:10

was the whole thing shot on film? wondering how good it is going to look on blu ray.

Not as good as gold ray dude.

I believe a lot of these types of shows are shot on 16mm? Last year they made a new transfer of the original House of Cards for Blu Ray release for example: http://www.from-the-archive.co.uk/2013/02/blu-ray-review-house-of-cards-trilogy.html

gold ray, if it existed, would be worse than blu ray. you need UV ray to really see the details in the corduroy

Just reading up, and apparently most US TV shows before the late 80s were shot and edited on film, but a lot of TV from then on and through the 90s had editing and post-production done on video.