Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

from the dugpa message board:

While the third season of "Twin Peaks" returns in May, we spent some time with Julee Cruise, the one that set the pace of the hypnotic series by David Lynch.

Let's start with the question that everyone asks: have you composed a song or are you playing a role in the new season of Twin Peaks?

I was called on to shoot the third season, but unfortunately I can't say more. It's not because I want to be mysterious, but it's just that I have no idea what this series will be. It's a veritable enigma that only David Lynch can solve and explain. What is certain is that you will be surprised. There are a lot of musicians who have participated in this project and David, who's got a lot of confidence in recent years with his instruments, has himself composed a lot of music for this season. He has total control from Showtime and he was happy to control everything.

It's a veritable enigma that only David Lynch can solve and explain...He has total control from Showtime and he was happy to control everything.

that sounds good to me. watching the documentary about the filming of inland empire (Lynch: One) was a revelation to me. i'd highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in his creative process.

haha I was surprised how pissy he got w production assistants in that, given the genial mr avunc-garde image he usually projects

oh, definitely. my favorite two parts, or at least the two parts that i remember the best, are 1) him wandering some alley in poland in despair, talking to himself about how he doesn't know what the movie is about, and 2) the recording of the sound of a needle on a spinning record, focusing the efforts of a half-dozen pieces on it with crazy intensity, and yelling at some random assistant (or who knows, maybe some famous cinematographer, i don't know) about not getting it right.

Lol am always surprised how pissy Lynch can get for someone who's meditated twice a day for 40+ years !

He has talked about having serious anger issues.

Yeah but if you watch/listen to him talk about TM he always says those issues disappeared once he began practicing.

"TM has made me a less nervous person!" *chainsmokes and pounds coffee*

people who actually stick with meditation, make the commitment to practice daily and do so for years, tend to be pretty intense ime. anger and other personality disorders end up being mitigated more than eliminated.

xp otm

is there any video footage of him pre-TM? he started meditating in 1973, so in the middle of filming eraserhead. the earliest film clip i've seen of him was around the same time, with jack nance, getting interviewed by some local college dude, i think. DL seemed pretty chilled out! but anyway, my hypothesis is that maybe he was an incredibly high strung and angry person before TM, and the version we're seeing now is actually the calmed down version.

i am doing science

n.b. mike love is a daily TM practitioner

talking to himself about how he doesn't know what the movie is about

Glad to know I wasn't the only one.

newly discovered of footage of david lynch, managing a fast food restaurant in 1971

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLwb9NePt94&spf

oh. well it was a 6 second clip of the Chicken Sandwich, Carl! thing from The State. trust me, it was really funny

It's probably mentioned somewhere on this thread, but I highly recommend the documentary "David Wants to Fly" which is about Lynch's involvement in TM. It will make you feel very weird about Lynch. He's not the quirky good-hearted genius he seems like.

It was on this thread or another Lynch thread but I still haven't seen more than clips.

It is strange that it seems to have vanished. Used to be on Netflix DVD. It wasn't a crackpot doc either; it was pretty convincing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC-s5aE13sk

Y'all have to watch this. Gonna make you feel a little weirder about our good friend Dave Lynch.

I watched it after you called it out before. It made me feel weird about DL but not transformatively so. Much more just grossed out by the whole Maharishi apparatus. I am someone who TM the meditation technique has helped greatly at various times in my life but I've always wanted to stay far away from the rest of their 'business' and this docu definitely reinforced that my instinct was a good one

i rewatched the first 3 episodes of '90 this weekend, and i'd obv forgotten tons of it in 27 years, such as the level of comedy, and how the scenes with the juveniles are full of purposefully terrible dialogue.

The initial Red Room scene at the end of ep 3: one can hear the sound of millions clicking off forever.

Showtime have put the first two hours up for free on their site btw, if you're curious

i went through this to see what i was saying in the past about season 3. i said i hope they wouldn't do it! i thought it would suck but i was thinking "more of season 2" not "more of the finale".

i am extremely glad i was wrong.

I finally saw the overseas 'closed' ending of the TP pilot/movie. Man, I can't imagine that satisfied anybody.

is audrey ivanka cobain?

I caught up in my original-series rewatch to the BOB-Leland reveal episode last night. Maddy murder sequence so bloody horrifying; I'd forgotten it's cross-cut with Roadhouse/Julee Cruise/giant/Hank Worden's "I'm sorry."

it's so scary and so sad

and like the end of fwwm, not much happens really, it's horrifying almost exclusively in the way it's shot

and in the sound design/editing

also, the Cooper-Truman law-officer-conservatism interp of the series doesn't work here. They are either helpless or inadequate before Evil.

otoh, Piper Laurie in Japanese male drag...

yeah that's a rough part of an otherwise excellent stretch of the show

I forgot Nadine superstrength started so early

i rewatched the first 2 episodes of the original series. in episode 2 Nadine bends the bars on her thigh master. same episode has Audrey's dream dance, Bob, the glowing sound in the Great Northern furnace, etc.. same episode has Cooper's red room dream and Laura's whispering. Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer really sets up season 3.

"the glowing sound in the Great Northern furnace," really this was in the old series? I forgot about this

i think its where Bob has his circle of candles tho i may be confusing it with the ensuing dream sequence. i know for sure it happens when the arms has his back turned and is rubbing his hands together

bob isn't in the great northern

at that point in time iirc

we should have a separate thread for the Many Strange Opinions of Adam Bruneau

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guwl1w0yFGk&t=101s

is this some other furnace or something i am missing?

also i just remembered during the rock throwing sequence they are looking for the killer with the letter J. Judy setup.

It's not the same tone from season 3.

the most surreal moment in ep 14 (BOB reveal) might be all the Navy personnel bouncing rubber balls in the Great Northern. wtf.

The ringing sound is heard in the basement of the hospital (the context is a little clearer in the European pilot ending which Lynch re-edited into Cooper's dream in "Zen, or the Art to Catch a Killer"), around 5:36 in the video below (spoilers, obviously):

youtube.com/watch?v=MLrwVk7ywqo

It sounds slightly different than the Great Northern drone in The Return, though:

youtube.com/watch?v=XqPtmnKL66M

Xpp

stop using German TV guide titles, it's very confusing

RIP Grady Tate
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/10/556916456/grady-tate-prodigious-jazz-drummer-and-noted-vocalist-dies-at-85
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcO49lv__RM

I had no memory of Jane frickin' Greer showing up as Norma's mother.

I've made it through Leland's death in the first series. Before Christmas it'll be the rest of it, the Criterion FWWM, and then I'll be ready for The Return.

Would recommend seeing The Missing Pieces if you can, post-fwwm and pre-return

well yeah, that's the major reason i'm interested in the CC.

(that's on their FWWM set)