Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

7 episodes? That's the patience level?

So dumb that they use The Fugitive as a contrast, as if that show didn't set the standard for stringing viewers along year after year.

"more weird plot twists than the Today Show" lol (assuming that's a reference to Pauley/Norville drama).

aside from the propaganda aspect, which is unforgivable, the whole tone of that piece is so glib and condescending. fuck tv journalists.

"You brought all that grease into the house today and you spilt some on my cotton balls."

I've just started Season 2 and am finding it very frightening. Those first two episodes are properly scary.

Donna Hayward's mom was on Top Chef tonight, the remaining chefs cooked for her daughter Zooey.

Something i've wondered about since i watched the Season 2 DVDs: was Windom a direct ripoff of Hannibal Lector or was that "intelligent serial killer" bullshit just flying around at the time? I see that the Windom episodes started a bit before the SotL movie was released.

100 Stupid Movies About Ridiculously Improbable Serial Killers

Episode 14, oh my.

still re-watching the series. we hit the first episode of season 2 last night and i was like "oh yeah, that's what i remember twin peaks being like." the weirdness of pretty much everyone's performance gets cranked up, it's so much more entertaining that most of season 1 (along with some genuinely disturbing shit).

yeah give it a couple episodes

it's a labour of love in the middle, kind of. but then when you think about it after it is fairly amusing. would prob watch season 2 again.

the comedy bits can be unbelievable, tho I think the best ones are still in season 1. my favourite is hawk/coop/sheriff at the shooting range talking about women.

always wondered who did the drumming/brushwork on twin peaks. turns out it's grady tate:

http://www.drummerworld.com/pics/drum/dpa20/GradyTate4.jpg

and i don't know who was the main bassist for the series, but the credits on FWWM are serious -- ron carter, buster williams, and rufus reed.

no shit! wow

donald bailey is credited with drums on FWWM too. someone should hire lynch to produce on a jazz album.

uh, yeah. grady tate IIRC is all over the julee cruise albums too. badalamenti was an arranger so he knows all these jazz dudes.

a lot of the music cues from the series (esp. 2nd season) are all synthesized, by badalamenti as often as not. not a ton of full-group arrangements.

i sort of feel like jazz heads would turn up their noses at that julee cruise stuff, since it's so obviously "jazz-esque" without being jazz. obviously way more stylized than say norah jones but has a similar relation to jazz as a variety of motifs and figures rather than as an approach.

the one-chord walking bassline "jazz" cues (audrey's theme or whatever) are way better in the 2nd season. that's when i really noticed the sick brushwork and had to find out who was behind it.

y'all have this: http://www.amazon.com/Twin-Peaks-All-Season-Music/dp/B000W4HFY8/

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yep, great album

badalementi going through the composing of laura palmer's theme for the extras on the gold box is amazing.

oh look, here it is

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

Wow! Thanks for posting that.

i was in the milwaukee airport waiting for my plane and heard the twin peaks theme over the pa system. very surreal.

I would be afraid if I heard that.

If I even start imagining Twin Peaks music when I'm doing night hiking, I get freaked out and have to give myself a pep talk.

at the time there was a small robotic santa flopping around on the ground, laughing maniacally.

ok yeah thats fucking terrifying

roxy thinking about hiking

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AkrZ09GYiws/SkpNuxZSb0I/AAAAAAAAJ8o/c1C9BJYZeKw/s400/twinpeaks100b.jpg

otm thats my friend cmac reflected in mirror

That video gives me chills! The Love Theme and the main title theme are probably the best pieces of music he ever made.

a hike sounds nice.

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/8574/lodge.jpg

<3<3<3 the Badalamenti video upthread. Made my night.

Merry Christmas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3a4aPvhdCo

I got the box brand-new on Boxing Day for $40 after discount, postcards included. I'd love to get the whole set (the base 61, not the extras), but there doesn't seem to be any shortcut...So far, I've watched the pilot plus first episode. I think it was about fifteen years ago when I watched the whole thing in re-run on Bravo. It reminds me of the O.J. saga in one respect: before it went off the rails and was reduced to camp, there was something really dark and grim there. Some of the pilot even seems to anticipate Elephant.

i just bought series one on dvd today

guy in the shop told me that series 2 was banned in ireland until recently (?)

doubtful. it's certainly not banned in the UK, but it's not officially available on dvd here either. looks like S2 isn't available on Region 2 DVD (UK, Ireland, etc.) until early next year.

watching down the last 8 or so episodes of Season 2 at the moment and am very tempted to skip through all this Windom Earl/corny subplots business and just get to that glorious final episode. Anyone recommend this? I never bothered watching these first time around.

"These" meaning S2 except for first few and final episode back when they first aired.

as long as you don't skip this scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf7QmBKOQfI

just rewatched that badalamenti video. so amazing.

Ah, what a great clip caek. Such a show.

just rewatched that badalamenti video. so amazing.

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gave me chills. sure would like to hear that cassette

i really hate windham earl as a character in this but without him we wouldn't have had the drooling automaton leo-as-henchman stuff which cracks me up.

baritone DGDGBE capo 2nd fret*:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_06O8XnJQo

but the original ABadalementi sounds played on a fender baritone jaguar.

*almost the same tuning set-up as LZ "in my time of dying" fwiw.

Gordon Cole kinda kept me going through some of the rough parts of the second season. I love all the FBI characters the most, actually - Cooper, Cole, Albert, Denise Bryson (and Chester Desmond and Sam Stanley, too).

ok so

a friend lent me the dvds and im watching the pilot rn but the disc is scratched. i cant watch anything past chapter 5 but there doesnt seem to be any scene select - how much more am i missing? can i watch the next disc w/o too much trouble?

oh the fbi dude and the sheriff have just finished interrogating bobby - next scene is sum1 poking a hole in a cup w/ a pencil