Twin Peaks [2017]

[Simple Torture]

My Kindle got rid of the paragraph breaks when I copied and pasted it, but here we are:

The card for the Santa Teresa cybercafé was a deep red, so red that it was hard to read what was printed on it. On the back, in a lighter red, was a map that showed exactly where the café was located. He asked the receptionist to translate the name of the place. The clerk laughed and said it was called Fire, Walk With Me. “It sounds like the title of a David Lynch film,” said Fate. The clerk shrugged and said that all of Mexico was a collage of diverse and wide-ranging homages. “Every single thing in this country is an homage to everything in the world, even the things that haven’t happened yet,” he said. After he told Fate how to get to the cybercafé, they talked for a while about Lynch’s films. The clerk had seen all of them. Fate had seen only three or four. According to the clerk, Lynch’s greatest achievement was the TV series Twin Peaks. Fate liked The Elephant Man best, maybe because he’d often felt like the elephant man himself, wanting to be like other people but at the same time knowing he was different. When the clerk asked him whether he’d heard that Michael Jackson had bought or tried to buy the skeleton of the elephant man, Fate shrugged and said that Michael Jackson was sick. I don’t think so, said the clerk, watching something presumably important that was happening on TV just then. “In my opinion,” he said with his eyes fixed on the TV Fate couldn’t see, “Michael knows things the rest of us don’t.” “We all know things we think nobody else knows,” said Fate. Then he said good night, put the cybercafé card in his pocket, and went back to his room.

[Simple Torture]

Bolaño also mentions Lynch and Wallace in the same sentence in an essay from Between Parentheses:

My friendship with Rodrigo Fresán is based not only on mutual esteem (and affection, on my side) but also on our endless conversations on the most random topics, which often turn into arguments, though this doesn’t always happen in Barcelona, because I live on the Costa Brava and not even on the Costa Brava but more concretely in the living room of my house in Blanes, and he lives in Barcelona, and despite the fact that both of us travel quite a bit (he more than I), neither of us has a car or knows how to drive, and with time we’re becoming sedentary.

In general, it could be said that we talk about many things. I’ll try to list them in no particular order. 1) The Latin American hell that, especially on weekends, is concentrated around some Kentucky Fried Chickens and McDonald’s. 2) The doings of the Buenos Aires photographer Alfredo Garófano, childhood friend of Rodrigo and now a friend of mine and of anyone with the least bit of discernment. 3) Bad translations. 4) Serial killers and mass murderers. 5) Prospective leisure as the antidote to prospective poetry. 6) The vast number of writers who should retire after writing their first book or their second or their third or their fourth or their fifth. 7) The superiority of the work of Basquiat to that of Haring, or vice versa. 8) The works of Borges and the works of Bioy. 9) The advisablity of retiring to a ranch in Mexico near a volcano to finish writing The Turkey Buzzard Trilogy. 10) Wrinkles in the space-time continuum. 11) The kind of majestic women you’ve never met who come up to you in a bar and whisper in your ear that they have AIDS (or that they don’t). 12) Gombrowicz and his conception of immaturity. 13) Philip K. Dick, whom we both unreservedly admire. 14) The likelihood of a war between Chile and Argentina and its possible and impossible consequences. 15) The life of Proust and the life of Stendhal. 16) The activities of some professors in the United States. 17) The sexual practices of titi monkeys and ants and great cetaceans. 18) Colleagues who must be avoided like limpet mines. 19) Ignacio Echevarría, whom both of us love and admire. 20) Some Mexican writers liked by me and not by him, and some Argentine writers liked by me and not by him. 21) Barcelonan manners. 22) David Lynch and the prolixity of David Foster Wallace. 23) Chabon and Palahniuk, whom he likes and I don’t. 24) Wittgenstein and his plumbing and carpentry skills. 25) Some twilit dinners, which actually, to the surprise of the diner, become theater pieces in five acts. 26) Trashy TV game shows. 27) The end of the world. 28) Kubrick’s films, which Fresán loves so much that I’m beginning to hate them. 29) The incredible war between the planet of the novel-creatures and the planet of the story-beings. 30) The possibility that when the novel awakes from its iron dreams, the story will still be there.

Of course, these thirty items come nowhere near to exhausting our topics of conversation. Let me add just a couple of things. I laugh a lot when I talk to Fresán. We almost never talk about death.

[Simple Torture]

Two very brief Lynch references from Infinite Jest:

He used Cosgrove Watt in almost every project for eighteen months. Watt for a time was to Himself as DeNiro was to Scorsese, McLachlin to Lynch, Allen to Allen.

Safe Boating Is No Accident. Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad(?). Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited/X-Ray and Infrared Photography by Shuco-Mist Medical Pressure Systems, Enfield MA. Ken N. Johnson, ‘Madame Psychosis,’ P. A. Heaven. Kierkegaard/Lynch (?) parody, a claustrophobic water-ski instructor (Johnson), struggling with his romantic conscience after his fiancée’s (‘Psychosis’’s) face is grotesquely mangled by an outboard propeller, becomes trapped in an overcrowded hospital elevator with a defrocked Trappist monk, two overcombed missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, an enigmatic fitness guru, the Massachusetts State Commissioner for Beach and Water Safety, and seven severely intoxicated opticians with silly hats and exploding cigars. Listed by some archivists as completed the following year, Y.T.-S.D.B. UNRELEASED

[washing machine]

[wease]

is this something i can watch with having no familiarity with it?

Do not under any circumstances watch this current season of Twin Peaks before watching the previous seasons and the feature film, Fire Walk With Me.

Agreed.

Okay then. Somebody link me up to all this stuff. I am completely in the dark with it.

The original series is currently on both Netflix and Hulu. I've not been able to find Fire Walk With Me anywhere online. I guess I'm gonna have to break down and order it from Amazon.

If I'm not mistaken, if you have Showtime, it is available on the Showtime app.

I do not. That's why I can't watch the current season.

[wease]

Just finished original series finale. Jesus Christ what a mind fuck. I'm not pretending to have understood it all. Do I need to watch FWWM to get a better understanding of it?

[parasolmonster]

I guess I'll have to venture out and watch his other films. Mulholland Drive is high on the list because supposedly it was originally conceived as an Audry spin off.

[washing machine]

Just finished original series finale. Jesus Christ what a mind fuck. I'm not pretending to have understood it all. Do I need to watch FWWM to get a better understanding of it?

FWWM isn't going to help you with that finale, but it's a solid two and a half hours living in Laura's world. You get a great Bowie cameo too in one of the most disorienting scenes in movie history.

Side note; Angelo's score in Fire Walk With Me is arguably better than the original series.

[Simple Torture]

I'm glad they kept the same intro music for the new series, but I miss my homie the bird.

[washing machine]

Will Albert be with you?

Do birds fly!?

[wease]

Just finished original series finale. Jesus Christ what a mind fuck. I'm not pretending to have understood it all. Do I need to watch FWWM to get a better understanding of it?

FWWM isn't going to help you with that finale, but it's a solid two and a half hours living in Laura's world. You get a great Bowie cameo too in one of the most disorienting scenes in movie history.

Side note; Angelo's score in Fire Walk With Me is arguably better than the original series.

So, what the fuck happened? Are the souls of the ones who died there in the Black Lodge or were they all evil doppelgängers? Is Annie dead? Jesus.

I'm guessing the finale aired before the show was cancelled. That's the only reason to have left so much unturned.

[washing machine]

Wait. Why are you giving us the bird?

[parasolmonster]

Just finished original series finale. Jesus Christ what a mind fuck. I'm not pretending to have understood it all. Do I need to watch FWWM to get a better understanding of it?

FWWM isn't going to help you with that finale, but it's a solid two and a half hours living in Laura's world. You get a great Bowie cameo too in one of the most disorienting scenes in movie history.

Side note; Angelo's score in Fire Walk With Me is arguably better than the original series.

So, what the fuck happened? Are the souls of the ones who died there in the Black Lodge or were they all evil doppelgängers? Is Annie dead? Jesus.

I'm guessing the finale aired before the show was cancelled. That's the only reason to have left so much unturned.

I can't remember if it's FWWM or Missing Pieces or both, but you do get a bit of info on Annie.

And I completely agree, the soundtrack for FWWM is insanely good. The song, "The Pink Room" is so, so good.

[washing machine]

That and the opening sequence are exactly what I was thinking of.

Though those plinky, warped chords playing throughout the Red Room sequence in the finale closely rival everything in the Fire Walk With Me score.

[Birds in Hell]

That period a few years back when they released, over the course of a few months, every moment of music recorded for the original series and FWWM was one of my most exciting musical experiences ever.

[Birds in Hell]

Just finished original series finale. Jesus Christ what a mind fuck. I'm not pretending to have understood it all. Do I need to watch FWWM to get a better understanding of it?

FWWM isn't going to help you with that finale, but it's a solid two and a half hours living in Laura's world. You get a great Bowie cameo too in one of the most disorienting scenes in movie history.

Side note; Angelo's score in Fire Walk With Me is arguably better than the original series.

So, what the fuck happened? Are the souls of the ones who died there in the Black Lodge or were they all evil doppelgängers? Is Annie dead? Jesus.

I'm guessing the finale aired before the show was cancelled. That's the only reason to have left so much unturned.

You'd need to refer to Brad Dukes' 'Reflections' for a firm answer but I think they had a reasonably good idea that the show was going to be canned when they made the series finale.

[wease]

Wait. Why are you giving us the bird?

I didn't even know that was there!

[wease]

Just finished original series finale. Jesus Christ what a mind fuck. I'm not pretending to have understood it all. Do I need to watch FWWM to get a better understanding of it?

FWWM isn't going to help you with that finale, but it's a solid two and a half hours living in Laura's world. You get a great Bowie cameo too in one of the most disorienting scenes in movie history.

Side note; Angelo's score in Fire Walk With Me is arguably better than the original series.

So, what the fuck happened? Are the souls of the ones who died there in the Black Lodge or were they all evil doppelgängers? Is Annie dead? Jesus.

I'm guessing the finale aired before the show was cancelled. That's the only reason to have left so much unturned.

You'd need to refer to Brad Dukes' 'Reflections' for a firm answer but I think they had a reasonably good idea that the show was going to be canned when they made the series finale.

Really? Damn. No closure on the bank and Audrey, no clue as to what happened with Annie. No real resolution with the villain(s).

Was the movie already in the works when it was cancelled?

[Birds in Hell]

Really? Damn. No closure on the bank and Audrey, no clue as to what happened with Annie. No real resolution with the villain(s).

Was the movie already in the works when it was cancelled?

I don't think so, but I could be wrong.

If Lynch had his way, he would never have revealed who killed Laura.

Man, this wait for the next episode of the current series is killing me.

[wease]

Really? Damn. No closure on the bank and Audrey, no clue as to what happened with Annie. No real resolution with the villain(s).

Was the movie already in the works when it was cancelled?

I don't think so, but I could be wrong.

If Lynch had his way, he would never have revealed who killed Laura.

Man, this wait for the next episode of the current series is killing me.

Wait. I thought Bob, thru her dad, killed her.