I spent the summer of 2014 oscillating between half-hearted attempts to move on from my Twin Peaks obsession and ever-deeper plunges into that world, encouraged by my own interviews with Peaks scholars and first visit to a Peaks podcast, the release of deleted scenes from Fire Walk With Me, and eventually the shocking announcement of a third season. During "Twelve Weeks of Twin Peaks," I released new Journey videos, published my earlier interviews, and gathered Usenet comments from the early nineties. Even many of my non-Peaks pieces from this period echo themes of psychological struggle and spiritual quest, and all seem to point forward to Journey Through Twin Peaks...
Subjects include my video presentation of Lady and the Tramp's multiple genres through playful manipulation (a joy to create), an organized voyage through literary psychodrama, fairy tale, and religion, my experimental film expressing an inner and outer autobiographical journey through a mash-up of forms, a visual tribute to Neon Genesis Evangelion's flashback-laced interplay of trauma and mythology, and a sprawling piece on The Giver, Boyhood, and "the death of adulthood" addressing my fascination with transformation and the power of the fantastical to convey themes of personal growth. See what I mean?
Since the obvious highlight of this period is already my most popular work, I'll nudge readers in another direction instead and recommend Opening the Door: a conversation with Martha Nochimson, author of The Passion of David Lynch and David Lynch Swerves, a great discussion with someone who had a very strong influence on Journey Through Twin Peaks.
JULY
My first appearance on Cameron Cloutier's YouTube channel to discuss Twin Peaks and my plans for the summer/fall (which did, of course, change)
Catching up with Disney's biggest phenomenon in years
Lady and the Tramp presented as a silent comedy, TV sitcom, horror film, prison movie, musical, melodrama, and romance
Two versions of the same simple story - how do they differ?
AUGUST
Reviewing the first new piece of Twin Peaks media in two decades, a fully restored, deftly edited collection of deleted scenes from Fire Walk With Me
The first of many Twin Peaks interviews to be published on my site, as a brand new book covers the history of the show
A final survey of books, including the one that got me back into Twin Peaks - the last fourteen are linked by a daisy chain of subjects, the alternation of fiction and nonfiction, and an overarching mythological theme
My experimental film from a previous decade, incorporating many different types of footage for a meditation on going away and coming back
SEPTEMBER
The theme of looking back and losing one's mooring continues with pictures of Evangelion's flashback episode
Long before the end of The Return, I gathered pictures and dialogue from previous encounters between the two most important characters in Twin Peaks, separated by time and space
Earlier comments (from IMDb days) on a variety of films, including my first viewing of Out 1 in 2007
My last non-Twin Peaks essay for six months linked two reviews of current releases, a collection of images with brief descriptions, and responses to a couple cultural thinkpieces under the larger topics of maturity, the passage of time, and the need for grand narratives
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Coincidentally, I shifted my exclusive focus to Twin Peaks just a few days before the public announcement that the show would return
OCTOBER
Six years and eight hundred twenty posts into my site, Journey Through Twin Peaks begins: a fusion of my interest in video essays and my interest in Twin Peaks, this became my most popular work
Interviewing the creator of the legendary magazine that kept Twin Peaks' flame alive for a dozen years
We returned for a second interview after digesting the much-hyped/anticipated deleted scenes from Fire Walk With Me
A third and final interview was scheduled last-minute to take in the recent news about a third season on Showtime
"Things fall apart/The center cannot hold/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the word/The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony innocence is drowned..." (a video montage)
Continuing Journey Through Twin Peaks by honing in on the Laura mystery and covering the early part of season 2
NOVEMBER
Interviewing the brilliant author of several Lynch studies that incorporate feminism, Carl Jung, quantum physics, and Vedic traditions, but remain driven by the phenomenon of the work itself
With The Missing Pieces out and season 3 in the air, I join Obnoxious and Anonymous again for a follow-up discussion
What folks were saying about Twin Peaks on listservs/message boards as the show originally aired (some great posts in here - Barb Miller's particularly impacted me as I worked on my videos)
Describing upcoming chapters of the video series
DECEMBER
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A week later, I was still experiencing delays as I researched and prepared my Twin Peaks videos
After a long pause, I wanted to post individual chapters before waiting for Part 3 to be complete
Sharing chapters 13-15 as Twelve Weeks of Twin Peaks ends with the Journey videos still ongoing
Finally, Journey Through Twin Peaks covers the rest of season 2 leading up to the hypnotic finish (plus a teaser of more to come)
My most popular single piece in the first decade of the site, advocating for a film that was underrated for too long
JANUARY
Stepping back to set up the first chapter of Part 4, establishing the film as our focus
A guide to separating the theatrical cut from The Missing Pieces (fanedits were confusing many first-time viewers)
FEBRUARY
Journey Through Twin Peaks concludes with the longest part yet, focused on Fire Walk With Me, the notorious feature film that ended the first Twin Peaks cycle
All of the visual composites used in the last part of my Twin Peaks video series
Collecting the completed (for now) Journey Through Twin Peaks in one place, with a trailer to promote it
(I covered this period on Episode 20 of my Patreon podcast)
Next: Genesis of a Video Detective (March - August 2015)
(in which I begin to establish a routine with TV viewing diaries and Fandor video essays)
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(in which I begin to establish a routine with TV viewing diaries and Fandor video essays)
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