A year ago, I published my longest podcast episode, one so long I had to divide it into three parts. As 2020 kicks off, I've definitely topped myself. The bulk of Episode 63 not only needed to be divided into six episodes, it also spawned another six mini-episodes' worth of podcast recommendations. This is catch-up for the past nine months, as I gather feedback I've received, podcasts I've listened to, films I've watched, and political events I've observed. And that's not even getting to the main course: my most sprawling "Twin Peaks Cinema" study incorporating a last-minute Lynch short addition, an old show that turned out to be worth an entry of its own, and a dozen capsules to observe the work of each Twin Peaks episode director (save Tim Hunter, featured last month, as well as David Lynch and Mark Frost). Usually I try to dig a little deeper into each episode in this round-up, but there's so much here already I'll trust the titles to do the talking.
Here are all the parts, illustrated and described...
Episode 63A
(Intro/Path to Journey Through Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks Reflections: Bobby, Einar, the Log Lady + her cabin, Jacques' cabin, the Ghostwood Deal/Part 1 & more)
(Intro/Path to Journey Through Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks Reflections: Bobby, Einar, the Log Lady + her cabin, Jacques' cabin, the Ghostwood Deal/Part 1 & more)
Episode 63B
Twin Peaks cinema - What Did Jack Do?/Wiseguy's Lynchboro arc & Twin Peaks directors' films (Halloweentown, Zelly & Me, Now and Then, The Escape Artist, The Wizard, Frances, Pay the Ghost, Heaven, After Dark My Sweet, Code Name: Emerald, Losing Isaiah, Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher & more)
Twin Peaks cinema - What Did Jack Do?/Wiseguy's Lynchboro arc & Twin Peaks directors' films (Halloweentown, Zelly & Me, Now and Then, The Escape Artist, The Wizard, Frances, Pay the Ghost, Heaven, After Dark My Sweet, Code Name: Emerald, Losing Isaiah, Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher & more)
Episode 63C
Media Journal - Class violence in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Irishman, Joker & Parasite (+ more capsules on Midsommar, Shin Godzilla & the original Godzilla, Ah Wilderness, My Brilliant Career, Knock Down the House, Ad Astra, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Won't You Be Me Neighbor?, The American Experience: Walt Disney, Glory, Space Men, Seven Days in May, Adopt a Highway, The Kominsky Method, Living With Yourself, Schitt's Creek & much more)
Media Journal - Class violence in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Irishman, Joker & Parasite (+ more capsules on Midsommar, Shin Godzilla & the original Godzilla, Ah Wilderness, My Brilliant Career, Knock Down the House, Ad Astra, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Won't You Be Me Neighbor?, The American Experience: Walt Disney, Glory, Space Men, Seven Days in May, Adopt a Highway, The Kominsky Method, Living With Yourself, Schitt's Creek & much more)
Episode 63D
Listener feedback, part 1 (Lost Highway, Lynch in Twin Peaks season 1, ordinary/mythological character connections, "primal scene" locations, Twin Peaks as Laura's Projection & more)
Listener feedback, part 1 (Lost Highway, Lynch in Twin Peaks season 1, ordinary/mythological character connections, "primal scene" locations, Twin Peaks as Laura's Projection & more)
Episode 63E
Listener feedback, part 2 (Twin Peaks season 3 as Laura's psychodrama, Veronica Mars, Neon Genesis Evangelion & more)
Listener feedback, part 2 (Twin Peaks season 3 as Laura's psychodrama, Veronica Mars, Neon Genesis Evangelion & more)
Episode 63F
Endorsing Bernie 2020 (+ the 60s in 80s media, podcast recommendations, 2019 politics - campaigns, Bolivia, UK election, Iran & more)
Endorsing Bernie 2020 (+ the 60s in 80s media, podcast recommendations, 2019 politics - campaigns, Bolivia, UK election, Iran & more)
Podcast Line-ups for...
Lost in the Movies #63
63A
INTRO
MONTHLY UPDATE (recently published): Mad Men season 3 viewing diary, The Unseen (Guardians of the Galaxy), Zama, Thirteen, Lady Bird
MONTHLY UPDATE (work in progress): path to Journey Through Twin Peaks
TWIN PEAKS REFLECTIONS: Bobby, Einar, the Log Lady / Log Lady's cabin, Jacques' cabin / The Ghostwood Deal + Part 1
63B
TWIN PEAKS CINEMA INTRO
WHAT DID JACK DO?
WISEGUY (LYNCHBORO ARC)
HALLOWEENTOWN
ZELLY & ME
NOW AND THEN
THE ESCAPE ARTIST
THE WIZARD
FRANCES
PAY THE GHOST
HEAVEN
AFTER DARK, MY SWEET
CODE NAME: EMERALD
LOSING ISAIAH
MATTHEW BLACKHEART: MONSTER SMASHER
OTHER FILMS: Less Than Zero, Permanent Midnight, Homeward Bound, Crusoe, The Baader-Meinhof Complex, A Killing in a Small Town, other Twin Peaks collaborator films including Mark Frost's work
TWIN PEAKS CINEMA OUTRO: Jessica Lange quote
63C
MEDIA JOURNAL INTRO: Class violence in the first 4
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
THE IRISHMAN
JOKER
PARASITE
MIDSOMMAR
AD ASTRA
A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?
KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE
GODZILLA FILMS: reasons for marathon, Gojira, 1950s Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Shin Godzilla
AH, WILDERNESS!
OTHER FILMS: Gilda, The White Cliffs of Dover, Little Caesar, Woman Walks Ahead, The Woman in White, Lilies of the Field, CNN's The Movies, A Blue Sky Like No Other/Born in America/Reclamation: The Rising at Standing Rock, Invitation, 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year, Rocket Man, Apollo 11, Running on Empty, The American Experience: Walt Disney, Dick Tracy, Yesterday, The Red Badge of Courage, Adopt a Highway, Morning Glory, Space Men, I Am Not Your Negro, Brooklyn Bridge, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, In the Valley of the Wolves, The Central Park Five, Seven Days in May, The House in the Middle, Glory, My Brilliant Career
TV: The Kominsky Method, Living With Yourself, Schitt's Creek, Veronica Mars, partial TV viewings, E.T. Xfinity commercial, Beatles lectures, Treasures of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
63D
LOST HIGHWAY & TWIN PEAKS
LAURA & RONETTE
JAMES MARSHALL AT ERASERHOOD
DONNA'S MEMORY OF THE PINK ROOM
CAPTIVITY & FREEDOM IN TWIN PEAKS
LYNCH'S INVOLVEMENT WITH SEASON 1
ORDINARY CHARACTERS AS MYTHOLOGICAL ANALOGS
NOIR, LYNCH, AND EVELYN MARSH
REPLYING TO ORDINARY/MYTHOLOGICAL CHARACTER CONNECTIONS
SYMBOLIC OWNERSHIP IN TWIN PEAKS (& COEN BROTHERS FILMS)
LAURA'S DESK, FRED'S CELL & "PRIMAL SCENE" LOCATIONS
LYNCH/FROST PARTNERSHIP (including the New Mexico Girl question)
SUGGESTIONS FOR TWIN PEAKS CINEMA
SHERILYN FENN INTERVIEW
DOES IT MATTER WHAT YOU CALL THE RED ROOM?
SEASON 3 INFLUENCE ON NEW TV (including Too Old to Die Young)
SHERILYN FENN ON SEASON 3
TWIN PEAKS BOOKS
TWIN PEAKS YOUTUBE CHANNELS
LYNCH ON LYNCH, REFLECTIONS, THE ESSENTIAL WRAPPED IN PLASTIC
THE END OF FIRE WALK WITH ME & ONE TO MANY/MANY TO ONE
"WE LIVE INSIDE A DREAM" (COOPER & TWIN PEAKS AS LAURA'S PROJECTION)
2D VS 3D AESTHETICS & GORDON COLE AS AN OBFUSCATOR
LAURA'S PERSONAE IN SEASON 3: NAIDO, DIANE, AUDREY (+ Cooper's hotel)
COOPER CRAWLING TO THE SOCKET
MALE/FEMALE DICHOTOMY OR ARCHETYPES IN TWIN PEAKS
SEXUAL TRAFFICKING & EXPLOITATION IN TWIN PEAKS
APPROACHING/REFLECTING TWIN PEAKS FOR FIRST-TIME VIEWERS
63E
MICHAEL INTRODUCES HIS 2 REDDIT POSTS
#1 Deconstructing Part 8: The Experiment and the Atomic Bomb
#2 Deconstructing Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Pt 2
SEASON 3 AS LAURA'S PSYCHODRAMA
YOUTUBE COMMENTS including Rear Window/Dial M for Murder, my terrible Latin pronunciation, Laura's "TV" in the Red Room & "offscreen", Neon Genesis Evangelion/Twin Peaks, rejecting & returning to Twin Peaks after 25 years, "Begin the Beguine", reasons for Journey delay, the gravity of death in Twin Peaks, killer's reveal, Leland as Bob's victim, Zen view of Twin Peaks
TWITTER REPLIES including Martha Nochimson book/interview (+ her article on Veronica Mars)
SITE COMMENTS including various episodes of Veronica Mars seasons 1 - 4, Neon Genesis Evangelion (podcasts, Adam/Lilith, Kaworu)
63F
BERNIE SANDERS 2020
MORE POLITICS: Presidential campaigns, impeachment, Bolivian coup, UK election, Iran crisis, books - Red Hangover & We've Got People, Sanders vs. Warren conflict
PODCAST RECOMMENDATIONS including podcasters disappointed with Warren, Hispanic support for Bernie, Conversations with Mark Frost book, The Big Chill/John Sayles episodes
OPENING THE ARCHIVE: Sixties Reunion, part 2: the birth of the boomer w/ 2020 notes on generations of presidential candidates
OUTRO
BONUS Podcast recommendations
#1
UK election reactions, the question of open borders, mass media & personal creation
#2
Ayanna Pressley vs. other Justice Democrats, Clarence Thomas and black nationalism, tensions in DSA
#3
Working Families Party endorses Warren, How to Hide an Empire book, 2020 campaign prognostication, hamstringing the regulatory state
#4
The War Room & 15-year-later follow-up, Linda Tirado's viral poverty post, More American Graffiti on The Projection Booth, Revolutions podcast reaches Russian Revolution
#5
Influencers back Bernie, the fall of Fandor, Bolivia coup reactions
Lost in Twin Peaks #12 - S2E4 (Laura's Secret Diary/"Episode 11")
INTRO
THE OPENING OF THE EPISODE
DIRECTOR/WRITER
PRODUCTION & TV CONTEXT (when it aired, ratings, surrounding shows)
HISTORICAL CONTEXT (#1 movie, world events: anti-Gulf War protests, 2 Live Crew verdict, TIME cover)
MEDIA COVERAGE & FAN RECEPTION
THE FEEL OF THE EPISODE
THE STRUCTURE OF THE EPISODE (including recap)
WHO KILLED LAURA PALMER? (new clues, the big picture)
SCENES ORGANIZED BY LAURA STORY
Murder / Family / Donna / One-Armed Man / Giant's clues / Harold / Secret diary
SCENES ORGANIZED BY NON-LAURA STORY
Packard family / Horne family / Saw Mill fire / James & Donna / Ed & Norma / Norma & Hank / Josie & Harry / Cooper & Audrey / Andrew's death / Lucy's pregnancy / Cooper's shooting / Leo's boots / Jacques' murder / Eckhardt in Hong Kong / Audrey's kidnapping
new: M.T. Wentz / Mr. Tojamura
LOCATIONS
CHARACTERS (introductions, first interactions, rankings, absences)
COFFEE, PIE & DONUTS (+ other food & smoking)
THE UNCANNY/SPIRIT WORLD
WHAT IS TWIN PEAKS?
WHO IS AGENT COOPER?
WHO IS LAURA PALMER?
READINGS FROM MY OTHER WORK
SHAPE OF THE SHOW & SPECULATION
RANK & FUTURE RATINGS
NEXT TIME PREVIEW & LOG LADY INTRO
FAN SPECULATION
SPOILER SECTION
CHARACTER MILESTONES & FUTURE RATINGS
READING FROM MY OTHER WORK
RANDOM OBSERVATIONS
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