Concluding #WatchlistScreenCaps/#iPodAlbumPlaylist/#JoelsReadingList • a few films from 2013/2014 • conversation with Tony Dayoub on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me • David Lynch Month • early media/online commentary on Twin Peaks • resuming video essays • reviewing every Lynch film • first podcast appearances (Obnoxious & Anonymous) • Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces • Twin Peaks interviews: Brad Dukes, John Thorne, Martha Nochimson • my experimental short film • Journey Through Twin Peaks Parts 1 - 3 (the TV show) • "7 Facts About Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me"
continuing Chapter 19: Classics & Completionism (October 2013 - February 2014)
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JANUARY
What I read in the second half of 2013
Screenshots from a dozen movies and three prestigious TV premieres (whose viewing diaries I would begin four years later)
Another ten screenshots, including several films by Peter Watkins
Commemorating the debut of my short film a year earlier
Capsules of Pyaasa • The Big City • The Man Who Planted Trees • Brideshead Revisited • Los Angeles Plays Itself • Perceval le Gallois • Chronicle of a Summer • It’s a Beautiful Day • I, Claudius • The Battle of Chile
Another ten screenshots, with a surprising number of whales
FEBRUARY
Another ten screenshots, sampling my favorite era
Another ten screenshots, with two versions of the repeating-time shtick and a couple silent comedies
Another ten screenshots, including very early Scorsese and Spielberg
Another ten screenshots, catching up with filmmakers who had not yet been featured on the watchlist
What I listened to in the first month of the year, with particular emphasis on re-visiting classic rock favorites
Screenshots from the Golden Age, featuring at least a half-dozen different genres, stars, and studios
One last mix of screenshots, including new discoveries and some of my oldest favorites
A huge overflow of leftover screenshots from a yearlong watchlist
Closing a year of screenshots with the earliest image of all
Gathering all the Watchlist galleries in one directory
Chapter 20: Getting Lost in Lynchland (March - June 2014)
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MARCH
What I listened to in the second month of the year
Visual examples of repetition and variation from a film that's full of both
All kinds of plans, soon to be delayed, transformed, or altogether abandoned in favor of a growing obsession with Twin Peaks
My first Twin Peaks post in four years was a visual tribute to the killer's reveal episode
The last listening post includes early nineties grunge and recent hip-hop
APRIL
Martin Scorsese offers superficiality as spectacle - is there a "there" there?
My favorite Jesus film is this late sixties TV play by Dennis Potter
Interviewing a filmmaker about his out-of-time action hero
I contributed some old reviews to the first in a series of e-books about directors
MAY
And so it begins. My conversation with Tony starts with the history of Laura and the TV show, launching two months of David Lynch material...
The Fire Walk With Me conversation continues as Tony explores his own Twin Peaks fandom and how Teresa Banks reveals Lynch's aim
I begin to dig into the mystical side of Fire Walk With Me in my reply to Tony, extending the conversation
To conclude our conversation, Tony discusses how Fire Walk With Me and Lynch's fascination with its heroine changed the course of his career
JUNE
My history with David Lynch, a bunch of screenshots, and an introduction to a full month of very lengthy Lynch posts
Gathering samples from over a hundred media responses to Twin Peaks from 1989 to 2014 - news reports, reviews, interviews, scholarly analyses, blog posts, and more
My first video essay in a year and a half, a non-narrated montage exploring how Lynch handles themes of abuse in his early work - this remains one of my strongest pieces of work
One of my most ambitious pieces, a complete anthology of full-length reviews of every David Lynch feature, with shorter reviews of his TV episodes, shorts, videos, and commercials
A comprehensive essay examining how David Lynch's work evolved narratively, thematically, and stylistically over half a century - this concluded "David Lynch Month" on the site
Chapter 21: Journeying into Twin Peaks (July 2014 - February 2015)
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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 ones'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
(I covered this year on Episode 18, 19, and 20 of my Patreon podcast)
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