Long before Twin Peaks Blog was launched in February 2018, I was fascinated by props and other set decorating from David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks and motion picture, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Today, identifying these objects is a key part of this website that documents and archives this wonderful and strange…
For Record Store Day Black Friday 2024, a new limited edition red vinyl album was released featuring the late maestro, Angelo Badalamenti. Being a long-time collector of vinyl albums, I got up early on Friday, Nov. 29 to acquire a copy at Park Avenue CDs in Orlando, Florida. Here’s a recap of another Record Store…
In Twin Peaks episode 2.018 (#25 from the second season), Audrey Horne visits the Twin Peaks City Library to research civil disobedience. While there, she meets Windom Earle who is disguised as a poetry professor named Edward Perkins. While reviewing this short exchange, I identified several books found on the “Political Science” shelf in the town’s…
This is one of those situations where I wish I had a time machine to transport me back to March 23, 1991. I would attend an auction held for St. John’s Prep School in Collegeville, Minnesota which had several Twin Peaks items donated by 1967 graduate Bob Engles. Recently, I found one of those items…
Excitement hung in the air leading up to the debut of Twin Peaks on the ABC Television Network on April 8, 1990. Critics reviews of the show looked promising and the general buzz was the series would be “must see” television. The week before the pilot aired, ABC ran four print ads in the TV…
One of the more unique items I recently added to my Twin Peaks collection is a movie theatre mylar for David Lynch’s 1992 masterpiece, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Mylars were used to indicate where a movie was being shown inside a movie house. Thanks to long-time collector of mylars, Original-Movie-Mylars on eBay, I learned more…
It’s a short scene in David Lynch’s 1992 film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. After being berated by Leland Palmer for not washing her hands before dinner, Laura Palmer is seen crying at a sink in a dimly lit bathroom. This scene was shot on location at a historic Rucker Hill home located in Everett, Washington…
‘Tis the season of giving yourself (or your loved ones) presents! Here is the Ultimate Twin Peaks Gift Guide for 2024 containing things both wonderful and strange for the Bookhouse Boy or Gal in your life.
For years, I’ve suspected the morning after the fire at the Packard Sawmill in Twin Peaks episode 2.001 was actual footage from a real fire that destroyed part of the Weyerhaeuser Sawmill in Snoqualmie, Washington in Feb. 1989. Thanks to a post on the Snoqualmie Valley Historical Museum Facebook page, I have confirmed my suspicions with…
In the Twin Peaks pilot, there are a handful of interior scenes that take place at The Great Northern Hotel. Those scenes were filmed at Kiana Lodge in Poulsbo, Washington which also doubled as the Packard family residence known as the Blue Pine Lodge. One of those scenes was Ben Horne (Richard Beymer) speaking with…