Twin Peaks Blog Launches – A Fascination Both Wonderful and Strange

This year marks the 25th anniversary of when I first discovered David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks.  This blog is my attempt to document and archive my continued experience with a show. My mother still jokes this is “just a phase that will pass,” and yet I’m starting a blog in 2018.

WHEN DID MY JOURNEY TO TWIN PEAKS BEGIN?

While a high school senior living in Columbus, Ohio, I first made the journey to Twin Peaks via my local library in fall 1993.

I borrowed the soundtrack to David Lynch’s Wild At Heart on vinyl from the library in late summer that year. Unsure what to expect, I fell in love with Angelo Badalamenti’s otherworldly tones and quickly sought out other music by him. Enter Twin Peaks.

The vinyl album I borrowed was magnificent – an iconic image of an empty road at the foot of snow capped mountains inviting me into a mystery. The back of the album contained images of  characters from a series I had never seen (I missed the original broadcast on ABC Television in 1990-1991). Songs like “Laura Palmer’s Theme,” “Into the Night,” or the “Love Theme To Twin Peaks” were on constant rotation.

It wasn’t until October 1993 that I discovered the Pilot episode and the first season on VHS at my library in Grove City, Ohio. I played hooky one day just to watch it. The rest is history.

UNE ME SOLITAIRE: FANS IN A LIVING NOVEL

For a more complete history of my journey, Twin_Petes  profiled me for his incredible project, Une Me Solitaire: Fans in a Living Novel. 

WHY TWIN PEAKS BLOG?

Launched in February 2018, TWIN PEAKS BLOG is my attempt to document my continued experience with a show that has consumed my life for more than three decades years.

This site is a living, breathing archive of a wonderful and strange show that I love dearly. A few friends have joined me in the quest to preserve the history of the show and David Lynch’s 1992 masterpiece, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. As Bookhouse Boys, we hope you enjoy our discoveries as much as we enjoy finding them.

I obsess over the details, regularly get lost in the woods, find the music too dreamy, and consume lots of coffee, doughnuts and cherry pie.  If you’re like me, then I hope this blog, “…fills your heart with wonder and the wisdom that you have known a singular joy.”

CONNECT WITH ME

I love connecting with fellow Twin Peaks fans. Please send a note if you have questions or suggestions, or if you simply want to say, “Hello-o-o-o!” You can also send email to TheTwinPeaksBlog@gmail.com or connect on social media.