Twin Peaks Season 2 is finally out. Well, in North America anyway. No sign of a Region 2 release yet, but with George Bush's economic policy pushing us towards $2=£1, who's complaining? I got season 2 from Amazon for a shade over twenty quid including delivery. It will take about a month to arrive, apparently, but we've been waiting since DVD was invented, so no worries. The kind of garbage that has made it to DVD in the meantime, while Twin Peaks season 2 stayed on the studio shelf, is just beyond belief. Many of us thought the studio would never release the bugger. Or that Lynch was blocking release because he was too pissed off with the second series (the first one came out about 5 years ago). But fortunately, what goes around comes around... (sneaky quote from the pilot episode there - which I gather was never made available on DVD in Region 1 due to copyright problems. You poor bastards!)
The discrepancy between Seasons 1 and 2 of Twin Peaks is pretty major. Season 1 is a miniseries really... it's the (feature-length) pilot plus just 7 45-minute episodes. Season 2, on the other hand, goes on... and on. 22 episodes, not all of which are first rate but nonetheless I have been lovingly cherishing my decaying videotapes since 1993 and I'm sure many of you have too. And you can bet your slice of cherry pie that the giroscope posse will be putting together a long weekend viewing session with unlimited coffee and 'donuts' as soon as that DVD boxed set arrives.
In the meantime I've still got to get it together to see David Lynch's latest magnum opus, Inland Empire. More reports back from Another Place when I do. To finish, I can't resist giving you one crazy link examining the backwards speaking in the 'black Lodge' to look at. Time was the internet was full of this stuff, back in 1990-91 when www hadn't been invented and all there was was email, usenet and gopher. Them was the days. My personal favourite from the aforelinked website:
Lodge Meeting Scene (cut 2 - reversed dialogue)
Original line: 'this is a formica table'
Reversed line: 'Let's rock' or 'get a shamrock'
Yeah, right. Lynch suddenly rediscovers his Irish roots? You can go way, way too far up your own...
5 comments:
I'm there for the long weekend viewing session.
"Get a shamrock"... Almost as ridiculous as "With this ring, I see why."
Whilst the generally accepted interpretation is that the man from another place did in fact say "with this ring I thee wed" in Fire Walk With Me", I think "I see why" makes sense if you read it as letters: "With this ring, I C Y" - i.e. icy. Ice as a counterpoint to fire. "You'd suddenly burst into fire" - unless you had the ring, in which case ice would put the fire out and you'd be left with lukewarm water. It all seems to make sense now.
Ridiculous nonsense.
Anyway, now that you have the DVD in question, when's the viewing weekend?
Well, once we've all got a shamrock and weaser has finished his book, I think we can do it. Alternatively if he wants to take some time out before finishing. Let's take this on to email and set a weekend.
COOP! Whatever happened to Josie!
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