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~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

Hi my name is John.

I saw a Twin Peaks reference on TV recently.  I was watching "Fringe" and Dr. Bishop was wearing a pair of glasses with one red and one blue lens. He mentioned he'd gotten them from a Dr. Jacoby in Washington State. I belive the episode was called butterfly but not certain on that.

Probably someone already posted this but in case no one did, there you go.

Many years ago on Northern Exposure one of the characters looked though a telescope and saw the log lady. You probably already know that too.

FYI I grew up near Seattle, been to every site from the show, met BOB once at the Mar-Tee Cafe, AKA The Double R, and so on. I am enjoying my definitive gold box edition of my fave all time show. 

Peace out

Hi there fellow fans!

My name is Tegwen Parry (yes TP) and have been a fan since the show began back here in the UK in the early 90s.  I remember watching the first episode thinking that it was a "one-off" episode, and thinking "wow" I have not seen anything like this before in my life, the surrealism, the fashions, the characters and the geography of the area (not too disimilar to my hometown in Wales, but on a much rather smaller scale!!) so when I was told it was a series / season I was delighted.  Not to mention that it scared the life out of me as an 11 year old! I have now also introduced my younger sister and all her friends to this TV Gem!

Twin Peaks was watched religiously on the UK Channel BBC2 by me and my family, a few years went by and I was able to buy the videos, and the show was repeated on cable on the BRAVO Channel - until a few years after that I got the first Season on DVD - I watched it to death, eagerly awaiting the Season 2 DVD which I gave up waiting for!  Until last year when my boyfriend bought me the Gold Box Set and I was able to attend the first Twin Peaks Convention in London last year.  It was the highlight of my life, meeting The Log Lady, Julee Cruise and Mrs. Briggs, getting their autographs and my photo taken with three of the most lovely, charming women I have met from the TV / Film industry!

As time went by I began watching more of Lynch's work and am a huge huge fan of his films, all thanks to that first night as an 11 year old!  It was the talk of the town and the school, more so than any other soap or tv programme that I can remember.  All my friends loved it too.  Ultimately as the final episode was shown, tears streaming down my face, I immediately had to occupy myself with another show and the show that replaced Twin Peaks was The X Files (so even though I'm a huge 1980s fan, the early 1990s on TV was the best!!!)

I hope to meet other likeminded fans on this forum and of course fans of Fire Walk with Me and other Lynch work, and to enjoy meeting some of you in person.  My dream is to attend the Twin Peaks Convention in Snoqualmie, or just to visit Snoqualmie and Washington State.

When I was watching the programme originally, the area around my home is full of trees, mountains and lakes, and as young teenagers we would go for walks in the woods and pretend that a rural house was the where the Log Lady lived and that Laura's body was found by the side of the lake, we would scare ourselves to death!  Good times x

Look forward to chatting, posting and discussing

Tegwen Parry x

Been reading this site for years, but for some reason, haven't joined until now.

Twin Peaks has grown with me.
Every few years, I get back into it, and appreciate different levels.
(This also happens with The Beatles, and The Maxx.)

The show was light-hearted and harmless to me at first.
As a little tike, I giggled at the surface-level comedy of the show. The locals. Coffee. Doughnuts. Pie.
Being a smart (if you please) youngster, scary movies were fun entertainment.
But the episode of Maddy's death shocked me.
The Giant, the pale horse, and BOB made me begin to feel a strange world within/around ours.
This episode shined the initial "spotlight" on my awareness.
Growing up in the pacific northwest made the "darkness in these woods" particularly frightening.
If only because we fear what we do not understand.

Apparently, I talked about Twin Peaks a lot in the 3rd grade,
since my teacher appointed me the show's official reviewer.
It was my duty to get up in front of the class, and recap last night's episode.
(my favorite was "...and then, he scratched his face with the garden rake!" -"Eeeww!!")
Kids would come to me with questions, and we'd act out scenes.
In my notebook, I'd draw Brigg's tattoo, like Coop did, looking for answers.
I'd make clues and hide them in walls, under rocks, behind trees.

The film didn't impress me much in 6th grade (I was upset by no Coop/BOB resolution),
but it planted certain seeds in my young brain.
And in my early teens, when I finally owned The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer,
she had become a map to the amazing life I was going to lead.
It made me anxious to grow up and find this "fire" stuff.

In high school, the new internet made it possible to view vast interpretations.
I discovered the transcripts of The Log Lady intros, which held many answers.
All this new information inspired me to revisit my Twin Peaks VHS tapes.
I remember turning 18, and thinking Laura never would.

In my early 20s, I had a car and enjoyed driving to films and concerts.
Wild at Heart was playing up in North Bend, so I drove up.
In the theater, I was looking for a seat, and a nice lady moved over to make room.
Sitting down next to her, I realized it was Grace!
I had no idea I had walked into a Twin Peaks Festival. (which is a whole other story.)

Now, in my late 20s, the show is calling me again.
Except, this time around, my life experience is helping me understand characters and events.
I'm not just watching it. I'm feeling it. Comprehending. Sympathizing.
As if they were speaking an old language, which I had to learn through age.
Mysteries are revealing themselves to me. Curtains are being lifted.
Characters and music that once terrified me, I now actually find comforting.
Strange images and sounds, which perplexed me my whole life, are in my grasp.
I'm often unable to articulate what they mean or why, but that's okay.
Failing to explain why something is beautiful, doesn't make it any less.
Sometimes, making a connection with an odd visual or bit of dialogue,
can be as simple as "how does this make me feel?".
And no one will have all the answers to world of Twin Peaks.
Part of it's charm is that it's unique to each person.

For me, Cooper has always been the perfect man. BOB perfect evil.
Either David and Mark rang the perfect bells,
or the show came at a very impressionable time in my life,
but this is how it's been for me.
The show is part of who I am.
For the first time, I can watch it alone. I'm not scared.
Maybe because seeing more of the world's angels and fires has helped me know myself better.
And when you start to understand, it makes those old woods less dark.

I'm glad to be here (finally) and excited to exchange ideas and stories.

cheers!

-Ashley Jewel T.