Lightning Bolts In My Chest

[anogete]

I've never seen all of the Twin Peaks episodes. Jason and I are going to rent the first season and watch an episode each night. I love David Lynch, so this should be a treat.

Still no further on the dog adoption. The woman who runs the shelter has a class this week and she's pressed for time. Impatience still reigns, but if I can get through this week, then there is a good chance that we can get the dog next week. I've gone absolutely mad with the toy-buying. I bought more on my lunch break today. I really need to stop.

I have MP3s of Akron/Family. They're the band from my last manic entry. I want them to come back to Albuquerque and play for me again and it's only been a few days.

I'll Be On the Water (When he says, "Thinking of you, there's lightning bolts in my chest," I pretty much die.)
Running, Returning
Future Myth

EDIT: And here's another track: Shoes. It makes me happy.

Comments

[airegin.livejournal.com]

I used to have them all on VHS, but they're being EXTREMELY stingy about the release of the 2nd season on DVD, not to mention the pilot is STILL not available on DVD outside a REALLY shitty foreign version with terrible audio.

[anogete.livejournal.com]

I went to the video store and rented the pilot on VHS. Netflix is sending me the four DVDs. I hear that they are supposed to be releasing the entire series on DVD and they're going to include the pilot as well as a few extras. I hate half-assed DVD releases. That's what happened to American Gothic. They even put those episodes out of order.

[bleedtoblue.livejournal.com]

I thought Twin Peaks was marvelous although occasionally it made my head hurt and the scene with the bar-of-soap-in-the-sock still makes me cringe to think about.

"Damn fine pie."

[anogete.livejournal.com]

Kyle McLachlan cracks me up. I love him, especially because he was Paul Atriedes in David Lynch's Dune.

[donttouchmyhat.livejournal.com]

Oh you *are* in for a treat! I did the same thing a few years ago, and couldn't restrict myself to one epi per night. Fortunately, we got a snow day around that time, so we spent a whole day watching Twin Peaks. Bliss.

[anogete.livejournal.com]

I'm stuck without episodes now. We watched the pilot, but Netflix hasn't sent the next episodes which is really annoying.

[donttouchmyhat.livejournal.com]

Argh, that sucks.

Reminds me though, I've meant to ask you -- is it worth renting the last season or two of X-Files? I stayed with them a little after Mulder was gone, but just couldn't love it the same way. I remain curious to know how or how much was resolved....

[anogete.livejournal.com]

Contains spoilers for the last couple seasons of X-Files:

It's nice to be able to wrap it all up, but I really didn't like the last two seasons. Agent Dogget (Mulder's replacement) is a good character, but the other female FBI agent they brought in (Agent Reyes) is rather annoying. Scully is a bit out-of-character and most of her storylines revolve around her pregnancy and the resulting baby. They try to re-write history and tell the audience that the baby is Mulder's through a series of lame flashbacks of a conversation between the two of them in which Scully asks Mulder to donate sperm for her (how totally awkward). Mulder is absent for the majority of the time which was disappointing because a great deal of the appeal of the show (at least to me) was the interaction and verbal battles of intellect/science between he and Scully. There are also quite a lot of episodes in the last season where Scully plays a very minor role or is not present at all, leaving the investigation up to the new agents. In the end Mulder is returned and Scully believes him to be dead. They bury him and months later Scully finds evidence that he may still be alive. They exhume him and find that his body has slowed down and that he is indeed alive. He goes into hiding because his life is in serious danger now that the key contacts (like Cancer Man) are not there to protect him. Scully is left to raise the baby on her own. The baby develops "powers", allowing it to move objects with its mind. The aliens believe the baby to be some sort of turning point in evolution. We are led to believe that they want to kill the baby, but they don't - they just want to ensure the baby's survival once it is born. Messiah baby nonsense happens - blah, blah, blah. Mulder comes out of hiding when Scully and the baby's lives are being threatened. He is arrested and brought to trial before a panel. He's found guilty. Scully's upset. With the help of Dogget, Reyes, and Skinner she breaks Mulder out of prison. They chance the truth and find Cancer Man (all hippied-out) in some Mayan ruins in the southwest. He fortells the end of the earth and total colonization by the aliens in 2012 (I think). After that the army helicopters show up and shoot missles at the ruins. Mulder and Scully escape, but Cancer Man is incinerated. Mulder and Scully run away to go into hiding and live happily ever after and stuff. I found most of it to be silly and unbelievable (even for X-Files). If you're bored and want something to watch, then give it a go, but if you're looking for something really good then it isn't worth your time.

[donttouchmyhat.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the summation! That's exactly what I was wanting to know. I was curious how the story turned out, how good the show was during that time, and whether it was worth seeing. Your sum-up is perfect; I can picture exactly how all that went down, and it's better to have it here than over -- what? was it 2 full seasons of that? Yeesh.

I'll just go back and watch Clive Bruckman's Final Repose and Jose Chung's From Outer Space. :)