Part 8 of Twin Peaks: The Return is the only portion of Twin Peaks—series or movie(s?)—I’ve experienced. I was visiting my parents for the holidays, woke up earlier than anyone else and found the TV on Showtime where they were doing their classic recap programming of playing a series from start to wherever it was at the moment in its run. I caught the tail end of the Roadhouse sequence and spent several minutes assuming that Showtime had messed up and was playing something completely different from whatever I assumed Twin Peaks was. It wasn’t until today, listening to the podcast, that I realized that fever dream I’d had 7 years ago was actually the plot of Part 8.
Buc-ee’s is pretty cool. One opened up in Richmond, KY a while back and my wife drove 36 minutes out from our home just to see it. Then I stopped at one in Georgia on our family road trip to Florida and was blown away by its unabashed uber-consumerism of it all. The jerky’s great.
I am sure Maire already knows this since she said she's going to the cinematheque francaise, but they have an unbelievable exhibit on the art of James Cameron, featuring models and early artwork from when he was a teenager all the way through avatar. Maybe on of the coolest exhibits I've ever been to. Plus they have a bunch of cool blu-rays in the gift shop! https://www.cinematheque.fr/exposition/l-art-de-james-cameron.html
Great stuff as always. This newsletter has become a staple of the week for me and many others I imagine!
Agreed - this newsletter rocks. The only newsletter I am ever actually excited to get! Thanks for putting so much work into it
It’s definitely my first-to-open-and-read and is vastly preferred to social media posts (tho those are fun as well)
Which is to say thank you Blank Check crew!!!!
Part 8 of Twin Peaks: The Return is the only portion of Twin Peaks—series or movie(s?)—I’ve experienced. I was visiting my parents for the holidays, woke up earlier than anyone else and found the TV on Showtime where they were doing their classic recap programming of playing a series from start to wherever it was at the moment in its run. I caught the tail end of the Roadhouse sequence and spent several minutes assuming that Showtime had messed up and was playing something completely different from whatever I assumed Twin Peaks was. It wasn’t until today, listening to the podcast, that I realized that fever dream I’d had 7 years ago was actually the plot of Part 8.
Buc-ee’s is pretty cool. One opened up in Richmond, KY a while back and my wife drove 36 minutes out from our home just to see it. Then I stopped at one in Georgia on our family road trip to Florida and was blown away by its unabashed uber-consumerism of it all. The jerky’s great.
I am sure Maire already knows this since she said she's going to the cinematheque francaise, but they have an unbelievable exhibit on the art of James Cameron, featuring models and early artwork from when he was a teenager all the way through avatar. Maybe on of the coolest exhibits I've ever been to. Plus they have a bunch of cool blu-rays in the gift shop! https://www.cinematheque.fr/exposition/l-art-de-james-cameron.html
I would like to submit the episode of One Tree Hill where the dog eats the donated heart https://youtu.be/WzPDEirVTZk?si=iaP4oaDJBxFGs-rc
Marie, please. Joely Fisher, not Joely Richardson. That would have been a whole different ball game
LOL goddamnit
To be clear, I enjoyed this entire newsletter but am a sickening pedant