Hi everyone, Remembered this today, and realised that I had never posted it here before. A few years ago I entered a competition to write an extra page from Laura Palmer’s secret diary. This was my entry, which ended up winning the competition; the first time I’ve ever won anything for my writing. I found […]
Read more "Laura Palmer’s Secret Diary – missing page"Day 20 Best love triangle Here we are – Day 20. My favourite love triangle goes all the way back to Twin Peaks again, as I give you that wonderfully comedic triple-act of Lucy Moran, Deputy Andy Brennan and clothing salesman Richard Tremayne. I know it’s a little hokey, but I love these three and […]
Read more "28 Days of Love on Screen – Day 20 – Best Love Triangle"Day 12 Best Use of a Love Song on Screen Another day, another David Lynch connection. My vote for best use of a love song on screen goes to Roy Orbison’s 1963 song, In Dreams, in 1986’s Lynch classic Blue Velvet. Dean Stockwell’s lip-synch performance is utter brilliance. Orbison wasn’t best pleased about how the […]
Read more "28 Days of Love on Screen – Day 12 – Best Use of a Love Song on Screen"Day 11 Best couple who never were They never were, and that’s probably as it should be, but they’re just so wonderful together that it has to be Special Agent Dale Cooper and Audrey Horne. Those of you who know me and follow this site may be surprised that it has taken me so long […]
Read more "28 Days of Love on Screen – Day 11 – Best Couple Who Never Were"Dear all, I’m posting this again; something I wrote a few years ago, in light of this week’s sad news. I just took part in the 10 minute meditation that happened around the world involving many of us, and now seems like as good a time as any to share this. When I was 14 […]
Read more "David Lynch"Hi everyone, I did this show as part of a series that my good friend Frank is running his YouTube channel, diving into our love for all things Twin Peaks. It was great to have a chat about it. Subscribe to his channel and you’ll see some more great content that he’s putting out. Cheers […]
Read more "Why I Love Twin Peaks"My first Twin Peaks poem in a long while. I was inspired by Maja Ljunggren’s wonderful image, ‘Friends’. I pictured Coop and Harry meeting up after hours for a coffee and a slice of pie. Then it hit me. They never would have. With Cooper lost and Harry growing old and getting ill, the possibility […]
Read more "In Valhalla – a Twin Peaks poem"Finally, after a long time, something inspired me to write. As before, it is the gorgeous and haunting artwork of Maja Ljunggren. Her picture of Ronette, lying in her hospital bed, sentinelled by one Joey Paulson, put me back in the place to type some words. As usual, they don’t live up to the colours […]
Read more "If I Am – a haiku sequence"If the first four parts of Cameron Cloutier’s extension of Twin Peaks mythology were great, this fifth visit to the world both wondrous and strange is simply sublime. It starts with familiar strobe effects, disconcerting slash cuts from one image to the next and a series of uncomfortable, awkward close ups that thrust us into […]
Read more "Queen of Hearts – Act V review and thoughts"There’s been so much written in the wake of Julee Cruise’s passing that I feel quite superfluous, but it’s amazing how many people are saying the same things that I’m feeling. It’s made me feel the connections that exist within this fan community more and more; I started to see the strings that connect us […]
Read more "A Tribute to Julee Cruise"A Web Serial
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