One of the reasons my husband is awesome? He does things like track down this for me:
How can you not be glad this exists?
I would definitely pair anything Twin Peaks with an IPA. Something funk-tastically hoppy and borderline ridiculous. Racer 5. Stone Ruination. Something like that. The reason I won’t get too specific is because there is only one place where I am able to listen to this ACTUAL CASSETTE TAPE and that is in the car. And if there is one thing I learned during my war-on-drugs childhood education courses, it is that you should not drink IPAs while you are driving. That was like, an entire chapter of our D.A.R.E. workbook I think. IPAs especially.
Twin Peaks is one of those not-quite-horror things that many horror fans tend to really like. Let me start with saying that David Lynch has one of the scariest minds that I’ve ever encountered, and when I saw my first David Lynch movie (*cough* in college *cough*) I slept with the lights on that night. His background as a painter comes out in these sort of Dali-esque, disturbing mental-snapshots that are really hard to shake. Naomi Watts screaming hysterically in her soiled bathrobe while being chased by the psychotically grinning elderly. Or Laura Dern and her unusually large teeth running straight into the camera for an obscene clown-face close up. Or that greasy dude stepping out from behind the dumpster (WHY WHY WHY???). And lets not forget the infamous mewling worm-crab baby. Besides Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men, nobody gives me nightmares more often than David Lynch.
So even though this show is partly police procedural, part comedy, part badly-acted melodrama, I think Twin Peaks ranges into horror aplenty. This is especially true in some of the more surreal dream sequences, and particularly during some of the show’s biggest reveals. “Diane…” The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper is more of a fangasm full of in-jokes than anything else (“By the way, Diane, never drink coffee that has been anywhere near a fish.”), with memorable entries into the tape-recorder straight from the show as well as a little bit of background. It only lasted an hour, and my only complaint was that I wanted more. The tape was released in 1990, and it’s entirely possible that the more revealing episodes had not yet been released. But I don’t know. The hubs found this for me on eBay.
In any case it’s a fun way for fans to relive favorite moments from the show.
And now, enjoy some Tim and Eric featuring Leland Palmer. I mean Ray Wise.
