Greg Ruth "#6 This is the Water..." 2017
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If your household is anything like mine, you've been living in your own little Twin Peaks lodge of late, and loving every second of it. We're over halfway through the season now, and I still can't say enough good things about it. It is even more beautiful, more astonishing, and more fully realized than I could have hoped. One of my favorite quotes is from Tom Stoppard: "Let your imagination run riot." Big bravo to Showtime for allowing David Lynch and Mark Frost to do just that.
With that said, I thought I'd share a few other Twin Peaks-adjacent items which have been flipping my log of late:
First up is this glorious series of graphite interpretations of several of the show's key elements and characters drawn by the seemingly unstoppable Greg Ruth. (Incidentally he is also doing the covers for another of my favorite stories: Akata Witch and its forthcoming sequel, Akata Warrior, by the fabulous fabulist, Nnedi Okorafor.)
I'm also currently addicted to Diane, a Twin Peaks podcast that examines each new episode with an esoteric eye. It's created by a group of exceptionally smart and good-spirited siblings from Brighton, and the juxtaposition of their warm voices and their unsettling content is as delicious as a damn fine cup of coffee being sipped beneath a shroud of mist. (And shout-out to my friend Rachel for turning me onto it!)
Have also been in sonic thrall of this fan-made Spotify mix, Nighttime at the Roadhouse, which features music that's either on the same wavelength as, or featured on, the show.
Been desperately trying not splurge on any of the David Lynch designed merch from the official Twin Peaks shop, but my gods it's difficult. I mean COME ON. (Though I did, I confess, buy his beans.)
Lucky for me, this excellent Interfaith Voices interview with Lynch conducted by my friend and occult scholar, Mitch Horowitz, costs nothing to listen to, but is rich in wisdom.
Lastly, I imagine many of you have read Lynch's book, Catching the Big Fish, already, but if not I recommend you remedy that posthaste. It's a spare but weighty tome on Transcendental Meditation and creativity, and it truly changed my life when I first read it a number of years ago. Unmissable for anyone interested in the relationship between art and the unconscious.
NONEXISTENT!!!
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