Twin Peaks.
It all started with a fascination with DJ Shadow. I bought Endtroducing at Easy Street Records waaay back when they still had a location at the base of Seattle's Queen Anne hill. It had just come out and Easy Street had their famous listening stations playing it. On first listen, I plowed through the whole album; right there in the store. When it came time to understand this guy's craft, I discovered some of the sample credits named Twin Peaks or Angelo Badalamenti.
I needed to know more so I looked into this mysterious Twin Peaks. Lucky for me, my friend Scott was super duper into David Lynch. What we got from it was limited because David Lynch is just so vastly interesting that it's easy to get sucked into the marvelous rabbithole-esque realities he crafts with his obvious genius. That and we both loved everything Michel Gondry made. Basically, we were continually "distracted" by these impressive directors that we would always be discovering and there would invariably be some period of emulation following any newfound genius. We had a good friendship for many years, that guy and I. Miss you Scott F.!
Twin Peaks took a back seat for some odd number of years. I had some life changing chapters around that time. Some changes were good, some were bad. One in particular... that I don't want to go into it too much: I had a bad girlfriend that more or less used me up and down until I forced her out of my life. It was crazy. Somehow, out of all that bull shit, came the second chapter of my Twin Peaks fascination. This time it grabbed me and, 10 years later, it has yet to let go.
I took it upon myself to develop a moral code from all twin peaks lore. Me and my newfound manual for life found things changing for the better and it was incredible. I let go of many ideals and erroneous assumptions I gained from youth; absent of wisdom. It was a truly transformative thing I threw myself into. Honestly a lot of good has come to me in my life from developing this interesting moral code. I fully accept that I was already going through major changes. It was a wild ride (LOL).
A little while later, I met my wife and we started our family. Wifey was interested in Twin Peaks but it was only after some major life changes that she came to love the show. Her fascination with David Lynch has become something too. We discovered he is a spokesperson for Transcendental Meditation and, to overcome the aftermath of said life changes, wifey has found deep peace with in her practice of TM. Thank you David Lynch! You've made my life better and I am grateful for your choice to share your mind with the world. Shout out to Mark Frost!
Perhaps my strongest felt connection towards Twin Peaks is the coffee. Fuckin' hell I love coffee. I am constantly adjusting my intake because I manage an addiction! I'm drinking coffee as I type this. My wife has worked in the coffee industry her whole professional life. I love coffee almost as much as I love her. We even make regular pilgrimages to the Double R Cafe in North Bend. When my son is old enough to start understanding deeper meanings in stories, I'm gonna introduce him to it and our small fam will have a blast watching everything over again from the beginning; whether or not he's into it (sorry not sorry, bud).
Twin Peaks is fucking awesome. What a profound story of mystical mysteries.
Keep it mystic.
-MN