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Jess got the Twin Peaks Gold Box Edition as one of her Christmas presents, so recently we’ve been spending a bunch of time watching that. I’m lucky enough to have never actually seen any of the episodes. When the originally aired I remember my dad watching them, but I was still young enough that it was on right at my bedtime. In the following years I’ve just sort of seemed to miss out on people watching it on video, or it running in syndication.

We were taking with Paul about it the other night, and how everyone in Twin Peaks is really all about sitting around and drinking coffee and eating pie. Just about anytime, anywhere. They’ll even shirk their responsibility to have coffee and pie, or sit down and eat it with their arch-rivals. Seems like a pretty great place to live, I mean aside from all the adultery, insurance fraud, underground flesh trading and murder. Though personally I find Lucy’s doughnut lineup much more appetizing than even the freshest pie they mention. Do they eat anyhing else in Twin Peaks? I remember Agent Cooper getting eggs once, and a fish, but that guy was in the coffee so I guess that doesn’t count.

One of the funnier things that I cannot get out of my mind while watching is something Jess mentioned quite a few times since we saw the Mekons a few months back at the Old Town School. Almost straight away when Lu Edmonds came out onstage she said “it’s Bob!”. Now keep in mind I’d never seen Twin Peaks at this point, and y’know that was probably a good thing. Jess wasn’t at all terrified, but if I’d known then what I know now about Bob, I would have probably ran screaming from the auditorium. She’s right though. Lu is on hell of a musician, played on a ton of awesome albums — but damn does he look like Bob!