Twin Peaks Magazine

More Twin Peaks to Negotiate?

When ‘Twin Peaks’ was first aired on television, it was a very exciting time indeed. There weren’t exactly a lot of great programmes to choose from back then, so this show really was a sight for sore eyes. It was fresh, cool and very, very strange. Everyone I knew would tune-in to watch it each week and it was constantly discussed between episodes. ‘Who killed Laura Palmer?’, ‘What made Leland’s hair turn white overnight?’ and ‘What does the Log Lady have to do with it all???’ These were the sort of questions you were likely to hear in any pub or café back in 1990.

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Twin Peaks two decades later

Agent Cooper, the backwards-talking midget and the music of Angelo Bedalamenti. A dark crime saga revolving around the mysterious death of Laura Palmer- prom queen from the deceptively quite town of logger, somewhere in the American northwest. A mixture of mystery, horror, soap opera and dark humour. And at the same time sexy and funny, amusing and sophisticated surreal and mundane. Femme fatale from the 50’s, infidelity, drugs, great coffee, an FBI agent, giants and midgets. This TV series is indeed a mixture of many things, and maybe this is why it is, according to me, the best thing that has ever been broadcasted on TV.

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Halloween with a Twin Peaks twist

I must admit that I don’t usually “celebrate” Halloween. Sure, I used to insist that my Mum nearly crippled herself making me a turnip lantern each year and I once put on a bin bag and some black eye-liner to get into a club free when I was a student, but that’s about it. So when I was invited to a colleague’s fancy dress Halloween party at the weekend, I was genuinely quite excited at the prospect of coming up with a unique and scary costume.

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Whatever happened to Laura Palmer?

There are many iconic images that make you think of the 1990s; Michael Douglas in his designer suit fabrics screaming “Greed is good!” and the beginnings of Britpop are two, but that prom photo of Laura Palmer, the victim in Twin Peaks is probably the most memorable. Not only did it appear throughout the TV show itself, but it was reproduced in pretty much every media article discussing the show and was even parodied on numerous occasions. Actress Sheryl Lee More

Twin Peaks – Inspiration for Zelda?

There have long been rumors and whispers about whether or not Twin Peaks was the inspiration behind Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda, which according to the creators of the Zelda series Eiji Aonuma and Takashi Tezuka may not be as far fetched as it appears.

Of course, the hugely popular game didn’t feature any of the treatises on pies, school murders or the frankly bizarre Twin Peaks cast, but the Game Boy iteration sports a number of so called ‘suspicious'looking More

A closer look at David Lynch

Born 1946, David Keith Lynch is one of the mastermind creators behind the fabulous ‘Twin Peaks’, yet David Lynch has many strings to his talented bow; filmmaker, musician and occasional actor. After studying painting in Philadelphia David moved to Los Angeles and produced his first full length film – Eraserhead in 1977, now a cult classic. Many years later after producing a number of films he teamed up with Mark Frost to create the highly popular murder mystery television series More

Old Vs New

The advent of teen television series started with the creation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer which brought in the merging of vampires set in the landscape of the modern American high school.Kicking of the vampire fever brought in the onset of various other television series which incorporate the same theme to follow for many years on.
Its interesting to see how the vampire has changed from the traditional to the modern vampire of today.While the newer series incorporate rich kids More

Second time?

I have so much Twin Peaks merchandise in my house that my friends are always telling me I should get myself one of the self storage units so I don’t look like such a weirdo when people come to visit. I always argue that I have my house just how I like it, and besides Twin Peaks was over 25 years ago so there won’t be any more new stuff coming out for me to add to my collection.

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Economics and Politics made easy

Instead of looking at text books related to economics and politics, the best way to learn could be from magazines. I am a regular reader of The Economist and Bloomberg BusinessWeek. These magazines are great to get a better understanding of who economics and politics works in the real world. I recently went to write the Bloomberg aptitude test, I was pretty confident that it would go well cause I was at the same time studying for my exams which More

What makes a magazine

An art loosing its power over the people, though we still have magazines that educate in the right spheres of knowledge, they have been heavily out numbered. My university store has a shelf a magazines and its quite a big one. But they are full of music and pornographic magazines. I asked the store manager if he would sell the Times or the Economist instead, he told me that we tried to sell it but people don’t read them anymore, More