Those days at Pearl Lakes

Twin Peaks is available on CBS.com (yes, CBS) as streaming video!

All episodes, barring the pilot.

Some parts are like the creepiest moments ever shown on national TV (still!), and some of the actors remain the stiffest, most wooden performers ever!

I have watched up through the revealing of Laura Palmer's killer, his denouement, and the aftermath episode. Intend to watch the rest. Gotta see Joan Chen's soul get sucked into a piece of wood (I think?)...

Watching episode after episode of a series like this non-stop is fun, because everyday situations will start to take on, say, Lynch-y overtones. Or when I saw all the Sopranos (through Season 5) in the space of about six weeks, I was soon fairly sure on waking each day I would have to have one of my boys whack a once-close friend.

Or when I got all into KISS in 1992, I was listening to them and thinking about them so much that half the time I would wake up going, "Ugh, time for work...,"and the other half of the time thinking "Time to call Gene!" [translated from the Stanleyese].

This hasn't happened with Mad Men yet, probably because the times today are so terribly tacky that it's hard to suspend disbelief. You can drive along all crisp and clean, whistling a Frank numbah, then be confronted with one of those Calvin-pissing-on-something rear window stickers (recently sighted "fave": "MY BABY'S DADDY") and the illusion is quickly lost. Plus people around my office don't talk all that often about cave paintings or Ayn Rand. YET!