Blue Rose Task Force: A Twin Peaks Obsessive Podcast

Get a comprehensive look at the greater Twin Peaks fandom’s first impressions of the debut of Twin Peaks on Showtime. Your host John gives a tour of all the articles 25yearslatersite.com published between May 22nd, 2017 to May 28th, 2017. This week’s podcast includes every word of “Last Week in Twin Peaks Podcasts,  Week of May 21 to May 27” and “A First Look Into Doppelganger Cooper and Bob, and...

When the stars turn, it’s worth listening to them, so your host John speaks with astrologer William Stanley Holloway about his work, Twin Peaks, and the various ways astrology does and doesn’t work with our favorite show. Will this help unlock a better understanding of the show? That’s up to you, but the signs and houses point to yes. https://www.williamhollowayastrology.com/ Speakpipe - Leave us...

Your host John moderates a panel with musician Beatrix Sky, actor Francine Daveta, ceramics maker Ashley Miles, painter Hannah Gillingham, and prop maker Gisela Fleischer. They discuss their art lives, love of all things David Lynch and Twin Peaks, and what it takes to be a working artist in today’s world. Beatrix Sky: https://beatrixsky.bandcamp.com/music Francine Daveta: https://www.francinedave...

How does a revival of Twin Peaks come together? That’s what your host John is looking into. What began from Frost contacting Lynch in 2012 with an inkling of an idea, turned into two years of writing over 400 pages, two important simultaneous tweets, Lynch leaving then returning, and 140 days of filming, not to mention the months of post-production. This is a wide overview of the production histor...

As the podcast gets ready to cover Twin Peaks: The Return, your host John  brings in Colin James, Chase Bucklew, Indigo Baloch and Hilary Flor to discuss how canon does and doesn’t relate to Twin Peaks, before looking at their favorite show through the framework of folklore and mythology. Speakpipe - Leave us a voicemail Production by Mitch Proctor and Area 42 Studios and Sound Additional audio ed...

The imagery in the title sequence for Twin Peaks: The Return is portraying something different than the original series title sequence. Your host John looks into the differences between the standard sequence and the extended Part 1 sequence, whether the sequence is actually a path, why Lynch made sure to use a golden lens flare, and if could it actually be part of the story plot. Speakpipe - Leave...

The Rancho Rosa logos at the beginning of every part of Twin Peaks: The Return have been a fascination of the fandom since we noticed the logos change colors each time. Your host John looks into the name Rancho Rosa, and all the elements of the logo, from placement of lettering, the sphere and the images that flicker within it, the background it appears to be flying into, and how the effects rhyme...

Get a comprehensive look at the greater Twin Peaks fandom’s excitement and concerns in the weeks leading up to the debut of Twin Peaks on Showtime. Your host John gives a tour of all the articles 25yearslatersite.com published between its inception on April 22nd, 2017 to the morning of May 21st, 2017. This week’s podcast includes every word of three “Last Week in Twin Peaks Podcasts”columns,  the...

This episode brings back some memories for your host John and guest Andrew Grevas as they speak about their time working together at 25yearslatersite.com. Consider this a primer for what the site accomplished, and what it meant to the Twin Peaks fandom experience around the airing of Twin Peaks: The Return and the years after. Speakpipe - Leave us a voicemail Production by Mitch Proctor and Area 4...

Doug Milford says a real mystery is just out of reach, like a light around the corner. Your hosts John and Agent Ivy catch glimpses of what Mark Frost’s The Secret History of Twin Peaks reveals below its surface, linking the book to what we’ve seen before, and what we will see in Twin Peaks: The Return. When Twin Peaks’ mythology looks into a mirror, what does it see, and what looks back? Speakpip...

The Archivist of Mark Frost’s The Secret History of Twin Peaks says secrets are the work of humankind to consolidate and impose power, but what kind of secret keeper is Doug Milford? Do the book’s inconsistencies with canon reveal forgeries? Your host John sits down with Alison Ivy to talk about how the novel came to be, then they explore the book’s secrets and the groups that keep them. Speakpipe...

This episode will give you a good indication of the initial response to Mark Frost’s The Secret History of Twin Peaks before the new Twin Peaks episodes were aired on Showtime. In early 2017, your host John finished an extensive book analysis for Sparkwood & 21 podcast, and this episode is an audiobook of the entire art project. Have fun with the predictions that are way off base, and keep an...

The Between Two Worlds special feature from the Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery box set may have seemed like a quirky epilogue to see what the Palmers would be like 25 years later, but your host John looks into how this is actually a bridge that has a lot to tell us about how Lynch was preparing for (and using the language of) The Return. Speakpipe - Leave us a voicemail Production by Mitch Proctor...

In this episode, Elle Holgate returns to moderate a panel focused around how music is used and what it signifies in Twin Peaks. Joining her are Sofia Mella (Night Blooming Jasmine podcast), Mya McBriar (Blue Rose Magazine), Laura Stewart (25YL), and Devery Doleman (Fuck You Tammy). https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-body/id1721962400 https://fuckyoutammy.bandcamp.com/album/sycamore-trees h...

Your host John looks into how the past dictates the future, by exploring how we see The Missing Pieces influencing Mark Frost and David Lynch’s storytelling choices in their modern Twin Peaks material and its mythology. Production by Mitch Proctor and Area 42 Studios and Sound Additional audio editing John Bernardy https://www.teepublic.com/user/ruminationsradionetwork www. RuminationsRadioNetwork...

In this episode, your host John begins to sift through the Missing Pieces of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. What does it enhance about what we already know when a whole extra movie’s length of deleted and expanded scenes give new context into Laura Palmer, the mythology of Twin Peaks, and mysterious characters from the film? And, what does it look like when the Missing Pieces are combined with Fir...

This month’s episode is all about the ways Magic is involved in Twin Peaks, as guest moderator Maya Adkins (Manners & Madness podcast) grows a conversation with Lindsay Hallam (Devils Advocates’ Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me), Indigo Baloch (Full Blossom of the Evening podcast), Jess Purser (Jess Purser Art), and Chelsey Weber-Smith (American Hysteria podcast). Leave us voice mail!! https://ad...

In this episode, Lori Eschler (music editor of Twin Peaks and Fire Walk With Me) gives your host John a tour behind the curtain of how, when and why the score of Twin Peaks and the film were built from Angelo Badalamenti‘s sound cue library.  Between the technical details and Lori’s experience working behind the scenes, here’s a lot to learn in this one. Production by Mitch Proctor and Area 42 Stu...

For the final look into material from the original run of Twin Peaks, your host John investigates the Log Lady Introductions that aired in 1993 on Bravo.  He tests whether there are story arcs in these introductions, while we learn more about who Margaret Lanterman is, the realities of Twin Peaks, and what lessons Margaret -and David Lynch -are trying to parcel into this material. Production by Mi...

What kind of questions are asked in a world of blue, and how do the answers arrive? In this final episode looking into Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, your host John looks into Laura Palmer’s path through the film.  Laura’s quest to unmask her adversary BOB takes her into her dualities, and both worlds, as she navigates from asking questions to understanding the answers she receives from diaries, p...

This week’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me episode is a space where guest host Agent Ivy grows a discussion with Courtenay Stallings (Laura’s Ghost), Emily Marinelli (Twin Peaks Tattoo Podcast) Lindsay Stamhuis (The Bicks/Bickering Peaks), and Hilary Flor (Full Blossom of the Evening). (editor's note: Do not miss this episode) Production by Mitch Proctor and Area 42 Studios and Sound Additional aud...

Paraphrasing the Log Lady, there are many stories in Twin Peaks. It is a story of many, but begins with one. The one leading to the many is Laura Palmer.  Laura is the one. But Many is made up of a large number of Ones, and this episode is about the ones that were closest to the center around Laura Palmer, the ones who knew Laura Palmer better than the rest, the ones as close as she’ll let them be...

Our friends Scott Ryan (Blue Rose Magazine) and Emily Marinelli (Twin Peaks Tattoo Podcast) have a four-part zoom workshop to tell you about that begins this March.  Production by Mitch Proctor and Area 42 Studios and Sound Additional audio editing John Bernardy https://www.teepublic.com/user/ruminationsradionetwork www. RuminationsRadioNetwork.com www.instagram.com/RuminationsRadioNetwork www.25y...

This week’s look into Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me focuses on the killer and how much more there is to their story and motives.  Why does their plan turn from possessing Laura into killing her? What’s the deal with Philip Gerard, and the Grandson? What’s the role of a familiar? Why was Ronette at the train car? Your host John addresses all of this, all while keeping track of what Leland can and c...

This week’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me episode looks into the nuts and bolts of the story and plot in the film, which your host John thinks moves through Teresa Banks: why she was murdered, and what repercussions happen as a result. How is the Deer Meadow police department involved? How is Teresa Banks a Blue Rose case? What are the Lodge Entities trying to accomplish in the Convenience Store s...