Around the dinner table, the conversation was lively. Thank you but for now, the forum has been archived.
I imagine I sound like a broken record in Sarah Palmer's living room....
...but I think most of what is jarring or difficult to comprehend or digest about Twin Peaks .... ... is what makes the show what it is.
A narrative chock full of madness and wonder that does not necessarily invite (or require) literal or rational explanation. That's how/why things fantastic, uncanny, eerie, weird and wondrous work the way they do, in my experience/opinion....
And not a car in any driveway or on the street except those we already know about. Nobody responding to mass gun fire except the mitchums.
But all the lawns and houses are immaculate, not looking of foreclosures or abandonment. Very odd.
Respectfully, I'm going to keep pressing on the metaphorical possibility here... One made all the more impactful because of the pristinely uninhabited homes. No buyers, no sellers, but a "for sale" sign in the yard of the house Jade and Dougie were squatting in for their liaison...
Many people have lost homes since 2008. An immaculate ghost town of "dream homes" is a an uncanny (and campy) way to contextualize this poetically, IMO. Pure Lynch.
I think Jade and Dougie were in an entirely different development and it was not nearly so pristine. It was much more reminiscent of the sprawling developments outside of Vegas that were started all those many years ago and essentially never finished, never sold and mostly just abandoned and now inhabited by squatters and renters. I hear you can rent one of those houses for super cheap.
The Jones's neighborhood was very different.
Maybe my neighborhood is different. If we heard all that gunfire, many of us would respond, some with their own firearms, yelling "Frank, put the gun down! We've talked about this before. You can't just got shooting everyone who parks in front of your house!" 🙂
I had a different idea. After what you've seen go down in this neighborhood would you be jogging, mowing, or chatting it up with your neighbors? Hell no. I'm guessing all the houses have bullet proof windows and blast proof doors. I'm hiring some guy to come by and risk his life mowing my lawn. I have backup access points to flee my home, light blocking blinds, and a safe room with 360 infrared cameras on the exterior of my property.
Sheesh, it's a different world. I would never willingly live in a place where I thought it was necessary to keep a firearm.
Gaahhhh...Weeds flashbacks....
Sheesh, it's a different world. I would never willingly live in a place where I thought it was necessary to keep a firearm.
I don't think it's a necessity thing. It's more of a "merica thing.
I actually live in a fairly quiet suburb. But I have some seriously territorial neighbors.
I thought it was like the town described in Pleasant Valley Sunday (vid attached for those of you who are too young!) Status symbol land with houses all the same...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUzs5dlLrm0
As Badalamenti Fan says, they may be up for sale - or the owners may be working all hours to pay for a house they hardly see. Perhaps why the owner of the driveway was a bit 'tense'...?
Sheesh, it's a different world. I would never willingly live in a place where I thought it was necessary to keep a firearm.
I don't think it's a necessity thing. It's more of a "merica thing.
I actually live in a fairly quiet suburb. But I have some seriously territorial neighbors.
Ah, but that's the thing. If I lived where everyone was tooled up, I'd have to do the same. So, I wouldn't live there. The question arose when I had a gf in OKC. She wanted to live over here, so no real problem.
Dougie's neighbors :
https://goo.gl/maps/o7vVKE348562
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.And the people in the houses
All went to the university,
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same....etc...
Cuadrados y ángulos (Alfonsina Storni)
Casas enfiladas, casas enfiladas,
casas enfiladas,
cuadrados, cuadrados, cuadrados,
casas enfiladas.
Las gentes ya tienen el alma cuadrada,
ideas en fila
y ángulo en la espalda;
yo misma he vertido
ayer una lágrima,
Dios mío, cuadrada.
The house where they filmed Dougie Jone's home is down the street from where I live in Santa Clarita, California. It's in a neighborhood called Stevenson Ranch. Here's a photo I took when I was there a couple days ago (I drive by it all the time and I get so excited every time I see it. I'm almost tempted to knock on the door). *Not sure why the photo is on its side :/
Dougie's neighbors :
https://goo.gl/maps/o7vVKE348562
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.And the people in the houses
All went to the university,
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same....etc...
Coincidentally, that song was used as the theme song for the show Weeds, which happened to use the same housing area (Stevenson Ranch) to film Dougie's place.
Sheesh, it's a different world. I would never willingly live in a place where I thought it was necessary to keep a firearm.
I don't think it's a necessity thing. It's more of a "merica thing.
I actually live in a fairly quiet suburb. But I have some seriously territorial neighbors.
I'm not sure about suburbs, but I do see areas of the country it does make sense to be prepared to protect yourself. I was just talking to someone yesterday that lives out in the county (not city). They work in a 911 center and realize that the response time to their home in the country is between 40 and 50 minutes. If any resistance or protection is going to occur it is likely going to be personal of nature. Interesting enough, the only time in my life I have had either my car broke into or someone attempt to burgle my home both were in suburbs. In my line of work, people threaten to get me fired on a weekly basis and usually once or twice a year my life is threaten. It changes your feelings about being prepared to protect yourself.
In fact, just last week I had a drunk man threatening to come into the office and shoot me dead.
Fire walk with 
