The Twin Peaks/David Lynch Community Has A Lot More to Go...

(Welcome to Twin Peaks)

Hello, fellow Twin Peakers and Lynchian aficionados!

For the past two weekends, I've been hosting watch-a-longs for the iconic Twin Peaks series from Season 1 pilot onwards. So far, we've done episodes 1-5, and that's been pretty awesome. 

Reason I'm writing about this is because this is a possible way we can keep the Twin Peaks fandom alive after the death of David Lynch. For the past two weeks looking for new members to join the Twin Peaks... From Another Place Discord server, I've been so surprised how many people haven't seen the series and are so fresh to everything about it. And they've all been interested enough to join the server to see what it's all about. 

Their first watching of the pilot blew their minds. They loved it so much, they've been hooked to watch more. And they've stayed around and enjoyed every bit of it, and that's something amazing to know and be amazed by. I've asked them about their favorite characters so far, what their thoughts are on certain themes, and if they find it 'all too dreamy?' Lmao!

 

I think this will bring fresh meat to the fandom and will keep the community alive even more through fresh eyes and mindsets, etc. And since Facebook took away group chats for whatever reason, Discord is now the more common chatting location for Twin Peaks and David Lynch fandom. If you haven't joined yet, feel free to! And we are doing the watch-a-longs there at 6pm PST USA time every Saturday and Sunday. Invite to the Twin Peaks... From Another Place Discord server

It's worth the join and it's filled with cool people. And you're free to invite your friends and family to join and keep the conversation going there! 

Let's keep growing and uniting as a community filled with positivity, peace, and intrigue. For those new to the experience, this is an Invitation of Love (a play on the words for Invitation to Love, the soap opera that plays in the show).

Much love and peace to all. :)

What David Lynch's Passing Has Done to Us...

David Lynch passed away right after my birthday and right before his own. We share the same birth month, yet I'm a Capricorn and he was born on the first day of Aquarius and shared the birthday of my late grandmother. 

As many of us underwent upon hearing the news, we were shocked and devastated that the man who brought us so much life through his strange, brilliant, and crazy imagination and works had finally left us. We never thought we'd see the die, but I'm sure none of us were blind it was going to happen eventually. Maybe if that L.A. fire didn't happen, he'd live longer and maybe went forward with the projects he was pushing.

And we're even more upset that Hollywood rejected him again and again as he brought forward scripts that he so wanted to see brought to life and shared with the world. Hollywood disrespected a legend who changed cinema and television forever, and it's unfathomable how Hollywood disgraced him. 

I was even more outraged that right after he died, perhaps a month or so after, there were talks of Twin Peaks Season 4. I mean, come on now! Right after the legend died, you want to make the next season? If he hadn't died, you wouldn't have thought of that! Period. I was blessed co-creator Mark Frost turned down the opportunity and ended the 'hopes' for that. My main fear was that Hollywood will take advantage of a man's death by taking his work and ruining it has they already have with Star Wars, Aliens, etc. I do not trust Hollywood much with a lost legend's creative works. I'm already dreading them remaking his films and turning them into disastrous pieces of garbage, as they have done other remakes (although a select few remakes of other of Hollywood's classic films are good enough to my standard of liking).

I do not mean to disrespect Hollywood, but to commit to any disrespect as that, especially toward David Lynch, is a crime in my personal belief. I'm sure there are many out there in this world who will disagree with me, and, at the same time, there are others who agree with me. And I say again, I'm glad Mark Frost stepped down from the offer to make the 4th Season of Twin Peaks, for without David Lynch, there is no Twin Peaks. The spirit is gone. Dead and lost as those who wind up in the Black Lodge itself.

And I'm so, so sick of people who are trying to find the successor of David Lynch's genius in this modern era. Nobody will ever be the same as the other, no matter the certain similarities noticed. It's blasphemy. Lynch was his own genius, talent, and personality. I know people hope his daughter Jennifer Lynch will carry the torch, but she will agree with this I think: She's not David Lynch. They do not share the same visions, the same imaginations, the same vibes. They are individual to their own, despite their familial connection, and each to their own brilliance. And it's best that way, because if there were a bunch of David Lynch-isque people out there, it wouldn't make David Lynch as special as he is to us still.

David Lynch's passing gave the world a distinctive chill and sadness unlike anything the world has ever witnessed and undergone. And it seems more films and television still honor Lynch's weirdness to a certain degree and hopefully more of that will continue to occur as entertainment media goes on. We've learned to appreciate the maker as much as his art, and that is certainly David Lynch's best gift we've ever given him. We'll keep on appreciating and honoring his true legacy, and, hopefully, his legacy will remain untouched and unruined by distrusting hands of Hollywood itself. And we'll continue to preserve his weirdness, and not feel ashamed or embarrassed by our own...

What to EXPECT with Twin Peaks... From Another Place moving forward...

Blog hiatus since David Lynch's passing. 

It was already a hiatus before David Lynch's passing.

So what can we see of Twin Peaks... From Another Place moving forward?

I've ran the Facebook group Twin Peaks... From Another Place for almost 3 years now, coming up on February 14th, 2026. It's grown up to 4.8k members already and I'm eternally grateful for that. I never expected the group to grow so well over the years, and come to know such amazing people through the journey, as we hold hands together and fight for the positivity of the fandom and community. When people in the fandom were losing hope in finding a good spot to be seen, heard, and understood (and entertained), I'm honored to say that Twin Peaks... From Another Place restored that hope and will continue to do so as the years go on. 

The Discord server has 100+ members, and isn't as successful as I'd like to be. I'm looking into making more progress with it in coming months, and hopefully more people will join and get into more conversations there. I'm most active on Discord anyways, and am running my own fandom community server where I post updates of my literary career and media. I had planned to initiate a merge between the two servers so the work wouldn't be too much for me to handle both at the same time, but that was a failed effort. So I'll keep the servers separated and do whatever I can to bring the Twin Peaks... From Another Place server further to life.

I have a new blog member who I hope will bring art to this blog as well. Her art is highly Lynchian, in my opinion, and I encourage her to post here when she can. That will hopefully be the new feature here: to bring in more artists to post their work inspired by David Lynch and others in terms of surrealism and darkness and light. This will also be like a promotional blog through the arts. It will also suffice for film makers, so whoever wants to be part of the blogging team and release their stuff to keep this blog alive and to further outreach their work, hit me up on Facebook Messenger, X, Instagram, YouTube (when I'm live), and Discord. I'll be happy to assign you your role here as a team member to promote your creative work.

I'll try to write some articles here and there. Stay tuned. Thank you for your patience. My life has been real busy and I'm hoping these new plans moving forward will keep activity running. I'm blessed and honored that the Facebook group of the same name of this blog is getting stronger and stronger everyday and is increasing in its membership. Let's keep on rocking!

David Lynch: A Love Letter Dedication

David Lynch was more than just a man.  

That much I can say for all of us. For, if he were only a man, why would we feel so close to him or love him so dearly without having met him truly in person on a day-to-day basis?  

What was he? I hate to mention him in the past tense. It is still unreal to me, as it is to all of us, that a man so brilliant and mysterious and strange and delicate could perish at a time of sadness and destruction.  

Kyle MacLachlan has spoken more than anyone after his dear friend’s passing, and we all understood and have felt everything he said he had cherished and experienced with the man. Even through Sherilyn Fenn’s words to her Instagram post, ‘I feel... sad,’ we all know exactly what she’s feeling on a highly personal level. The beauty is that we all feel exactly the same as those who knew him and loved him in person.  

To all of us, David was extraordinary and a man who spoke little of his own understanding of the world he’d create through his art, his films and shows, and his music. He saw things we wish we could see and touch. He knew things that we wish we could know, and he would never tell. He could describe something so beautiful to us that we, ourselves, would’ve never seen in such a level of significant beauty and awe as he did himself. And with his own hands, he could create something so strange and marvelous at the same time, that we couldn’t help but wonder how he could envision such things and manage to recreate them with his own genius and talent. 

We can’t explain who he was or what he’s done in a way that would suit him entirely down to the very syllable. We try hard to find the words, and use our feelings to give rise to such words, but... even then we don’t know how to describe our own feelings toward the man. Besides, each of us have our own feelings, different from the other, or similar, and grieve his passing differently or similarly just the same.  

But as for myself... I did not cry after hearing the news of his sudden passing. In all honesty I say I was smiling with joy. I felt he was no longer in pain and suffering, that he was free. Free from the bounds of his human flesh that we saw and embraced. While most of everyone thought he was gone and that it was the end, I felt he had never left. That his spirit still lives and is watching us, smiling at us, seeing in our hearts and souls how much we loved him and everything that was to him. And I smiled with such relief to know he was gone of the suffering to live in a realm of no suffering and filled with peaceful bliss.  

I can think of him and smile just the same. How warm he feels in the air. How sweet, how light, how dreamy he feels. It’s unreal, even though, he had once said for us all to ‘Get real’. It’s hard not to laugh at such reference, because the man was brilliant with his words.  

Just now, I noticed I’ve said before in this article that David was more than a man. And on an occasion in this same article, I refer to him as a man or the man. I think this is the time I emphasize his ‘presence’ to all of us. But fair warning, I know not all of us are religious or have any interest or tolerance to such aspects of thought and faith, but we all know that there are many religious references to his works, so please, do bear with me with an open mind, for this is a dear thought of mine concerning David. 

David is a biblical name. It is through David’s bloodline that Jesus Christ is born. And in the Bible, it is said that David was a strong shepherd, was a talent with music, was loyal to the Lord his God, and was a man who won the hearts of all who knew him. And he was God’s Chosen One to take over the throne of Israel after the decline of the nation’s first king, Saul.  

Whenever I think of our David who passed, I can’t help but compare him to the David of the Biblical times, for they are similar in many aspects than one. He was a shepherd to his proteges, that included Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, and Sherilyn Fenn to name a few. He was a talent of music. He was loyal to his views of God and Heaven (as he did state: ‘The kingdom of heaven, God the Almighty merciful father, is that totality. It’s that level. It’s the almighty merciful father, and the divine mother, the kingdom of heaven, the absolute, divine being, bliss consciousness, creative intelligence.’). And, most of all, he was a man who won all the hearts who knew him and everyone, with the fullest of hearts, loved him.  

It would seem as if he was Heaven’s Anointed One, the one who would rule the world through his art and talent, as well as his own individual spirit that is like no other. (I say is not was now because his spirit still remains in our world and should be stated as something still alive with us).  

And the references of King Saul, who loved the biblical David, but then feared him because he knew that David was to take over his Throne and was the new Chosen One. I can’t help but think that Saul is a great depiction of Hollywood today.  

Hollywood loved him, indeed, yet they feared his influence on the freedom of filmmaking as well as confronting the corruption of cinematic beauty and art. With that fear, they shut him down from working on his latest projects rejected, which include Snootworld and Unrecorded Night. We also know that our David had been fighting Hollywood during the filming of Twin Peaks: The Return, resenting the time scheduling, and not being able to go dreamy enough into his own craft... something that truly irked and devastated him to a point of heartbreak. 

Sadly enough, our David couldn’t win in the end of his battles against Hollywood (and Netflix to be even more specific) to get his latest projects in the making. But we do know this: He still won against Hollywood itself.  

He knew how to work on his own, to work in his own studio, and make things happen on his own terms and his own way. Nobody to control him or tell him what to do. He had freedom to his own immeasurable device, and he felt at peace with that. He still managed to beat the system by showing the world that he can build and do everything on his own and however he damn well pleased. 

A spirit so loved and cherished, David’s death is no end to himself in totality. We feel him deep in all our hearts to the point there is no doubting his presence. I did say once that he was ‘in the air’, (funny how that puns to his show On the Air that came after the original Twin Peaks), but I also think he’s within us all. Like the Holy Spirit upon all humanity.  

And how certain was our David to have that Lady in the Radiator sing ‘In heaven, everything is fine.’ in his feature film debut, Eraserhead, if had he not any sincere faith in peace and God whatsoever? And we cannot forget the angel in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, who gave Laura Palmer tears and laughter of peace and joy.  

David Lynch is very much indeed alive as I write this article, as we all breathe, and as we all smile, laugh, play, work, and everything we do in our lives that David himself would find so beautiful to his eyes, heart, mind, and soul, as we find him and his works in the same light. 

Through him, we have become more determined to become more curious about the world we live in, and ourselves as human beings. We learn to experiment with our many, many ideas. We thrive to understand, embrace, and absorb the dark and the strange and the mysterious. And of course, we learn that Hollywood will never treat the finest of any of us as great as they once did, as they did not respect him and his talent as they should have. 

Long live the spirit of our David, we all pray. The David that could’ve indeed been the great equivalence of David in the Bible, lived a life full of dreams, and I believe now, that he is still dreaming today as he watches over us all, and loves us so tenderly as we did, and still do, for him. And his legacy will always be passed down from generation to generation, where he’ll always live on to watch and smile as life goes on.

Hi and I'm Gonna Catch Up

    Okay so I haven't been around in this blog for what probably seems like ages to some. And I bet some thought that this blog was dead and no longer something to look at. 

    First of all, I assure you, that I'm doing fine and am healthy. I did have a downward spiral of creativity and thoughts for a while and it was hard for me to write anything of good quality and discussion. Now that I'm back up and running again, I've been creating new great content for the past month or so.

    I'm back into writing scripts now after a two-year hiatus doing so. I've been writing songs and posting them on my YouTube channel. I've actually got some new bright ideas brewing for novels, short stories, and even more scripts, and things are looking up. Even in my real life apart from my creative one, things are starting to look for me and my family as we were settling on some rough times (which I'll leave it as that, since I'm not one to reveal private details of my life, especially when they concern hardships).

    So far so good, I'm hoping my ship will sail toward the sunset in a peaceful bliss, where no storms will evade my journey to a fulfilling life, which I hope will be successful and amazing and full of many grand opportunities moving forward. If there are those out there who are having a bad time, always know this, things will look up, no matter how long it will take to get there. That is the test of your patience and your ability to keep optimistic through the darkness that clouds your pathway through whatever hardship you're enduring at the moment. 

To give up, the darkness will slaughter all hopes and dreams. To never give up, the light will always prevail against the butchering knife of that slaughtering darkness.

A quote of my own that I'm not sure will make any sense to anyone but it was worth the shot to help those who needed some words to get through whatever's hindering their way in life.

    So updates in the David Lynch world. 

    We've known for a few years that David Lynch has been diagnosed with emphysema, which is caused by excessive smoking. David has always been known to be a great cigarette smoker and, since his diagnosis, he has put the cigarette smoking behind him. Sadly, the impact of his long-term habit and enjoyment gave him critical stand-backs. He can no longer be on a set to direct a film in person. He can only do so in the comforts of his own home and direct from there. He can only walk 10 minutes before he becomes weak and takes oxygen to recover. 

    Though David Lynch always seems to be a homebody in general, this is no apparent issue for him. In fact, he has always thrived through limitations, especially when it comes to limited budget with his iconic and spectacular films.  

    The 78-year-old cinematic genius has released an album with his long-time collaborator and muse, Chrystabell called Cellophane Memories earlier this month. An album that's quite interesting compared to his other interesting work in music. Almost as if it were guiding us into a very different dimension of music... farther than David has ever gotten with his music. Even Chrystabell's voice seems so out of this dimension.

    Since this blog wasn't created at the time of Chrystabell's re-emergence on social media after over a year of absence, it is nice to point out that this was the time when she was off working with David on a mysterious project everyone was bustling about. Especially with the rumors of Wisteria going about the internet. A project which David has been planning to surface with no luck (and we can not forget Netflix turning the cheek to his Snootworld animation and Unrecorded Night). 

    It was either in June or July of this year (forgive me for my poor memory on this since I've been frazzled for a while with my own world) when Chrystabell, David Lynch, and Sacred Bones announced the release of the album. And upon its release, a very intriguing intro the whole album on David Lynch Theater's YouTube channel along with a Q&A with the man himself and the woman herself as well. A truthfully enlightening day to chill with such icons to our hearts.

    There were other disheartening news with Steven and Gersten's tree breaking down, and the demolishment of Hap's Diner (fortunately, the counter has been saved and preserved by Twin Peaks fans). Despite all of this, we're happy to still have what we have to keep the spirit of Twin Peaks and David Lynch alive. 

    The most saddening news that hit Twin Peaks fans hard was the passing of Katie Edgin, the wife of Matthew Edgin. The community really really bonded and felt connected with this endearing woman. She and Matt were married by Sherilyn Fenn (our beloved Audrey Horne) and from what I've heard of those around me, she was a woman beyond kindness and respect and love. Her battle against cancer was something of a challenge we'll never forget. And her passing made us mourn and become closer as a community in Twin Peaks... From Another Place. 

    Though I never met Katie, I did have a few brief back-and-forths with her in the comments sections of posts in the group. From those memorable little moments, they were big in my heart because I felt how much of a compassionate and endearing person she really was. I felt connected to all the mourning. Katie will always be the Sun to all our days, and the Moon and stars to all our nights. A light eternal.

    I think I might have filled in some of the gaps when I last posted on this blog. Ups and downs and all around. I hope everyone is doing well and we all live on in love, peace, and harmony. Thank you for checking into this blog and article. I might have another one coming up that is an observation I just discovered on my own and not sure if others have discoved it already.

    Always fun to write, and I'm happy to return with an article after so many months inactive. Thank you all so much and keep on dreaming. :)