Wednesday, October 31, 2007

post 391. [stomping feet.] iwantitiwantitiwantit.

i'm not all that crazy about star trek. when i was a kid, sure. i had scotty's guide to the enterprise. i can give you some of the more obscure deets on the stuff. but as i've gotten older i've grown out of it. and star wars? i ditched when jar-jar walked onto the screen. and i'm not one for lord of the rings, or all those video game movies. i got out of comic books when i found rock n roll, and i don't collect baseball cards.

but the one unalterable constant obsession in my life is a devotion - since first seeing it in the late nineties - to david lynch's twin peaks. i'm a dork of the highest magnitude. i'm just itching for the opportunity to see the log lady at the annual convention up in washington state, and even now, at this very moment, i'm watching fire walk with me - quite possibly the worst movie of all time to you (and in truth to honest to god fans of the series), but one that makes me think, "hmm. so phillip jefferies actually attended a meeting above the convenience store? and if that kid is giving the order to 'fell a victim' then bob has a boss, and that's scary." - on cinemax's "outer max" channel.

i squealed - perhaps "squeal" isn't the word so much as "yelped," but whatever it was i found my voice experiencing a formerly unknown register - for a price check from the guy working the f.y.e. when i saw this behind the counter the other day in astoria. this gold box edition has everything anybody would ever need, leading me to make such revealing statements as "finally! the american version of the pilot" and "hopefully, when i get this, there will be a way to skip any scene in the second season that deals with james fucking hurley."

now life is complete.