My God, Andy. Same thing as last year in Mr. Blodgett's barn

[sovay]

Tonight I had to take a dead moth off Autolycus' nose.

As far as I can tell, he headbutted it to death and it stuck there. He was licking repeatedly at his nose, not yet unhappily, but definitely failing to dislodge the interference. I lifted him onto my lap, coaxed him to turn his face toward me, scruffed him slightly with one hand and picked off the ex-insect with the other. The separated wings of the moth fluttered toward the floor and Autolycus dove after them; I heard the happy porcupine noises of a growing cat with a treat. Then I heard a lot of sneezing.

He left the room with an air of great self-satisfaction. So now I have a cat that snorts moths.

(My laptop's keyboard has unjammed. I have to assume it's a temporary respite, but I'm using it to make another quick backup—not touching the keyboard itself or the trackpad, just in case. The wireless setup works just fine now that my computer no longer thinks that the "W," "V," and command keys are being held down constantly. I am also listening to my iTunes, which I have missed. Come on, Bertie Owen. You are the Fisher King of laptops. Being healed after long suffering is your thing.)

Watching the pilot episode of Twin Peaks (1990—1991) after falling in love with Gravity Falls (2012—) and Hannibal (2013—) is a fascinatingly archaeological experience. Based on the first ninety-three minutes, fortunately, I really like Twin Peaks.

Comments

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh! I just started watching "Twin Peaks" for the same reasons. Good move.

Agent Cooper is the role Johnny Depp has been trying to play for his entire career without admitting it.

[sovay]

I just started watching "Twin Peaks" for the same reasons. Good move.

Heh. I did not actually start watching Twin Peaks because of Gravity Falls or Hannibal—I started watching it because it had always been one of the landmarks of television I was unfamiliar with, and the few clips derspatchel tried to show me spoiling the show were amazing—I just realized within about two scenes how profoundly it's influenced an astonishing spectrum of shows I've loved since. But yours is a fine reason! rushthatspeaks showed me this fanart and I approved.

Agent Cooper is the role Johnny Depp has been trying to play for his entire career without admitting it.

I truly love the fact that, objectively described, Agent Dale Cooper should be a bunch of whimsical tics, and instead he's the most natural and human character in the show's universe, especially when compared to characters who are conventionally far more normal than he is. It's lovely.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

I need to do a Twin Peaks rewatch at some point, given I have the entire series. Tried to do the pilot a while back, but it demanded more of my attention than I had to give right at that moment. For a show in which "not a lot happens" (tm most critics at the time), you really have to let it soak in; it's more about mood than content, but it's not like there's no content otherwise.

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

"not a lot happens"????? Wow, what a bunch of non-genre-fans. I can see how quiet and moody and vague it must have seemed given the context of most other TV of the time, but for me it's the other way around. I'm three episodes in and I can barely keep up with all the threads they've started.

(Also, I have a hard time telling people's faces apart. There are like a dozen teenage boys on this show and they all look alike to me unless I really make an effort, so I'm constantly going, "Is that the jackass who was selling drugs? No wait, that kid had floppy nineties hair and this one has buzzed hair. This is the one from the awkward makeout scene." This adds pleasantly to the sense of mystery and confusion for me, rather than detracting from it.)

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

It's the childlike sense of wonder that really makes him a person. There aren't enough characters in various media who are that ready to be delighted by the people and events they encounter.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I agree. And it's straight up.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Johnny Depp is a little too lean and fey-seeming for the role. There's a solidity to Kyle MacLaclan that works really well. He has an earnest, intense Clark Kent-ness to him, only a Clark Kent whose clothes are torn at all the seams so that his superman interior shows every time he moves.

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

I would like to state that that is an awesome description of his performance.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

:D

Thanks

[sovay]

He has an earnest, intense Clark Kent-ness to him, only a Clark Kent whose clothes are torn at all the seams so that his superman interior shows every time he moves.

I have seen Dale Cooper for about only forty-five minutes so far and I support this assertion.

(And I agree: he needs to be grounded, because everything else around him is flying off into weirdness and borderline surreality. He's the only person in tune with the world he's in, but it's not a curse like it might be in another story of this kind. Have you smelled those trees?)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Have you smelled those trees?

Wow, the memory of him saying that just blossomed in my mind. Great line.