This episode was alright, but definitely seemed like a placeholder, transitional-type episode. There was constant foreshadowing and warnings. Bobby interrupted the funeral, shouting how everyone’s at fault for Laura’s death. The Sheriff was talking about the evil darkness lurking around Twin Peaks. Even the Factory Owner lady was explicit, saying “something [...]

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Didn’t want to wait 11 more months to share the good new music of the year! These are all new songs, either out this month or leaked and will be out soon…
1. The Deep Dark Woods “All The Money I Had Is Gone”
2. Marissa Nadler “River Of Dirt”
3. Busta [...]

The final episode of Season 1 was in full force–tapping right into the government conspiracy, evidence of aliens, paranoia, and crazy things happening. Great!
It began with some tension between Deep Throat giving Mulder vague hints about things, and Scully not wanting to rely on these hunches. Mulder was trapped between the two. [...]

So, say you’re a brilliant rocket scientist. You die in a horrible car wreck. But because you’re a mad-scientist-type, you freeze your brain, so it can be brought back to life in the future when technology allows! But until that time, you’re worried, all your brilliant work remains incomplete! What do [...]

1. David Bowie “Heroes”
2. Curtis Mayfield “Future Shock”
3. Liz Durrett “Perfect Day”
4. Martina Topley-Bird “Shangri La”
5. The Roots “Long Time”
6. Thom Yorke “The Clock (live)”
7. Automatic Baby “One (live)”
8. Public Enemy “He Got Game”
9. Odetta “Sail Away Ladies, Sail Away”
10. Woody Guthrie “Pastures Of Plenty”
11. Cotton Jones “I Am The Changer”
12. Nina Simone “Sinnerman”

The first two episodes, as I take it, were just showing all the characters and a bit of how they’re related and maybe how they were affected by Laura’s death.  Now, the weird stuff can happen!  Fun!
This episode was highlighted by Agent Cooper’s zen techniques of investigation, which apparently all stem from dreams.  And then [...]

There was something out-of-sorts about “Born Again,” I cannot quite place it.  It was about a dead cop who was reincarnated in a little girl who was killing his crooked cop partners.  That’s paranormal, I guess, but the feel of the story was that it was almost a real regular investigation.  There was a lot [...]

“Tooms” is part 2 of “Squeeze,” the third episode of the series. That episode tracked a mutant man who could squeeze into tight spaces, and killed 5 people every 30 years to eat their livers. It was a great first “monster” episode. Part 2 was also quite interesting, and pretty well-written. [...]

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1. Autechre “Tankakern”
2. Radiohead “Where I End And You Begin (demo)”
3. Eels “A Daisy Through Concrete”
4. M. Ward “Sad, Sad Song”
5. Stephen Malkmus “Ballad Of A Thin Man”
6. Rilo Kiley “Accidntel Deth”
7. DeVotchKa “Transliterator”
8. Jungle Brothers “The Promo No. 2 (Mind Review ‘89) (feat. A Tribe Called Quest)”
9. [...]

What hit me about this, the first real “episode” of the show, was how many characters are involved. And most of those characters got one scene, maybe two. But it was enough. Clearly this series is going to be one in which the stories fit together. For instance, Pretty Waitress: early [...]