Hi everyone, my name is Bill, and this is just something real quick to get started....
I'm an artist living in Southern California (
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), hopefully headed for Hawaii sometime soon. Been here in SoCal most of my life and I'm done with it.
Been a Lynchophile since I first saw Eraserhead on or around 1980. Always loved the northwest as well, I lived in Bremerton, Washington for a short while when I was 14, (that was the 70's).
I had an art studio/gallery in Laguna Beach for several years in the 90's, where I sold paintings that had a very Edward Hopperish feel to them, desert scenes, highways, small towns at night....but must also admit that Lynch's scenarios in his movies are just as influential as anything else. .... in 1992 I planned a weekend trip to Snoqualmie/North Bend to get more ideas for paintings, and serendipitously, I scheduled my flight for the weekend of the first Twin Peaks Festival.
Great weekend, I was there for most of the activities, but I had to catch my flight back home on Sunday afternoon, so I missed the US premiere of TP:FWWM and missed the fun at the Winery, as well.
Got to meet the cast at the Dinner with the Stars at the Salish Lodge, got a personalized autograph card from Catherine Coulsen, got my FWWM poster by entering the pie-eating contest (I nibbled at the pie, so I had a cherry pie to bring home as well
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), ended up in the background on various news shows, and also went to the "prop sale" that was held in a flea-market style building, the nondescript white building across the street from the Mar-T Cafe, with the curved corner....you see it in a few shots on TP, when they show the intersection at night. Anyway, it was mostly a pile of junk in one corner, and the lady said it was stuff that was rented for dressing sets or locations used in FWWM, with no guarantee that props for sale made it into the final cut. I saw a coffee percolator, though, and thought that it would be a nice souvenir from "Twin Peaks", if nothing else, and it fit it with my 50's decor at the time..... a 50's style anodized aluminum West Bend, with a copper tint. ...when watching the movie a couple months later, it turns up sitting on a shelf behind Keifer Sutherland in the Deer Meadow Morgue Scene.
I did quite a few paintings from the pics and video I gathered from that trip and will share when I get some time.... These days I'm all over the place doing graphic design, and I have a painting on my easel (sold) of a scene painted from memory of my time living on Olympic Peninsula. The bare beginnings of that is on my blog right now, but that pic was several days ago, and I need to post updates, as it's nearly finished.
I'll be back with pics of that, the coffee pot, and start sharing..... just wanted to get my feet wet and say hi, and look forward to discussing things that we all share a common love for.
Cheers!
~Bill
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