Desert Island Discourse

Did you hear? Twin Peaks is back! Or it was. It's gone now. But dammit if Desert Island Discourse isn't dedicated to stretching out nostalgia way past the bounds of what is good and reasonable. To that end, this week we're branching out a bit, examining the Julee Cruise album Floating Into the Night and, by extension, the TV show that made such great use of its music—Twin Peaks. One of us has been obsessed with both for years, and the other was only exposed to either in the past few months, but somehow we find common ground in the love we share for this pristine slice of strange, reverb-laden dream pop, and its equally strange televised cousin. Also: the possible origin of fuckboys, Andrew's irrational hatred of tote bags, and the remarkably well-casted content of Deputy Andy's Balls