Diane...

April 30, 2017 11:06 AM

You're warming up for the new season of Twin Peaks next month. You've watched the previous series and Fire Walk With Me; you've read The Secret Diary Of Laura Palmer; you're reading recaps and analysis... but have you heard Diane... The Twin Peaks Tapes Of Agent Cooper? [45m] Originally released only on cassette, sort of in the wild now due to its inclusion in the Internet Archive [download link available].
posted by hippybear (12 comments total)

Oh man, now this is an evening treat. Off to make some coffee & google cherry pie recipes with this in the background.
posted by Ravneson at 12:34 PM on April 30, 2017

45 minutes of Kyle Maclachlan saying beautiful nothings! A fine thing for a Sunday.
posted by Going To Maine at 1:18 PM on April 30, 2017

Who knew sleep deprivation could lead to temporary insanity?
posted by Bringer Tom at 1:28 PM on April 30, 2017 [1 favorite]

I had those tapes! I think I might still have them in one of my ancient boxes.
posted by dw at 1:37 PM on April 30, 2017

So, next time, I need to put a tape recorder in my log, huh?
posted by Katemonkey at 3:01 PM on April 30, 2017

One of my favorite lines from this.

The other? "Death is seldom kind and never fair." I've thought about that a lot over the past twenty-five years, reversing it, inverting it, conversing it (is that a verb? to make the converse of a statement?). I'm still undecided on the fairness of death.
posted by infinitewindow at 10:27 PM on April 30, 2017

I went on a very brief kleptomania spree in the eighth grade, almost entirely consisting of Twin Peaks literature/assorted paraphernalia, almost entirely from the waldenbooks(?) at smith haven mall. I'm gonna presume since I had this that it was part of that phase.

"If I got paid that much for being wrong 60% of the time, that'd be living."

I'm unsure if I remember it verbatim, but I still use this as my contribution to weather talk. Thank you, Coop. Thank you, short period of illegal activity.
posted by ovenmitt at 1:18 AM on May 1, 2017

I remember having these way back when. Can someone give a summary of the 45 minutes, and if anything extra is revealed?
posted by Theta States at 8:07 AM on May 1, 2017

I OWNED THIS! And listened to it over and over and over. Sadly, I think it got lost in the Great House Break-in of Christmas 1993. (I still have the book of the Diary of Laura Palmer and the Twin Peaks tourism guide. What a nerd.)
posted by epersonae at 2:49 PM on May 1, 2017

I'd forgotten how HUGE an influence Cooper's enthusiasm for the PNW was on my own decision to move up here. "the air here is as fresh and crisp as a cracker" And now I'm looking out of an office window onto a vista that includes quite a few pines/firs swaying in a bit of a breeze.
posted by epersonae at 5:11 PM on May 1, 2017

Well, I went ahead and made a podcast RSS for the file, so you you should be able to save and download and redownload it as you’d like: https://is.gd/coops_tapes
posted by Going To Maine at 7:29 PM on May 4, 2017

I remember having these way back when. Can someone give a summary of the 45 minutes, and if anything extra is revealed?

Also, no.
posted by Going To Maine at 7:30 PM on May 4, 2017