Manflesh of an Era: David Lynch
At the turn of the century, amidst all my obsessive X-Files fan research, I stumbled upon a fateful fun factoid that intrigued me: David Duchovny played an FBI agent before he was Fox Mulder, in a short-lived but groundbreaking series called Twin Peaks . My teenage self was shocked to see a screenshot in one of my fanzines, which depicted my favorite TV idol costumed in drag as the trans Agent Denise Bryson. If there was nothing else The X-Files taught me, it was to investigate everything for yourself. I had to see Twin Peaks .The Gods of Cinema shined down on me in a subtle way, because the cable network Bravo or some other happened to be re-running the early-90s show on the regular. I had no other means of seeing it or finding out which specific episode to watch at the time. The only thing to do was start taping it so I could accidentally catch the few episodes in which David Duchovny appeared. In that weeks-long process, Twin Peaks hooked me in other unexpected wa...
