sky’s still blue, the clouds come and go
(or: july 29’s honey from the hive)
posted at 2:22 am by brandon in sweet you rock and sweet you roll
Angelo Badalamenti featuring Julee Cruise — “Falling”
(from Twin Peaks [Original Television Soundtrack]
Yesterday evening, A and I drove out east of the Seattle metro area and into the tiny burg of Snoqualmie, Washington, whose edifices and landscapes once upon a time stood in for those of Twin Peaks, ABC’s riveting and revolutionary soap which hit the airwaves in 1990 and flamed out a scant year later after twenty-nine mind-bending episodes. Badalamenti’s lushly evocative original theme for the series remains one of the most brilliant pieces of modern music ever composed for television — hell, ever composed period — but there’s something about the addition of Cruise’s hauntingly compelling coo here that brings this thing to a whole other level of stunning, striking magnificence, and throughout the entire experience, the tune, still so iconic even after two decades, was playing on a cruel, lovely loop inside my skull.
