Subject: Re: 12-1 Comments and Questions
From: alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins)
Date: 1990-12-03, 13:39
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1990Dec3.211333.13370@watserv1.waterloo.edu> broehl@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl) writes:
> >In article <12139@milton.u.washington.edu> mork@blake.u.washington.edu (David Mork) writes:
> >
>> >>8.  The reference to "remember that knife in Pittsburgh" may mean 
>> >>    that Coop has dealt with Bob before
 
This is definitely not an accurate quote. it went something like:
I guess I sorta, kinda killed Maddy. I have a thing for knives (spoken vaguely).
(Suddenly swings over to Cooper and speaks menacingly) "It's like that
time in Pittsburg!
 
   Bob grooves on 40's 50's music.
> >Perhaps that is the era during which he had human form.  Remember: what we see
> >of Bob (long grey hair, jean jacket, black shirt) is his "true form".
> >By that I assume they mean "the form he had when he first became whatever he is
> >now".  Let's see... that would have been about 1950 or so, and he looks to be
> >in his late 30's.  So he was in his late 20's and early 30's when that music
> >was popular.  Interesting side question: was Leland Bob's first host? 
> >Another question: when did jean jackets come into style?  Was it as early as
> >1950?  

Jeans were the clothing of poor workers for many decades before they
became fashionable.  They were designed for hard labour.
Intellectuals who adopted worker attire as a political statement made
jeans fashionable among rebels who in turn made jeans fashionable
with the entire 60s generation. In our town those styles first came in
in the late 60's say 1988-89. That's how long it took  get into fashion
magazines and become acceptable for middle class kids.

So unless you know if Bob was a worker, a rebel or a bourgeois kid,
you can't know when he bought those jeans.
 
But anyway, I dispute your assumption to that it is BOB who likes music.
I think it is Leland.  In the end, Bob and Leland were so interspersed
that they switched from one to the other in an instant. I think that
Leland became manic (overly happy and excited) as a way of fending off
knowledge of his instrumental role in Laura's death and a
way of trying to deny and repress his grief.
 
Isn't Lelland the right age to know and love that music?
 
ann hodgins