November 15th, 2021 @ 12:44 am

so i just got back from another pilgrimage from my other favorite place in ‘murica…  SEATTLE ♥.  while i was there this trip, i managed to talk my friend into going to an area off the coast of seattle, so that we could go see where they found laura palmer’s body in the first episode of twin peaks.  it didn’t hurt that he too, is a twin peaks fan…

if you view the last three images below, you’ll see the spot where her body was found.  i am assuming the log has been moved over the years, but overall – this was it.  THE MECCA.

i took the last picture in the bunch to try to compare it to a postcard that came with my funko pop of laura wrapped in plastic (THAT I FUCKING FORGOT TO BRING WITH MEEEEEEE).  when i purchased that pop, i was so appreciative to whomever did that, heavily considering it was the actual beach.  after being there, i do not doubt it one bit.

for anyone that lands on this blog post looking to visit this spot, it’s currently a wedding/event venue called “the kiana lodge” in a town called poulsbo (WA).  on their website it asks that you call them ahead of time, so that if and when you want to visit, there isn’t an event going on.  we were there on a weekday and they let us have free reign of the place.  they were like, just walk around the grounds – go into the buildings – etc.  they were super accommodating, and i’m guessing it’s bc a lot of us twin peakers visit these spots.  there’s even a plaque that’s on the rocks on the beach commemorating that the pilot was shot there at the log.

anyways, it’s west of seattle, and we had to get there by ferry > bus > walking.  it wasn’t a long commute over there, it was just a lot to deal with in the rain and spotty bus service.

if you’re going to be on public transportation like we were, here’s some helpful tips:  the ferry is round trip (i think it was like $10 and you need to buy an orca card) – you scan it at the terminal in seattle and then there’s no scanning anywhere else, once you get to the bainbridge island terminal, you take the 309 bus. it’s about a 10/15 min ride over from the ferry terminal. ask the driver to leave you off at the texaco station right after the casino. when they let you off at the stop, the road is BUSY and people are driving fast… be careful! you just cross the road and go down the private road (it’s the only road, you can’t miss it). it was a 1.4 mile walk from where the bus leaves you and you can’t miss the lodge – eventually, you just hit it.

so the first image above is of the private road you have to follow to get to kiana lodge, the second image is the lodge welcome sign, the third image is the side view of the main building, which was used as pete and catherine martell’s house.  the fourth image was actually used for a reception/check-in interior for the great northern, which is the side entrance of the house.  images 5, 6 and 7 are all at the spot where the found laura.  lucky for us, we had creepy/gloomy weather.  when we arrived, there was a little break of sunshine, but mostly gloom.

after this, i don’t have TOO many twin peaks locations left to hit.  i still need to go to ronette’s bridge, the roadhouse bar, the “entrance” to the black lodge (which is actually in california), laura’s house in everette (just north of seattle) and big ed’s gas station (this one isn’t tooooo high priority on my list).

i would love to revisit the spot where the twin peaks sign was, bc apparently they installed a permanent one.  i would have to drive over there again bc that’s where the majority of things i didn’t see were (i have no idea why i didn’t go to those, unless i just thought i was driving steven crazy.)

apparently, twin peaks high school has been demolished (sigh).

December 29th, 2019 @ 12:17 pm

if you knew me IRL last year, either i was a completely miserable schlep or didn’t seem it at the time, because you were a distracting, shining beam of love.  not having a job for most of last year was AWFUL… it was so depressing.  i didn’t just lose a job, i lost my routine/sanity and friends, but i digress.  i am here to talk about this year…

i actually FINALLY had a decent year, woo!

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June 14th, 2018 @ 11:07 am

so if you haven’t already seen it, the trailer for the new halloween movie coming out this year was finally revealed…  after watching it like, 830 times and reading about it here are my thoughts:

1. why must we completely ignore halloween II?  i don’t understand why everyone hates that movie so much.  it’s so creeeeeeeeeeepy.  i’m 36 years old and i’m still freaked out looking down hospital hallways.  i could care less about the plot holes “pace” of the movie, stated in various reviews of it.  take that info and apply it to the story with a shrug like i always have.  i don’t think they were that abundant that it needed to be scrapped.  plus, the murders in that movie were awesome and just builds his brutal/spooky character.  i also think they could have picked up the story from there.  it’s just more for laurie to have gone through and survived.

2. all of the homage/nods in the trailer REALLY bugged me at first.  it seems like every time something needs to relaunch or continue nowadays, you have to include these ridiculously obvious and cliche acknowledgements.  if i could count on one hand how many happened, i’m kind of turned off.  if they were a bit more subtle, like you’d only understand if you were a life-long fan, i’d respect them more (ie: when they drive up and the patients are all walking around – CREEPY and you know what that means if you’ve seen the movies).

3. wowwwwwwww laurie SARAH CONNOR VIBES.

4. as creepy as the teeth thing was, it doesn’t seem very michael myers to me…  it was a little OD and his character doesn’t need to try so hard.  even when michael killed creatively, we didn’t see it happen and he didn’t show us, characters found it.  i did LOVE the nod to the garage death in H4, though.

5. i hate the mask.

6. i irrationally have always loathed judy greer (thank jawbreaker) and i wish she wasn’t in the movie.  she doesn’t seem very natural in the part…  blegh.

7. there were halloween III masked trick-or-treaters, which made me happy.  that’s another halloween flick everyone seems to hate for no good reason… it’s creepy as fuck and has an amazing soundtrack.

at any rate, i can’t wait to see it…  hopefully it’ll be creepy and great and all of these criticisms and skeptical thoughts won’t even matter.  i’ll just sit here on laurie strode’s house waiting patiently, just like michael.

October 16th, 2015 @ 11:57 am

here’s another picture that i took in south pasadena the other day.  this is the opening scene in haddonfield, from halloween 1.  i could have done better, but this is what i did from memory (not awful).  it’s actually really hard to see the house in the top picture in real life, because it’s now covered by trees.  i sat on the corner for a hot minute trying to make sure i was even hitting the correct angle.  a lot of the houses look the same.  also: it has been 37 years since the movie was filmed, so the trees have flourished, lol.

at the other locations (ie: the street with the “hey jerk, speed kills”), the trees are actually still standing in the same shape.  the same ivy is covering the trees as well.

October 14th, 2015 @ 1:31 pm

steven and i went to anaheim for the duck’s home opener this monday, and also went back to visit the hedge! 🙂  ’tis the season!

i also never got to see the location of the walk the girls took home from haddonfield high, back to their houses… so i ended up on that block as well (the “speed kills” scene‘s street).  none of the locations were decorated for halloween yet, which was a bummer… but when i arrived back at the strode house, there was a real pumpkin there this time!  i really want to get to the damn hospital from 2 (which apparently doesn’t even look like it anymore, and is on private VA hospital property)…  grr!

September 1st, 2015 @ 5:23 pm

a couple of weeks ago, steve and i were in washington and alaska…  he was out there in seattle for work, and i joined him for the few days after he was finished.  while we were out there, i wanted to check out some of the twin peaks filming locations.  they weren’t too far away from seattle, just a bit east.  where we visited was also in a large loop, so we hit the few spots and then went back on the highway to the city.  here are the pics 🙂

the first stop was the (snoqualmie) falls and the great northern…  there were a billion people up on the balcony, so i couldn’t get a shot without complete strangers in it 😐

then we hit the twin peaks sheriff’s dept (which is now a private race track/school).  the mill is across the way from there, and that’s where the drivers race their cars.  when we pulled up, the groundskeeper already knew what we were doing there, and said we could go inside.  there was a girl working the desk, but i didn’t say anything about being lucy, lol.  she called us twin peakers and told us that we could look around, so we did – the wood on the walls was still in tact.  super cool to see…  also: i totally peed in there.

next up was the “welcome to twin peaks” sign (the painted one on the right is actually on the back wall of the cafe, FYI)

and last but not least, the double R diner (twede’s cafe in north bend, WA).  steve got a stomach ache from eating there – and no, we didn’t have the cherry pie OR the coffee.  the inside looks NOTHING like the show!  apparently there was a fire there years ago.  i can’t remember offhand if they actually shot the show there or not, though.  maybe it was a set.

where laura was found was really far away from there, and a lot of other scenes were shot in california, not WA.

either way, i was ecstatic! 🙂

January 16th, 2015 @ 5:39 pm

so i just got back from california again, and i got to hit up a few more halloween filming locations while i was out there. all of these locations were around the same area in south pasadena, so it was easy to kill a few birds with one stone.

halloween (1978):

the myers house. (1000 mission street)
this house was originally located a block or so away from where it is now. there are condos where the house used to be (across from the elrod house). i think it’s pretty insane that you can move a house, but i’m glad they kept it in tact and didn’t just tear it down.

the house is now home to offices, and on the front door they asked that we didn’t go up on the porch and what not. i took a couple of quickies, and kept on truckin’.

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January 6th, 2015 @ 2:31 pm

i don’t know how or why it took me almost an entire year to post these pictures, but last march i went to california. i flew in with steve and our friend joe for a pens/ducks game, and then i ended up staying the rest of the week with bee. while i was out there, to carry on my forced tradition of finding filming locations with bee (lol), i had her bring me to a few special spots. los angeles is fucking huge, and really annoying to navigate, so i picked a few that were close in proximity. it was harder to achieve than when we were scouting filming spots in salt lake city.

i know it’s super nerdy, but i really want to get to see most of the halloween filming locations from 1, 2, 4, and 5. since i had covered a lot of 4/5 in utah, the california locations are up next. my sister and i always talked about doing this together, so i decided to wait for the milestone spots.  those spots weren’t close to where bee lives (van nuys), nor was it super close to central los angeles anyway, so i didn’t go to any with bee.

HOWEVER. my sister ended up flying into LA the last night that i was there, so we setup a trip to the houses where annie and laurie were babysitting in halloween 1 when she landed…

while i was with bee, these were the other places i got to snap pics of.

1. zuma beach – baywatch was filmed here… maybe that little lifeguard station was in the show?
2. the old cobra kai dojo… apparently it was turned into a bank, but it was nothing when i got there.
3/4. the apartment complex that daniel lived in, in the karate kid.
5. the poltergeist house!
6. the liquor store from clueless where cher gets robbed after the party in the valley.

this time around in cali, steve said he’d be willing to go to pasadena with me – which means i could end up going to see the actual myers house, laurie’s house, the elrod’s house, THE HEDGE, the school where tommy went and possibly the hospital from 2 (but from a distance, since it’s a private VA hospital now, womp womp).

also in south pasadena, and very close to the halloween locations: THE MY SO CALLED LIFE HOUSE.
i WILLLLLLLLLLLL get that night shot.  oh yes, i WILL.

October 12th, 2012 @ 7:24 pm

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO i’m a HUGE fan of the halloween movie series… my mother got my sister and i into these movies from when i was like seven. like, i know every word/sound/whatevers going to happen next… and i know most of the film useless trivia as most halloween fans do, which is why i was surprised when i had no idea that 4, 5 and 6 were all filmed in salt lake city… AND JUST BLOCKS AWAY FROM WHERE I STAY EVERY TIME I VISIT…

i got so. fucking. hyped. when i realized i knew where most of these places are located in reference to landmarks i set for myself, every time that i’m there.

so as soon as i found this out, i started compiling a list of all of these halloween filming location places that i wanted bee to take me while i was there… and she made my little horror nerd dreams come true. (luhh you grrrl<3)

here’s a quick halloween 4 rundown, in case you’ve never seen it: michael myers wakes from a coma, goes back to haddonfield to go after his neice jamie (jamie lee curtis’s daughter) after she’d been adopted by the carruthers family (script says jamie lee curtis’s character, laurie (his sister) was killed). rachel carruthers is the teenage daughter and a main character in the movie. that’s all i’ll say if you haven’t seen it…

annddddddddddddddd :begin horror nerd excitement post:

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June 12th, 2012 @ 11:27 pm

the other night, i decided to throw on halloween I and II.  it’s been ages, and sometimes i just need it.  when i was a kid, my mother always had the halloween movies on, and my sister and i loved them.  we must have watched them 93879847947 times.  in fact, i’m sure if you got us together in one room, between quotes from young frankenstein, the wedding singer, overboard, drop dead fred and halloween, you would want to shoot us.  we’re ridiculous.

back to the point of the post…  so i was looking at wikipedia info about the movie and its filming locations.  i had remembered that the first two were filmed in california, but i wasn’t sure about 4, 5, and 6.  so i googled it and found out that it was filmed on location in salt lake city.  the more i googled address’s, the more astonished that i became.  three of the main houses used in the film are literally blocks away from one of my best friends houses! …where i stay, every time i’m there! i couldn’t believe it.

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