Leæther Strip - How Do I Know (1997), paired with original Twin Peaks (1990-91)
5In anticipation of the outcome of the Third Season of Twin Peaks (2017), which was halfway through, I did this video. I anticipated a pivotal role for Windom Earle based on the
last few final episodes of Twin Peaks (1991). I believed Bob took possession of the soul of the evil genius in the Black Lodge and transferred it to Agent Dale Cooper's doppleganger in the last episode of the original series.
Despite the malevolent and supernatural nature of Bob, he seemed to lack any real intellect. Thus I felt Windom Earle's intelligence was something Bob would somehow preserve after taking his soul and use for himself. In turn, the Bad Dale would know everything both Bob and Earle knew of the Black Lodge and its dark realm, becoming the master of darkness he demonstrates he is in the Third Season. Let's not forget too that Earle was a former FBI agent who once worked with Dale Cooper to begin with, someone who knew more ins and outs of THAT system than Dale ever knew. In other words, Bad Dale is just too clever for words, and Bob was (to me) too dumb an entity to pull off what Bad Dale does with such ease. To me something else was at work behind the intellect of Bad Dale.
In this video we witness Dale being split into two selves at the same exact moment Bob takes Windom Earle's soul. You can see two shadows emerge from one shadow behind the curtain. The Doppelganger runs to meet Bob and the two laugh, suggesting the shared joke is that the Windom Earle actually has been given a new existence by Bob inside of Dale Cooper's doppleganger ... at least this is what I thought I was seeing. Thus it is actually Bob and Windom Earle sharing the joke and NOT Bob and Bad Dale laughing about Earle's death. The punchline of the "joke" is that Bad Dale IS Windom Earle!
That idea never panned out in The Return ... or should I say Lynch gave no apparent life to Earle's character in The Return, making his ending seemingly final at the hands of Bob. Of course none of us knew about Jowday (Judy) quite yet other than what David Bowie (special agent Phillip Jeffries) mentions in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992). So it is Judy controlling events and not Earle.
Sadly all details of my line reasoning are gone (this is only a gist of it), lost when my computer crashed in December 2018 and nothing regarding my video and its former existence on YouTube remains on Google.
Leæther Strip is a Danish musical project founded on January 13, 1988 by Claus Larsen. It is a one man band. "How Do I Know" appears on the album Retrospective (1997).
The concept behind using the song "How Do I Know" (which also includes the question 'How do I care?') is the possessed Dale Cooper asking questions as to his own nature as he is tormented by both Bob's evil life force and Earle's evil intellect.