Easily…although I’ve heard some people were offended. Maybe that’s why I liked it.
The Google Ad was awesome too.
Links for the Week of 1/31
February 5, 2010- Kevin Drew talks about the next Broken Social Scene album and who will be on it
- Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, does his first interview in years. I wonder if J.D. Salinger’s death brought him out of hiding.
- GeekWeek posts the 20 Greatest Extended Takes In Movie History
- Ten Ways The ‘Lost’ Universe Would Be Different If Oceanic 815 Never Crashed
- I love these Out of Print Clothing t-shirts
- What If Spider-Man Had A Taser? I don’t know why this made me laugh so much
- New York Times posted A Timeline of the ‘Lost’ Universe
- An awesome tribute to composer extraordinaire John Williams
- In honor of his birthday, Nerdage listed 50 Grant Morrison graphic novels you should read
- MTV’s Daria is FINALLY coming out on DVD. Here’s a trailer.
- The creators of Reaper tell CliqueClack TV how the show would have ended
- I want this ring by Kinekt Design
- A funny St. Vincent video for “Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood” featuring ThunderAnt
- So what did Juliet mean when she said “It worked.”? Elizabeth Mitchell gives some hints
- iPad vs. a Rock
- The making of Michael Ian Black’s new children’s book “The Purple Kangaroo”
- What if Wes Anderson directed Spider-Man?
- The AV Club adds Let The Right One In into “The New Cult Canon”
- After talking about my previous Days Of Our Lives devotion, I was saddened to hear Frances Reid (Alice Horton) had died
- Here’s a trailer for Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields. I’m a huge fan of the Magnetic Fields
- Five Facebook No-Nos for Divorcing Couples
Lost Season Six: “LA X” (Parts 1 and 2)
February 3, 2010
What I Liked:
- Did anyone ever see Sliding Doors? It’s the first thing I thought about when it was clear that this alternate timelines story telling device was going to be the direction this season.
- I like that the alternate universe isn’t simply “What if the plane hadn’t crashed?” but is operating on a larger scale of “What if they detonated that hydrogen bomb?” showing their plan was short-sighted even to being with. (At least, I think it is.)
- We finally have our villain, NotLocke a.k.a. The Man in Black a.k.a. SMOKEY (I knew it!), A recurring theme in this show is “who are the good guys” here. We still don’t know what’s really going on with The Others but now we know who, above all, is the Big Bad
- It was great seeing all those old faces on Oceanic 815: Boone! Arnzt! Frogurt! Charlie! Captain Norris!
- The island in under water in the alternate timeline (with a Dharma shark swimming around)!
- Terry O’ Quinn as Smokey might have his second Emmy all locked up if he’s going to be acting like this all season.
- Hurley taking charge after Jack’s “failed” mission has taken whatever leadership away from him
- The Temple! Finally!
- Cindy, Zack and Emma from the Taillies are back!
- Sawyer looking like he’s already planning a con on Hurley
What I Didn’t Like:
- While I will always prefer seeing Elizabeth Mitchell to not seeing her, I don’t know if we needed another tearful goodbye between Sawyer and Juliet. It takes away the impact of the powerful scene in the season five finale.
- It was annoying that after hearing Juliet’s voice under the hatch, everyone forgot that Sayid was bleeding out.
- It sucked to see certain things back to normal in the alternate timeline, namely Jin being a dick again and Charlie being a junkie
- While I’m glad we’re finally at Temple and as much as I love John Hawkes (credited as “Lennon”), do we really need MORE characters to try to sort through?
- I have no idea what’s going on. I rarely put a theory on record but here’s my first thought: Jack is sorta like Desmond living in this alternate parallel universe and, at some point, he (or all of them) is going to have to choose for everyone which reality. (This post-episode interview with Cuse and Lindelof may have confused me more)
Lines of the Night:
- “This thing goes down, I’m sticking with you.” 2004 Boone to 2004 Locke on the plane
- “If she dies, I’ll kill him.” Sawyer to Kate about Jack
- “I died an hour ago”
“Dude! That sucks!” – Jacob and Hurley - “I’m sorry you had to see me like that.” – notLocke to Ben after turning into Smokey
- “We should get coffee sometime…we can go dutch.” – a dying Juliet
- “James. Kiss me.”
“You got it, Blondie.” – Juliet and Sawyer - “You should have let that happen. I was supposed to die.” – 2004 Charlie to 2004 Jack
- “It worked” – Juliet’s posthumous words to Sawyer via Miles
- “The paper says is your friend there dies, we’re all in a lot of trouble” – Lennon to Hurley about the note inside the ankh that was in the guitar case Jacob gave to Hurley
- “I don’t like the way English tastes on my tongue” – The mysterious temple leader
- “You’re the monster.”
“Let’s not resort to name-calling” – Ben and notLocke - “Do you want to know what he was thinking when you wrapped the cord around his neck? ‘I don’t understand.’ Isn’t that just the saddest thing you ever heard? He was a victim. Weak, pathetic and irreparably broken. But he was the only one of them who didn’t want to leave. He was the only one who realized how pitiful the life he left behind was. I want the one thing that John Locke didn’t. I want to go home.” – notLocke to Ben about John Locke
- “Nothing is irreversible” – 2004 Jack to 2004 Locke regarding his spinal injuries
24 Season Eight:9:00PM – 10:00 PM
February 2, 2010Bauer Kill Count: 3 (still)
If you were lucky enough to miss last night’s episode or it’s on your DVR, let me save you the trouble.
Skip it.
What little happened in this episode will be covered in the “Previously on 24″
Sigh. There have been bad episode and seasons before but none as boring as this.
At least Bauer got out of the car and spoke German in the worst pair of fake glasses I’ve ever seen.
Links for the Week of 1/25
January 29, 2010Just fair warning, a lot of the links are Lost-related (5 days away!).
- Parts 2 and 3 of Maureen Ryan’s long interview with the producer’s of Lost, Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof
- SCI-FI Wire posts “The 100 questions Lost better answer or we’ll be pissed.” I think they are going to be pissed.
- Ever wonder what’s on David Bowie’s iPod?
- They remixed Brendan Fraser’s awkward laugh and clap from the Golden Globes.
- Newsweek thinks Lost is a show about faith above all else.
- Are you a fan of ABC Family’s Greek? It’s in danger of being cancelled. Help Save Greek!
- How I Met Your Mother got renewed for a sixth season. Woo hoo!
- Postbourgie discussed Whole Foods’ new policy of offering steeper employee discounts to people with lower BMIs.
- Lilly McElroy throws herself at men.
- Joe Queseda tells USA Today that “heroes will be heroes” again in the Marvel Universe. Nobody tell the Punisher.
- Metromix looks at the Twenty moments that defined The Simpsons
- LOST: The Subway Map.
- Apparently, the Hulk is going to be in the Avengers movie. Did anyone tell Edward Norton?
- Comic Books Should Be Good’s Year of Cool Comics covers Neil Gaiman’s “Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?”
- The Scordit Blog created a pretty cool interactive Lost Past Connections Chart.
- One of my favorite shows of 2009, Party Down, finally gets a DVD release date
- SCI WIRE looks at 15 weird roles Lost’s actors had before they became stars
- Did you know that every episode of Lost is streaming on Hulu?
- The Ack Attack! posted The Top 100 Lost Lines of All Time
- Pee Wee Herman got an iPad!
- Damnit! Torchwood’s John Barrowman has been cast as the villain in Desperate Housewives. I just got used to not watching that show.
- 10 reasons why 109 will miss Dollhouse
Facts About Sean Explained: #12
January 28, 2010This one is from Cindy.
12. From junior year of high school to junior year of college, I was a semi-serious watcher of Days of Our Lives.
The summer between junior and senior year, my parents went away on vacation. I don’t remember how the conversation started or what led to this but I spent a week sleeping over my ex-girlfriend #1’s house (It’s not as scandalous as it sounds). So one day, Ex-1 either went out or was doing something in the kitchen and her mother was watching Days of Our Lives. I sat there quietly at first but there was just crazy shit going on so I started asking questions. Over the course of the week, she gave me the whole download on John Black, Marlena, The Dimeras, the Bo/Hope/Billie love triangle. I became obsessed and watched Days of our Lives for the entire summer. When my mom wasn’t looking, I’d read her Soap Opera Digest. It was sad.
Then senior year, I overheard Eva, my best friend, talking about Days of our Lives and I jumped right in. From that point on, it was our bond. We talked about it all the time in high school and then in college when my class schedule allowed me to be home between 1 and 2 PM to catch it.
As soap operas have a tendency to do, it got a little crazy. Actually, now that I’m thinking about it, the same things that drove me away from Days of our Lives then are the same things that intrigue me about Lost. So by senior year of NYU, I stopped following it altogether.
Years later, I was home sick from work and Days of our Lives and was like, “Wait, why are all the kids like 20 years old now?”
If you would like me to elaborate on one of my facts, leave a comment or e-mail me. I’ll only do it if I think there’s enough of a story to tell about it.
Movie of the Week: Youth In Revolt
January 26, 2010
Eh.
It wasn’t awful but it wasn’t recommendable either. Michael Cera was great as Francois Dillinger and I wish we got more of him in the movie than Cera as Cera being Nick Twisp (I did mean to write his name twice). His performance as Francois gives me hope that he won’t screw up Scott Pilgrim vs. The World which is one of my most-anticipated movies of the year.
Otherwise, I laughed a little but I also got bored a lot.
24 Season Eight:8:00PM – 9:00 PM
January 26, 2010Bauer Kill Count: 3
I wish I could say that there was something awesome about this episode but it was essentially a waste of an hour. An hour Jack Bauer spent in a car. This is Jack Bauer, not Chuck Bartowski.
I actually dozed off in the middle of the episode.
If you haven’t seen it, let me sum it up for you. Renee is a loose cannon but she’s there only hope.
Now you can delete it from your DVR.
Movie of the Week: Daybreakers
January 25, 2010
Brilliant concept, poor execution.
The idea that in the future most of the population has become vampires and they are running out of blood is pretty cool It was so cool in fact that the movie spent an hour setting up that scenario and in the process, I got very bored. I think I may have dozed off a couple times.
The last 20 minutes or so were pretty cool if not predictable. Willem Dafoe was great being…well…Willem Dafoe but I aside from that, eh.
This actually would have made a pretty good book or comic.
Links for January 21-22
January 22, 2010Well, doing the daily links became too much so I’m just going to do my top 10 links at the end of the week but here are a few from the last few days.
- The 2004 BBC dramedy, NY-LON, starring Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation) and Stephen Moyer (True Blood) is now available on Hulu. Highly recommended
- Marc Webb has been named the director of the new Spider-Man movie. How one goes from (500) Days of Summer to Spidey I do not know.
- U2 and Jay-Z Record Haiti Benefit Song. Why is Swizz Beats producing it?
- Part 1 of Chicago Tribune’s Maureen Ryan’s super-long interview with the producers of Lost, Carton Cuse and Damon Lindeof
- The New Yorker did a profile on one of my favorite writers ever, Neil Gaiman
- Who wants to buy me this t-shirt?
- NPR’s Monkey See Blgo explores the battle between buying single-issues of comics versus buying the trade collections. Personally, I can’t break my habit. My expensive, expensive habit.
- The 100 Cheesiest Movie Quotes of All Time
- Tom Caruana made this Wu-Tang/Beatles mash-up, Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers. It sounded like a horrible idea but turned out pretty good. Download before Apple Corp kills it.
- Slate has come with a great idea for a follow-up to MTV’s Jersey Shore. Massholes.
- The Onion’s AV Club has inducted Requiem For A Dream into its “New Cult Canon”. Maybe it’s time to finally rewatch that movie.
- The Wall Street Journal looks at creative decision to end Lost after six seasons.
