Breaking up is hard to do....for some.

This is a 5 minute short titled: Phone Tag. Pretty funny and creative. Stars Olivia Munn from G4's Attack of the show.

Thundercats.....HO!!!!

Variety has reported that a live-action Thundercats movie is on the way. I feel like a little kid again.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117966320.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Lost - Through the Looking Glass - Season Finale

I know this is a little delayed but for good reason. After every Lost episode, it supplies you with "water cooler" talk at the office. Because of what happened in Wednesday's season finale I must have ran into about 100 water coolers Thursday & Friday. So, I needed a little rest before I put some thought into a post for everyone else. This is the last one til next year so I will try to give a lot of good detail. Now on with Lost's season finale!

A little on the title of this episode: Through the looking glass. This is obviously based off of "Through the looking glass and what Alice found there" (second book of Alice in Wonderland). Alice enters an alternate reality through a mirror. Once in the new land, Alice becomes a pawn in a very large chess game. Her challenge was to become queen. In the story, the White Queen speaks of "living backwards". She best recalls events that have not happened yet, more so than the past. In Lost's episode we seem to be doing this with Jack. For the first time in the history of the show we flash-forward instead of backwards.

We first see Jack flying on an Oceanic flight where he is highly intoxicated and stumbles on an obituary for someone unkown to us as viewers. This article seems to be the turning point to make Jack want to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge. Later we find Jack driving to Hoffs/Drawler Funeral Home. "Hoffs/Drawler" is an anagram for "flash-forward". Ok so here is one of the biggest questions from this episode, who is in the coffin? Personally, I would like to think it is Ben, but more on that thought in a minute. During Jack's drive to the funeral home he is listening to Nirvana's "Scentless Apprentice". The date of the newspaper Jack recieved on the plane was dated April 5, 2007. April 5th happens to be the date Kurt Cobain commited suicide. Coincidence?

The island manifests into another being. This time we see Walt talking to Locke. Walt gives Locke the power of healing again and gives him a mission. Locke is determined to keep Naomi from calling her ship sitting 8 miles from the island. But not determined enough to stop Jack, giving Jack warning, "you are not suppose to do this". Personally I think it is DHARMA coming back to take the island in vengence of what happened. In the episode we first met the Russian, Locke enters "77" when prompted if there has been a purge by the Hostiles. Later the communication station blows up. From that point I believed DHARMA was on their way back. Did you really think it was Penny? We have two more seasons to go, you know they aren't getting off that fast.

Ok back to Jack and the jaw dropping ending. We see Jack sitting on the floor next to a handful of maps spread out through the house. He makes a phone call to who I thought was going to be his ex-wife. Later to find Kate getting out of the car? Can this be happening? Jack says that they should have never left the island. He is tired of the "lying" and that they have to go back. Every Friday he gets on a flight over the Pacific Ocean to different destinations, has a drink in the next airport and gets back on the plane "hoping it crashes". I have to think he wants it to crash on the island again, and not for suicidal purposes. It seems his only motivation in life now that he has returned, is to find his way back to the island for unkown reasons. This is why I think it is Ben in the coffin. Ben has to be the only hope Jack ever had to get back.

Everyone I have talked to noticed that Kate looked a bit polished and no freckles. And also, Kate is not in jail now they have returned. Also, Jack makes a reference "get my father down here and see if he is more drunk than I am". We all know Jack's father is dead in the storyline of them on the island, his coffin was onboard the plane. Is Jack's dad alive? This gets me back to Alice and her crazy expeditions. Is this some alternate-reality in the future? Is the island an alternate-reality? Is this why no one can find the island, no matter how well their navigation is? Is this why Naomi crashed there instead of her ship cruising right up to the shores? I am currently in the 3rd book of Stephen King's Dark Tower series and there are a lot of similarities present in both, Lost & Roland's search of the Dark Tower through many different beams of reality and time. Or maybe the writers of Lost have me out on the edge of a cliff and I'm just trying to find that one limb to grab on to, so I can make sense of it all. Don't worry, we only have 9 whole months til we get some answers.

Through the looking glass (Alice in Wonderland):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_looking_glass
Scentless Apprentice (Nirvana):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scentless_Apprentice

Misheard lyrics - Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter

This has to be the funniest thing I have seen in a long time!!

Whats more embarrasing? Mixing up the lyrics of the national anthem or....well, just watch

The Joker is back

Websites have popped up preparing us for the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight. Seems a website promoting Harvey Dent for Gotham City district attorney submerged the other day, IbelieveinHarveyDent.com (see image above). Following this, the Joker has a website which has defaced the Harvey Dent promo. Oh by the way, the Joker appears on his website, and he looks sadistic. http://www.ibelieveinharveydenttoo.com/

Smashing Pumpkins - Tarantula

Its Sunday morning and I'm waiting for tickets to go on sale at noon for the Pumpkin shows in Asheville. In the meantime, I think I'll get my fix by listening to the new single Tarantula on Spinner! http://www.spinner.com/2007/05/18/new-music-tarantula-by-smashing-pumpkins

Lost - episode #21

Greatest Hits

After Desmond told Charlie that he saw in a vision Claire and Aaron leaving on a helicopter, Charlie was happy. When he learned that he had to die this time for this to happen, Charlie's mood had changed. Charlie then begins to ponder his life and his greatest achievements and writes them down in a top 5 order (later to give to Desmond on the row boat).

One of the flashbacks that stuck out was Charlie saving a lady from being mugged in an alley. That lady was Sayid's love, Nadia. Mere coincidence?

I have to say this is one of the only times you really see Charlie in a different light. He seems to be one of the only characters not to have a dysfunctional life, minus the booze and drugs from his rock-n-roll days.

Now on to the "Looking Glass", which has to be a reference to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Caroll. Who are the 2 women who greet Charlie with assault rifles? Are they Hostiles or left over DHARMA?

One more observation. When Charlie is standing outside singing Oasis' Wonderwall in the rain, Desmond does not appear. Why is this? Is some event going to happen or already happened to alter history? Something to think about. Great show.

Updated Thought:

The first lady to come running through with a gun pointed at Charlie was a blonde haired lady. By any chance could this be Annie? At the end of episode #20, it never tells if Ben's childhood friend was gassed with the rest of DHARMA. It might be that Ben had stuck her in the Looking Glass station to jam all signals and to keep her safe. Just something else to think about.

Old west gunslingers with blasters, hologram bands, horses, motorcycles, and Kung-Fu make what? A great Muse video!

Smashing Pumpkins

I will be living in Asheville, NC from June 23rd thru July 5th. Smashing Pumpkins have announced a "Residency" at the Orange Peel in Asheville. Gig nights are as following:

• 6/23
• 6/24
• 6/26
• 6/27
• 6/29
• 6/30
• 7/2
• 7/3
• 7/5

All shows will be $20. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets go on sale Saturday May 20th @ 1 p.m. online only. http://www.theorangepeel.net & http://www.ticketweb.com