Friday, February 29, 2008

Dear Gawd, that was beautiful!

Last night was about the best episode of Lost ever! Ever! And yes I may be a bit biased because it was Desmond's episode but his have always been the best episodes as far as I'm concerned and this one topped them all.

Something about the electromagnetic properties of the island can cause a person’s consciousness to travel back and forth through time. Not their bodies but their conscious beings. Leaving the island and flying through a real ugly thunderhead cloud causes Desmond to experience these ‘side effects’ and the whole episode is centered around his 1996 self bouncing back and forth between 1996 and 2004, the current date on the island. It’s freaky for him to say the least. He meets up the Daniel Faraday of the past (after being told to by the Daniel Faraday of the present) and finds out that he could possibly die if he doesn’t find a way to anchor himself in both time lines, he needs to find his ‘constant’, something he’s familiar with and cares about in the past and the present. This constant would be Penny, she’s his constant (and his lobster!).
From a trip to the past he’s able to get her phone number from her so he can call her 8 years later and get his consciousness anchored. This phone call was just sob inducing.


Penny, you answered!

Des, where are you?

OMG, is that really you? I love you Penny,

I’ve always loved you. I’m so sorry. I love you!

I love you too!

I don’t know where I am, I promise I’ll come back to you, I promise.

I’ll find you Des, no matter what, I won’t give up.

I'm perfect.

Sigh!

This season is like heroin, I want more, I need more!
Bless you Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse! You are the masters!

Thursday, February 28, 2008

For Debbie and Carol

Just sayin'


Is it me or does Nichole Ritchie have a slightly desperate "I'm trapped!" look on her face? Cute baby though.

A weekend of stars!

Went to Comicon (or Wondercon, which ever you prefer) in San Francisco this past weekend with Jim, Debbie and Chuck and had a great time. The stars were out, let me tell you!

Gaze upon the celebrity...

Henry Thomas, Elliot from E.T.

Richard Hatch, my favorite from Battlestar Galactica

Lou Ferrigno!


Brian Posehn from the Sarah Silverman show and the Comedians of Comedy. (love the shirt!)

And Jim's favorite...


Actor and Director Jon Favreau (I believe he's looking at Debbie while I take this). He was there to discuss his new movie Ironman, which looks pretty good from the preview clip they showed us.

Good for Robert Downey Jr.!

We also saw Steve Carrell and Anne Hathaway discuss their new Get Smart movie, looked cute. I'll post a pic if and when I can figure out how to get one off the video camera.
John Cho (who will be the new Sulu in the new Star Trek movie) was there to discuss Harold and Kumar Escape Quantanamo. He's also trapped in the video camera.
Jim and I passed on seeing David Duchovney and Gillian Anderson talk about the new X-Files movie. I know, we're insane, but the crowds coming out of Get Smart were thick and I wasn't up to facing that again at the time. Debbie and Chuck enjoyed the chat though, maybe she can send a picture.

Here's a shot of the crowd leaving the Get Smart panel...



It was hard to imaging fighting that crowd again for Duchovney when we were already in the thick of this....


This area is what I called the Shopping Center. It was like being at an 80% off sale at Macy's only not quite as violent.
We had a good time though and are now better prepared to face it next year.

Cusick spills 'Lost' clues on Desmond, flashbacks, more

By William Keck, USA TODAY

Flashbacks are so … in the past. ABC's Lost (tonight, 9 p.m. ET/PT) is now all about flash-forwards. But then there is Desmond, whose scenes tonight are something else entirely. Henry Ian Cusick, 40, previews tonight's episode with USA TODAY.

Q: So is Desmond's episode tonight a flash-forward or flashback?
A: It's, uh … to be honest, it's neither. It's more in line with those time-travel flashes before his eyes. A lot of people either love the time-travel element or hate it.

Q: The last time we saw Desmond, he and Sayid were being taken by helicopter to the freighter, but it had been taking an unusually long time to arrive. What's up with that?
A: There's a reason for that, and you'll find that out in this episode. And you'll find out why it's so difficult to get to the island.





Q: With whom do we see Desmond interact?
A: You will see (Desmond's love) Penny and her father, Charles Widmore. You will also see Desmond back in the military. And you'll also meet a whole new bunch of guys on the freighter, who have been a whole lot of fun to work with.

Q: What was it like for you and Naveen Andrews (Sayid) working on that freighter out in the middle of the ocean?
A: We filmed off Barber's Point (the west coast of Oahu) — about 10 to 15 minutes offshore. Once you're there, you're stuck on the boat, so we all had to find places to sleep and hide to be out of the shots. We had days and days being on that freighter and had a few night shoots as well. Because Naveen and I are both from the U.K., we had a lot of things to talk about — like characters from crappy old TV shows from our childhoods.

Q: We are learning one by one who make up the Oceanic Six, so far revealed to be Jack, Hurley, Sayid, Kate and maybe (the show's not confirming) baby Aaron. Since Desmond was never on Flight 815, can we assume he does not turn out to be one of the six?
A: That's what all of us were trying to figure out when we were receiving the scripts. I think it suddenly dawned on us that you had to be an original passenger on the plane that went down to be an Oceanic Six.

Q: So tell us. Who is Ben's man on the freighter?
A: You find out, but not for a few episodes.


Woohoo! Des-centric episode tonight!

Unfortunately that rat bastard Charles Widmore will be making an appearance. Boo! Hate him!

That ain't right!

I'm so sad right now. Chris March was auf'd on the Project Runway Finale part 1. Rami should have been the one who went! Rami does a great job but Chris' collection was more impressive if you ask me. I loved his clothes! People made a big deal that he incorporated human hair into the designs. Why is that a problem? People wear extensions (and fur, which isn't kosher) all the time, why not wear them on your clothes? I thought it worked well and looked fab. Rami's clothes were nice but I just didn't find them that special. I think I saw at least 3 of those black gowns at the Oscars. And the one dress that Nina and Micheal thought was great...wtf? I thought it was interesting but not particularly attractive at all. Didn't find a pic but it's the second Rami pic below but thankfully hidden under a coat.

Chris's clothes on top

Rami's clothes underneath

This is the best pic I could find, but it's obvious Chris' clothes make more of a statement, they pop! You were denied Chris, denied! I'm insulted and heartbroken for you.

So, next week Rami, Jillian and Goku, I mean Christian show their collections. Kick butt Jillian!

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Dom gets a job...

From JustJared...




20th Century Fox has cast former Lost star Dominic Monaghan as Barnell Bohusk, aka Blackwing, in X-Men: Wolverine, sources reveal exclusively to JustJared.com.

According to Wiki, Barnell’s body changes into that of a humanoid-bird form, with a beaked face, bulbous eyes, wing-like arms that give him the ability to fly (albeit clumsily), talons on his hands and feet, and double-jointed knees. In mutant form, Blackwing also possesses heightened agility, and he may possess heightened senses and a lighter skeletal structure like the avian X-Man formerly known as the Angel (Ben Foster played this character in X3).

Monaghan, 31, be joining Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Liev Schreiber (Sabretooth), Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool), Taylor Kitsch (Gambit), Will.i.am (Kestrel), Danny Huston (William Stryker), and Lynn Collins (Silver Fox).

X-Men: Wolverine slashes its way into theaters on May 1, 2009.

Strike that!


Monaghan is Beak in Wolverine NOT BLACKBIRD


Beak was a mutant whose bones were light and hollow. His arms had begun to grow feathers, which when fully formed, may have allowed him to fly. He could at the mean time glide and fly for short distances with great effort. Beak also had enhanced eyesight along with talons on his hands and feet. Even though Beak had bird-like qualities, it was extremely difficult for him to fly.





Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Dropping the ball...

Okay, I suppose if I'm going to have a blog I may want to think about actually blogging something.


Lost was excellent last week. No time to really go in to detail, (Oceanic 6 member Sayid is killing people in Europe for Ben in the flashforwards, Daniel and his trusty rocket discover that time on the island seems to be a bit cockeyed and dead Naomi is getting more screen time this season than Sun and Jin) but I will share what I thought was the most intriguing reveal of the entire episode...



Sigh, look at that chest!
When Desmond is happy, I'm happy.

Monday, February 4, 2008

Finally! A new Lost!

It wouldn’t be my blog if I didn’t talk about Lost, so here’s my recap of the season 4 premiere episode. Not bad at all.

In a flash forward we learn that apparently 6 of the survivors leave the island. Due to an unfortunate encounter with a spoiler I was already aware of the Oceanic 6. We knew Jack and Kate left the island from last season’s finale and now we know that Hurley left the island as well. The island didn’t seem to leave him though as he gets a surprise visit from “I’m dead, but I’m also here” Charlie. Ya see, Hurley was in a convenience store to buy some jerky and a Slushy when Charlie appeared to him in front of the Ho-hos. Hurley freaks out and knocks over a display and this somehow leads to a major car chase that ends in Hurley’s arrest. While in custody, Hurley sees a vision of Dead Charlie swimming in the interrogation room two-way and after another freak out happily accepts an invitation back to Santa Rosa where he is visited by Mr. Matthew Abaddon. (Abaddon can mean destruction or an underworld abode of lost souls- neat!). Mr. Abaddon asks Hurley “are they still alive?”. Very mysterious indeed. They? Who might they be? We don’t know yet. We do know that ‘they’ need Hurley to go back to the island because Charlie shows up again, looking very cute for a corpse, and tells Hurley that they need him. Hurley doesn’t want to hear it and wishes him away.



A slightly too thin Jack shows up at the asylum to visit Hurley after seeing the car chase on tv while making an early morning screw driver. I like a bloody mary myself but oranges seemed to be used a lot in this show so I guess they want to stick with the theme or maybe Jack is just out of celery. So he visits Hurley and they start to play HORSE but Jack evidently sucks at basketball and quickly gets and H and and O. Ho? Remember the Ho-hos? There’s a lot of hos in this show! H and O happen to be the 8th and 15th letters of the alphabet so they could be just part of the numbers it possibly mean the chemical symbol for Holmium as has been theorized. Anyway, Jack is really there to find out if Hurley has told anyone ‘the big secret’. This secret has to do with the lie they are living under since returning to society. The world was told that flight 815 crashed (intact) in a deep ocean trench and all survivors died. Somehow these 6 were rescued (for lack of a better word at this point) and are living as celebrities and heroes but the story of the island doesn’t seem to have come out. They are lying about it for some reason known only to themselves and the creators of the show. Hurley believes they have made a huge mistake and his guilt is starting to get the best of him wants to go back but Jack isn’t buying it…yet. We know he’ll change his vodka tinged mind soon enough. Never say never Jack!

Island time was rather interesting. Hurley found out Charlie was dead and that was very sad, especially since he just did a joy filled cannonball into the ocean. Nothing will ruin the joy of a good cannonball faster than finding out your only really buddy on the uncharted island of mystery died while turning off the jamming device in the underwater station because a gorgeous, prescient Scotsman told him he was going to. Man I hate that! While heading back with the beach group to warn Jack that the freighter people aren’t who they say they are, Hurley gets separated from the rest of the group and ends up at Jacob’s wacky shack where he sees Jack’s dead father and gets a close up of Jacob’s eyeball. Guess what happens next? Yep, Hurley freaks out! He runs screaming from the shack only to have it reappear in front of him again. Still freaking, he closes his eyes and manages to wish the shack away only to open his eyes and have Locke looming over him.
Now, earlier in the episode we found out that Kate tried to follow Locke after he killed Naomi, but could not find any sign of him, he had just disappeared. Now we know Kate is omnipotent and can just do anything she sets her pretty mind to, including tracking a man through the jungle. The fact that she couldn’t find any sign of him though she managed to find both of Naomi’s tracks (yes, even though Naomi was bleeding from the knife wound) leads me to wonder what’s up with Mr. Locke. Why didn’t he leave any tracks? Why did he show up right after Hurley wished away Jacob’s wacky shack? Why isn’t he suffering any affects of the bullet hole in his side from when Ben shot him only hours before? Answer me!

The camp divides into two groups but not before Jack attempts to shoot Locke in the head with his own gun. Aw, that was harsh! Jack sucker punches Locke and while Locke’s down Jack grabs the gun and aims at Locke’s head. As Locke is in the middle of saying “You’re not going to shoot me Jack”, Jack shoots! Uh oh, no more buwwets! Jack’s mad.



Hurley tells Jack and Locke that he’s not listening to either of them, he’s listening to Charlie and going to the barracks with Locke. Ben wants to go to so Danielle grabs his leash and they side with Locke’s group. Rose doesn’t want to go with ‘that man’ Locke, she wants to go with trigger happy Jack. Sun is happy because she thinks she’s going to have her baby in the hospital so she goes with Jack and Claire is sad because Charlie is dead and she’ll never be able to ‘treat him real good’ like Rose told her to but she too goes with Jack. How will she ever find out that he’s her half brother if she doesn’t?
Oh yeah, Sawyer left Kate to go with Locke and she gets mad. (yawn) Hopefully the two groups are more clearly spelled out next episode because there are a few people who’s loyalty hasn’t been determined yet.

My questions after this episode are:
What’s up with Locke not leaving a trail and just showing up out of thin air? With this the question, did Hurley really get separated from the group or was he intentionally brought to Jacob’s shack?
Why are they lying about the crash and not telling anyone about the island?
What does Matthew “Demon of Destruction” Abaddon want with the infamous ‘they’?
Why was Jack’s dead dad in Jacob’s shack?
Why would Hurley apologize to Jack about taking Locke’s side but then say they made a mistake? It’s been set up that Jack is making a mistake in contacting the freighter folks, but why is Hurley sorry for going with Locke?

Easter eggs and things to probably pay attention to”
§ Hurley’s Eskimo painting.
§ Charlie’s hand in Hurley’s jail vision reads “They need you”.
§ Island drawing on Santa Rosa chalkboard.

Well, there’s my little recap. It’s my first so be gentle. If you don’t understand it and have no idea what I’m talking about, you’re probably not watching the show and I don’t know what to tell you. If you are watching the show and still have no idea what I’m talking about, I still don’t know what to tell you.

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Woohoo! Annyong!

From Watch With Kristen at Eonline...
(The adorable) Jason Bateman Confirms Arrested Development Movie Talks.




"This just might be the best news we Arrested fans have heard in a very long time.
(The adorable) Jason Bateman has just confirmed to me that the creative minds behind Arrested Development (Mitch Hurwitz and Ron Howard) have put the wheels in motion toward a major motion picture of the Fox TV comedy so many of us adore. I'm told by insiders that Jason and other Bluth family members have received calls from producers (Hurwitz and Howard) asking if they would be willing to shoot a movie.
"I can confirm that a round of sniffing has started," Bateman says. "Any talk is targeting a poststrike situation, of course. I think, as always, that it's a question of whether the people with the money are willing to give our leader, Mitch Hurwitz, what he deserves for his participation. And I can speak for the cast when I say our fingers are crossed."
Jeffrey Tambor also revealed on XM Radio's the Ron and Fez Show that he has been approached by Ron Howard to see if he's willing to do an Arrested film.
For the record, both (The adorable) Jason and Jeffrey's answers were: Hells yeah. And I hear from other sources that other castmembers were called and that everyone seems to be very much on board and excited by the prospect.
Insiders also tell me that while creator Mitch Hurwitz does not yet have a script, he has a good, solid understanding of what he'd like to do for the movie, and Universal is very much interested.
And so it seems that a few good—wait, no, outrageously amazing—things just might come out of this unfortunate writers' strike, as the creative minds in this town have had time to pause, regroup and think about their dream projects.
And an Arrested movie is a pretty great dream, is it not? So, let's join our crossed fingers with the rest of the cast.
"

Oh please, oh please, oh please let this become a reality! I need a fresh dose of Bluthness.
If you've never seen this show, I weep for your loss. Run out right now (now dammit, now!) and rent all the seasons and lock yourself in your home and watch every mother loving second. This show is art people. F***ing art I tell you! Where else are you going to hear Ron Howard say "real sticky weed"?

Friday, February 1, 2008

She's F***ing Matt Damon!

I love love love this video! Sarah Silverman pays a truly touching and heartfelt tribute to her man Jimmy Kimmel with the following video.



I think I just developed a small crush on Matt Damon.
Okay, that link isn't working any longer. Google the video, you'll be glad you did!

The Quotable Husband

Jim's thoughts on Stephen Fry...

"He is just one funny motherf***er!"

Coming soon!

Testing testing, is this thing on?