converting the lost to lost

hoping to get back on the blogging again for some more updates and i've been meaning todo a post on lost for a while.

so season 6 is just about to kick off and i don't think i've ever been as excited for a tv series to start again, but it will really suck once the season ends and it sets in that we'll never get a new episode of lost to look forward to. i really don't think there will be another show like lost for a long time.

i've been a big fan of this show since it started back in 2004 when i accidently downloaded it thinking it was the cool channel 4 reality show of the same name but when i started watching it really wasn't what i was expecting. so i went into this series knowing literally nothing. no adverts, teasers, trailers. i'd never heard of it (this was when it first aired in the usa, way before it aired on uk tv). but the pilot episode worked really well at grabbing my attention (as you'd hope for "the most expensive pilot in television history" - which it was at the time).

the only problem with the pilot episode is it kinda leads people to believe it's just jurassic park: the tv series because it only shows enough to suggest that. it so is not that. it's actually a million times more interesting than a jurassic park tv series could ever be. so don't be fooled by the pilot episode.

if you were sold enough by season 1 the opener to season 2 was probably one of the best openers on a tv series - ever. i love that this show just raises so many questions (although too many without answers can get frustrating) but it's all part of the fun. lost is so unlike any other show out there and it's down to it's online theories and discussions on the questions it raises. sure it gets pretty geeky from there onwards but i love that you can either watch the show on face value to delve deeper and go online.

even being a big fan of the series since the beginning i'll admit it did seem to stumble a little during it's thrid season but if you stick with it, seasons four and five more than make up for it. seriously i was really enjoying the series but after season four onwards this shit got really good!

a few fan sites i regularly check out are:
http://darkufo.blogspot.com
http://the-odi.blogspot.com
and http://www.docarzt.com

they provide news, theories, podcasts, forums and optional spoilers (if that's what your into).
and all three can be followed on twitter for regular site updates.

i also highly recommend checking out seanie b's youtube channel. he does some great lost secrets and recap videos that also give some good theories and talk about things you might have missed or forgotten about. he also runs his own web site over at www.lostvideorecaps.com


anyway i really cannot recommend this show enough. if you don't catch up in time to get with the excitement of next weeks episode and online talk while there's new stuff to come, it's your loss. but i know that it will really damage the experience once all 6 seasons have aired and people just starting lost will be able to just look up answers to some of the many questions from the show.

in the mean time check out this weeks o.d.i lost podcast. if you're into lost as much as i am you should find it quite interesting.

glastonbury 2009 round up

the first and arguably the biggest music festival of the year just ended this weekend and it looked pretty awesome as always. i didn't actually go this year (two main reasons: the lineup for the most part didn't appeal much to me and i had no way of getting there or back) but i did go last year and had a really great time. glastonbury seems to be famous for it's weather issues (i don't understand why they don't move the festival to july/august time) but it seems both this year and last year seem to have been pretty varied but mostly dry, from what i saw anyway and i saw alot.

i spent most of the weekend watching the bbc coverage which i really can't fault. 6music had full coverage all weekend just playing live music from the festival with an extra weekend dose of adam and joe - 6music ftw! they also showed a wide selection of all the good bands and the stuff i wasn't really interested in on bbc 2 and 3, but with the red button stuff too at least i could pick and choose who i wanted to see and when. the only way the bbc could have done a better job would be to replace the retarded hosts (bring back adam and joe!) or do away with the hosts altogether and just play some bands. nobody gives a fuck edith! nobody is watching this for your awkward "banter" with reggie dickhead yates! get back to the music already!

one of the particular highlights for me would have to be pendulum. i saw them live last year at the reading festival and that was a pretty incredible experience. i wouldn't even say i'm that big of a pendulum fan but live they are immense! really get the crowd going, check them out:

quick list of other bands there that i thought looked really good live: bloc party, yeah yeah yeahs, kasabian, prodigy, fleet foxes, the ting tings, maximo park, franz ferdinand, doves and friendly fires. that said some of these i'll be seeing at reading festival this year :)

one of the things that put me off going this year most was the headliners. don't get me wrong a diverse lineup is probably one of glastonbury's biggest strengths but this year's just didn't appeal much for me. except one.

blur was probably the first band i actually liked when i was young so i was looking forward to seeing what they'd do. i know alot of their songs but there's so many you forget and seeing them performed live it just looked awesome. they played 24 songs in total and ended on the universal.

probably not my favorite blur song but that's the only clip i could find :)

to see more of glastonbury be sure to check out more on the iplayer while it's online or i think it'll be on bbc 3 during the week too.

after seeing the highlights i'd say i'm pretty set on going next year regardless of the lineup (which normally isn't announced till the tickets sellout anyway). plus i think next year is the 40th glastonbury festival so they should have something special planned.

see ya there! :D

eastbound and down

i love this show and can't seem to find many people who have seen it. eastbound and down is a comedy that aired earlier this year on u.s tv. it stars danny mcbride as kenny powers a has been professional baseball pitcher trying to make a comeback. will ferrell and craig robinson also make a few guest appearances through the short first season (but a second season has been ordered).

if you like your comedies give this a go. there's only six episodes in the first season and each episode is only about half an hour long but they are very funny.

i've even found some download links so you have no excuse.

aren't you lucky!

episode 1 | episode 2 | episode 3episode 4 | episode 5 | episode 6

mtv movie shawards

after hearing about bruno's entrance i figured i'd check out the mtv movie awards. in the past they've done a few good parodies (matrix reloaded and mission impossible 2 spring to mind) but overall it just feels like a big corporate advert and opportunity for all the 12 year old girls to scream about the dick from twilight or the twat from high school musical (this got real annoying, real fast). don't get me wrong i knew going in this wasn't gunna be the oscars but seriously your doing a (rigged) text vote (is there any other kind these days?) for best movie between the dark knight, slumdog millionare, iron man, high school musical 3 and twilight? maybe it's just my opinion but the first three are kind of in an entirely different league.

make even more annoying by the numerous stupid sponcers messages before the actual adverts. after plugging the best movie text vote it cut to a group the stereotypical dumb "sweet 16" girls voting for twilight all from the same t-mobile phone (one of the sponcers of the show of course). obviously the 12 year old girls prevailed and twilight won best movie. the whole thing just felt so staged and fake. awards shows shouldn't be like this.

that said it wasn't all bad. i thought the host adam samberg came off pretty well (so to speak - not to be confused with jizz in my pants) and i loved hot rod so he seemed a good choice for a host. i loved the idea of using keyboard cat to rap up speeches that overun - this should become a rule for all speeches everywhere in my opinion.

the "cool guys don't look at explosions" song featuring will ferrell was pretty good too and jj abrams keyboard solo was great, and should feature somewhere in the last season of lost.

ben stiller's award introduction was pretty funny with kiefer sunderland breaking down but i was a bit disappointed with triumph the insult comic dog. he just felt uber toned down and out of character really - more auto-cue fakeness i guess, which should actually be the tagline of the show.

always good to see kings of leon live, but they did seem like an odd choice for the target audience of the show which i felt pretty alienated from what with all the twilight bullshit. maybe they were just trying cover all their bases.

as for the whole eminem/bruno thing it was the highlight and probably the funniest bit of the show even if it was all staged which is pretty much guarenteed judging by the rest of the show.

so overall that was the mtv movie awards and to me the shittness pretty much outweighed the good stuff so i can't really recommend watching it unless the dick from twilight makes you moist/jizz in your pants. otherwise watch the highlights and invest the rest of you time doing something more constructive. like burn the rope.

cassetteboy vs the bloody apprentice

found this today and thought it was great. so check it out!
presenting... sir alan sugar. sir alan sugar. sir, alan sugar...