LOST BLOG: Comic Con Panel and Cloverfield news!

HEY LOST BLOG!!!!!

I am back y’all and I’m back y’all and I’m biggity back and I’m BACK Y’ALL! And here to bring you some huge news from this years COMIC CON ’07! Did I go? NO! But who needs you when you have friends who do, and you get to see Le Vie En Rose with your wife at the Enzian Theater! Let’s get into it guys because we have shitloads to tackle and I will keep my spazmatic excitement to a minimal.

PONG IS FOR SISSYS, LET’S GET LOST!
First off, let’s FINALLY talk about what I as a HUGE gamer have beenn waiting for. No puzzles pieces to lose behind the couch, no fake Rachel Blake to follow to find out her father IS the LOST EXPEIRENCE, and NO!!!! I-Pod games please. Let’s talk UBISOFT’s LOST: GAME for PC (blah), PS3 and XBOX360!!!! Well I don’t want to type anymore, so let the WHISPERS begin…

Trailer ufficiale del videogioco di Lost
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Yup! Red wires! Locke thinking! Puzzles! Caves! Black Smoke! The MURAL in the HATCH! Locke playing with the numbers! Sawyers Book of the Month Club! This game has it all as I see it. And I think that’s all we are seeing until….drumroll please….early…2008! Yup! 2000 friggin 8! Why? Ya big dummys!

Onto our next topic which is going to take up all this blog post I’m thinking and that’s the PANEL at COMIC with DAMON and CARLTON. Things got weird with audio there, but once things got started, it got a little out of hand!

SPOILERS!!! I think?! But SPOILERS

COMIC CON: LOST: Panel PANIC!

So, Damon and Carlton came out first and not much but announcement of the LOST: Video Game.

Then, after that, let’s just get to the good stuff.

QandA
Question of violence in the finale and how much power do the writers have. Their reactions were in Season 1 there was a great deal of violence and the writers and producers are very collective.

Next question was: What happened to MICHAEL!?!?

Let’s talk about Walt and why we saw him help Locke out of the Dharma Grave Pit, some might say to help bring Michael back into the mix. But, who was in the coffin? COME ON! It’s Michael!!! But Carlton and Damon had a guest with them and let’s just announce it already, I’m sure you heard ALL about it…Harrold Perrineau, Jr. had a seat next to Damon. Yes, Michael is back. So here is LOST BLOG’s B.QUAIN’S PREDICTION: Michael is in the coffin, so we will go more Flash PRESENT if you will, to see what happens to Michael, and I feel he will fight his way BACK to the island, but “someone” will kill Michael. Michael wants his BOY, but they took Walt back and made Michael go back home and put into a mental hospital. See where I am going with this?

Okay...back to the panel.

Some questions were asked, poorly may I add, and the answers came right at after, poorly as we expect. Somethings to mention are…

1) Ben got captured by the Losties, by accident…we will be seeing more.
2) Jack and Claire, the brother and sister connection, will they ever find out…Season 4 looks good!
3) More flashforwards? Both for Season 4, flash forwards and backs.
4) Richard Alpert? No so much in Season 4.
5) Libby? Very much more in Season ?, there’s a story to tell
6) A great question was “What questions should WE be asing?” and Carlton and Damon said, “Who is in the coffin”, “Who are Adam and Eve”, “Who was on Penny’s “not so Penny’s” boat, and Are Nikki and Paolo really dead?”

They thanked everyone for coming out and then it ended with another Orientation Film introducing Station 6: The Orchid!

Marvin Candle comes on, with a labcoat of course, but NO Dharma logo and says his name is something like “Edward Hourwicks”. There is this conversation between him and the camera manbefore they start rolling if you will. Candle/Hourwicks starts arguing he’s “a scientist, not an actor”. A rabbit is handed to him with the Number 15 on it’s back and starts talking about “Welcome to Station #6: The Orchid”. He also indicated “Sorry I have lied to them and their families, but the station is NOT botanical in nature, As you know there are unique properties about he Island”, then things start shaking and falling. They pan to a rabbit on the shelf, it cuts off…back to normal it has a message saying “Welcome To Station 6. But spliced into it has subliminal shots of “Jacob Loves YOU”…CUT!

That was it! There is new LOST news until the boys start up the PODCASTS, well I don’t know when, I’m thinking when the show starts, but we have DVD’s coming on Dec. 11th.

Thanks everyone for the LOST news…but here is something we have YET to tckle on this LOST BLOG and that’s Mr Man JJ ABRAMS new project before LOST and STAR TERK come to us next year, and that’s 1-18-08, or as others like to call it CLOVERFIELD

Most of you know what this is…and wowowow! But I do have something to show you that I think, very much like the trailer we have seen, will blow your mind.



That’s the poster! Beautiful! Can’t wait to hear more and see more on this. I know it’s right up our alley, so spoilers and other “I know I know’s” I will be ignoring. I want to be surprised. Plus, it comes out on the day before my birthday, so it’s a sweeeeeeeeeeeeet gift!

Thanks guys! I need to get to work. Enjoy the blog and let’s get excited! We have LOST to talk about!

b.quain

TOP TEN OF THE WEEK: Harry Potter, Documentaries, World Series of Pop Culture, and MORE!

1) FREEHELD - Florida Film Festival and HBO's "Shelter Dogs" director Cynthia Wade has brought us yet another tear jerker and brilliant story of love and compassion. A story of a police officer, Laurel Hester, for 20+ years discovers she has 3rd stage lung cancer and she would like to give her partner Stacie her pension when she dies. Living in Orange County in New Jersey, who's Freeholders REFUSE to make the decision to help her and her partner. The compelling story and amazing story were a great reason it was a Sundance's Special Jury Prize winner. We we're able to see this film in a two part documentary special screening at the Enzian for Cynthia's film and friend of the festival Alice Elliot's "Soul and Body

2) BODY and SOUL: Diana & Kathy - Click the title to go to the website. Amazing documentary from a great friend of the Florida Film Festival and a woman who introduced me to a saint with her film "The Collector of Bedford Street." Amazing documentary and you heard it here first (as we saw the World Premiere of the film), BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT Oscar Nomination. We will find out in January. The story was very sweet of Diana who has down syndrome, and she has been taking care of Kathy for 34 years, who has cerebral palsy. A must see when the film comes to your town.

3) HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX - Amazing!!!1 that's all! Amazing. Very sad, very touching, very amazing page turner. Of course I am reading the 7th book right now…so what am I doing typing this.


4) ED BANGER RECORDS Vol. 2 - Sebastian, Uffie, Justice, Busy B, Mr. Ozio, just watch the clip and that's all you need to know. Hard as hell beats and the greatest music to do ANYTHING to. Mr. Ozio, you've come along way since the days of Flat Eric.

5) COCAINE COWBOYS - The Miami Vice of all documentaries. Netflix this baby now! Trust me! Does get a little long in parts, but very very great doc on drugs in Miami and money laundering in the 70's and 80's.

6) SOPRANOS: SEASON 2/Disc 1 - My only problem with this season right now is that Tony smokes in the house. No believable. BUT, we are one the 5th episode of the season, and very very very well done. We got to Peter Bogdanovich playing himself as a psychiatrist. Very funny. But, cigar smoking in the house, NO…no way. Speaking of cigars.

7) OLIVA - Very good cigar, not so good promotion they had at the Corona Cigar Bar. 3Buy 3 Get One Free was alright, because the one they were giving away tasted nice! I think this Top Ten blog might have the cigar of the week. Ha! Three weeks in a row!

8) ANTHONY BOURDAINE: NO RESERVATIONS - Marathon tonight, MARATHON TONIGHT!!!!! I have been watching some of this genius over the week!!! So good. Travel Channel all evening!!!! Go watch! New Season July 30th!

9) WORLD SERIES OF POP CULTURE - Very very very fun once again to watch the series and after the first episode, the "we should have been on there"'s ended. Seems like a lot of fun to be there and it would have been amazing to be part of it. I would have looooooved to play against "Twisted Misters" and shit talk, but still a fun season. GO TWISTED MISTERS!!!! We haven't finished it yet, were in the QUATERFINALS…so NO SPOILERS. We will finish tonight!



10) VANESSA AND BRIAN ON VH-1's WORLD SERIES OF POP CULTURE - Yup, our 15 frames of fame guys. That was Vanessa and I on the World Series Of Pop Culture this week on VH1. It was weird to start watching the World Series Of Pop Culture Year Two since how bizarre the test taking and auditions were. But, it was nice to see Vanessa and I, two out of the three team members that made the greatest Florida team AIR GUITAR HEROS. Thanks to Jason for still making the getting there fun, but no thanks to producers for making it cheap and very cold. Damn my hair was short, and YES, that isn't a fat face, the TV adds pounds. Sorry i took these off the I-Phone from the TV, ha! If i can get screencaps for LOST, i think i can do it for Vanessa and I, haha!

That's it for the week. I do have some honorable mentions like Fantasy Football (soccer) is UP and having fun. 2 and a half weeks and we go to the EPL and LIVERPOOL to win the Title! GO BOYS!

Not much but I did LOOOOVE this site. BYS . Click, it's kinda cool…countdowns and film! Sept. 08, '07??!?! I like!

Hope you like the list! I will have a huuuuge post this week, but for now, enjoy!

b.quain

TOP TEN of the WEEK: E3, Avo, Joshua, Harry Potter, Zelda and more!

1) HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX - This week it’s the film that’s getting onto the TOP 10. And next week will be Half Blood Prince I’m sure, and then the week after that will be Deathly Hallows. Ha! The film was the best since “…Chamber of Secrets” and I’m sure you’ve seen it already since it’s made the most money in film history, blah blah blah. ENJOY IT!


2) THE POLICE - When was the last time I saw a concert outdoors? The show was what I expected of an outdoor show and a huge band like The Police. Good times. They played for an hour and 50 minutes. We know the hits, so let’s stay away from those. But I got to hear “Truth Hits Everyone”, “Invisible Sun”, “So Lonely”, “Bed’s Too Big Without You”, “Synchronicity II”, and weeeird show closer “Next To You.” I had a blast with the drive up and down from Orlando with Buz and Summer and great times inside the stadium with Jeremy and his wife Andrea for the show. We had a blast.

3) MOJO CHICKEN - Great times on Saturday night. Our friends Jon and Jill made us dinner. So good. We had so much fun with these guys and we looove getting to know these guys. After dinner we decided to hit the Corona Cigar Co., where we able to catch up with Avo again.

4) AVO LEGACY - Our friend Brian met up with us at the cigar bar and I actually got to FINALLY try Avo’s Legacy. How is it this man makes such great cigars? Such a great man and such a great smoke. I suggest one if you care for a smoke.

5) E3 - GREAT GREAT GREAT announcements at this years ULTIMATE gamers convention. All three major studios come out to make some great announcements that I would like to post, if I can, in tomorrows blog. Microsoft needed some push, Sony had some GREAT titles I would love to give into, and NINTENDO blew my mind with a new idea and some titles we’ve grown up on. Speaking of…

6) ZELDA and THE TWILIGHT PRINCESS - I FINALLY started playing Zelda. I bought this when it came out, but I have always been so intimidated on the fact we were going to play as Link (of course), but this time we have to control him as if we were really playing him. INTENSE. But the game is so good. SOOOO GOOD! I will post more soon as I get farther.

7) LIVERPOOL - 3 – 0 win this weekend for our boys in RED! First game of the season in a friendly and gave us hope on a clean sheet for Reina. 3 weeks away…I can hardly stand it!


8) JOSHUA - Pretty friggin’ creepy. Birth control in a movie, worse than Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist, or even The Good Son. Sam Rockwell was amazing, and deserves more than what he is getting in this film. No one has even mentioned how well he’s performing, since we haven’t seen him since “Hitchhickers Guide To The Galaxy”, right? Watch the trailer…pretty crazy.

9) LOGAN - Not Joshua in ANY way, shape or form. Ha! This kid is amazing. The last two times we hung out with Levi and Kim, he’s has always been on his best behavior, and such a great kid. Being two months married, it’s hard looking at Logan and thinking we need to wait on having a kid. Ha! Levi and Kim are the best parents and deserve such a great kid! Congrats you two! Speaking of Levi, Kim, and Logan!

10) SEA WORLD - LOST BLOG 1st anniversary meet-up was in effect yesterday. Ha! Actually Levi, Kim, Logan, Karen, her family, and Vanessa and I met up yesterday for a day in the sea. Sea World actually. It was amazing. Karen is real and very much like she is on the blogs and comments. The energy was amazing and her family so friggin incredible. We had so much fun and made the best of the 95+ degree sun and heat. It was great yesterday and all the talk of life, love, and LOST, it was amazing. I just need to start re-watching LOST and catching up with everyone. Thanks guys and lots of love to all of us. Amazing times yesterday!

Okay, that’s it…I am putting this up. We have made it to the Top Ten of last week. This weeks Top Ten will be kind of slow I think. Taking it easy, but it’s a lot of music, and movies to come.

b.quain

E3: Press Conferences: NINTENDO, SONY, and MICROSOFT...which one reigns SUPREME?!?

PRESS CONFERENCES (in order)

MICROSOFT – Well well. Most of you didn’t think we’d see a new console. Oh the contrary. But, don’t lose your lunch so soon. Halo 3 is the big news and of course they wouldn’t have it any other way but to mix that console and that mega million selling franchise into one. The HALOBOX360 I guess we can call it will be debuting in 11 weeks. Enjoy. Halo and I have never been a Crocket and Tubbs, Captain and Tenille, or a Turner and Hooch. So I will be passing on the Halo360. I like that better.
I’m not going to say that the Microsoft was so unbelievable, at time very boring. Seems like we would be getting all these trailers sometime in the spand of two week on Attack Of The Show instead of two hours at the conference. But we got it. And I like it. But what was I looking for? FABLE 2!!!!! I didn’t get it in this press conference, but I think we have some AMAZING titles to look out for. Let’s count because they ALL come out in 2008! YES! All 30 new titles will come out by 2008!!!!!

Get those Xmas bonuses, cause we have a TOP 10 that you NEED! In the NEXT BLOG! I will be doing a E3: GAMES blog! This is just the Press Conferenes. But I will tell you. Some announcements. Here is how Microsoft makes it ROLL!



Peter Moore plays with Harmonix and Rock Band. Yes, as some of you know te Guitar Hero franchise and Harmonix have BLOWN up to a four piece and it looks AMAZING! Guitar, Bass, Vocals and DRUMS…this $150 dollar game will also have ALL INSTRUMENTS.

Then they announce a HUGE list of games in a trailer. 30 games to be exact!
Project Gotham Racing 4 - racing, that looks STUNNING, enjoy, I won’t be buying.
MASS EFFECT - I will be posting TONS on this game. I will be buying.
Dynasty Warrior: Gundam - Nope
Fatal Inertia - don’t remember much, sorry
CALL OF DUTY 4: Modern Warfare - AMAZING! A+++++ more to come!
Metal Of Honor: Airbourne - YES OH YES! More to come!
Stranglehold - Chow Yun Fat! Enough said!
Tiger Woods PGA ‘08 - Golf!
Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock - Yeah! Uh, yeah! MORE TO COME! Friggin GREAT!
Ace Combat 6 - you fly, so maybe PS3 might be better is launched on that console.
Beautiful Katamari - Finally for Xbox! Should be great!
NHL ‘08 - Hockey!
Lost Odyssey - Should be UNBELIEVABLE. I will get into more in games.
Assassin’s Creed - WOW! Stunning and looks crazy! I wanna play NOW!
NBA Live ‘08 - Basketball! Where’s the Base’ketball game?
Spiderman: Friend or Foe - nah! Nothing too special.
The Simpsons Game - Looks adorable and fun. Maybe!
Splinter Cell Conviction - I need to catch up on the other ones.
NASCAR ‘08 - I’d rather drive in GTA IV.
Eternal Sonata - Yeah? No? YES! Look at this thing! Coming soon.
BIOSHOCK - Of course!
Madden ‘08 - I want the real football!
Tony Hawk: Proving Ground - eh, nope, maybe not!
Crash of the Titans - Not too into the whole Crash Bandacoot, but I think them kids love him!
Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix - Get it on the Wii, you ARE a WIZARD HARRY!
Orange Box : Is this Half Life 2?
Bee Movie : Jerry Seinfeld and video games don’t mix!
ROCK BAND!!!! - Keep up with em and you will know EVERYTHING ROCK BAND!
Naruto: Rise of the Ninja: Get your headband and play, but not me. Not too into anime. Sorry!

There are the games, and some, well A LOT I have a feeling I will be purchasing this year, and money will go into this console instead of the PS3 I don’t have. But I still have tomorrow to decide if I need this PS3. Wait, uh, I just noticed. NO FABLE 2!!!!! What the shit is this? NO FABLE 2!?!?!?! Grrr…

Microsoft also announces they are now partners with Disney/Touchstone to release ALL
Disney films (exclude Song of the South, I’m sure) and TV for download in HD. Yup! You guessed it. No Netflix needed. Just download. See how this goes and we might be seeing more TV through Xbox, making cable obsolete. Also for the family, Scene It with it’s remote and gaming. Excellent!

Madden, Fifa, blah blah EA. Twice as fast in real time. Great! Quain’s Liverpool will take over I bet ya!

XBOXLive as also opened up the Arcade and Sega has teamed up to put out some oldies and original downloads to the XBOX. As of now, you can download Golden Axe and Sonic.


Greatest things I saw in the press conference. GAMES wise: Assassin’s Creed!!! WOW! A+ Trailer. Call of Duty: Modern Warefare…holy moly…a must! A+ Trailer and game play! Mass Effect…patiently waiting A+, game play EVEN BETTER! Very excited.

Done for today, so let’s go to…

NINTENDO – Next day was Nintendo and Sony’s turn and wow did Nintendo throw us for a HUUUUGE loop. FAT ASS USA might not dig what I think may be the greatest thing to hit the E3 floors since, uh, well, lemme think, I guess, EVER. Nintendo launched some great titles. But weren’t we expecting them all. YES! But have we seen them before, well, ummm, YES! So why was it so good the? I mean we saw Super Mario Galaxy last year, and some Metriod Prime Wii, even Mario Kart we’ve seen since the Nintendo 64. Looks the same guys, and even has that damn old feature of Classic Tracks. But I LOOOOOOOVE them. Mario kart is too damn good. And as Vanessa just said, “if it damn broke, then don’t fix it!” Agreed. The idea of Wii Motes and the introduction of…well shit, let’s just get into shall we.


MARIO KART Wii - WAS ANNOUNCED! And it will be in 1st quarter 2008, but the HUMDINGER of it all was the fact that this baby will have the ability to have controls via WiiWheel! THE WiiWHEEL! Amazing. When you stick that cute little WiiMote in and zoom away. Oh man! The game play looks the same, but very very soon, Nintendo will announce how many characters get to drive this time around, and they said it’s MASSIVE! Whoohooo!


SUPER MARIO GALAXY - Uh, yeah, wow! This one looks just has hard as Super Mario Sunshine, and if anyone remembers that one, watch out TV’s and WiiMotes. My Wavebird almost met my TV a few times when trying to beat Level One of Sunshine. Oye. So hard, but this game looks so so so amazing. WoW! So happy to think that THIS YEAR, yes I said it, actually November 12th is the release date! WHAT? Huh? Yeah! Uh! That’s right! Get those WiiMotes charged cause I see HOURS of game play and fun times in this game.

GHOST SQUAD - Uh, Sega has a new game coming out. Haha! Sega, remember those guys who put out, Dreamcast….GOD I MISS THAT CONSOLE! Still got it! But these guys are putting out a game for the Wii that needs no WiiMote or WiiWheel, nor any Nunchuck for that matter. How do you play you ask…well with the FRIGGIN’ WiiZAPPER! Yup! The WiiZAPPER which will be coming out before the year, and fits your WiiMote and Nunchuck in there to make a gun and you zap your terrorists away in this first person shooter. Resident Evil will be easier with it, and so will Duck Hunt…I kid! I mean, Medal of Honor! Yeah! Seriously amazing. The controller will cost $19.99 and come with it’s OWN GAME!!!! YEAH BOY!


Some other cool features to mention before I go nuts with one of the greatest ideas EVER in gaming history. Nintendo will be launching WiiWare soon, cool gadgets and good times for your Wii. Also, the MiiChannel, where you will be able to home more Mii’s, download games for them, and contests on making the coolest Mii.

140 games will be launched for your DS by 2009, and 100 for the Wii by the same time. DS?!?! Did we forget to mention the biggest console ever…well not size, but in quantity! The DS has been 55 million sold ALL over the world and making it the most bought console ever! Some games coming out. High School Musical, Madden, FIFA, Brain Age 2 (Aug. 20), Dragon Quest, Smackdown/RAW, Mario Sonic Olympic Games…few of those for the Wii as well. But one that’s not for Wii is the highly anticipated release of Zelda: Phantom HourGlass which was the biggest selling game in Japan. Expect it to be just as huge and SO AMAZING, as you play the game with Stylus and your brain to solve all the dungeon puzzles and monsters.

Let’s get back to the Wii, I have some MAJOR NEWS!

METRIOD PRIME 3 - Good times good times GOOOOOOD TIMES! In the Zelda for Wii, we we’re able to become Link with the WiiMote, and I always wondered what I would look like as a girl (not really, but let me have my fantasies OK!?!?!), and we leave it to Nintendo to finally let me be a girl, and KICK ASS GIRL at that! We get to play as Samus in what seems like the same setting as the Gamecube, but this time we control everything with our WiiMotes. The greatest thing ever in the Grand Theft Auto series was when they perfected the shooting aspect of the game when holding down the R2 button and you lock on your target, well the Z button in this will help you the same way. The game play of this one was great and THANK YOU Nintendo for showing us this game, but when can I play? Oh Aug. 27th! YUP! Get those Wii’s NOW!

GUITAR HERO III - Comes with the exclusive Les Paul Guitar and the first time on the Wii. That’s all.

Are you ready for this!??!?! THE BIG ONE!!! Myself included, I’m sure we can all use some poundage to come off on the bellies. Well Nintendo thought about this and they came out with the heavy hitter this year at E3, and the MOST impressive game to hit the console, in my opinion, ALL CONSOLES.

WiiFIT - I’m not kidding. Nintendo made a fitness game that comes with a workout mat called the Wii Balance Board. This devices weighs you, saves your data and you get your workout. Does EVERYTHING from stretching, YOGA, soccer headers, hula hoops, pushups, dancing, anything you can think of in exercise. Say goodbye to gym memberships, just do it at home with your family, loved one, or yourself. The Balance Board works on your feet and weight. Wait til you see this. I know this sounds ridiculous, but I think we have ALL changed our mind on how crazy the Wii is, and have learned to TRUST and LOVE Nintendo. The Wii is the greatest console to ever birth on this planet and grow to become the most powerful machine, EVER. Go fit and ENJOY this one. A+++++++


Final thoughts on Wii/NINTENDO…Super Mario Galaxy, WiiFit, High School Musical (WHY?!?!?!), ZELDA!!!, and Metriod! SO GOOD NINENDO SO GOOD! But…I do need to say this…Sick of Animal Crossing!??!?! NO! NEVER!!! Right?! How could you be? Well, NO ANIMAL CROSSING Wii this year….at all, I’m thinking. We’re not done with E3, but I think it would have premiered on stage today.

Off to the final and last company with a console that needs some pushing, some pushing like our Florida Republican House Member Bob Allen and prostitutes. Okay, maybe not that bad, but SONY isn’t looking too good with the PS3 and with the announcement on Monday of the $100 price cut, what are we looking at here? GAMES, GAMES, GAMES folks…and I think we might be getting them! But aren’t most of these games coming out for the XBOX360? Let’s see!

SONY – YES! They are! And most of us own the XBOX360, so why do we need to buy this console? Well there plenty plenty goodies in here. Still thinking of getting that PS3? Well, I think you might still be, if you haven’t been paying attention lately or playing games. There have been MANY MANY games I am waiting for, but then aren’t they coming out on XBOX360. Yes! Most titles like Grand Theft Auto 4, Medal of Honor: Airbourne, Call Of Duty 4, Harry Potter, Madden ’08, Simpsons Game, FIFA ’08, Guitar Hero III, Rock Band, Assassin’s Creed, Resident Evil 5….so what else could there be? I know I know I know most of geeks out there are begging for that trailer of KILLZONE 2, but we got that last year! So what else can we ask for…well for starters, we got a UBISOFT title, but all you LOST fans don’t get too excited. It’s not the LOST game we are expecting. They went ahead and shelved it for this…

HAZE - it’s a pretty much DUMB’d down version of Halo. Look at the name it starts with a H and an A and ens in a vowel with a consonant in there. I’m not kidding. The way the gun is held and the movement. But this time “man” need to get things “done” with his gun and it’s his way or no way, and oye vey, are you serious? This is way LOST the game is being held? I HATE YOU UBISOFT!

So you want LOST huh?

UNCHARTED: Drakes Fortune - You have this jungle and looks like you aren’t supposed to be there, but then mixes a little Indiana Jones in there for time period. Don’t know much, but looks cool!

LITTLE BIG PLANET - Seems so much fun, making and creating little towns and cities and you can share them through the PS3 NETWORK. Plus the trailer had the Go! Team in there, good song, and cute game. I’m SOLD!

RATCHET and CLANK FUTURE: TOOLS OF DESTRUCTION - Looks like fun, but I don’t play this series. Sorry.


HEAVENLY SWORD - Might be the reason I am buying this console VERY soon. Looks stunning, the girl you play seems cool as shit, and the trailer last year blew me away. But what did I get this year? Uh, not much since G4 went to commercial.

IMFAMOUS - Yup! Another shooter and blah blah blah, but VERY SMART looking. Damn good, and damn 2008! Save money I guess.

GRAND TURISMO 5 - I hate driving games since Burnout took over and bit all the other in balls (not you Mario Kart, your safe). But wait, this trailer, is that car REAL?, looks like this game, I don’t want to say it, but this game seems, WOW! FRIGGIN REAL! And AMAZING!

FOLKLORE - Damn cool damn cool damn cool. I think I am sold on this one too. Very God Of War looking, but I like!

Also, Stranglehold for PS3 will come with John Woo's Hard Boiled on BLU-RAY!!!!!!!! I'm not kidding, might be worth it RIGHT THERE!!!

Finally, before I get into the whole new PSP and PS3 NETWORK is the bid daddy of them all


KILLZONE 2 - AMAZING, and I will more and a trailer. That’s all. So KNOW YOU HAVE TO READ TOMORROW! Ha! Suckas!

PS3 has finally launched it’s PS3NETWORK and WOW! Unbelievable people. I need to so much more research on this, but with it’s community and online, this will become the MYSPACE for consoles. It’s so amazing what this is doing as we speak with PS3 HOME, and instead of what looks like the Sims, the PS3 HOME is YOU!!!! Yes! YOU! You have a WebBrowser and PSP to PS3 capabilities. A store to get cool shit and I am foaming, drooling as we speak.

That’s it though. This is 9 hours of watching in one day, and 6 pages of typing means I am DONE! I will get into more tomorrow on the WHOLE E3. I only watched the Press Conferences and tomorrow I will tackle the GAMES!

Let me watch more guys! Lots of games to get into!

b.quain

TOP TEN OF THE WEEK: Ending 07-01-07

MY TOP 10 OF THE WEEK: Week Ending 07-01-07

“…I know you’ll find out, that I’m a geek, with a lower case g, and I’m trying to hide, cause I wouldn’t be seen, with a guy like me…” – Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right, B, A, Start – (“I Know You’ll Find Out I’m A Geek”)

So, I was thinking of something NEW, and very UNIQUE to do to my blog away from the every Weds. LOST BLOG and Song Of Week was cool (and will be back). But what was something no one has done yet? Well, I got to thinking, what about listing my TOP 10 of the week of things that have happened or music I got, films we’ve seen, or cool new shit to play with….well, thought to myself. Is that original, or new? HELL NO! but it rules damnit!

(This Top 5 is the great things that happened in the past week for myself, doing this more for therapeutic reasons and archiving the BEST year of my life so far…so halfway there, I need to start now. In these blog posts, I hope to give you guys a good laugh, but I guess I am leaving myself to become an open book to supreme geekness. Music, movies, video games, geek news, etc. will be in here. Oye. Have a good read!)

1) Hell’s Kitchen – This one will be on here EVERY week I’m sure. Gordon Rasmey’s my hero and this week wasn’t all too much a ball buster as the past few episodes. With Aaron being gone, Gordon taking over the elimination process two weeks ago, and no one pulling food out of the garbage to serve to customers…it was a tame game. Best show on TV right now, since I loooove my food and to cook. Brilliant show.

What would be ANY TOP 1, 3, or 10 without a FILM! Here is how we kept our week busy! Also, this segment of reviews goes out to Joel Siegel, great film critic and film lover who passed on over the weekend.



2) Once - Breath of fresh air (since we are in Dublin for this…) film from John Carney. Award winner at the Sundance Film Festival, Fox Searchlight brings this gem to you in select theaters in select cities. But, if it is by you, trust me to see it. Great music, great acting from Commitments co-star/guitar player Glen Hansard and newcomer/female singer/piano player Markéta Irglová. Superb all around and a film NOT to be missed this year. Can’t wait to singalong again.Rating: A+

3) Sicko - I won’t have this up here for arguments and I don’t know why and where (I do know why and where, but not EVER in the mood to argue) people became Michael Moore haters. Fantastic documentary about a topic that NEEDS to be told, and not by what people call Michael Moore’s style of filmmaking, one-sided, seeing as it’s more the subjects of the film telling their stories. Heart breaking, so very heart breaking, and a MUST SEE. Get to know Michael Moore, after the past few years I have had the honor to talk to him and meet up on a few occasions and I can tell how much he is like me trying to help people and just no matter what happens, no one wants change. It’s sick what has happened to this country, and I’m glad we can see what’s happening around the world. A MUST MUST MUST SEE! Rating: A+

4) Live Free or DIE HARD - Yup! Not kidding, it’s up here, and why would we be kidding. Fan-friggin’-tastic. Here you go. JOHN McCLANE! That’s all you need. He’s back and hasn’t missed a beat. Justin Long is great just adding more dialogue and some time to breath and times, but doesn’t steal the show, or act like the comic relief moron. Great action and a great story to the trilogy. A MUST SEE, before those More Than Meets The Box Office Bullshit. GO SE IT…that’s it, that’s that, that’s all there is!!! Rating: A

5) Camacho Cigars - Wow! Saturday night was a fantiastic night for a great celebration dinner and a great cigar. The Camacho was one of the finest I have EVER had for just $6.50. Mild, and such an excellent burn, wait burn…that’s the problem and why it’s $6.50. The cigar could EASY be over $10, but the fact that the cigar burns funny at times, makes this over an hour smoke kinda fishy. Just go an smoke this baby! So good!

6) Melting Pot/Corona Cigar Co - Vanessa took me out for a celebration dinner which we both felt was so well deserved. Melting Pot was so so so TASTY! Great times. Thank you baby! We hit the Corona Cigar Co. across the street. Smoked the Comacho. Then I was able to meet Avo Uvezian, famous jazz musician and brilliant cigar mogul for Avo Cigars. He played with my new toy and number 10 on this list. But then the last time we were there a couple were nice enough to pass on a Dos Equis since they weren’t going to finish their bucket. They were there again and I was able to thank the man and we wound up talking for an hour with John and Jill. Such a great couple. Just got married 8 days before us, smoke cigars, geek it out Lost, geek it out FILMS!, and seem so amazing. Good times!!!!

7) Ice Road Truckers - Watch this show when they do the famous day long marathon that History Channel’s usually do. So good! Very tense and very amazing. GOOD TIMES!

8) Simmons BeautyRest - WE GOT A NEW BED! After 12 years, we will be sleeping very very very nice. So good! You want a new bed? Get it this weekend!!! July 4th weekend is the most popular one for new mattress buying, so if you need one, GO NOW! Our bed is the greatest in the world and that leads too…

9) SLEEP - It’s amazing! Try this. We have done it since the new bed, and I am LOVIN’ IT!

Now, now, now! What would be ANYONE’s Top 10 of the week ending 07-01-07 without anything on the Iphone? Well, seriously, hate or love it, the Iphone is OUT and wants your slimy fingers to play with it. So this obviously goes into our number 10.

NUMBER 10!!! THE I-PHONE - Wow! What a little gadget. Vanessa and I went to the Apple Store on Friday to go play with the new I-Phone and Wow!!! We get in after a 45 minute wait in line and I rush into line to play with the one the guy in the line has to play with one. Vanessa goes to a table where everyone is around playing with phones. She meets up in 5 minutes after playing asking “what are you doing”…long story short. We bought two! I was hoping we can use these as our business phone (so you have the 929 number, USE THAT, haha) and wow, very tempting to move it all over to a I-Phone. We got home after Sicko that night and hooked it up and played for hours until 3am. This review is just on the First Impression of using it to play with, meeting new amazing people at a cigar shop through it, and talking to Solari to hear what New York sounds like, and it sounds UNREAL. Everything we have played with is amazing, no problems at all. Easy set-up, easy use, and amazing piece of work. WOW! Go for it people, GO FOR IT. I have used Apple/Mac for over 15 years now and I have never had a problem., enough said. THANKS I-PHONE! Wait, why isn’t it turning on? DAMNIT! Well, I gotta go and take my phone to get repaired. I kid I kid, I just want to get off the TOP 10!!! Rating: A+ on first impression

DISAPPOINTMENT of the WEEK!!!!
USA vs ARGENTINA - I looove both teams. Fantastic meet up, but not a great frigign’ game. 4 – 1 in the end and USA took a huge turn of the worst in the 2nd half. Gomez, and Gaven played as substitutes in the 2nd half. Yeah? You don’t know who they are? Me neither. Bad bad news for USA, and Argentina kicked ass in the first half, but SCHOOLED the U.S. in the 2nd. Come on USA, we just WON the Gold Cup, and now we need 3 points more and more than ever. Tonight we play Paraguay, who beat Columbia 5 – 0. Good luck guys.

Thanks guys for letting me be so UNORIGINAL, and next week, these will be written as the week goes on. Not the morning of. Much better I am sure.

See ya soon
b.quain

LOST BLOG: Series 3 Figures, LOST POLL, and MYSTERY OF THE WEEK!

Another week has gone by and still some great LOST NEWS to go round. This is going to be a long morning, so let’s get started.

LOST SERIES THREE FIGURES…(breathe, we have until 2008)

Screw the Series 3 figures! Where are our Series 2 figures you ask? The ones of Sun, Jin, Sawyer, and Mr. Eko? Yeah, I know! So, we’ve been told by early 2007, but as of today, it looks like sometime in the next few weeks they will be shipping. But as of yesterday, I heard Series 3 figures are being made and a shipping date of early 2008. Just in time for you to re-enact your favorite hunting boar, to “your gonna die Charlie” scenes. Series 3 is looking like we will be making Desmond, Claire, Ben and Sayid running around the island. Wow, 14 figures and a hatch in all. Very exciting. NOW WHERE’S MY JULIET?!
No pics as of now, but very soon. (don’t hold your breath)…damn you McFarlane. Here’s the series 2.


Let’s stick to the geeky side of LOST, and let’s talk about that UbiSoft game that was supposed to come out last year, to early this year, to now having no release date at all, no specs, no ideas of anything, but still is confirmed coming out by 2007!!!! What?! Stop, please, okay, no! Stop! There is no game coming out by 2007!

Let’s stay geeking…if there is no game, and no figures then what can we get for the time being that’s LOST related. ABC.com has some of the COOLEST friggin’ shirts, toys, and LOST geek toys EVER.

LOST GIFTS and POLL

Here will be my Top 10 LOST Collectables I have found to this date.

Set of 6 Dharma Pint Glasses

Got a craving for some Dharma Beer? Then why not pour some of that delicious, warm, sudsy beer into your own set of Dharma Pint Glasses. YUMMY! Doesn’t come with the Dharma Van. $22.95

Dharma Flame Hatch Shirt

I still have my Dharma Swan Logo shirt and I always felt something was missing. The Flame Hatch, since it was blown up, it’s missing, but my Dharma Logo shirt is missing its friend the Flame Hatch. What an amazing shirt and a must for all you LOSTIES out there! $19.95/$22.95 Womens

Dharma Hydra Hatch Shirt

Can’t have your Flame without some water. Hydra more like it. If fire doesn’t suit you, how about this swift looking Hydra shirt? I would have thought this shirt would be blue for some reason. But it is great looking!
$19.95

Dharma Logo Rubki’s Cube

You know LOST is a puzzle and always has you thinking. Well, while we are on our Season 4 hiatus, why not put your brain to the test with this amazing Rubkik’s Cube? 6 colors equal 6 hatch logo’s. BRILLIANT!
$19.95

LOST Season 3 Eyes Poster

Priiivate Eeeeeyes, they’re watching you…Maybe you need to be re-watching the seasons then watching this poster. Sharp looking and those eyes…
$14.95

Hanso Foundation Coffee Mug

So you can’t really get a job with the Hanso Foundation, but you can enjoy a hot cup of Alvar at your actual job with this amazing looking ceramic mug. Friggin’ great!
$7.99

Dharma Hydra Logo Coffee Mug

So you feel like your boss may resemble Alvar Hanso a little too much to get the Hanso Mug? Then what about a Dharma Hydra Hatch logo mug? LOOOOOVE this mug! But I do think the Hanso one is genius. Amazing!
$9.99

LOST Numbers Ghost Mug

No, this mug doesn’t disappear when you drink coffee! But if you are drinking hot coffee your mug will be white. If you decide to drink cold, uh, hmmm…water? Then your coffee mug will be BLACK and the numbers will show! WHOA! Clever!
$14.95

LOST Blast Door Hatch Map Messenger Bag

Well if this one won’t cause accidents in NYC traffic and sidewalks, I don’t know what would. Bike messengers, this one is a no no. EVERYTHING that you need to know about the markings Locke, Radzinski, Desmond, and Kelvin were playing with, all at your hip. Amazing!
$45.95

Hanso Foundation Polo Shirt

Grab your messenger bag, you Hanso coffee mug and this shirt and you are ready for a day of work at the Hanso Foundation. This brilliant shirt will make only “true believers” know who you are ( so don’t expect to make any friends with this one). A must MUST MUST for any LOST fan!
$19.99

There you have it, and I kept the prices down, and waded through all the a little too much of the Lost items for what people REALLY need in the Lost craziness. Fun, creative and completely LOST. Here is your POLL!

You get to pick THREE items on here…what would YOU buy? I know it’s hard to pick only three, but COME ON, so much fun!

I really didn’t have time to get our LOST Youtube Clip Of The Week! Sorry….so busy and this post is LOOOOONG.



MYSTERY OF THE WEEK!!!!

HURLEY BIRD!!!!

So what is with this bird? Two appearances and both times, the bird knows the name of someone on the island. And since we are calling him Hurley Bird, then we know it said Hurley’s name both times. In Exodus Pt. 1 (from Lostpedia.com) you wouldn’t know the bird was there unless you watch so closely and read subtitles. My friends Jason and Sam said that some TV shows play with their Closed Captioning. I said, LOST had to be one of those shows. I guess so. But the most obvious of Hurley Bird sightings was in ”Live Together, Die Alone” the bird makes it’s appearance overhead, swooping towards the party and saying “Hurley”. When Hurley asks did that bird say my name, Sawyer asshole response is “yeah it did, right before I crapped gold!”
So what is this bird, where did it come from and why am I not doing a Mystery piece on Vincent? Grrrr…Plus I couldn’t get a good pic of that damn bird anyway. Was this mystery a bad one? No mystery there! Ha! In Live Forever Die Alone, we all know what we heard, as in it saying Hurley, but why and what is Hurley’s obsession with birds? We have heard him mention birds very often from time to time on the show. And we know many characters, maybe all of them, have an animal connected to them. Kate=Horse, Sayid=Cat, Charlie=Tuna (sorry). Hurley is a mystery in himself and PLEASE stop saying, “Yeah he is, it’s a mystery why he hasn’t LOST all that weight in 3 years.” It’s been 93 days, and he’s looking good!
So, Hurley Bird? What, where, and how? Your thoughts?

That’s it for this week! Seriously, this one is a pretty LOOOOOONG blog. Enjoy, have fun with it and comment, kudo, send it to others to read. THANKS!

NAMASTE
b.quain

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LOST BLOG: Recaps, predictions, and WHAT I GOT FROM LAST NIGHT'S Season FInale "Through The Looking Glass"

Wow, what a day!!!! Sorry to anyone trying to call me yesterday and found me in a Lost/Liverpool coma or didn’t answer at all…friggin’ INSANE day. Wow! I’m hurting. I feel so sick from the Liverpool game and I feel like my body has chills all over. Getting sick, I swear it. But, let’s talk!
Thank you to Brian, Jason, Rhem, and Vanessa for watching this and making it happen. Also, huge thank you to you guys and making my debut Season to the blog an amzzing one. We have seen major hits and the show and you prove this blog to be a hit. Karen, Levi, Jim, Jessi, CrazedJohn, Shawn, Sketchy, Bobb, Barbara, okay, I’m killing time here, but THANK YOU!!!! Exhausted, it’s 11:52pm, and expect no sleep from me tonight. Do you have any questions? I do!

(THESE ARE NOT SPOILERS!!!! These are just RECAPS, thoughts and predictions of what we have seen in LOST. PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ANYTHING AWAY SINCE WE DO NOT WATCH PREVIEWS, ABC SUCKS IN GIVING A LOT AWAY!)

WHAT I GOT FROM : “Through The Looking Glass”

QUICK START

WOW! What an amazing two hours last night. I think people got what they hell they had begged for week after week of bitching to ABC. DAMONCUSE did a brilliant job making the season finale, and coming up with one hell of an ending (still would like to see the other three ideas), but gave me EXACTLY what I wanted. Minus Tom dying. Friggin DEPRESSING! Why wasn’t Kate HIS type?! Who/what was he? AANND IIIIII, eeeeIIIIII, WILLLL ALWAAAAYS LOOOOOVE YOOOOOUUUUU! Yeah fake bearded bastard! Give us a hug!
This season finale was GO GO GO non-stop and was written and played out A+ all over. I need to thank everyone on the LOST team for making it great. Amazing work, and see you in Feb. ’08! Ya dummys! You can’t win with these people, I tell ya.



FLASH FORWARD JACK STYLE

FlashForwards, FlashForwards!!! Why act so surprised as if we have never seen it before? Weren’t we all watching the same show this season? I mean I thought it was brilliant that Season 3’s finale would end with a FlashForward seeing as it STARTED with one. Also, you bastard-geeks with high heads at ABC.com message boards want to argue with Karen!?!? You call the thunder and now you see what happens! Ha! Wow, Karen called this months ago and I am amazed. When talking to Karen last week, we re-watched “A Tale Of Two Cities” and she had me look between the lines. And yes! When first watching the episode in Oct., I got the weirdest feeling with Jack in the opening FlashBack scene where Jack’s watching Sarah. I’m not saying the whole “Tale Of Two Cities” flashbacks are FlashForwards, seeing as we see Christian Shepard. But we did see something with Jack last night and he was a little “not right” in the head in this episode.
Bear with me.
In “Tale Of Two Cities” I will breakdown the Flashbacks/forwards.
Scene One – Jack is watching Sarah in his Ford Jimmy type roadster, the same one he had last night! BAM! Sealed that one. Plus she has two kids. This may be waaaaay in future of what we saw last night. Might be the last shot we ever see of the show, but he gets right in the head, and says goodbye to Sarah for the final time. Locke needs to take notes form Jack, let people go John, see where it gets you.
Scene Two - Jack is talking to Sarah about the divorce, I’m guessing, since it’s about a lawyer being present, whom he fires. Sarah’s man, the father of her baby in the belly, in which we saw a pregnant Sarah last night. He calls her and asks if Jack was there yet. She laughs and I don’t think it’s at Jack’s behalf, but the fact it’s taken soooo looong for this divorce to be final. Since he crashed on the island, it’s not his fault, everyone thought he died on Oceanic 815, she had to wait a few months for him to get back.
Scene Three - Jack is arguing with his father. Well, last night he was arguing about his father and the fact Jack thought he was still alive. What if he is actually seeing his dad (loopy bastard), and talking to him. (not healthy, side effects from his pills?) We know, he sees him walking around the island. Christian tells him to stop trying to find Sarah. But she calls Christian, Jack loses his mind more and Christian even tells him to “let it go.”
Scene Four - Gets complicated, BUT! Jack sees his dad on the phone in the hospital hallway laughing and we hear “Dr. Shepard” form a nurse. We can only think Jack is staring off, delirious, BUT also, reminiscing of when his father was alive. THEN we hear the FlashBack music kick in (flashback intro music in a flashback…fishy) and in the same scene we see Christian getting out of his car at the Lynford Hotel, bringing us to our FIRST FLASHBACK of the season. Jack’s mind in the scene prior is playing out the flashback of what his father did BEFORE he got on the island. Something is not letting him go with his father. On the island, and now off of it.

Let’s get into last night’s episode now.
Jack’s on the plane in the opening scene, it was a LITTLE to easy that they gave it away in the beginning that it was a Flash Forward. The beard, “20 minutes is a long time”, the turbulence. Anyone else notice Damon Lindeloff’s voice as our trusty pilot on the plane. What threw me off was when Sarah walks in after the accident and she looks as if she had seen a ghost. But thinking about it, that’s not the first time she had seen him. It was even before the “Tale Of Two Cities” flash-forward where he meets up with her about the divorce. I think she just knows more than we do about Jack, and she’s DONE! Obviously. More to come.
Christian Shepard, from the scenes still makes me feel he’s dead. Jack is fixing, like Charlie, he will lie and forge his dad’s signature and it will make him see things. Jack is losing his mind, and FAST! As the story gets deeper last night, he argues about his father, as if that still has clout, and Dr. Hamill knows that Dr. Christian Shepard is deceased. Dr. Hamill gives Jack this, “come on man, your dad is dead dude, don’t bring that shit into this.” Jack isn’t healthy and more to come on that in these sections below.

I READ THE NEWS TODAY…OH BOY

Let’s talk about the newspaper clipping and the obituary. Well, this one is a doozy and I’m sure we all have our theories and thoughts. But, in my mind it isn’t anyone we have met yet. The man in the casket will be introduced in season 4. We need to understand that so many things were answered last night, but also, some new people will be reveled soon. The show did an amazing job (if this is the case) that we have not yet met who is in the coffin and will have a face to the newspaper clipping. Hell, it might be the man on the phone in the last scene on the island.
The newspaper clipping reads as follows: "Los Angeles, Man found.. [unreadable] downtown.. [unreadable], The body of Jo.. [unreadable] ..antham of New York was.. [unreadable] ..[shor]tly after 4 a.m. in the.. [unreadable] of Grand Avenue. Ted.. [unreadable] ..man at The Tower.. [unreadable] .. heard loud noises.. [unreadable]..m's loft. Co.. [unreadable] ..entered the.. [unreadable] ..a beam in the.. [unreadable] ..[ac]cordin[g].. [unreadable].."

John, is the first name? So what if, and what if, John Locke is not his birth name? We’ve seen papers in screenshots indicating his full name is John Locke. But what happens when people come off the island, changing names maybe? I still feel we have yet to meet this dead so or so.



WAKE UP A LITTLE DESSIE, WAKE UP

Desmond’s hit on the head in the last weeks episode “Greatest Hits.” Where does he go, because he wakes up and is so lost at where is when he wakes up. Where did Dessie go? Because when Desmond wakes up, Charlie is down in the hatch, still alive. So, where did Desmond go? I’ll keep asking. Why was nothing mentioned in this episode? Did he need to talk to Penny when she came up on the screen about finding her? Will the season opener be Desmond and where he went when he was knocked out my Charlie? Let’s NOT FORGET that he was knocked in the head!!!!!!!!!

JACK AND KATE

When was the last time I type that title out? Wow! It’s been awhile! What did we see last night? Flash-forward AND on the Island. There is still a huge connection, and well, Jack says “Because I love you” to Kate. Now he might mean it as my main squeeze or you’re my pal, I love you, like Charlie tells Hurley. But, I love you was said. We know there will be a huge connection between the two in the next few months, so I guess we’re heading into a ABC wanting more love connections on the show. But, I have a feeling the real love connection will be between Kate and someone new coming in Season 4. Keep reading for more…

THE BEN LINUS MAID SERVICE COMP.

“I need you to help me, I need you to help clean up this mess that I have made. Cleaning up messes. Remind me that when Ben gets off the island to hire him as my maid service. I love the role switching we have going on here. Ben is now scared, no idea what’s going on. His mind is still racing on the whole Locke “hearing” Jacob, the radio tower, Alex betraying him, Juliet lying and going behind his back. A little too much on Ben’s plate. Sucks to be you Ben. But think why Ben is saying this…(next weeks BLOG POST! DUH DUH DUH!)

ANAGRAM TIME!!!!!

Not since “One Of Us” was there such an obvious “We have an anagram” for you. This one is a DOOZY! We have a big one. Now, we all go ANAGRAM TIME when we saw Hoffs/Drawlar last night. And trust me Karen pointed it out as well, and did it. Hoffs/Drawlar you get “Flash Forward”, BUT! Put Hoffs/Drawlar Funeral Parlor and you get “Real Plan For Flash Forward” DUH DUH DUH!

WELCOME BACK DHARMA

Ben is scared out of his mind thinking Jack is making that call The communicartion barrier is broken and Dharma will want answers. Dharma is trying to stay communication free, so why the cut in the jamming? Dharma is on the phone to someone RIGHT NOW as I type this, but no one is answering. So who is coming out to see if things are okay? But, things aren’t okay, people are gone, PURGED!
Does he think that Dharma is just going to sit there and let a man kill everyone on the island and not try to come back? That Purge is coming back to rear it’s ugly head to Ben, and we may not have a Ben Linus with us much longer. Season 4 is going to be so AMAZING, it’s sick! Jack got on the cell, satellite phone and made a call to the Dharma Inactivate, if you will.
Now Naomi’s phone…that will let 2 people off the island. And Desmond got it wrong. Bye Jack and Kate.



THE FIRST KISS

Jack and Juliet kiss? Well, it was all her doing since in “A Tale Of Two Cities” she asks Jack what he wants to know about Sarah since being on the island, and all he asks is “Is she happy?” Well isn’t that sweet? She sees a love in him as he’s tearing up. He doesn’t care what she’s doing at this point, as long as she is happy. That turns any woman on, right? Weird.
This leads to Juliet seeing the honest and very lovable side of Jack. So the kiss wasn’t too far off. But in front of Kate and Juliet knowing Kate was watching. Why? Now that’s where it gets sneaky, and we can start with the asking “why”? It’s all part of Juliet. I know we feel it wasn’t placed well, and maybe should have been put in a few episodes prior, maybe when everyone starts doubting Jack, but I think Juliet knew she was going to die with Sawyer and sealed her confession with a kiss.
This kiss will come back to us in the future since Kate has a lot of baby to be had. Is it Sawyer’s baby? Is it someone from Season 4? This should connect with the The Last Scene about Kate to Jack.



WALT and who’s that SCREAMING

EeeeeeeeeeYEAHBOYYYYY! Amazing! But first things first!!! REWATCH ALERT! Re-watch this scene where John Locke has the gun to his head and we hear a WOMEN? MAN? KID? SOMEONE? screaming then you hear Walt say “Don’t John.” What is it? Why? John and I ask the same thing! WHY? And why is Walt telling Locke he’s got work to do? Is it because Walt is the one who needs saving in Boone/Locke hallucination? He needs to be saved and that’s ANOTHER reason that Locke can’t leave the island?


THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME

Sorry, to my loyal blog readers, COME ON!!!, you know I had to! Wizard Of Oz references will take over this blog at some point. BUT! Let’s point out that there’s no going home. Right? Getting off the island? Wrong!!!
Yes, you can go home, but no one is allowed to. Who really wants to? Ben has no home to go to. Jack, as Ben tells him is “what is it you so desperately want to get back to? You have no one, you’re fathers dead, you’re wife left you for another man“, Locke doesn’t want to go home. So what gives with “home: and the “island”? You can go back home, but what Ben I think sticks true, why do you want to? This is your home!
So let’s go back to these Flash Forwards then. Jack needs to get back to the island right? Why? Is it his home now? Did he not correct things?

THE NEW BEACH

Sawyer and Juliet huh? Nice! LOVE IT! Hurley kills someone with intent, not good, very sad about that. BUT, Jin, Sayid and Bernard still alive and we have more than enough men to help the Lostaways if anything happens. Plus 10+ more hostiles going to a temple? More to come!
Sayid on your team, not too shabby if you ask me. Sawyer and Jin, bring it on! Hurley becoming a leader and Juliet has met her match. This is just BRILLIANT! Season 4…wowowow!



PENNY’S DIRECT LINE

Did anyone else ask WHY does Penny have a direct line to the Looking Glass, and she asks “How did you get this frequency?” I am dying here, so who is watching Penny so carefully? Also, when Desmond is running into the hatch door, it seems like he planned this. Seriously. He looks over to notice that Mikhail is gone, that’s his cue to Penny being on the monitor. All he has to do is yell to Charlie,”Hey Charlie! Mikhail is missing!!!” and Charlie would have his dukes up ready. But,no, he runs up knowing Penny is on the monitor.
Did he plan it when Charlie hit him on the head? Did Charlie accidentally play out the fate differently? Did Desmond switch it up when he was hit in the head on the boat, and then he got hit there, and all. There other scenarios to work this one out.
What about Penny really being part of something more? She is at the monastery meeting Desmond for the first time, and her father works with the Brother Campbell in buying wine. There are too many connections with Penny Widmore to just think she got a direct line to the Looking Glass accidentally. Her father’s medicine is all over the island, and probably fronts Dharma. Plus she’s THE ONE WHO IS SENDING THE INCOMING TRANSMISSION. ARE YOU KIDDING?! CHARLIE?!?!? WHAT’S UP!?!?! MAN, this kills me sometimes!
So she got the frequency at this point. Why doesn’t Charlie ask “How did YOU get this frequency sista?” Also, look behind her for shits sake, IT’S A SET!!! That background looks worse than a James Bond film from the 1960’s. She’s a front!



CHARLIE PACE, YOU WILL BE MISSED

Charlie Pace is dead. The music proves it. BUT, Desmond getting hit in the head, and Desmond not being able to talk to Penny, proves it wrong. I know so many of you said last night, why would he slam the door, it would take hours for the hatch to fill up with water from the small hole Mikhail let in. Charlie is playing out his destiny. He doesn’t know better. But Desmond knows more is to come. Desmond smiles and agrees with Charlie’s message, so maybe this hitting his head prior to going to the hatch means more in season 4. Hopefully this will be our Season 4 opening episode. A Desmond FlashBack, Flash Present with Penny, Charlie and all.
Sorry I’m not crying about Charlie in this section, but I feel Charlie saved his life by hitting Desmond in the head in the last episode.

BE AFRAID, BE NOT SO AFRAID

Uh, Locke? Did you kill someone? No, right? Damn! YES! You did! This was a season finale enough for me, Jesus it was scary. What is up with Locke and killing someone? Did the tables turn with him switching with someone. Or does it just take getting shot in the stomach and lying in a pile of dead skeletons do something to you?
But, what is it that Ben said though two weeks ago? “Once I open this door, there’s no turning back.” Well, Locke knows more than we know with Naomi and the phone. Locke DOESN’T have to leave if he doesn’t want to, but he needs Jack to help him. Between Jack and Locke, “he” doesn’t have much time, but someone needs, and will be saved.

THE LAST SCENE

Sorry a lot of the quotes will be in here since this is such a HUUUGE deal. They both say a lot of things. Jack mentions Old Habits. Kate mentions “why would I go to the funeral?” Who screwed her over? Who was it? Someone she loved? Someone Jack helped and then screwed her over? Kate said “he’s going to wonder where I am?” Well we now know Kate has a baby BOY! No one is waiting up for her.
But the main thing is the POLAR opposites these two pull. Notice that Jack is the one who keeps moving with his golden ticket Oceanic pass. Wasn’t it Jack that said it to her that KATE! couldn’t stop moving from place to place in Season One? And we saw in every flashback she had, all the moving she did, not just from the Feds, but in her mind. Cheesy I know, but true!
This was one of the saddest tings I have ever seen in filmed TV history. Some of the most amazing things were said, and sweetest. Or was it sweet? Kate thinks of it as Jack falling for her still, and still pinning over her love. But really deep down inside Jack knows he messed up so much on the island and needs to rescue, help, save his friends? Or kill Ben? Destroy the Island? Something more than just Kate’s love. This is massive, and read between the lines.

THINGS PEOPLE SAID

Ben (to Mikhail, obviously) - ”Mikhail, I need you to go NOOW!” - The scared Ben, loving it. Admitting he’s lying, even better. Ben is going down this spiral staircase SOOOO fast, it sucks it was a season finale. Re-listen to him talking. Sad.

Rose (to Jack) - If you say Live Together, Die Alone, I’m going to punch you in the face - Amazing. But not in this episode. We almost feel so completely sorry for Jack in so many ways. I almost agree with Jack at this point with Live Together, Die Alone…look at them. But, the team splits up which makes complete sense.

Ben (to Richard) - ”You’re going to take everyone to the temple as planned” - THE TEMPLE? What temple? And this whole “as planned”? Uh, Ben your plans haven’t been working to well, you think you really want to do this? But, this actually seems like the only plan that will work. Now we have two sides and a castaway sandwich. Temple with 10 or so hostiles, and the beach with 5 lostaways, Desmond and a Juliet.

Kate (to Sawyer) - ”And since when did you start calling me Kate? - Air Supply said it best. “I’m all out of love, and I’m so lost without you.” He doesn’t know what to do with you.

Dr. Rob Hammil (to Jack) - Jack Shepard, the hero, twice over - Damn you BKV and DamonCuse!!!! DAMN YOU! So was Jack coming back from Oceanic 815 being a hero, and then saving the woman on the bridge. Or saving Sarah and the woman on the bridge? Do people not know about Jack going on the island? Hmmm…twice over!! Grrr!

Mikhail (to Bonnie and Greta) - I thought you two were on assignment in Canada!! - Hostiles are everywhere!!! What’s in Canada? Cheaper pharmaceutical drugs, we know that, but why were the girls posed to be in Canada? Makes NO sense, but will make so much sense in Season 5 I’m sure. Ha! Let’s not forget Canada! Not in Portland, let’s just remember that!!!

Ben (to Jack) – “History is about to repeat itself” - Yup! But this time, it’s Dharma going to kick Ben right in the ass! It’s not the Naomi phone that will be bring danger, but it’s the fact that now that the communication is unjammed, then Dharma now knows something is wrong. They will come to the island after they realize no one is answering the Looking Glass, send people out and realize that no one is left alive from Dharma and send a party out to kill Ben. Dharma is MUCH bigger than we know. We have two parties coming to this island now. Amazing! More in the next blog.

Jack (to Kate) - ”We’ll celebrate when were home” Will ya now? It doesn’t seem like you are. This doesn’t seem like a party to me Jack. I can’t wait to see how this pans out in the next season!

NO UNANSWERED QUESTIONS THIS WEEK, I have to give you something to look forward to for next week! Wait, what’s next week?!??!!

NEXT WEEK’S BLOG!!!
I will be posting EVERY Thursday morning to recap things. The LOST BLOG will not be gone, so stay tuned for more. I have made this commitment to post every week until 2010. I will let you guys down EVER! At first I felt I was a Jack of blogs, but nevermind to that, after seeing last night. Maybe this blog will drive me to drink and seeing my father walking around my backyard. Creepy. But!
NEXT WEEK will be my WHAT I EXPECT from Season 3 to Season 4 and “Through The Looking Glass”

GOODBYE LOST TIL FEB. ’08!!!!

Thank you so so so so much for all of you, love you very much and thanks for helping me keep this blog going! Stay in touch. And keep reading. Vanessa and I will be posting and keeping it up.
“Previously On Lost” in 2008!!!!!




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B.Quain
(see you next week!!!!)

SONG OF THE WEEK: Download available

Thank you John Locke’s Love Child (ha! Won’t give out names), Vanessa, Shawn, Solari, Brian DeShannon, Jason, Buz, Levi, (blue man!), Bobb, for watching and supporting me and the Reds for this game today. This blog post is for you!!!

Champions League Final is here!! Scary, very scary. Today will be a HUGE day for me. Liverpool has to beat AC Milan again, for another Champions League Cup, plus, I have the LOST SEASON FINALE on the brain. But, I do have to take a breath and enjoy the best team/squad Liverpool has had in years. I guess, the most powerful team.
The best LIVERPOOL team is hard to say. But, there were so many amazing men to have played Anfield in the past decade and change, that make them the greatest team EVER. My SONG OF THE WEEK gets into the passion and boys of Anfield and Liverpool. Let’s begin.

THE GOLDEN AGE OF LIVERPOOL FC



BILLY DUNLOP 1895-1909
A brilliant defender who joined Liverpool FC in 1895 and played over 300 games with the Reds. Spent 14 years with Liverpool bringing them two Champions League medals. A name to never forget. THANK YOU SO MUCH BILLY!!!!

JACK COX 1898-1909
One hell of a winger this man. I wish I could be like Desmond on Lost and bump my head to go back to see Cox and Dunlop play. Cox joined Liverpool FC in 1898, and gave them some amazing 11 years, 321 games, and 81 goals. For a winger, that’s mighty impressive. Cheers Cox!



GORDON HODGSON 1925-1936
The hat-trick hero for Liverpool. This man scored 240 goals in 378 appearances. You do the math. Hodgson had 17 hat tricks in the eleven years he played for the team. Also known for his 36 goals in one season. Brilliant striker and a name that everyone should remember when talking about the “best” strikers EVER, not just for the REDS. Thank you so much Gordy for everything making this team incredible.



BILLY LIDDEL 1939-1961
A name to never ever forget! A LEGEND!!!!! Played 494 games, and scores 216 goals in the 22 years he played with Liverpool FC. Another winger who blew everyone at the Kop away. AGAIN! A HUGE THANK YOU TO THIS MAN!!! Brilliant! Playing for so long, I think Liddell will bring us to…

THE SILVER AGE OF LIVERPOOL FC



BILL SHANKLY 1959-1974
Genius, ABOSOLUT GENIUS! Here is a name that the Mersey will NEVER FORGET! Here is my only profile on a manager and manager only who brought Liverpool to the top many times. Retired at Anfield and the Merseryside will never forget this man. Maybe one of the best managers ever, but brought such a heart to Anfield, thank you SHANKLY!! After spending a year or two at other teams, he stayed with Liverpool for 15 years.



BOB PAISLEY 1939-1954
These are the Paisley Gates that the song is talking about. This is the man who brought the 1977 Euro Cup into Liverpool’s hands. Nine years with Liverpool, and ONLY Liverpool. Paisley came in when Bill Shankly abruptly called for his retirement in 1974, and left the Kopites confused. Even though with confusion, he still shined supreme.



IAN CALLAGHAN 1960 - 1978
This man helped keep Shankly going to be one of the greatest managers, by being one of the, maybe is the greatest midfielders Liverpool has even seen. The man played 856 games for Liverpool and for me, he is considered the legend of ALL legends when it comes to LIVERPOOL!!! Also, a bit of Liverpool trivia, the man was only booked ONCE, in his career at Liverpool. After 18 years playing for Liverpool he retired from English football going to Fort Lauderdale. Why?

KENNY DALGLISH 1977-1990
Fantastic, fantastic striker! Wow. Brought from Celtic, this man played his 13 years at Anfield and managed them from 1985-1991, resigning from football playing to manage other English Premier Teams, then resigned at home, Celtic in 2000. Dalglish joined Paisley to play with Liverpool in 1976-77, helping get that 1977 Euro Cup. Little Liverpool trivia, he was brought in as a replacement for Kevin Keegan. Then winning the 1977-78 Euro Cup again as the main striker, and only goal of the game. Don’t forget the name! Let’s not forget the FA CUP final against Everton in the 3 -1 win in that derby! WOW!



RAY CLEMENCE 1967-1981
You have to give the biggest and utmost love and respect to this GOALKEEPER for staying so long and playing 470 games for the Reds. This man, to me, is considered a 5 star hotel…king of CLEAN SHEETS (which means he doesn’t let any goals in one game)!!!!

THE BOYS OF TODAY AT ANFIELD!!!!!



ROBBE FOWLER
I’m going to have to give the boys of today only one profile to an individual who will be retiring today at Anfield. I know, I know he’s done this before, but he did say he would play other clubs for five years and come back to retire at Anfield in this season. I love this man, and he is a legend to Anfield who will be missed. Scoring 128 goals for the Reds as of to date.

YOUR CURRENT LIVERPOOL SQUAD FOR 2006-2007!!!!



From here I will post on the boys who will be playing today’s game and the boys who have been injured and will be missed. This is one of the most aggressive (thanks Alonso, Sissoko, Bellamy), experienced (Carragher, Hyypia, Riise, Fowler and Gerrard) squads to date for Liverpool.

Top Level (in HOME KIT = RED/ORANGE ONLY in order) –
DIRK KUYT (First player in red) - Excellent Striker…expect him to play today! And get us a goal!
PEPE RENIA (2nd in Orange) – BRILIANT KEEPER!!! Expect NO goals to get by him in today while wearing the HOME KIT!
HARRY KEWELL (last one in red) – LOOK WHO’S BACK!!! Brilliant midfielder bringing us some powerful defending and maybe that goal he’s always wanted in a Champions (Euro) Cup Final!!!

Middle Level (in HOME KIT = RED KITS ONLY in order) –
JERMAINE PENNANT – (1st red player) – Great great cross action, needed on the wing and maybe get a header in from Peter Crouch.
ROBBIE FOWLER– (4th, middle, red kit) – As we know! Bye bye Robbie, you’ll be missed! Bring tissues to the game!
CRAIG BELLAMY (last red kit, 6th) – Oye! I don’t know what to say about this twat, but he proved himself worthy when he AND Riise scored in the Quater-Finals in the 1st game against Barcelona. And this was after Riise was clubbed in the knee with a golfclub by Bellamy. Yup! Just get up front and get that goal you are promising, then leave!

Bottom Level (in HOME KIT = RED KITS ONLY in order) –
ZENDEN (1st red kit) – (won’t play) Injured, but still pulling off some great magic here and there.
LUIS GARCIA! (2nd sitting) – (won’t play) BRILLIANT Spaniard!!! INJURED and will be very very very much missed. I will kiss my thumb for you any day…I wish you would be better soon. Heard some very scary news about his knee/leg, wish him the best.
STEVE FINNAN (3rd sitting) – WILL PLAY! And better calm down getting that ball up field. QUIT kicking it all the way up. Passing is ace when you have such an AMAZING back with you.
XABI ALONSO – (4th sitting) – Aggressive and will take control of AC Milan’s KAKA. Everyone thinks Gerrard will be in charge of that, but WATCH for him…who happens to be next.
STEVIE G!!! – (5th sitting) – A LEGEND AND A GENUIS!!! You have to know who this is by now. Did you watch the World Cup? Oye, I hope not, but did you watch last season? Did you see the FA CUP final against West Ham last season with that brilliant tying goal in injury/stoppage time. THE BEST! Expect him to get up the field and kick some crackers. He deserves his own page, but for today, he will play what words can’t be typed.
JAIME CARRAGHER - (6th red kit sitting) – A legend, the greatest defender to play the number 23. Okay, a little too much, but still, he is a genius with the left-one foot tackles. No need to slide when you have this beast stop that ball in your tracks every time. Watch this man not allow any balls pass him. Genius!
SAMI HYYPIA - (7th red kit sitting) – Oh man, this man next Jamie Carragher is yet another reason AC Milan won’t score. And maybe even get lucky to have Sami score. This man’s headers are unbelievable when they go in. Don’t hold it against him, we may see a corner that meets that head, and it’s UNSTOPPABLE!
Momo SISSOKO – (8th red kit sitting) – Oh man! Watch out AC Milan, this man has Gerrard’s back, and it will not be pretty. Very dangerous player, a yellow card may be issued, but hey, it’s the final, why not!
John Arne RIISE – (9th red kit sitting) – GET READY FOR A ROCKET! Wow! Will you be honored to see why this man is always on the top 10 lists of goals of the year? He has some of the most incredible rocket foots EVER. Also, one the best defenders. The back four have nothing to worry about. Just look! Hyypia, Carragher, Riise, and Finnan. WOW! Forget it AC MILAN! OUT!
Peter CROUCH – (last one sitting) – Brilliant brilliant brilliant striker. Yes you have heard of this man, from his headers, crazy height and robo dancing before the World Cup. Crouchy is ready and I expect a goal from this man. If we had to pick two strikers to play, I would say Bellamy and Crouch. Make Bellamy feel special, but at the 65th minute, you put in Kuyt and expect another goal from fresh legs and much anticipation.

THAT’S IT! You’re winning STARTING 11, plus more! Wow, I cannot believe I just did all this. Ha! But this game is so important and this next season coming up August will be their shinning year. I hope to have a great summer hearing news that Benitez (manager) bringing in some great legs.

Some other amazing players I couldn’t mention…

Ian Rush – brilliant forward, deserves to hold the cup today with our squad.
Steve Nichol – who is the New England Revolution’s manager/coach! Great coach, great team!!!
Michael Owen - Of course I can’t forget this man. Stevie G and Owen were the most powerful force. Wish I could have seen more games of theirs. Damn you American Sports channels.
Kevin Keegan - 100 goals for this man in 7 years. Great forward! Congrats. Very special man for the Reds.

If you need anything and want to know more about Liverpool…Wikipedia always helps, but their main site is

liverpoolfc.tv

Well, this is a JUMP OFF/SONG OF THE WEEK section…and I do promise you a song. One of the greatest chants that’s also the reason why the heart and passion of Liverpool will never die. Not like ANY OTHER league team, Liverpool know who they are playing for, and the reason why they are scoring goals. To hear the cheers of millions of fans world wide. It’s not the money (seeing as they don’t really need it to keep the best players in the world). Just remember how many years these players stay and keep scoring for them.

This is an older song, but wow, this is a chant that will bring goosebumps every time. If you read about some of the key players I mentioned, you will get it and love every minute of this team and their style and passion of football.

Last thing before I post the song is ENJOY the game. No matter what happens remember that the teams playing have come a long way. I do not enjoy and very much despise Italy’s way of playing the game and hooliganism. I wish the best for both teams and make it friendly. What has happened in Italy in the past year is disgusting and let’s pray no one gets hurt and the crowd is on their best behavior. This is not only important to Liverpool fans, but Liverpool have to bring the Cup home to England.

COME ON RED MEN!!!!

DOWNLOAD “Fields Of Anfield Road” HERE!!!

b.quain

ARCTIC MONKEY'S LIVE @ Harc Rock Live Orlando (Setlist, Review)

Finally finally finally got to the Arctic Monkeys live. Even though it was in Orlando, Fl. So it wasn’t too fair, but I did get to see a band with balls, umph, and brilliant rock songs. But a 1/3 of it was missing. And I was expecting them to have that British Rock Band Form of no movement. It was minimal, but I do understand that it’s the last night of the tour and all. Plus NO ENCORES!!! THANK YOU! Hate those friggin’ things.
Form, and they did, but still having it at the Hard Rock Live, you heard EVERY note and EVERY word. Brilliant sound, lights, and decent crowd.

Here is the setlist for the show so you can see they played for ten minutes more than an hour.

1) If You Found This It’s Probably Too Late
2) BrianStorm
3) Still Take You Home
4) Dancing Shoes
5) From The Ritz To Rubble
6) Balaclava (goes RIGHT into)
7) Fake Tales Of San Francisco
8) You Probably Couldn’t See For The Lights, But You Were Looking Straight At Me
9) Teddy Picker
10) D Is For Dangerous
11) I Bet That You Look Good On The Dance Floor
12) This House Is A Circus
13) Old Yellow Bricks
14) If You Were There, Beware
15) The View From The Afternoon
16) Fluorescent Adolescent
17) When The Sun Comes Down
18) Leave Before The Lights Come On
19) A Certain Romance

It was genius having Ben who knew the first alum standing up front with me singing those songs, and having Brian and Solari with me bouncing and singing. Vanessa and Heather we’re up against the front bar, so we had a great crowd with us. I wish I could have pictures of the set. Great lighting with 2/3 of the show, nothing annoying, and fit with the music. Also, Nick O’Malley’s (drummers) Dr. Dre shirt was friggin’ ACES! Ha!
Thank you to a great crowd who knew every word. I lost my voice AGAIN. Something about me and singing the Monkeys. Last time was the bachelor party with Ben singing “Bet That You Look Good On The Dance Floor” at karaoke. Go see these guys. Buy up some albums, singing some songs, and enjoy a fun live show. Brilliant!
We had fun chanting ANTI-Sheffield United chants and trying to get Alex into the crowd more, but...no chance. We did make eye contact during Leave Before The Lights Come On holding up my Liverpool shirt and screaming Down With The Blades. I know Alex Turner is a HUGE Sheffield Weds. fan, so gonna give props to a proper football fan in the States.

GOOOOD TIMES! Thanks everyone!
b.quain

LOST BLOG: Recaps, predictions, and WHAT I GOT FROM LAST NIGHT'S "Man Behind The Curtain"

HOOOORAY BOBBY ROTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats buddy! When young Ben got onto the island it felt like his feature film “Berkeley”, made me smile. Now I need to start season 1 of Prison Break for the guy.


(THESE ARE NOT SPOILERS!!!! These are just RECAPS, thoughts and predictions of what we have seen in LOST. PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ANYTHING AWAY SINCE WE DO NOT WATCH PREVIEWS, ABC SUCKS IN GIVING A LOT AWAY!)

Ummmmm….what JUST happened?

I’m starting off this blog after watching the episode ONCE and then I will re-watch. I really felt like this episode was a cheap shot in some ways to answer questions. I have yet to feel comfortable to see that this was our first look at Ben, Dharma and hostiles. Where were Adam, Eve, Karen, Gerald? BUT, we did see an Emily!!! So let me re-watch and get back to you…

Disclaimer: It is 1am as I write this, and my parents are coming over at 7am, I need to finish this blog, but I am seriously exhausted. Wedding in 4 days!!!! Maybe I can hit my head and go back.

WHAT I GOT FROM: “The Man Behind The Curtain”


EMILY AND ROGER LINUS and some theories

The episode opens with Emily giving birth to Benjamin Linus. Something seems fishy (biscuits) here, and when I BEGGED for Emily, I didn’t mean diss me on the whole Locke theory. What happened to the whole Emily Annabeth, and why no mention of Locke? But, let’s remember that Emily Annabeth was admitted to the Santa Rosa Mental Institution (for schizophrenia) with Hurley, Lenny, Dave, and Libby. So what gives? I guess deep down inside we will never know who Locke’s REAL mother is anytime soon.
More something seems fishy. Ben lies! We know this, so when Ben told Locke he wasn’t born on the island…was he still lying? Maybe the flash backs are not what they seem, but something the island is trying to tell the person the flashback focuses on, this time Ben, a more fabricated story then they know, or believe. This may seem like a crazy theory. But WHAT IF Ben was born on the island?
Or, he’s born 32 miles out of Portland, not born on the island and Emily dies. Then what the HELL were Olivia and Horace of the Dharma doing? We think we know Mittelos Bioscience is based out of Portland, but where and why were they there if Richard is a hostile?
If you haven’t noticed this blog post will be all questions right? Plus we have the unanswered questions section…so what does one do?
Okay! Re-watching this episode, I got this out of it. She was 7 months pregnant with Ben, they knew she was going to give birth any second now and were following them. So, they WATCH Roger and Emily, know when to pull the car up. Can we say “injection victim?” and we know nothing of their past. Was Emily part of it, leaving Roger out of it?
Ben sees his Mom at night next to the barrier. She gives him the line “It’s not time yet”, and when is that? Yet another dead relative guiding someone around the island.
Also, let’s give a HUGE round of applause for Doug Hutchison for making it to LOST playing Horace (RULES!) and Samantha Mathis, ha! Weird. But…

GATHER AROUND ALL YE FAITHFUL HOSTILES

As Ben is bitching with Richard and the “not so well planned” tape recorder Purge 2, John Locke comes back with a dead body. I looove how all the hostiles are gathering in awe. Amazing. What do these hostiles know that we don’t?

HORACE GOODSPEED

What I’m guessing with this episode is that we might not tackle so much of the Dharma’s early years again, so what we saw tonight, is what we get. Horace was one of the originals, with his wife Olivia. On Horace’s jumpsuit, it says he’s a “Mathematician” meaning, NUMBERS!!! Was he the one working on the numbers? Will we ever see

HOSTILE CAMP

Mikhail comes running in at top speed screaming about Naomi, which had Ben almost change his plans and infiltrating the Lostaways camp. Something is up with Naomi, not the fact that there is a boat 180 miles off to the west or a radio. Someone came onto the island, without HIS permission. But, John Locke has to go and mess things up again and take it out on something else, instead of letting Ben do his job.
Richard and Tom refuse to help Ben, and at this point, when Mikhail says “Since when do you answer to him”, everyone is thinking, finally there’s someone else we can answer to. HIM! The camp sees Locke come in with a dead body and they think “He IS who we thought he was!!!”, and then pummel Mikhail bloody and probably thinking “I hate that guy too, go Locke!”
The reason Richard and Tom, nor anyone for that matter helps Ben is, that they are done with Ben. These past few days on the island have been a little to abrupt in the “Ben’s not cool” club, what gives? Seems fishy again! But, we know someone else who is done with Ben, and man did that get extremely creepy. More to come.

ALEX

A few things really quick. She had a gun, gave it to Locke, says “Happy Birthday DAD”, and walks off…was Rousseau close by? If the Hostile Camp is taking off, where is Rousseau and the dynamite? Is Alex still hanging out with Karl? So many questions with Alex…when will these be answered. You can work so well with her, and the producers aren’t. USE HER and her potential.



I HAVE A QUESTION MISS GOODSPEED!

Volcanos? On this island? Long time ago? You mean when the four-toed statues were still standing and connected to a leg with another leg, and full body? Quick question Miss Oliva!!! Where the HELL are we Miss Olivia Goodspeed?

ANNIE AND BEN, SITTING IN A TREE

Annie was Ben’s first love and nothing came out of it, but a great connection between Annie and Ben. So, BEN DOESN’T DIE!!! We need more back story before we kill him off. Right? This was a decent way to intro Ben to the island, but THIS CAN NOT be the ONLY flashback of Ben’s we get. NO WAY! There is more to come out of it. But it makes so much sense for Ben to die in the next few episodes.
Annie was sweet and you know something major happened to her. But did she die during the Purge? Wouldn’t a ten year boy actually tell the girl he’s crushing on to wear a gas mask. Yeah? Right?! I don’t think Annie died, is there going to be more with her?
There should be since we didn’t see her body in the Purge, and we don’t see who her parents are. Who is Annie besides Ben’s first crush?
We see in Ben’s home a shot of the doll of Annie when he is much older. There is no Annie, and there is a sad face on Ben. Does this mean she’s gone, dead, alive, now part of this purge?

WHISPERS

I will try to have these translated and put on the blog VERY SOON! These are a must!

ALPERT AND BEN…PASSING A TEST

What a GREAT scene, wow! Chills! The interaction between these two was great, and seems like it will open up more with Ben, instead of him being this guy who was born there, defending his island. This interaction proves that ben is special in a way. Richard knows it, since he’s special, I mean the guy CAN’T age on the island!!!! So, we have a special one, the ONE who was born by Roger and Emily Linus, the same kid we hear about from the Dharma crew of DeGroots and Goodspeeds. Same ONE!
But, things are not what they seem. Yes, Richard, you are happy he hears whispers and sees Mom, but what you got your hands on, is one stone cold asshole. You didn’t expect this, but it did lead to you getting you’re true prophet and not Ben.
The TEST for Ben and seriously, this was brilliant. Ben FINALLY was put to a TEST, and waaaay before ANYONE else had. Alpert put Ben up to a test like Sawyer would have to, but thought Locke would pull through. Let’s remember this. Ben puts Locke up to killing HIS father (since Ben didn’t want to be the only one I guess), BUT, Alpert doesn’t want someone going through what Ben had to, so he makes Locke get Sawyer to do it. Ben loses his special power since he kills his dad, the island takes it away from him. Leading to…



JACOB

We saw Jacob, but barely. And I feel what I said two weeks ago still feels strong for me that we’d HEAR Jacob more than see him. BAM! Very true. The “Help me” was very very important. Back to Locke and Ben, Ben used to be able to see Jacob and I feel I was right about Richard Alpert being the apprentice to Jacob. Richard has all this trust in Ben and knows Ben will do anything for him. Richard helps raise Ben in many ways, cause his dad is a drunk ass. Richard puts him up to the test, and then one day Ben goes to see Jacob and no longer can see him or talk to him. Ben goes crazy leaving Richard to put this “PORTECTIVE POWDER” down on the ground around the hut. (in the hut…painting of a DOG, and some jars with some liquid).
Ben takes Locke there, but KNOWS since Locke KILLED his DAD, that he wouldn’t be able to SEE or HEAR Jacob. He says “you’re too limited”, and Ben finally starts to believe it, but then Locke hears “HELP ME!” which comes to why is Jacob, the answers to the island needs LOCKE? LOCKE?! Why Locke? What is Ben doing to Jacob? So many question here, very very amazing.
Locke then turns to the light (flashlight) and the truth comes out. Jacob appears. But look at Ben when Jacob goes nuts, he was never expecting it. (NOW BEFORE YOU GO NUTS THINKING THAT THE BLACK SMOKE WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CHAIR…it was the middle of the flashlight’s bulb) Ben’s face when Locke sees “himself?” is as shocking as ours. He didn’t expect to see Jacob, or expect Jacob to come out, because of Locke’s fate on killing dad. We get a screenshot of an eye, and it looks right into Lockes and Locke BOOKS it out the door. What did Locke see before running out? Ben comes out now knowing that EVERYTHING he’s done for this island, is now GONE! Comes out so slow and sad. Ben has met his match…GREAT SCENE!!!
What a weird way to have Psycho brought into the show. Talking to an empty chair like Bates did to his Mom?
Was Jacob really John Locke? Alvar Hanso? Why was the flashlight the only way you can see him?

BEN KILLS DAD

Ben is in his jumpsuit that says Work Man, and I feel Ben has been there for years and he’s JUST like his dad. Nothing better than what his dad called a janitor. Dad NEVER moved up in the decades on the island and Ben feels with Dharma, neither would he. He wants BIGGER and BETTER and knows that the Hostiles will give it to him. He’s put to the test, and PASSES with flying colors. Dead dad, now could be a leader for the Hostiles, under Alpert.

HOSTILE HOLOCAUST

Pretty sad, and pretty sick. Stack em up and let them rot. Ben, mentions he’s smarter than Locke, in jealousy. Ben shoots Locke to leave him to die. And we get the truth in 24 frames or less. Ben’s face when he hears Jacob really spoke to Locke. So good!

SOMETHING SOMEONE SAID…
Horace (to Roger) ”How’s the baby?” - The baby seems okay, he’s alive if you notice he’s crying. But why the baby worrying when a woman is dying in front of you? Plus, why look at Olivia like that? Oh, because she was injected!!!!! (read above once more to Emily & Roger Linus).

Ben (to Richard) ”You do remember birthdays, don’t you Richard?” - I guess not you silly guy Ben you! Uh, wow, whatta joker! This one reeeeallly threw EVERYONE into a loop. I mean, we were supposed to think Ben was being a prick and that Richard is done with him. AND Richard IS done with him, but the question here is…Richard Alpert doesn’t age. Why? How? What? HELP ME! It’s 1:16am, and my Mom and step-dad knock on our door in 5 hours. No sleep tonight. Seriously.

Ben (To John) - We all answer to someone John.” - Yes Ben, many many people answer to someone higher than you. But who does Alva Hanso ever have to answer to?

Roger (to Horace), Horace (back to Roger) - He don’t say much.” “I’m sure he will when he has something to say.” - I know I joke when I say the island doesn’t work with much, but what it knows, With Apollo Bars, the numbers, Expose, Widmore, etc…but what about dialogue? Yes, we have heard this before. BOONE said it to Locke in the sweat lodge hallucination vision I posted yesterday. Things will be coming around full circle soon.

Annie (To younger Ben) - “We can have as many as we want” - There’s those Apollo bars again! And why can these kids have AS MANY as they want? If a kid dreams it, does it appear? Okay, a little far fetched, but I still love the idea of that being why the are no kids there. Walt imagined a Polar Bear from his comic, and got it.

Mikhail (to Ben) – “Since when do you explain yourself to HIM?” - You heard right folks! This was the HUGE hint that Locke may be the HIM we’ve been waiting for. Wasn’t expecting Mikhail to be so crazy up in arms in this scene.

Locke (To Ben) - ”I guess there’s a first time for everything.” - On this island, there has to be a first time for everything, so there can be a second time and third, maybe re-live over and over again for everything. I know this makes no sense, but think about time and space and the island. I love this line.

Richard Alpert 25 years ago (to young Ben) - ”Do you even know what that word means? - Hostiles huh? I guess not Richard Alpert. Mikhail told us that DHARMA was the one who tried to kill the “others” or “Hostiles” in the purge…but we see it was the “other” way around. We get on this island and it’s all NAMASTE!, and peace, love, beer. So, do NOT trust these “hostiles” at all. Mikhail was lying through his teeth, since all he wanted to do was get Kate and Sayid out of the Flame. We’re there two fights in this episode. The scene in the classroom, was that the warning? And then the gas was the purge?

Ben (to Locke) - ”Jacob feels the same way about technology like you do.” - More hints of Locke being Jacob.

Ben (to Locke)) - ”Are you sure this is what you want?” - Are you sure this is what YOU want Ben? Afraid of the truth, to see if Locke can reeeeallly see Jacob? What if you are wrong about Locke? I guess that’s what Ben’s gun is for.

PREDICTIONS (not many, I have to go, Mom is HERE!)
- Richard Alpert saves Locke when Ben comes back without a Locke
- Richard knows Locke didn’t kill dad, and Ben might have killed Locke.
- The camp sets up to stop the war, but the camp is still split up.
- Charlie, Charlie, Charlie

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
- Is Emily Locke’s mom as well?
- Why is Jacob, John Locke?
- Was Jacob invisible because John Locke cannot see himself?
- Does Locke die to become Jacob?
- What was the protective powder laid out around Jacob’s house?
- TOO MANY UNANSWERED!!!

Okay, I wrote this EXHAUSTED and did NOT re read, so if anything is mixed up and not worded right….i am so so so sorry.

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