First visit to the physical therapist today. She gave me exercises that nearly killed me, and they all involved half-pound weights and rubber bands. I. Am. Pathetic.
Thank you. Tonight’s episode was, for so many reasons, the greatest episode of this season and possibly of the entire show. Thank you for giving us answers to a Top Five mystery, thank you for the flashback revelation, thank you for the general sharing/asking of information between 815 survivors, and thank you for the closing frame, which was one of the best .3 seconds of television I’ve ever witnessed. I apologize for my early Season 3 doubt, I rescind all complaints about Island 2 and Jack/Sawyer/Kate focuses, and I submit myself to two more years of eager viewership and rabid fascination.
Thank you, also, for Locke’s performance this episode. After his apparent attitude problem in the previous episode, this week’s turn was a) effing awesome b) totally Locke. Thank you for creating a character we fear, admire, pity, love, and despise, and putting him on the List. Next week’s Locke-centric episode looks like it will be totally oh my god amazing and I will watch it and watch it again.
Also, if you like Lost and you’re not listening to the admittedly nerdy LostCast, you’re missing out on a weekly compilation of the theories, details, philosophical references, research, and general forum-scraping that makes the show twice as fun. I will stop now.
Yeah, I saw the Shins tonight. And yeah, it was in a packed DAR hall with hundreds upon hundreds of Garden State fans, frat boys, and general on-lookers. But you know what? It still ruled. Even without the intimacy of a small club, the show was fantastic, blessed partially by the intricacy and power of the Shins’ source material. Instruments were swapped, legs were kicked, jokes were told, and “Turn A Square” was rocked beyond belief. Thank you, Shins, for bein’ so good. (And thank you Matt, for the tix)
Two new posts over at the wedding blog. Oh yeah, we have a wedding blog. And it’s not remotely finished.
Foreign Office’s reel of advertising in Children of Men.
If you haven’t seen it, you might want to skip this reel until you do; but it’s a great example of how a movie can be given an urgent sense of place and time simple through the adwork and the signs in the background. Foreign Office put together one of Children of Men’s most compelling aspects by answering questions about what advertising and interface would be like in a world without hope.
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Speak Up’s “Idiocratic Design” (not safe for work)
Again, if you haven’t seen Idiocracy yet, you might want to skip this. While Idiocracy’s plotline and characters left something to be desired, the meat of its hilarity was in the graphic design…a huge amount of hideously-redesigned logos, dumbed-down brands, and typography miscarriages. Despite the great jabs at current brands and styles, Idiocracy’s finest moment was probably the 2-second shot of the St. God’s Memorial Hospital sign.
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