Kate is easily my least favorite character on Lost, even more so than Walt, Shannon or Claire. I really like her cool, escaping-from-the-cops-adventures, but the millisecond those stop, she immediately becomes incredibly annoying. Almost nothing she says or does has any logical causality, and I’ve no idea why Jackface or Sawyer are remotely interested in her, ever, besides the fact that she is basically the only tail on the island.
Very excited for the new season though. I’m so curious about the endings that a bunch of characters are going to get, like what is going to be Ben’s ultimate fate, hero or villain? Is Jack going to become the bad-assed leader I love so dearly again? Is Sawyer going to survive the season? SO MANY QUESTIONS.
LET’S TALK ABOUT CITIES IN TEXAS:
I don’t know that I have anything interesting to say about my trip to Dallas. I didn’t get to see too much of the city, being there on work, but I’ll do my best to lay some facts on you (for those that have never been I guess. Otherwise, you have your own facts to lay):
- People actually wear cowboy hats and those big, goofy belt buckles. Not everyone, just here and there you’ll see someone standin’ tall in his/her Texas finery.
- The Texas accent is sloooooooooowwwww. “How-dee pard-ner, how a-bout you and I talk a-bout belt buck-els for a whi-ile? Would that be all-right?” I mean, I know being from Jersey, I talk a mile a minute and infix “fuck” into every other word, so I’m no conversational peach, but jesus christ people, let’s speed things up.
- The buildings are huge and spaced out a smidge farther than what I’m used to, and they are like no people walking around in the city (I heard this is because Dallas is a big commuter city?), so the city has this weird, empty cavernous feel.
- There is meat everywhere. In everything. Not the most awesome place to be a vegetarian unless you’re fine with your hotel pillows being giant sides of ribs and all TV channels being 24/7 MeatDonalds* commercials.
MUH-MUH-MUH-MUSIC TIME
On the road this week, so not a lot of time to dig up too much that’s cool, so why don’t we try a theme this week. Um, how about, “Dudes dealing with Ladies?”
- “Holiday Parade”–Samiam. A rocking little tune about a man that is unhappy with how his lady treats him. High energy with some drum parts that I am particularly fond.
- “Don Juan”–Suburban Legends. Ska song with a dude explaining the origins of his success with the ladies. Catchy with cute lyrics.
- “Fell in Love Without You (acoustic)”–Motion City Soundtrack. A good one, provided you’re not afraid to let your emoflag fly once and a while.
Don’t forget to come back on Weds. to see Dana’s next blog post.
<3 Mike
*MeatDonalds is the Texas equivelent of McDonalds. It is more or less the same, except its food is served without bread, cheese or any of the other salmonela-infested roughage typically available at the national chains. Their mascot, Ronald MeatDonald, is made entirely of raw, unfrozen hamburger meat, and only communicates in screams and wet burbles of barbecue sauce.
You spelled Joysey wrong. Not much else to say because I never got into Lost. Somehow, it just fucked my suspension of disbelief and I couldn’t stomach watching it.
http://chainsawsuit.com/2010/01/22/joysey-shoy/
Speaking as a guy who’s lived in Dallas 30 years:
(1) The people with belt buckles are giant fuckwads and are probably visitors from Oklahoma.
(2) The town is thick with hillbillies, like most other towns, so the regional dialect will prevail at times. The rest of us try HARD to imitate the guys on national news feeds.
(3) Yes, downtown Dallas is a great place to catch a nap in the middle of a crosswalk. You want crowds? Visit the malls.
(4) Meat is so ubiquitous here it’s sometimes given in change. Even the vegetables have a little meat in them. You get used to it.
Is there a good reason to visit Dallas? No.
You’ve been warned.
Haha, amazing. Glad and honored to have a Dallas local clear things up. I love it lower-case mike, and thanks for reading.
I think you missed the most obvious clues set forth in Lost. As we all are aware, Smoke Monster, is an anagram of “Somerset Monk.” Somerset, clearly referring to British novelist William Somerset Maugham, is a not-so-thinly-veiled suggestion of the importance of another famous British writer, one John Locke. While “Monk” clearly references the sometimes forgotten (and most awesomely badass) Mr. Eko. With that established, we can now see how “smoke monster” is clever phraseology that expresses the difficulty of growing up as a mixed race child in the unaccepting world of 1970′s America (which is echoed today by the cruel taunts of school children towards those with same sex parents.) Therefore, it should be clear. The smoke monster is actually Locke and Eko’s 1970′s lovechild.
This theory only makes sense if they later time-morph into Rose and Bernard, and then again into Vincent and that guy from Shawshank who worked in the hatch with Desmond.
I think that’s what happens in tonight’s episode
Hmm, they must have moved that plot line back in the season a bit, because last night’s episode was once again just a long, boring string of crap featuring characters I don’t care at all about.
Spot on with Kate! Frankly, Sawyer is really on the emotional SeeSAW as well. One moment he is all together-forever with Juliet and the next frame when Kate appears, he just goes “Oh wait, maybe not.” … then he flip-flops like throughout the show until Julie finally dies. He is like the bi-stable gate that cannot stay on-course as far as girls are concerned.
Yeah, I find that really annoying too, especially with all the puppy-dog looks exchanged between them.
Question: I got a Gravatar, but does it work?
They are currently shut off Margo, but they will work if we switch them on. Dana and I are currently debating whether we want commenters to have them or not.
I vote for gravatars! Do it do it!
Yeah maybe. I’m still kind of on the fence …