Achtung Baby!

I never wanna see you a sad girl

+ The "Skins" cast: "Wild World"

Keep On Going
Karl Krolow

I go around some street corners
and have an idea in my head clear as a picture
of time between March and October.
I like the cut-out
I'm moving around in,
slowly, toward change,
dying of something, while I
just keep on going, at least for the moment -
how do you write about
still being alive
among objects that are all used up
and possessions that shine,
lists without specifics, so to speak?
Some things just wait for me
to stop defending myself.
In the air
shining insects.

+ Manic Street Preachers, “So Why So Sad (Avalanches Remix)”
why so sad You live and you love
+ SKINS, series 1 trailer

How To Be Happy After the End of the World

+ Everything you were afraid to ask about "Battlestar Galactica"
+ What The Frak Is Going On?

+ Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There
+ How Would Cylons Convert Us To Their Religion? 

+ The Top BSG Moments of All Time
+ 'Battlestar Galactica' photos from Season 4
+ Battlestar Galactica - All Along the Watchtower

/a monday miscellany/

Dear Battlestar Galactica Season 4. Get here already!
/ A complete 'Battlestar' refresher

/ This song reminds me of Kate Austen: Kathleen Edwards - "In State"

/ The man above? Michael Emerson: The best actor working in American television today, that's who.

/ Additions to my Burnout soundtrack: Gnarls Barkley's "Run" & "Paper Planes" via this trailer's use of it.

/ Justice League: The New Frontier comes out tomorrow. Here's a review and here's another.

/ The art of Chip Kidd’s new book.

/ Inchworm: Bob Sabiston, creator of the rotoscoping software behind A Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly wanted to draw and animate on his DS...

/ The Dishwasher: I played it over the weekend and became a believer in XNA if games like this are going to  come out of it.

/ If it wasn't for afrojacks, I wouldn't know there's a badass "new" of live VU song out there.

/ Musica! HEAD OF FEMUR: Isn't It A Shame, Delorentos: basis of everything, Great Northern: Telling Lies,  Oren Lavie: Her Morning Elegance.  

/ SXSW is fast approaching, a trip down memory lane: Amy Winehouse live during one of the SXSW daytime parties.

Friday Night Lights needs saving again?

+ How can we save 'Friday Night Lights'?

"Though many people have assumed that the show's theme song is also by Explosions in the Sky, it is actually the work of W.G. Snuffy Walden, who composed the themes for "The West Wing" and "My So-Called Life," and Bennett Salvay."

Double up on Rose

Double up on Rose Byrne goodness by watching Season 1 of "Damages" ( my favorite new show of last year) and "Sunshine" ( I've yet to meet anyone who has seen this movie).

[  The VLA: "When I Am Through With You", the theme to "Damages" ]

+ Tom Waits - Trampled Rose (live)
+ Alison Krauss & Robert Plant - Trampled Rose
+ Tori Amos - Almost Rosey (live)

LOST: Via Domus ( The Road Home )

+ GT: "Check out this Frag Dolls UK interview covering the highly anticipated hit TV show inspired video game!"

+ NY Daily News - 'Lost' fans show their Initiative: Some people play Sudoku, others work on the crosswords. However, a growing number of fans have turned to an entirely different sort of pastime: the "Lost" theory.

+ Sky One - "Utterly Lost"

Lost/Game/Counting the days to Season 4

+ What I Learned About Video Games From ‘Lost’
+ Surfer Girl Reviews Star Wars: The videogame based on Lost was so terrible that when the company sent it to Sony for approval, they refused, saying "no, your game is too boring and has no gameplay, we don't want it on the Playstation 3." This videogame will beat records at being bad and will bomb really hard.
+ 'Lost': Matthew Fox Flash Forwards to Season 4
+ "Lost": Doc Jensen Returns! "According to sources, if Lost can't resume work by Jan. 31 (the same date the new season premieres), it will start becoming logistically impossible to produce a full season of shows."

Curb Your Enthusiasm for Christmas

+ Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 6 Final Scene

Do Cylons Dream of Electric Humans?

With the release of "Razor" and Season 1 on HD-DVD, next week is a good week to be a Battlestar Galactica fan. I stand by the fact that unlike "Lost" and "Heroes", BSG didn't fuck up their second season and remains pristine in their legacy as one of the best television shows of this decade.

+ Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Promo
+ Ron Moore Speaks!! We discuss the Battlestar Galactica, Crappy Video Games, iTunes, Razor, Strike, DVDs and more!
+ WRITERS' STRIKE SHUTS DOWN 'BATTLESTAR GALACTICA' ON THE FINAL LEG TO EARTH

King Of The Castle

Of course Brian K. Vaughan would write the best "Lost - Missing Pieces" (so far).

+ The Police - King Of Pain (live)

Lynch + Entertainment Weekly + Twin Peaks Gold Box

+   David Lynch: Climbing the 'Peaks' : The cult-cinema director looks back on his landmark ''Twin Peaks'': How ABC ruined it, why he'd never work in TV again, and what, exactly, Agent Cooper is doing today.

+ Angelo Badalamenti- Twin Peaks Theme

+ Detroit Free Press: 'Twin Peaks' more than it seems - review of  "Twin Peaks: Definitive Gold Box Edition"

Actresses Who Kicked Ass This Week

This post is in high appreciation of the work of Connie Britton, Rose Byrne and Glenn Close this week on their respective shows: Damages and Friday Night Lights.

[ James Brown: It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World (live) ]

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the anniversary of the crash of flight 815

+ Executive Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse mark the anniversary of the crash of flight 815 in this special podcast

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+ Eisley "Lost At Sea" (live)

Emmy Winner for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Mr. Terry O'Quinn! About damn time.

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The best Friday Night Lights DVD Endorsement ever

+ FNL Gallery
+ Friday Night Lights – Money Back Guarantee

Pilot Season

Comments you didn't ask for, about shows you haven't seen.
In order of Most Liked...

//Pushing Daisies

The beginning is very "Amelie" inspired. When it is all said and done I felt a Tim Burton "Big Fish" vibe going on mainly in the art direction. This may be one of the most romantic and sweet shows on television next season. Mind you, I made the "Big Fish" connection before reading the ABC page stating that this show comes from the producers of "Big Fish". It's just so obvious. 

+ Trailer
+ Daisies To Push Romance

//Reaper

I'm still not forgiving the CW for canceling Veronica Mars but this will do. Even though Kevin Smith is involved the show is Funny! Twin Peaks Alumn Watch #1: Ray Wise as the Devil. Beck's "Devil's Haircut" perfectly used in the soundtrack.

+ Trailer
+ The CW's ‘Reaper’: Don't Fear It!
+ What in the world does Kevin Smith have to do with NBC's Heroes?
+ Meet the cast

//Chuck

This show has the "Alias" vibe down. Hell, I even thought it was an ABC show and started panicking about how they would find a way to fuck it up. Thankfully its on NBC. Finally a good fit to follow "Heroes" on Mondays. Never has a show featured so many Nerdy references. The second show to feature "Beck" in the soundtrack.

+ Official Site
+ Review

//Bionic Woman

Wow, Stabuck is evil! The Bionic Woman vs Bionic Woman fight was great. I'm Sold! Twin Peaks Alumn Watch #2: Miguel Ferrer as the leader of the Government Bionic whatever project.

+ Official Site

I also watched the pilot for "The Sarah Connor Chronicles". It stunk.

Lost Season 3 Recap

+ SEASON 3 RECAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+ " TODAY IS OFFICIAL CAPSLOCKE DAY AND THE END OF SEASON 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "

Goodbye Veronica Mars

+ USA Today: R.I.P., 'Veronica Mars'
+ Spoon - I Turn My Camera On

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Veronica

[ Elvis Costello - Veronica (demo) ]

Austin + Friday Night Lights

+ Austin charms 'Friday Night Lights' cast - They love their show and they love working and living in Texas.

grrrreater than

Battlestar Galactica's "mid-season" finale was greater than "Lost" and "Heroes" combined.

Autumn Alicia Reeser is greater than Mischa.

the end.

Otherside

LOST IN KALININGRAD: Tribute to the Lost series shot in Russian woods

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling. Ecstasy, even, I felt, with flashes of sudden remembrance, and feeling sweaty and drowsy I felt like sleeping and dreaming in the grass.
Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

+ KT Tunstall - Other Side of the World @ The World Cafe
+ KT Tunstall's Covergraphy 

[ Battle ]

Photo: from a wallpaper by wurlocke

[ Blur - BATTLE ]

+ A season of 'Galactica' proportions ready for launch
+ `Battlestar Galactica' transcends sci-fi genre
+ First 13 minutes of Season 3
+ Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far @itunes
+ Ron Moore On Podcasting And Battlestar Galactica

[ Lost ]

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Everybody's Lost
But they're pretending they're not

[ Morrissey - Lost ]

If you want to get a head start on the homework/headaches, here's what you should be boning up on:

Don DeLillo's Underworld. Alan Moore's V For Vendetta. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The Book of Revelations. The Greek word thipsis. John Mayer's ''Waiting for the World to Change.''  Creed's ''My Own Prison.'' The lost continent of Mu. All things H.G. Wells. Pink Floyd. George Orwell. The defunct performance art/electronica band The KLF. The word oulipo.

And dolphins.

+ EW's resident expert on all things ''Lost,'' has seen the season premiere! Here are his first impressions...

VERONICA Fever

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Who's returning from Summer vacation tonight? Veronica Mars that's who!

[ The Raveonettes - Veronica Fever ]

It’s a pretty simple town

I think the major characteristic Lost and Twin Peaks share is starting out about one thing and turning out to be about another( "The owls are not what they seem" vs "I looked into the eye of the island, and what I saw...was beautiful" ). As questionable and misguided as Season 2 of Twin Peaks ended up being, it is a crime that it has not arrived on DVD already. I mean, this is the season that invented The X-Files after all.

Random Cast Notes:
// The Twin Peaks - Big Love cast connections: Laura Palmer's mom is Bill's mom in Big Love  & Roman was in Fire Walk With Me.
// Alicia Witt ( who "turned down the role of Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man" *) appeared in Twin Peaks once.
// What are the chances? Almost the same costume for two series. In Twin Peaks & in Stargate SG-1

+ A Guide to Twin Peaks

+ A David Lynch Electrical Resource has the latest news on Season 2 coming to DVD ( 5.1 mix,  David Lynch involvement, eta: 2007? )

+ Twin Peaks Music

Blossom Your Enthusiasm

Ok. Will there be a bigger WTF moment this season on tv than Blossom (Mayim Bialik) showing up on Curb Your Enthusiasm last night? Nothing short of Punky Brewster on Desperate Housewives will make me go WTF like this.

+ Whatever happened to..."Graduated from UCLA June 2000, and will begin studies towards her Ph.D. in neuroscience this fall at UCLA."
+ Frontside picture

ABC's Cupid

Dear ABC, Now that Jeremy is a big deal, any chance of Cupid on DVD?

Celebrating Lost being on DVD

+ oceanicflight815.com - everything we have found so far
+ Lost Season 2 Poster
+ LOST PRODUCERS PLAN BLOCKBUSTER FINALE
+ Stuff from the DVD
+ how to find Easter Eggs in the UK Lost Site
+ "THE Island" Oceanic Logo a Clue?
+ "48 are left"
+ LOST Links: Ultimate Resource
+ The lost numbers blog
+ Washington Post review of the dvd set reveals one of the easter eggs.

Lenny Henry is Genius

Isn't it great when you go the video store and you find something you've wanted forever and its unexpectedly there? I've been waiting for one of my favorite BBC series to come out on DVD and it finally did: Lenny Henry's  Chef!

+ Neil Gaiman's new novel excerpt read by Lenny Henry

+ A Personal Message from LH

Lust for Lost

" If we do our job right we will go 3 or 4 seasons before we even contemplate the possibility of anyone getting off at all or [present] the breaking point of view of what is [actually] going on on the island. " - Damon Lindelof

+ The Lost Notebook - This notebook is a collection of the evidence presented in ABC's show 'LOST' to assist the multitude of fan sites & community forums in further investigating the show's storylines.

+ Good Morning America - "secret" scene from Lost finale

+ Guide to Oceanic-Air.com - includes a Exodus Part II script page ( yet more BS from the producers of Lost? ) Messages from the bottle.  French translations of the notes on the map.

+ TV Guide: Lost - Inside The Finale

+  What are these objects in the Pilot episode?  Its really creep what Lost fans will find.

+ Were we victims of the weirdest disinformation campaign ever? a.k.a I'll never read SpoilerFix again and that bitch from E! can shut the hell up. 

+ Season 2 Trailer : Click on the "numbers" below the plane in order. 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 Wait and see the trailer { also found here }. "They survived on luck / They survived on instinct / On the other side of the island / They discover / They are not the survivors / They thought they were / Lost Season 2 2005 "

+ John Locke is on MySpace and so is The Hatch along with all the main characters.

+ The Numbers

the best 2 hours of the 04-05 tv season

My favorite 2 hours of the 2004-2005 TV season:

LOST -  Walkabout - The origin of Locke.
House - Three Stories - The origin of Gregory House M.D.

Coincidentally both of the above deal with legs/walking. Terry O'Quinn deserves an Emmy.

Biggest Disappointment of the season: ALIAS.

what shields me from bad television

Over the weekend I got to watch the first episode of the new season of The Shield. Damn that show only gets better. Glenn Close makes a smooth transition into the show and the new dynamics of the former strike team are revealed (hello apprentice vs master complex). Unlike other revamps this season (24 and Alias), this one doesn't feel like it at all. It feels like the correct progression of the story instead of some desperate attempt to get more viewers. Another feature of this season: early 90's tv actors like Anna Maria Horsford ( at leas I think that was her playing someone from the DA's office. First show I think about when I see her is "Amen") and Anthony Anderson ( First show I think about when I see him is "Hang Time" ).

+ What Glenn Close is doing in ''The Shield''
+ The Shield PS2 game

L O S T

"Lost" is my favorite TV show. I watch it while wearing a shirt that says "Jack Bauer: Stay Out of CTU", born out of a friend saying "Why do they even let this guy in at CTU, he's nothing but trouble". I would rather wear a Locke shirt. When is ABC going to get on the ball with some "Lost" merchandise.

+ If you've missed an episode: A show-by-show guide to 'Lost'
+ Fuselage - Official Site of the team behind Lost
+ Lost promo posters
+ SFX (UK) Article Scans
+ Spoiler Fix: Lost

Andy Dick is a son of a bitch

I'm just mad because I have a crush on Melisssa and then I read this: Andy Dick Boinks Assistant . Maybe it was one of the dudes.

Today's WTF moment

Dear "I love the 90's" could you be more lame? "Quantum Leap" did not start in 1993, it started in 1989 you @#!! morons! Makes me wonder what else they got wrong...oh yah, "Jagged Little Pill" came out in 1995 and I don't remember "You Oughta Know" taking a year to break, I thought it was a summer hit single, so try again "I love 1996". Now I just want to watch to see all their errors.

Wolf's Rain

I guess this show already ran on Cartoon Network and I totally missed it. Over the weekend I saw the first DVD volume and now I'm hooked. I had high hopes since it features music by Yoko Kanno and comes from Bandai, home of Cowboy Bebop.

Endorsement

the assistant

Best New Summer Show:

There I said it. P.S. I love the 90's sucks. F**k off Mo Rocca and Michael Ian Black, I've had it.

This Month's WTF! moment

Rock musicians and food lovers Dweezil Zappa and Lisa Loeb are hitting the road in search of musical and culinary adventures. From dining on Southern specialties with the Indigo Girls in Atlanta, to chowin' down at the Zappa family's breakfast pancake party, this dynamic duo is out to find good times and great food. Join them as they discover new regional culinary delights with famous chefs and friends across the country.

Dweezil & Lisa premieres on Friday, January 16 at 10 pm ET/PT