Lost is Back and I was in Toronto… Ooooh!
A bit late with the post but I just watched Lost on Saturday morning so I needed a day or so to digest. This week’s episode was a total Ben-fest — which is always a good thing because he’s got to be the most intriguing character in the show.
Apart from all the Charles Widmore vs. Ben stuff we saw the boat’s doctor washed up on the shore of the island with his throat cut… apparently able to navigate impossible-to-follow bearings for miles to find the island with greater ease than anybody who actually possesses a pulse. Is somebody trying to send them a message? Seems rather curious that the doctor would just “happen” to surface at their beach camp. Good thing Bernard knows Morse code and was able to foil Daniel’s little ploy to smooth things over.
And… even if you “know” Morse code is it actually possible to listen to a sentence communicated in blips and bleeps and understand it in real time? That seemed pretty remarkable to me but then again my only experience with Morse Code was those Space Patrol walkie-talkies (on the far right) with the entire alphabet printed on the front. I never really had the hours to dedicate to learning it when I was 8. One of several regrets I will most likely take to the grave.
I just got back from a week and a half in Toronto. Living in Ottawa most of my life, whenever I’m there I feel like I’m seriously approaching the centre of the universe — where ALL cool people originate from… I know, I’m feeding the ego — and that everybody that lives in Toronto has to be famous on some level so it is my obligated duty to make damn sure I recognize as many celebrities as possible… no matter how small their celebrity star is.
This trip was particularly lucrative for micro-celebrity sightings… I managed to spot former Hermit bass-master Ian McGettigan, former Local Rabbit “Montreal” Pete Elkas, former Deadly Snakes frontman Andre Ethier and former IME singer Edwin (serving me beers at a bar… word). There must be something about spring time that gets all the 90s Canadian indie rawk heroes crawling out of the woodworks.
And Ian McGettigan was rocking the same sweater vest (sans undershirt of course) he was sporting back in June at NXNE. I assume he hasn’t taken it off in 9 months.
Hmm… that was a particularly shallow remark. Perhaps I can morph this blog into a TMZ-type thing focusing exclusively on really obscure Canadian musician celebrities. That might be a conflict of interest… being a ridiculously obscure Canadian musician celebrity myself. Or perhaps I can use my nano-celebritism to my advantage… since I seem to be the only one able to recognize or even show any interest these people.
Their stories need to be told. I think I’m the one who needs to do it. No more making web pages… I have to go find out what the guitarist from Zuckerbaby is doing right now.
Woah. I can’t believe they’re still together.
KISS, Hayden, The Beatles, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Graham Day & The Gaolers, Spiritualized, The Rolling Stones, Little Richard, Theme Songs, The Dears, The Stooges, The Who, MGMT, The Hellacopters, Spoon 
I totally had the same walkie talkies. They were wicked. Powerful enough to transmit from the backyard to the frontyard!
Regarding Lost. Can we assume that Ben “couldn’t” kill Widmore because of the same force that was stopping Michael from killing himself? Seems likely to me. And the whole nano-particle cloud being controlled by Ben was a bit of a revelation. Perhaps he was the one setting it loose on the survivors at the beginning of the first season.
@Chris - you need to read the time loop theory I just posted. The whole idea of these rules and what role the black cloud plays will start to make a whole lot of sense… assuming he’s at least partially right.