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So the big 2 hour season finale episode airs in just a few short hours. Fully expecting they’ll choose tonight reveal Widmore’s distant kinship to Doc Brown and finally introduce the Delorean into the mix. That’ll have us all scratching our heads for a good week or two as we slowly ease into Lost withdrawal and are forced to reacquaint ourselves with lesser-quality shows like Heroes and Shot at Love 2.

Since we’ll be without new Lost episodes for the next 8 or 9 months and I don’t really have anything better to do the idea had crossed my mind to maybe go back and re-watch some of the old seasons. I bet I’d pick up on a bunch of stuff I missed the first go around. Those trivial little details (at the time) that might have hinted at something bigger. (”Why did Kate pick up that box of crackers with her left hand? Isn’t she right-handed? Of course. This must be Kate’s clone.”) That’s just one off the top of my head I’m sure I didn’t catch when it first aired. The only thing left to decide whether this is a useful way to spend my free time in the summer. Possibly not.

Check out this trailer for the Nintendo DS version of Guitar Hero.  Holy fuck this is a riot… and yes, from the sounds of it this is an official trailer for the game.  It’s not a spoof or a parody.  Man, this is hilarious.

I lose it when the guy goes “That’s even worse than the fire!”

I don’t know if it’s a generational thing or the fact that I never have been gamer myself, but looking at the comments on this video it seems like everybody is completely missing the point.  Calling the singing guy lame, annoying, stupid and gay… I mean, seriously… lighten up, people.  Take it for what it is.  It’s a brilliant ad.

This weekend I watched Joe Strummer - The Future is Unwritten, a really great documentary on the life of the late great Clash frontman.  I never really knew that the band had just kind of imploded like that at the height of their success. Kind of tragic, but it’s pretty easy to understand how a band of humble guys built on such solid DIY morals would have a hard time coping with the kind of fame the Clash was experiencing in the early 80s.  It was bound to collapse.  One of the best moments in the film was seeing Mick Jones and Joe Strummer bury the hatchet and get up on stage post-Clash fallout to support the firefighters’ union — what a fitting tribute to a band of working class punks. But by far my favourite part was seeing Joe lay down the vocal track for White Riot in the studio — with no band behind him.  The raw energy coming off that guy could power 60 homes.  Check out a few seconds of it in the trailer.

Joe Strummer brings me to Billy Childish’s latest garage rock outfit: Wild Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire, who have a new album called “Thatcher’s Children” coming out in July on Damaged Goods.  You can check out the first single (also called “Thatcher’s Children”) on their MySpace page. The soundtrack of this post is a track called “Joe Strummer’s Grave” and is taken from their first album: Punk Rock at the British Legion Hall.  How’s this for punk rock in 2007?

Cold Britannia, Jesus saves
Rupert Murdoch rules the waves
Richard Branson doesn’t shave
And Joe Strummer’s spinning in his grave 

And one more movie recommendation for y’all: Son of Rambow.  Rather than explain it, just go watch the trailer… aces.