Spoiling Season Five #04

The fifth season premiere of Lost is now less than two weeks away. The drool that I am drooling in anticipation is getting so thick and so persistent that a visit to the doctor might be in order. Perhaps they can wire my jaw shut or something. Because, seriously, when I’m not drooling thinking about how close it is, I’m picking my jaw up off of the floor. The sheer awesomeness of the spoilers leaking out at this point… Man!!!

If you can stomach some teasing, won’t you join me below the fold?

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Worth Your Consideration #021

The “Worth Your Consideration” column is finally legal, just in time to sip some livened-up eggnog and give to you, constant reader, a veritable Santa-sized stockingful of linkage love.

• Jennifer Aniston’s recent anti-Angelina ranting be pissing off most people, but Hugh Hefner ain’t mad at her. The Playboy founder told Extra that Jen’s nude spread for GQ looked like it belonged on the cover of his own magazine.
• And, speaking of bared breasts, they can also, apparently, sell washing machines. Well, only if there are lots of them. And only if they’re attached to beautiful skydiving models. 
• Toplessness has not been a ladies-only phenomenon this past fortnight either. Here’s a shocker: our President-Elect is, relatively speaking, pretty cut. His abs aren’t quite a six-pack, but he ain’t sporting no pot belly neither.
• Oh, and he is also Time’s Person of the Year. That news comes courtesy of our old friend Jason Kottke.
• Also from Kottke: a Periodic Table of Awesomeness.  Bacon is #1 and Samuel L. Jackson, despite never having appeared in a Kevin Smith film, is #37. Weird.
• Also weird: The trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine is available exclusively on MySpace. Why MySpace, man? Haven’t we established that Apple’s Trailers Site is the place for movie previews.
• The place for parodies of the Bush shoe-throwing incident: Best Week Ever.
• On a totally separate note: I finally stop subjecting myself to the weekly torture that Smallville has become over the past three years, and now they have to go and make it good again? The preview for the second half of their latest season features The Legion of Superheroes, flying Clark, angry Doomsday, and naked Lex. Guess I’m going to have to catch up and tune in.
• The filming of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will span fifty-four weeks, according to producer David Heyman. They’re still debating on where to split the story (Hallows will be released as two films) but may have found “an emotional and very truthful” place for the break.
• Apple debuted two video ads, one of them featuring a cute talking rabbit. Thanks to TUAW for the link.
• But, if you like your Mac vs. PC action a bit more violent, check this bit of YouTubeage. It’s done in the style of Transformers, and if that doesn’t pique your interest, then you’re not really a geek.
• Speaking of YouTubeage, TUAW provided a link to this wicked pissa montage of Apple history. It condenses 30 years of awesome into 3 minutes and is definitely worth your consideration.
• Moving on, MacNN reported this past week that an Iron Man video game has come to the iPhone. I haven’t played Iron Man: Aerial Assault yet, but I plan on plunking down eight bucks for it just as soon as, well… just as soon as I have eight bucks. Which might be next year, for all I know. Stupid economy.
• SimCity has come to the iPhone, as well. That’s another ten bucks down the drain. They just knew that I couldn’t resist it, didn’t they? TUAW has a review.
• Also in the making me spend more money than I have department, Marvel released their full slate of solicitations for March 2009. Just when I thought I was going to be able to kick my comic book habit, those bastards reel me back in with stories about who will be the next Sorceror Supreme, and news that the Sisterhood of Evil Mutants is finally assembled and ready to destroy the X-Men once and for all (I’m still holding out hope that they’ve duped Firestar into joining and that she’ll somehow escape their grasp and rocket to new levels of superstardom as a member of the X-Men or something).
• It’s Christmas and I’m getting tired, so let’s finish this puppy up…
• Apple announced that their appearance at 2009’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco would be their last appearance at Macworld. They also announced that Steve Jobs would not give his customary keynote address. Apple fanatics promptly lost their shit, but TUAW provided a sane look at why this decision was probably inevitable.
• In crossover news: Who knew that Nine Inch Nails was using a MacBook Pro and Logic Studio to replace racks of equipment on their latest tour. I certainly didn’t. To think that this tour was so much more awesome than usual, but that they used so much less equipment to make it happen… That rules.
• This does not rule: Nine Inch Nails wrapped up their Lights in the Sky tour, and are currently prepping for a final wave of dates before calling it quits for the foreseeable future. There was news recently that Lights in the Sky would not be captured on film, which most NIN fans who had the pleasure of seeing the show would say is a total travesty. But there is also news that fans who attended the Las Vegas show are assembling a fan-made DVD. The project even has a Website: This One’s On Us (a reference to Trent Reznor’s comment, on the release of The Slip earlier this year, that that one [The Slip] was on him).
• In Lost news: Jack finally shaves and The Powers That Be answer questions in these clips provided by DarkUFO.
• Also: lots of people in Dharma jumpsuits that I never thought I’d see in Dharma jumpsuits can be seen in these pictures snagged by Dark and his associates.
• AND, a new promo is out that made me go, “Huh? What?!?”
• AND, cute postcards, direct from the island, are begging me not to be a stranger, and reminding me that the island cures what ails me.
• Oh, and there’s a Lostpedia interview with Michael Emerson, too.

And yeah, I think that’s where I’ll call it a night. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and all that.

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Geek Force Utterz #054 - Lost Whispers

Last week, just before heading north for Thanksgiving, I heard a very, very interesting theory about my favorite television program, Lost. In today’s episode of Geek Force Utterz, I talk about that theory and why I think it’s so brilliant. Be ye warned: there be spoilers ahead. But if you’re not trying to stay pure for season five, please do give today’s episode a listen, either via the embed above, or by visiting Utterli.com.

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Worth Your Consideration #019 - A GF5 Linkdump

• Ain’t It Cool News and Lostpedia hooked us up with the promotional poster for the fifth season of Lost last night, and I have to say that I’m a big fan of this thing. Blue Eagle Islander at the Lostpedia Blog calls it “too much of a clone of the Season 4 poster,” but I have to respectfully disagree. If it’s close in theme to the season four poster, it deviates in how much more attention is given to the characters, as opposed to the landscape. It’s a subtle difference, but could actually end up being a telling one.
• If Lost inspires you to write, as it sure as hell does for me, then Forty Chapters might be worth checking out. Mashable offers a pretty favorable review.
• The Nine Inch Nails tour that I and others have been telling you to go and see since the summer now has trailer. It’s brief, but it gives you a full-motion snippet of what you’re in for if you’re lucky enough to score a ticket.
• I have never been a big fan of music subscription services like the Zune Pass—as Uncle Steve suggests, I’d rather own my music—but a recent development has piqued my Interest. As reported today by Electronista, the $15 monthly Zune Pass now gives subscribers the option of keeping 10 songs permanently at the end of each month. That’s a really tempting offer. Access to all of the music in their library, plus 10 songs per month to keep even if/when I quit the service? If Apple/iTunes offered that, I’d be signing up today.

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Geek Force Utterz #042 - Lost Premiere Date

The premiere date for the fifth season of Lost has been set, and that should be cause for excitement, but some fans are upset that they’ll have to wait until January 21, 2009 for new episodes. Um, hello?!? Think, McFly. Think! When did it premiere last year? At the end of January. It’s actually coming back on air a week earlier this year, so let’s not get our panties in a bunch. Today’s episode of Geek Force Utterz is all about this hullabaloo. Listen via the embed above, or by visiting Utterli.com.

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