See you in another life.

On September 22nd, 2004 - a Wednesday night - I sat down to watch a show called LOST in my college dorm room. I'd heard a few good things about the pilot on the internet, but what most enticed me was the series' creator, JJ Abrams - he had already created what was then my favourite show on television, ALIAS.

The show immersed me in its island and flashback world immediately, and I couldn't look away. Even in the pilot episode, those commercial breaks were torture (this was before DVR). I was enthralled throughout the hour and immediately called my dad afterwards:

"Dad, you have to see this show I just watched. It's called LOST, it's replaying this Saturday, you're going to love it."

He trusted me, and we soon began calling each other after each episode to discuss what had just happened. This was before online "gatherings" sprang up in order for me to get my theorizing fixes - I joined some LiveJournal communities, it's true. I spent at least two Valentine's Days on my couch watching the television show. When I met Jesse, we did what you do, talk about your most favourite things ever. I told him I loved LOST, and strangely enough, he decided to start watching LOST in 2007. He caught up on the seasons in his many cross-oceanic flights (see what I did there?). But, literally, he watched the pilot episode on a flight from the US to Australia.

And now, six years later, the show has come to its proper end. I am sad - I've never liked saying goodbyes or concluding things - but I am completely satisfied and happy to see it end in an appropriate manner.

Anybody else watch? I know there are some polarizing opinions about, but everyone entitled to their own thoughts, right? I loved the finale, and I think the writers did the series justice.

This was us on Sunday.

We are video chatting GOOFS.

He'll be home in a matter of hours! He's supposed to get here at 6:30am, so I'm taking one (only one!) small break from my morning gym time. And he'll be here for two whole days (that's a lot, my friends). 

He & Motion City Soundtrack will be performing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tomorrow night, February 2nd - you don't want to miss it! Watch it at 12:37am (technically Feb 3rd)! Set your DVRs! I just did. And I'm serious that you're NOT going to want to miss it!!

And guess what else is happening tomorrow? THE OSCAR NOMINATIONS. I'm obviously a huge film fan, and though the Academy Awards are The Academy Awards and don't exactly do the best job of honoring the bestest and greatest movies - I still love them. They are a family tradition, if you will. 

And guess what ELSE is happening tomorrow?! THE SEASON PREMIERE OF LOST!! THE FINAL SEASON!!

When did GROUNDHOG'S DAY turn into such a relevant DAY?!

I'll stop yelling now.

Your head will collapse.

Does anybody watch the Starz original series Party Down? Admittedly there were two things that drew me in: it's created/produced or something by Rob Thomas and Paul Rudd, and there were many actors from my one of my favourite shows ever, Veronica Mars. It could be a little uneven at times, but I ended up loving the one-liners and all the cameos (including a great finale scene with Kristen Bell that still has me cracking up).

I also caught up with True Blood, as last summer I kind of lost interest because I'm not Anna Paquin's biggest fan. I loved her in The Piano (I do an impersonation of her accent...maybe...), but one of my close friends had to work with her a couple of years ago and basically said she was a huge jerk. I don't think she's that impressive in True Blood - but she won an Emmy for it, so maybe it's just my prior knowledge of her creeping in as bias. Or perhaps just because she won an Oscar when she was 13 people just love giving her awards? Perhaps. ANYWAY - the supporting cast is awesome, and the last episode was really, really scary. Also, both these shows have roles played by Lizzie Caplan, whom I loved in Mean Girls as Janis.

Now, the point of all this television talk is that I've been trying to "catch up" with all the hype of these new shows. However, there's one show that goes on hiatus every year for far too long: LOST. And so, I thought it would be a brilliant plan if we continued watching LOST on Wednesdays - from the first episode. Jam worked it out that we'd have to watch 2.5 episodes every week to be all caught up for the final season's premiere in 2010.

Let me tell you, watching the pilot after just watching this last season's finale was kind of mind-blowing. You know how they show Jack's flashback in surgery and his dad makes him count down from five and afterwards Jacob hands him a candy bar? Jack tells that story in the pilot when Kate is stitching up his back - except he doesn't mention his father was there and he makes it out like he decided to do it on his own (oh, and he doesn't mention the stranger Jacob, of course). Also in the pilot, Locke shows Walt the game of backgammon - which he tells him is an ancient game, before Christ's time, and he holds up the checkers showing it's light versus dark. As in Jacob versus Black Shirt?! Seriously, full circle. I'm back to anticipating Wednesday nights as I usually do when new episodes are on the air!

Included this pic because how awkward does Evangaline look here?!

The crew includes Jam, T-Bone, and Erica - anybody else who's down for classic LOST episodes is welcome as well! Tonight will be our third viewing...we're on episode six, as we've watched two episodes a week for the past two weeks. Those pesky .5s will probably be taken care of in a couple marathon weekend days we set aside.

And there are other pros to re-watching old episodes; I mean, I won't go through my usual Fox withdrawal:

(Not a Top Fiver - though he wavers in and out occasionally!)