No, this won’t be quite the rant I did last week, just thoughts since watching tonight’s episode of “Lost.” In particular I thought tonight’s Eko-centric episode was far better than last week’s, but most of this is just braindump. Maybe some ranting. And oh yeah, huge spoilers.
Huge spoilers ahead, don’t say I didn’t warn you…
On the one hand, I want to say, “who knew it would come to this,” but on the other, well, it figures: Dustin Diamon, AKA Screech from “Saved by the Bell,” is the latest celebrity to have a sex tape released to the public.
See also stories on TMZ.com here, here, and here. That last link purports to have a preview. Consider all of it NSFW, kids.
This is an incredibly weird story… mind-boggling, really. TMZ describes the tape as:
The tape begins with Diamond in a bathtub, narrating what’s to come. It ends with Diamond introducing one of the women to a “Dirty Sanchez.” Suffice it say, it is unbelievably graphic.
…I have to say, I never thought the phrase “Dirty Sanchez” would ever appear on this blog. You can look it up on Wikipedia if you like, but I ain’t gonna link to it.
The cynical theory is that since Diamond is supposedly flat broke, and his career is stalled out due to the Screech typecast, this video not only breaks him out of that stereotyped image but also kicks-starts the PR on his career.
If that’s true, that’s pretty hardcore. (Pun intended.)
See also: my post from over three and a half years ago.
Haven’t seen a book on Lost in awhile, but they managed to slip one into the season finale tonight: Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. Not that it was hard to spot; Desmond only waved it around enough in a bunch of critical scenes.
As far as the season finale itself goes… I’m still trying to decide what I think about it. I think it started out strong enough. But I’m trying to decide if the last 15 or 20 minutes were weak. Definitely ambiguous, and a general “huh?” factor. And, I’m thinking, weak. I’ll have to let it sink in some more.
Since it’s 24 night, I thought I’d share this quote I thought was hilarious (emphasis mine):
As an actor, you want to be loved or liked, and when the guy you’re playing suddenly turns evil, you feel marginalized. It sounds silly to verbalize, but you start thinking, ‘What happens if Jack Bauer, America’s avenging angel, doesn’t like me anymore?’
Man, that just about sums up the entire show.
Okay, just a little while ago I saw the creepiest, randomest commercial for Skittles ever… I won’t even pretend to try to understand it…
Anyone else seen it? Basically, a guy with a weird, long (like, three-feet-plus long) beard is at a job interview, and the beard is moving like an elephant’s trunk, feeding the guy skittles from the desk. The woman conducting the interview is trying to turn him down, and—
Yeah, freakshow—
—and the beard feeds the woman a Skittle and strokes the side of her face, while he just chuckles in a creepy way.
And that’s it.
I can pretty much guarantee I’ll never buy another pack of Skittles again.
…You didn’t think I wouldn’t give you a link, did you? Here’s the video on YouTube.
It’s like my regular Lost Book Watch feature or something. Anyway, right there on the screen in your face, Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. I don’t know that it has anything to do with the overall theme or plot of the show; since Sawyer was reading it, I rather suspect the producers are just having fun with us.
“Us” being those people like myself who have nothing better to do than blog about the books that show up on Lost…
If you enjoyed the Chuck Norris Facts site, and like the TV show 24, well then, this is the perfect mashup for you: Random Jack Bauer Facts. Same exact premise (some are even lifted from the Chuck Norris Facts!), and some are really funny:
The city of Los Angeles once named a street after Jack Bauer in gratitude for his saving the city several times. They had to rename it after people kept dying when they tried to cross the street. No one crosses Jack Bauer and lives.
If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he’d shoot Nina twice.
Jack Bauer’s calender goes from March 31st to April 2nd, no one fools Jack Bauer.
Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.
Funny mashup goodness! Now, I need to set about creating a similar ripoff mashup site with some other larger-than-life character…
Just had to point it out (even my wife noticed it): this week’s book on Lost was The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
It’s going on the list…
