Summer Abridged

Sadly summer has ended and for a summer-in-review I have compiled a list of the best quotes to come from this summer. Let me know if there are some good ones missing and I will add them.

“Now we have to pass that asshole who yelled that my tire was flat.”
“I’m sorry I called you an asshole.”


“My hand was on fire today.”


“I BEAT ANDY!”


“Do your part, be water smart


“Oh no. The label on the neck of the bottle is gone.”


“I almost died this morning.”


“If my last name was “Do” I would name my son “Ski.”
“If my last name was “Do” I would name my son “Cocka-doodle.”


“Where is she going after this?”
“Home.”
“Where is he going after this?”
“Home.”
“Where are we going after this?”
“Home.”
“Okay, stop asking!”


“Holy Shit! Taki-Mushrooms!”


“Who’s that guy? Oh, it’s Lana.”


“…Katarina Smirnoff and Savage Garden.”


“This isn’t Red Hot, its Kevin Walker.”


“This should come with a pack of Rolaids.”


“And this is a glass of bile.”


“Hey I got a text! It’s from Will!”
“You want to get out of here?”


“Bad kitty.”


“…drink saki out of her ass in front of my grandmother.”


“BRUNO!”


“Look at that downstairs mustache.”


“When gay men have sex they do it anally and sometimes there’s bleeding.”


“Are you still master of your domain?”
“Are you still a virgin?”


“Stop yelling into the speaker.”


“Go fork a bee!”


“Poop licker!”


“We’re here for the gang bang.”


“That says you have really big hands in brail.”

LOST-Catch Up

I haven't blogged about LOST in a couple weeks.
In last weeks episode, Sawyer and Kate gave wounded Young Ben to Richard Alpert. Alpert says he can help him and an Other tells Alpert, "Ellie and Charles won't be happy." Charles is of course Charles Widmore who we know was at one time the leader of the Others until Ben kicked him off the Island, and who we met in the past. Ellie would be the young British girl that we met in the 50's. So are Ellie and Charles married? Faraday said that he thought she looked familiar. My thought: Ellie is Eloise Hawking. It would explain her connection to the Others. But, could there be any chance that Faraday, son of Eloise Hawking, and Penny, daughter of Charles Widmore, could be siblings? There are three different last names involved, but maybe thats a diversion.
Again, where are Rose and Bernard and Vincent? And with that, what has happened to Faraday, and will Desmond come back? How are Sun and Lapidus going to get to 1977?

25 Must See Movies

Yahoo has released a list of the 100 movies to see before you die. I have not seen every movie on the list, but I think that is my new summer goal. But as I read through their list I thought that I should make my own list. Well, I didn’t want to write a list of 100 movies, so I decided I would do 25.

There are some movies I think everyone should see before they die: The Godfather, The Graduate, Citizen Kane, basically I think Yahoo did a good job. But those films are not included on the Andy Green list. Its not that I don’t think those films are good, because they are. But I wouldn’t bring those on a desert island with me.

In no particular order

Shawshank Redemption

Dances with Wolves

Field of Dreams

Fargo

V for Vendetta

No Country for Old Men

Batman

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure

Seven

Army of Darkness

Dead Poet Society

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Back to the Future

Ghostbusters

Toy Story

Shaun of the Dead

Apocalypse Now

Duck Soup

Tropic Thunder

Ed Wood

Pulp Fiction

Star Wars

Jurassic Park

The Silence of the Lambs

Young Frankenstein

LOST-3/4-La Fleur

This week we finally got to see a little bit of the four-toed statue. Upon further inspection, and an idea from Erin Knoble, the statue looks like on of the Egyptian gods, either Anubis or Osiris. It makes sense, seeing that there are hieroglyphs on the temple, and the mysterious wall that Ben pushes to control the smoke monster, and the countdown sequence in the Swan station. I think it is Anubis, who happens to be the Egyptian god of the afterlife.
What happened to Bernard, Rose, and Vincent? As far as we know they survived the flaming arrow attack, but Vincent's leash was found by Sawyer before they found the Indian canoes. I understand Rose and Bernard chilling on the beach during the time flashes, but I don't believe they've been sitting around for three years. Sawyer has two weeks to find the rest of his crew according to Horace, does that mean he will go to the beach to pick up Rose and Bernard? Will we just see them at the Dharma barracks with no explanation, acting as if they've been there all along with the rest of the Losties?
I don't think the young girl with red hair is Charlotte. When Daniel saw her it was 1974, and according to Ben in season 4 Charlotte was not born until 1979.
I think that the 316 flight that crashed on the Hydra Island is still in 2008. In 1974-77, the Hydra station would be full of Dharma staffers and polar bears. So where does that leave Locke, Ben, Lapidus, maybe Sun, and the rest of the red shirts that are currently on it?

Gitmo

I read a headline today that read, “U.S. government vows not to use “waterboarding.”

It is sad that our world has come to that. We need to announce that we no longer endorse torture. Torture. Isn’t there something in the Geneva Convention that tells us we can’t torture people? Does the fact that we were attacked eight years ago give us the right to drown America’s moral values? We have a Patriot Act that basically ignores the freedoms given to us by the Constitution and embraces the future given to us by George Orwell.

There are people out there that are upset about the fact that the Obama Administration is shutting down Guantanamo Bay. Guantanamo Bay is a detention facility in Cuba were we store Afghanistan and Iraq citizens that we assume are terrorists. Now, if there was an island off the coast of Iraq were American citizens were taken after being drug out of their houses in the middle of the night, then were tortured by simulated drowning, held without trial, and forced to watch guards rip pages out the Bible that were then flushed down a toilet: do you think American’s would be angry about this and want this stopped? What gives us the right?

Organic Frosted Flakes

Drew Matzen has a box of organic Frosted Flakes.

I’ll pause for a moment to let that sink in.

Drew Matzen has a box of organic Frosted Flakes. That means someone was thinking, “You know, I like these Frosted Flakes, but they are just so unhealthy for you. I’ll make them from all organic material, that way they will be healthy and I won’t feel shameful when I eat breakfast.” First of all, when I think of a healthy breakfast I never think of cereal. I don’t care what cereal you are eating. I don’t care if it is oat flakes laced with calcium and Vitamin D, chunks of shredded fiber, two scoops of raisons, with low fat Vitamin C milk. The fact is, you are eating a bowl of cereal. It’s the same bowl of cereal that is advertised by a flamboyant tiger. Even if you’re eating Kix, which are Kid tested and Mother approved, you still sprinkle sugar on the top. And then drink the sugar infested milk at the end.

Sidenote: I would never put sugar into a glass of milk if I was just regularly drinking a glass of milk. But when I get to the bottom of a bowl of Rice Krispies where I have ten granules of sugar for every Krispie, I am lapping up that milk. Or the poser chocolate milk at the bottom of Count Chocula. Never would I think about making chocolate milk by place crisped rice into it. But when it’s at the bottom of the cereal bowl, man.

Back to the point. If you wanted to eat a healthy Frosted Flake, you would eat a Corn Flake. Because, honestly, all a Frosted Flake is, is a sugar coated Corn Flake. Now, the very few times I’ve ever eaten a bowl of Corn Flakes, I’ve sprinkled sugar on. Basically making homemade Frosted Flakes, with better tasting milk at the end.

Now, I asked Drew Matzen why he was in possession of a box of organic Frosted Flakes. His reason was, “Because they’re good.” I tried one of the organic Frosted Flakes. It was exactly the same as a regular Frosted Flake. So this is how I believe organic Frosted Flakes came into existence:

Two guys are sitting at a table with a bowl of Frosted Flakes. First guy says, “What are selling this crap for, like, five dollars a box? How can we make it ten dollars a box without doing anything different?” The second guy says, “We can write ‘Organic’ on the box.” “Done!”

I want to see the organic cartoon tiger that’s going to advertise this crap.

To be perfectly honest, I really have a hard time recalling when the last time I had a bowl of cereal was. I don’t understand why the cartoon leprechaun and cartoon rabbit are not allowed to eat their cereals, but the coco puff bird and the smacks frog need their cereal like a meth addict begging for a fix. The rabbit doesn’t even get to eat his own yogurt. I want to meet the genius who discovered that if you mix Coco Puffs and Peanut Butter Crunch, you can package it as Reese’s Puffs. I think if I was to get back to eating cereal, I would go for either Smacks or Corn Puffs, or the Rice Krispie Treat cereal. A bowl of cereal cannot replace a good plate of scrambled eggs and bacon. But you can't advertise bacon and eggs with a flamboyant cartoon tiger with an annoying catch phrase.

LOST-2/26-The Life and Death of Jeremy Benthem

Hello my name is Terry O'Quinn and this is the episode I am submitting to the Emmy committee.
This episode throws another twist into a long ranging battle between Ben Linus and Charles Widmore. On one hand, I want to trust Charles Widmore and believe that Ben Linus is the villain. Ben helped lead the purge against Dharma, Widmore says Ben tricked him into leaving, and as we see at the end it see at the end, the Island does not want Ben back. It could make sense that Widmore wants to protect the Island and Ben is making it very difficult. But I really want to believe Ben. I want to believe that Ben is the good guy. I want to believe that Ben is trying his hardest to do the right thing and keep the Island safe. But who to believe!?
Ben kills Abaddon in a Pulp Fiction "I just shot Marvin in the face"-esque killing. Ben also kills Locke in a "Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes"-esque killing. Now something I found interesting is that Ben didn't seem like he wanted to kill Locke into Locke told him that Jin was still alive. Ben only needs one person to want to go back to the Island to get the others, is telling Sun about Jin his plan? And does Ben believe if he gets the people back to the Island instead of Locke he can take his place as leader again?
Whats up with the new castaways/red shirts on the Hydra Island. I knew Hydra would come into to play again, but it seems that the Oceanic 6 landed in the seventies with an active Dharma Initiative. Why is the Hydra island deserted? And did the Dharma folk see the plane crash? A plane crash that looks as if the plane just lightly sat down on the Island. And Lapidus took the flight manifest and took off with a woman. What woman? Could it be Sun? Does the Island realize that Sun left her child in Korea and Jin wants her to stay safe.
I read next weeks press release and it said that Horace Godspeed would be returning, so I want to repeat my thoughts that Charlotte is Horace's daughter.