Modern Classics

If you, like me, still find yourself missing Hurley and the gang, I defy you to get through these without weeping:

The music of Lost was always so just THERE, it's easy to miss just how gorgeous it was.

Now please excuse me, I have to go find a kleenex. (I'm still nowhere near as bad as these people, though.)

(via Melissa)

I'll have some thoughts about LOST as soon as I can stop blubbering about it

But in the meantime, here's someone who nailed it. This is a video uploaded 4/23 in which someone speculated how the series would end:

And here's the same video, posted by the same person, with an embedded frame comparing it to the actual ending:

It really did end as it began.

As for the blubbering, I think I would have been fine except for the dog.

What is it about the dog?

(UPDATE: After a couple of viewings, it's clear that the "predicted" ending is the first 108 seconds of the series pilot run backwards. Hardly a stretch of the imagination, but cool nonetheless.)

Just. Wonderful.

I blubbered like a baby for two and a half hours. How about you?

Meanwhile, back in the real world (or perhaps the sideways one):

Last February, Continental Flight 3407 crashed outside of Buffalo, N.Y., killing 49 people onboard and one on the ground. Although 3407 was painted in the colors of Continental Connection, it was actually operated by Colgan Air, a regional airline that flies routes under contract for US Airways, United and Continental. The crash and subsequent investigation revealed a little-known trend in the airline industry: Major airlines have outsourced more and more of their flights to obscure regional carriers.

Today, with regional airlines accounting for more than half of all scheduled domestic flights in the United States and responsible for the last six fatal commercial airline accidents, FRONTLINE producer Rick Young and correspondent Miles O'Brien investigate the safety issues associated with outsourcing in Flying Cheap.

"No doubt in our mind that when she's buying this ticket, she's buying a flight on Continental," says Scott Maurer, who lost his daughter, Lorin, on 3407. "She believed she had Continental pilots and Continental safety and Continental service, but, you know, we know different today."

An investigation of the crash by the National Transportation Safety Board was recently completed and identified pilot error as a major factor in the accident. But the investigation has also put the spotlight on operations of regional airlines like Colgan Air, where the first officer on 3407 had made less than $16,000 the previous year and the captain had failed five flight tests and received inadequate training on a critical safety system involved in the crash.

(via)

Shorter LOST

"Mom always liked you best."

Sunday had better be good.

(I'm still taping all five hours of this Geek Superbowl. How about you?)

Some people really need to get out more.

It takes a special kind of person to sit through enough DVDs to compile a comprehensive collection of Sawyer nicknames.

If you ever wondered what the hold is that LOST has on viewers, you've just seen Exhibit A.

Josh Holloway had better hope someone finds a really good show for him. Because he is in serious danger of being Sawyer for-frickin-ever.

(h/t)

Blogrolling in our time

I've been reading Paul Levinson for a while now, so I decided it's time to add him to the blogroll. He writes about politics, Lost, The Tudors, Dexter, and other important things. What's not to like?