let's put our heads together, and start a new country...

march is a horrible month. it just is. it's long, it's dreary, it's almost spring but it's still cold and rainy. plus, with the time change last weekend, i have felt even more tired than usual. although it's nice to have light in the evening, even if only so i don't have to worry about being run over when i get off the bus after work...

yesterday afternoon, i went to the seattle art museum. i've been meaning to go to the roman art exhibit, but i hadn't yet. it was really fascinating. i will be the first to admit that i normally have a very short attention span for art museums, but i spent over two hours just in that exhibit! and i want to go back because i'm sure there are things i missed. the exhibit is called "roman art from the louvre," and the artwork is from as far back as the first century BC. it's amazing to look at a sculpture and realize that someone made it in 2 AD, or whatever. incredible. but now i have to add the louvre to my list of places i want to go. i've never particularly wanted to travel to paris, but now i think i do, just to go there.

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i watched last week's episode this weekend, and am now thoroughly confused. first, i am not convinced that jin is dead. the show obviously made it seem that jin's story line was a flashBACK while sun's was a flashFORWARD. but i'm not sure of that. maybe he is working for ben, like sayid and micheal (how awesome is it that micheal is the "man on the boat?" i KNEW it!).

it also occurred to me that many of the characters' names are taken from philosophers who dealt with the question of free will. we have rousseu, desmond hume, john locke. i don't know much about philosophy, but the show becomes really interesting when you think of it as posing the question, do we have free will or are our lives determined by fate? (yes, i realize i am thinking too much about this). thinking about it this way, desmond becomes the most important character, because he's the one who has so far done all the "time traveling." remember that episode when he first went back into the past and met the lady who told him that he has to go back to the island, because it is what has to be, and you can't change fate. but desmond seems to start rejecting that idea when in "the constant," when he goes back to the past, gets penney's phone number, and then calls her from the island. he wants to fix what he did wrong in the past. the question is, can he do that?

and to make it all a little bit more complicated in my brain, i found an article online about someone named benjamin libet (hmm.. similar to benjamin linus??). he was an american scientist who devised an experiment where people would have EEG's placed on their heads while they did a simple task - such as pushing a button. basically, what he concluded is that there is brain activity before awareness of action. so, there is no such thing as free will. hmmm....

what happens when the heart just stops?

here's today's video courtesy of megan's obsession with the frames. this is from a swell season show in montreal a few months ago, but this is a frames song. be warned: the first, oh, 2 or 3 minutes are filled with glen telling a story - but it is a very charming, funny story about a dog.


work sucked today. grrrr.... i want another job, asap.

i watched last night's episode of lost online. if you haven't watched it yet, don't read this. actually, i don't really have much to say about it - it was alright, but definately not one of the best. i was totally expecting at the end for kate to walk up to her "baby's" room and be greeted by ben. that would have been awesome. oh well. i think that her baby is claire's son. she must die on the island. speaking of claire, it really annoyed me that she seemed to get over charlie's death so quickly. i mean, if my boyfriend were as cool as charlie, i think i would mourn his death a bit more. and sawyer totally sucks. what a moron. thinking about it, that episode did really nothing to further the story line along. how rude.

Lost

wow, that was an awesome episode. not least because it focused on sayid.. man, he should have his own show, just all about him. i'd watch sayid reading the phone book.
i was so proud of myself.. i'm never good at figuring out "mysteries" in shows or movies (even when they're completely obvious to other people), but i knew from the second sayid called his "boss" that he was working for ben. that rocks! i think that sayid has been working for ben all along. the way he looked at naomi in the beginning of the episode was just weird.. like he knew her somehow. and the way he took the bracelet she was wearing..i think that was a signal to him that she worked for the same person he works for. now i think that sayid is ben's person on the boat. either he's been giving him information all along, OR sayid is going to be on the freighter in the future, but ben is able to see the future and that's how he knows all the stuff he told charlotte in the first episode about herself. does that make sense?
argh.. it's so confusing. the thing that really stood out to me more than anything else was when sayid was telling elsa (i think that was her name.. the german woman) that he had to kill her boss because he was on a list. that was when i knew that sayid was working for ben, cause it totally reminded me of ben making lists of people from the plane to bring back to the other island.

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i watched last night's episode, and i'm pretty convinced that there must be some sort of weird time travel thing going on.. well, first, i think that the airplane at the bottom of the ocean bit was planted by oceanic/dharma. i also think that the four people were sent by the dharma initiative people to find ben on the island. and then at the end, when ben says that he has someone working on the boat, that must be micheal - that was the deal micheal had to make to get off the island. or he was working with them all along, similarly to ethan, except he wasnt caught for some reason.
the time travel stuff. i can't put it all together yet, but these are the things that stood out to me: when charlotte (the anthropologist) found the polar bear bones, i think it was the same bear that the lost guys saw in season one. how it decayed so fast, and how it got all the way to tunisia, i have no idea yet. in the season premiere, jack makes several references to his father in the flash-forwards, even though his father was supposed to have died before the flight even took off. so maybe the island allows people to go back in time and perhaps sometimes even change the course of events for the future - like how locke kills his father (well gets sawyer to kill him) before he can paralyze him. and maybe kate also changes her future somehow- which explains why she was not in jail when she and jack talked in the season finale. and rose is cured of her cancer on the island, because she goes back in time to when she was healthy. but there are also a lot of things that don't fit with this theory, so i'm sure it's not completely right.
one more thing - is it just me, or did that woman who was with charlotte in tunisia look like sayid's girlfriend? i'm probably wrong, but she looked familiar to me..
so, kristine, since i'm pretty sure you're the only one who reads this who has any idea what i'm talking about, what do you think?;)

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