rolling stones + lost =......

even though she had yet to see the entire lost finale, my mom had a pretty good theory about lost. when i asked her how she liked the first part of the finale she replied, "it was good. it reminded me of sympathy for the devil."

just thought i'd post all of the lyrics here, since after reviewing them, i sort of agree....

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for long, long years
Stole many man's soul and faith

And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game

I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the Czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain

I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah

I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made

I shouted out,
"Who killed the Kennedys?"
When after all
It was you and me

Let me please introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's confusing you
Is just the nature of my game

Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
'Cause I'm in need of some restraint

So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste, um yeah


Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, um mean it, get down


Tell me baby, what's my name
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name
Tell me baby, what's my name
I tell you one time, you're to blame

What's my name
Tell me, baby, what's my name
Tell me, sweetie, what's my name

yea dude, we're from the future.

here be spoilers... come back after you've seen the finale! (or final, as certain special people like to say.)



well! it's been a year, hasn't it. i'm really not sure what the hell i'm going to do until freakin' 2010 to wait and find out if juliet is dead, if jughead went boom, if they got transported back/forward in time, if 815 crashed, if real-locke is real dead....

first off - locke is dead! probabaly. right....? so this whole season, fake-locke has just been walkin' around somehow in a locke suit? that's creeptastic. kind of reminds me of that alien in MIB who killed the farmer, and walked around in his body like an "edgar suit," as his shell-shocked wife described. it just seems weird that the producers would slip this in at the end. (that's what she said.) i mean, we've all kind of picked up the fact that back-from-the-dead locke is somehow slightly different than old-locke. but i had at least just figured that he had some new-found connection with smokey or the island or whatever. not that he was SOME OTHER DUDE COMPLETELY. seems like a cheap trick, but ok. it's lost. if i can suspend belief on everything else, i can let this slide too, right?

a few questions that have been raised. first off, it seems curious that if fake-locke is the dude from the beginning of the episode, chillin' with jacob on the beach in the shadow of the statue, he would know exactly where jacob lived! why does fake-locke make a big show of "take me to your leader" and so forth?? i assume that he doesn't want to let on that he is fake-locke. if he just ran into jacob's underground lair, everyone (ben, sun, richard, the band of merry red-shirts, etc) would be curious. i think he has to play up the unknowingness to convince everyone that he's the locke they all know. (of course, now his cover is totally blown, considering real-locke's body is now rolled out on the sand.)

also - how are there TWO locke bodies?! if fake-locke is in one (in the underground lair when we last saw him), why the heck is real-locke out on the beach? where did the extra body come from? i presume this can be explained with some time-travel trickery. it just seems that if fake-locke is indeed wearing real-locke like a suit, there should only be one body, no?

other things i need answers to!
- what is the significance of the ash circle around not-jacob's-haunted-cabin being broken? who has been let out of captivity?
- who the heck is ilana? what was she doing in a russian hospital? why did it seem like she knew jacob?
- why did jacob physically touch all of the 815ers that he met? why was juliet's flashback the only one without jacob?
- who/what is the loophole?
- how does the ben/widmore war factor into the jacob/fake-locke war?
- does anyone care where claire is?!

other things i'm thinking about!
- sayid? probably a goner (boooooo). juliet? maybe not.
- i loved the back of sun's wedding dress! i've missed her usual spark and awesomeness this season. bring it back in season 6, b'vakasha!!
- interesting that jacob gave hurley that guitar case that we've all assumed is charlie's. it still might be, but how did jacob end up with it? (also - i loved that one of hurley's possessions was a fruit roll up. never ever change, hurley!)
- horrah for phil being dead! that guy was a major jerk.
- glad there was a little moment about charlie and claire when sun found his driveshaft ring (can't believe that thing is still around!) in aaron's old crib (made by old-real-locke!) oh, the old days...
- obvious but - so so scary and sad when nadia gets smashed by that car. i was mad when jacob just kind of looked on as if he knew it was going to happen... but then i forgave him because he seems nice and is cute. (but why did they cast some dude who looks like steve zahn as jacob??)

recaps:
- i would definitely check out doc jensen's recap at ew. good stuff, and he'll have another one out next week with more finals thoughts and answers.
- erika posted a few thoughts today on her blog, but will eventually have a full (or two) posts on the finale. considering she's (real) locke's gal, i'm sure she's quite sad...

ok. hope that helped jumpstart your thinking. hopefully i didn't further confuse anyone... what the heck do we do until 2010?!

...and a new obsession is born.

while i can't mention how i happened upon this site, i'm quite glad that i found it. i was enticed by the schlep tote (shown here). that is something that i definitely need to carry around town. i love it. i am also enjoying the yiddish cat in the hat (though i'm not sure what dr. suess would think, or if i'm even allowed to officially endore it) and i'm pretty sure my mom will want to get mimi the kosher bone and bagel chew toys. ohhh, excitement...

god is my stage name.

you may or may not have ever seen the mr. deity webisodes, but if you're a friend of mine, i can promise you'll enjoy them. you can watch them on youtube or on crackle. just watch the video below about the creation of the 10 commandments and you'll be sold.