lost, sigur ros

I know I'm totally late for this train, but... Holy cow, Lost is such a cool show! After hearing so many good things, I finally made an effort last night to get a hold of the DVD. I checked Netflix, which I've never had a delay getting a DVD in the past. For Lost, discs 2-5 are "Available Now", but disc 1 was listed as "Very Long Wait". I've never seen that before. So I swallow my morals, and start dialing Blockbusters. Lots of stores had discs 2-5, but no one had disc 1. I call some independents (Rocket Video) -- same story. The ninth store I call (Blockbuster on Pico) had it. I immediately put it on hold.

Halbe and I watched the 2 hour Pilot last night. We both had trouble sleeping, partially from being freaked out, partially from excitement.

"What kind of thing would do something like that?"

I'm so glad there's a cracked-out (should "cracked-out" be hyphenated?) rocker on the island -- the comedic relief is welcome.

I watched the second episode this morning. The show is just staying so awesome. It's ending on this cheery, everyone getting along note with some reggae, but then the final shot is some guy staring at a family, just staring, with this ominous music. Gah! What's he gonna do? We don't know! I love it! I haven't been this jazzed for a show since, dare I say it... X-Files? And yes, I know lot's of people are watching the show, and are already onto season two (I'm Tivo-ing it for later consumption), so please don't start telling me awesome details of things coming up ("Didja hear about the hatch??"). I just want to let the quality wash over me in an awesome wave. I'm glad I hopped this train; better late than never!

In unrelated news, has anyone heard about this awesome new band, Nirvana??

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I've been invited to see Sigur Ros tonight at the Hollywood Bowl. The friend that invited me is a KCRW employee, and as a result got free tix. The shots I saw on my friends list of the show in Seattle looked awesome, so I'm, again, very excited. I think this is only my... second live show in LA? The other was the LA Philharmonic, also at the Bowl. I need to get out more. I got reservations for dinner at Largo on the 28th to see Jon Brion. I've been meaning to do that since *before* I moved down here.