Category: Entertainment

Lost in Life

If you didn’t get the ending to LOST I hope that one day you do. And by “get the meaning of”, I mean of life.

The entire story is an allegory for faith instead if trying to figure it all out and make sense of all the mysteries. (as Jack did for a long time)

The point of how the relationships we have and people we meet are more important than how the smoke monster worked or how the island moves.

It’s a story about people who were lost in life. By the experiences they shared in the adventures on the island they came to find love, loss, hope and courage.

I’m not embarrassed to say that I cried my eyes out after watching the credits roll. I was sad and happy all in the same moment.

And it’s not because I’m going to miss one of my favorite TV shows, but because the story that has been told over the last 6 years through a little box in my living room has reached out to me and made me feel, for once in a very long time, content with my mortality and appreciative of the people I have in my life.

We all die someday and we should spend our precious time on Earth in the company of the ones we love.

Just let go and enjoy.

Hipstamatic

Delmar Loop

I’m totally digging the Hipstamatic app for the iPhone. It’s a recreation of a camera developed in the great wilderness of Wisconsin in the early 80s by two brothers. The whole story is being kept alive by the older brother of the two Hipstamatic creators.

Ted Drewes

The app is very slick and plays a great homage to the cheap all-plastic cameras of yore. With the tiny viewfinder, different films and lenses and the always different results it’s a blast to watch your photos ‘develop’.

Amber Window

The best thing about the app for me is the high-pitched whirring of the flash when you turn it on. Perfect.

Silhouette

Top 10 Songs For 2009

As I did last year, here’s the top 10 songs added to my iTunes library for 2009.

1. White Winter Hymnal – Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

2. Sun It Rises – Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

3. Horchata – Vampire Weekend – Contra

4. Little Secrets – Passion Pit – Manners

5. Blue Ridge Mountians – Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

6. Oliver James – Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

7. Skinny Love – Bon Iver – Fore Emma, Forever Ago

8. Meadowlarks – Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (Damn, this is a good album!)

9. The Beastie Boys Vs Matt And Kim – Good Ol’ Fashion Rump Shaker – The Hood Internet – The Mixtape Volume Four (download here)

10. Vultures – John Mayer – Continuum

Here’s the top 10 list of songs released in 2009.

1. Little Secrets – Passion Pit – Manners

2. The Beastie Boys Vs Matt And Kim – Good Ol’ Fashion Rump Shaker – The Hood Internet – The Mixtape Volume Four

3. Zero – Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!

4. Brother Sport – Animal collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion

5. Hysteric – Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!

6. Passion Pit vs. Juvenile – Back That Sleepyhead Up – The Hood Internet – The Mixtape Volume Four

7. 1901 – Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

8. Evident Utensl – Chairlift – Does You Inspire You (I dug the music video before the song)

9. Bead Prez vs. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks of Hip Hop – The Hood Internet – The Mixtape Volume Four (orginal version of Two Weeks came in at #16)

10. Happy Up Here – Royksopp – Junior

Here’s a list from 2006 as well. Apparently I skipped 2007!

Axe Cop

I’m not usually one to enjoy bizarre nonsensical comedy, but the Axe Cop series is freaking hilarious.

The story is written by the 5 year old brother of the 29 year-old artist, Ethan Nicolle. Their collaboration is pure win and is only rivaled the  series of reader submitted questions answered by Malachai in “Ask Axe Cop“!

Oh, and I totally want a shirt that says:

CHOP!
PUNT!
PSHEW!