Alex from Audibly Lost has been working on a Lost podcasting documentary called “Audibly Lost.” I know he’s been working on it like crazy for quite some time now and has driven around the country interviewing people involved in the Lost community. Jay & Jack were fortunate enough to be interviewed by Alex back in March after the 30 Hour Podcast and now they’re the subject of his first featurette from “Audibly Lost”! It also has Kris White, Ralph Apel, Natasha Fray, Axel Foley from Lost Mythos Podcast, Josh & Amanda from Lost Flashbacks Podcast, and a special “appearance” by Michael Emerson. Thank you, Alex!! I’m so excited to see the rest of the movie!
So after Comic Con, Jay & I fostered one of Heather’s kittens for a night while we found her a home with my co-worker’s sister-in-law. This kitten was the runt of her litter & super tiny. She was absolutely adorable and actually really liked me (animals liking me better than Jay just doesn’t happen). She fell asleep in my arms that night. Poor Zoe had a temper tantrum over the kitten being there for a night & refused to come out of the man cave for the day. I felt really badly actually but it was only for a night, so we decided to just let her sulk and deal with it lol.
Here’s an idea of how small she was:
But perhaps the coolest thing was Jay & I taught her how to play Uzu on the iPad. She was fascinated by the iPad:
So anyway, this all leads into something, I promise. We didn’t want to get too attached to her, so we didn’t give her a name (her new owners named her Audrey). I did, however, go on a name meaning site and start looking up some names just to see what would be a nice name to suggest to her new mom. Idk, I like doing things like that. I got super involved in looking at different names and then looking up where my name, Jay’s, my sisters, Jay’s sisters, etc. fell in popularity over the last few years. I was looking at a list of the Top 1,000 names, too, for both boys and girls. I’m not one of those people who has all their baby names picked out years in advance, mainly because I think that’s bad luck to do that. But that’s just me.
The following exchange took place later on:
Me: “I like the name Jacob. That’s not a bad name.”
Jay: “Eehhh, Jacob? I don’t know. Could be too…I don’t know if I could use the name Jacob.”
Me: “Why not? Twilight fever won’t last forever. People won’t associate that Jacob with Twilight in like 5 years.”
Jay <Pause, incredulous look>: “I don’t care about Twilight.”
Me: “Then what’s the big deal?!”
Jay <slowly>: “Lost…?”
Me <Beat>: “OH YEAH!!”
So here’s my question. Since Jay’s got that whole Lost Podcast thing, does this mean that any Lost name is out of the picture for us to use in the future? I think that pets are one thing, but is it fair to subject our future children to a Lost name that we just happen to like when they’ll probably spend the rest of their lives avoiding Comic Con so people don’t go “You’re JAY’S kid?! And your name is Ben? How adorable! Smile creepy for us, little Ben! How’s Hurley doing, little Ben?” or “Hey, little Charlotte! Do you have a bloody nose? Would you like a chocolate bar?”
I think that’s why celebrities give their kids such f*cked up names. They have to go for a name that can never be associated with any project they’ve ever worked on or character they’ve ever played lol. Let’s face it: Jennifer Aniston could never have a kid named Rachel. So that’s what I’ve been wondering for the last week and a half. What do you think about it?
I also got some really nifty Hello, Kitty! pens and Starbucks gift cards, which were awesome.
Thank you to Vikas and everyone else who contributed:
Finally, comments like this one (thank you everyone who left one & made me cry lol) that my sister Katelyn found and sent to me from the LA Times article:
The emotional whirlwind of the past 20 days has begun to start to hit me. What a month. Anyway, I went through half the YuBlog.org comments for Lost’s final episode, “The End” (we had a record number of page views during that episode by almost double; I was in complete & utter shock and then total happiness when I checked it when we got back to the hotel in the wee hours of Monday morning - THANK YOU!!!!!!). I had to stop for a second because I read an email from my dear cuz Paul aka Barenaked Hurley, who hated the episode. Jay and I were reading reviews on the plane yesterday and we just didn’t understand. Anyway, I know it’ll get lost (pun intended) in the YuBlog comments so what the hell, I need to not have a title that says “Delta is a piece of shit airline” as the top post on my blog lol.
Here’s some of my very brief thoughts through the tears from my first rewatch:
I don’t feel the Sideways was a gateway to heaven necessarily; it was just another journey to ‘move on’ to wherever you interpreted it (I admit heaven is a reasonable argument). And Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, Miles, Alpert, Lapedus, Claire, Rose & Bernard lived the rest of their lives off camera. I didn’t feel we needed to see anymore because the story was about castaways on an Island, not any other period in time.
Yes, I would’ve loved to find out some more mythology stuff (the fertility problems on the island, for instance) but Damon & Carlton are giving us like 30 extra minutes of new footage on the DVD AND they’re doing a special feature where they address smaller issues that were unresolved in the show (like taller ghost Walt, blah blah blah). We’ll get some stuff then and it’ll be a fabulous little treat and then other stuff we’ll debate like with Harry Potter. I was satisfied with the character resolution and an emotional ending to me is better than a mythological ending. I only wish that when Kate had shot Locke she had gone, “NOT MY DOCTOR YOU BITCH!”
I thought it was beautiful that they were so important to each other during life that they still strongly carried that “live together, die alone” theme even after death. In the Sideways, they were all dead and it was almost like a far-in-the-future epilogue. Sure it was arguably cheesy in premise but it wrapped up the characterization in a show that so strongly focused on the lives and deaths of its characters. Think about this - in the Sideways, they each created a life for themselves that was what they had hoped more for in life: Jack wanted a good father/son connection so he had a son who he resolved daddy issues with; Kate wanted to be innocent and she was; Locke wanted to be with Helen and he was; Sawyer got to be a ‘good guy’ with a buddy like Miles when he was previously a con man loner; Hurley finally had good luck, Desmond got to be bff with Widmore, Sun & Jin didn’t have marital problems, etc al. I felt it gave them all the acceptance and redemption that they all needed for themselves (like Sayid finally realizing he was a good guy or Ben deciding that he was staying because he had to work out how to come to terms with his behavior prior to becoming Hurley’s #2). How poetic that in the end of both timelines, Jack had to accept his destiny and learn to let go. And if you really want to take it one step further in the sentimental direction, Lost was also wrapped up so beautifully that these castaways, who were lost souls prior to Jacob bringing them to the Island - our Losties - were found as they found a way to move on together in the end of all things.
So here I sit, about to leave for Los Angeles for Jay and Jack’s LOST Finale Party at the Orpheum on May 23, 2010. This past week has been such a whirlwind for me and it’s not even reached a climax yet.
So now I sit here and I’m supposed to be on a flight to LA X right now. Am I? NO. I am at home in Raleigh with Jay and Clif. Our flight was delayed. Oh WAIT! Not “delayed” but rather a “your flight is so delayed that you will miss your connecting flight and therefore be stuck in Atlanta overnight” situation. So we were told that our “option” was staying at home in Raleigh overnight and to be rescheduled until 6:40am tomorrow (Saturday) morning.
I am so disappointed, so upset, so tired. I have been waiting 5 months for this and my bad airline luck happened yet a-f*cking-gain. Not to complain, but the last 16 days have SUCKED. Murphy’s Law X the Smoke Monster. Yeah, little things like my laptop being fixed quickly were nice but it was still at a $300 loss that never should have happened.
Anyway. I started this blog before we left for a reason. I stopped a paragraph in because we had to leave lol but I did have something to say.
Lost is almost over. Wow, has a television show CHANGED MY LIFE. I would not have Jay. I would not be friends with Clif and Kolkie and Chris in Boston and Rob and Jana and everyone else. The last week has been such a whirlwind. I left on 24 hours notice last Saturday, May 15 to go home to attend funeral services for my aunt Carol and then returned home immediately following the burial at the cemetery on Wednesday. Talk about transition. Bagpipes playing “Amazing Grace” to “Flight 384 is departing from gate A2 in 30 minutes” all within 15 minutes. No time to process, regroup or sleep. I feel like it was an entire different time/universe. Often times over the last week, I have felt like I’m ‘that rambling girl’ in the corner who just talks because she is so overtired that she has nothing to do but let the verbal diarrhea flow. I am so terrified I’ll do that in LA tomorrow night at Jay and Jack’s meet-up because I will be SO exhausted.
So this is it. It’s going to be gone soon. We are ‘very close to the end’ now. How strange. I feel such a sense of loss. This entire last 8 days has been a loss. When I first became involved in the Lost community, it was because of MetroBuzz, my very first podcast - a podcast that I miss doing very much. I joined the Jay and Jack forums because of the Ramblecast. I wanted to vote on something and the only way you could do so was if you joined the message boards to vote. That was November 2006, I believe. MetroBuzz stared in January 2007 and in April 2009, I was presented the opportunity to meet Jay. I had listened to the Lost Podcast with Jay and Jack since February 2006, so I wasn’t a total J&J newbie. We met and it was history. However, we wouldn’t have had the chance to be introduced if not for Lost.
And for me, that is really all I need to know.
I liked “Across the Sea” and for the most part the other polarizing episodes (even “What Kate Did”). Why? Because of how much of my life has changed because of a damn TV show. I am a cliche, but I am a fortunate cliche. I am not going to “sugar coat” (HELLO HAVE YOU MET ME) but I am not going to be ungrateful.
But we are very close to the end now. 48 hours to go. How strange. It’s like the excitement of opening a present on Christmas morning mixed with the anticipation of waiting for a loved one to die (sorry, relating this to real life) all in one. It is the end and the beginning. For me, it was a blessing.
I have spent a great amount of time since tickets for this event went on sale March 26, 2010 at 10am PST trying to help people get tickets because I want everyone to have a chance to partake in this final experience because I feel that it is a journey that we have all gone on together. I really hope that I can do that for people despite being so close to the end.
Even here as we are very close to the end, I truly hope that it’s not as close as it seems.
Things that are awesome about a day that was not so awesome:
The Lost Podcast Music, Vol. I: 2005-2007 is now for sale on iTunes!!! Link below. Go buy it if you’re a Jay and Jack fan because mama wants a nice honeymoon! (Just kidding, I probably will see a small amount of that money in the form of a bottle of wine or a visit to the Cheesecake Factory - I’m a simple creature who likes food and spirits.) Anyway, go check it out: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-lost-podcast-music-vol/id373769072
Alex aka @audiblylost got to ask a question during the Times Talk event with Damon Lindeloff, Carlton Cuse, Michael Emerson and Jorge Garcia. Jay and I went loudly, “HEY IT’S ALEX!! OH MY GODDDD!!!” when we saw him. He asked the last question of the night and he represented the podcasting community, which was sick nasty. Even if he hadn’t done that, it was still so awesome. If you haven’t seen Alex’s trailer for the Lost podcasting documentary he is working on, click here to check it out: http://vimeo.com/11838904
