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!
Downloaded the Wordpress app for my iPad. I’m old school and will probably wait until I get to a computer before I make posts in the future but hells yeah now I know I can blog from Comic Con! The only problem will be inserting pictures since there’s no way for me to instantly take/load pics on here (right?). Now all I need is for one of our 2 local Apple stores to get cases in and I’m all set to go on the road!
UPDATE: Figured out how to post pictures that are already uploaded and sync’d up on here so here’s a picture from the Media Junkyard luau at Kolkie’s last weekend.
Wow, so this afternoon was absolutely crazy! First the LOST Finale Party tickets went up on eBay at 1pm EDT. I always knew that they would sell out and I predicted all along that they’d be sold out by Sunday, March 28. Well, the orchestra seats sold out within 15 minutes and by 2:23pm EDT, they were completely sold out. And to think that Jay didn’t even think they’d sell out at all. Ha, I told you so babe
Jay’s biggest fear when we found out that Global Cash Card wasn’t going to be allowed to charge for the tickets (they wanted to use the money from ticket sales towards paying the HUGE cost for the venue) was that everyone would get 4 tickets even if they only needed one and then people who really wanted to go wouldn’t get any. Then he was really nervous that the scalper’s would come out. This has been something that has worried him since they got the final details on Tuesday night. Within 15 minutes of tickets selling out, there was already one for sale on eBay for $10, which the seller claimed was “the price that was paid for them through Ticketmaster.” Boston saw the post too and we were irate. Jay was upset because all anyone involved in planning this wants is for everyone to get together as the amazing community LOST is and watch the final episode together.
I’ve put together a post on YuBlog.org where hopefully anyone who has some extra tickets will be able to contact those on there who were unable to get any. If you are reading this and have any extra tickets or need one, please go there. I know that some people are upset at Jay and Jack for making the tickets free, but I just want to clear the record for good and say that the did not “make them” free. The plan was to charge for tickets and then use some of that money towards paying the cost to rent the venue and the rest of the money to donate. The venue did not want GCC to sell the tickets at all because of some legal issues about showing the episode & charging money for entry. So they made it free because they are aware of the other expenses that people are paying to get there.
So right before I discovered that tickets were sold out, I was on the phone…with the priest who is going to marry us in NY! We have an official wedding date, yayyyy!!! We made a super lame-dork video for our wedding website to announce it but SPOILER ALERT it’s April 29, 2011.
Tickets for Jay & Jack’s LOST Finale Party in LA at the Orpheum go on sale tomorrow on Ticketmaster. HOW FUCKING COOL IS IT THAT MY FIANCEE IS ON TICKETMASTER?!?!?!?! Find tickets here. 10 am March 26, 2010 PST.
I will keep you posted on the progress of it, I am sure. Holy freaking crap!
I promise that I am going to write up a post or two about this entire past weekend and some pictures up with background stories and the whole nine yards! I meant to do it yesterday but I had a combined total of 8 hours of sleep between Saturday and Sunday night and I was just dead on my feet yesterday. Seriously. We had no patients scheduled at work yesterday so I only turned one light on in the back room and sat in the dark all day because I was so exhausted that my eyes hurt. I went to bed at 9:45pm last night though and slept til 7:15am this morning so I feel much, much better despite having no voice.
ABC has this promo contest for the end of LOST and Clif decided to enter it using interviews and footage he shot this weekend and from LOST episodes. Here’s how it came out. It’s really awesome:
Here are a third set of items for the auction to raise money for Autism Speaks. The Dharma Barracks poster was donated by a Jay and Jack listener named Brett & it’s pretty B-A. These items will only be up for 5 days, ending when the first set of items are over:
I think this is the final set of items to go up, so tomorrow I’ll go back to boring blogs about life. Maybe I’ll throw in a wedding date one of these days…
Here’s 3 new items that were put up for auction tonight as a part of Jay and Jack’s Auction for Autism Speaks. Please note that the ARG Poster is by Tyler Stout and not “Taylor”. It’s still friggin BAD ASS and I want it for myself lol. Thank you to @Lottery_Ticket and the Lost Community for donating these items.
One more item is to follow tomorrow evening, so stay tuned.
As always, thank you. If you are coming to the event in Raleigh this weekend and have any questions, please email me at LPDonate@gmail.com. Most likely, Jay & I are going to be throwing our joint birthday/engagement party at Buffalo Brothers on Capital Blvd at 8pm, a joint that’s almost right across from the hotel. If there are any changes, I will Twitter it (www.twitter.com/Colleen84).
Since they haven’t appeared all together on the site yet, here’s the list of eBay items for auction this week for Jay and Jack’s Podcast for Autism Speaks. Have fun.
Friday, Friday, Friday. I woke up on Friday, January 29 (our 2.5 yr anniversary!) at 6am. Why? Well other than my body thinking it was 11am, Clif’s phone kept making blooping noises because it was 1) Charged up and 2) getting text messages. Then at around 6:30am, his phone rang. He answered it and it was his father and he had a full out conversation with him at 6:30am. Honestly, I know that Jay got annoyed by it and talked about it on the Jay & Jack Show but it wasn’t that bad for me. I didn’t want to waste any of the day sleeping in.
I made Jay get up around 7:15am and we ended up going for a walk on the beach. We walked down one way on the beach and then back along the street. On the way back, I saw the hotel that my family had stayed in the first time we went to Hawaii, back when I was 15 or 16, the Moana Surfrider. Oh yeah and we also came across some pretty awesome leis in an ABC store…
Walking on the beach
The hotel that my family stayed at 10 years ago
My kind of lei…
So upon returning to the hotel, it was around 8:15am and we decided to go in the totally super awesome pool at the hotel. Around 8:30am, we saw Clif on the balcony of our hotel room and waved to him. I guess he was shouting down to us a little too loudly because that’s when Jack woke up and went onto the balcony to investigate. Here’s the picture Clif took while he was yelling down to us in the pool. You can barely see us, but we’re in there lol.
So we went back upstairs around 9:15am. In the interest of people want to actually continue reading this, I’ll speed it up a little bit. We gathered Clif and went into Jack & Cyndi’s room, where I did my whole “omg-I’m-so-excited-yaayyyy!” speale and everyone who doesn’t like to have fun in life looked like they wanted to kill me. Soon after, we all showered and got ready. Jack, Jay, Clif & I had not eaten breakfast yet. Jay, Clif & I decided to walk down to a local Jack in the Box and get something light to hold us over.
We had plans with Beth to give us an unofficial “Lost Tour”. We had to meet her on the set at noon. The set was on the North Shore, which was literally the furthest point from where our hotel was. It would take an hour to get there, so we left around 11am. I only had one of those Breakfast Jack thingys in my stomach. We figured that we’d get lunch on the North Shore with Beth after she finished showing us some famous filming locations. So we met up with Michael Purcell of Global Cash Card and hopped into a little rental car.
Well [pause]. Since Jay didn’t know where he was going and was relying on the GPS on Clif’s iPhone to get us to the meeting point, it took us well over an hour to get there. We saw the Grass Skirt Productions signs and turned into the lot. The guys doing security asked us if we were here for Lost and we told them yes and got in with no problem. We see dudes walking around in Others garb. Beth walks over to the car and Cyndi & Jack ask her if they can use the restroom. Michael’s face lights up and he follows them. This entire time, Clif is lecturing Jay & myself about the proper etiquette for being on the set of a TV show. You know, I may be loud and annoying in my every day life but I know how to be on best behavior when I want to be. I start nagging the hell out of Jay for us to catch up to them because I did have to pee pretty badly and I didn’t want to be stuck with professor-dad Clif over there. Jay doesn’t want to “get in trouble” so he resists until Beth waves us over.
We walk around what I think was the costume trailer and come across another set of trailers. My eyesight makes a total beeline to none other than Josh Holloway! Internal monologue: “Uh whaaatttt?!” In an attempt to try not to stare, I turn to face Jack. He mutters to me, “He’s talking to Matthew Fox!” Internal monologue: “flkajdflaudfahfOMFGokdafhia. Be cool. Go pee.” Then I remember my full bladder and natural instinct kicks in and I ask where the bathroom was. I think at this point, it was either Jack or Cyndi who quietly exclaim, “I just walked past Evangeline Lilly!” I nod and walk towards where Beth is motioning the bathroom is.
As I walk by Beth, I see she’s talking to Evangeline Lilly in her trailer but this time, I’m on a mission. I did my business (#1, don’t get any ideas) in Jorge’s trailer and return to the group. At this point, Evangeline Lilly is now outside talking to Josh Holloway and Matthew Fox. I must say that she really is quite a beautiful woman. Oh hell, everyone on that show is attractive.
End of fangirl geek-out paragraph. Start of just plan geek-out section.
So we set off with Beth (and since we all keep talking about Beth but never actually saying who she is, I should probably just clear up that Beth is Jorge Garcia’s lovely girlfriend). Since it took so long to get to the North Shore and we had to leave by a certain time to get back for the ABC press mixer, we didn’t have as much time as we would have liked for the tour. But we made the best of it!
We hit up the camp that serves as the set for New Otherton:
And saw Benjamin Linus’s house:
And the beach where the filmed the pilot, Aljira 316 crash, etc:
Moving along from there, we went to the site where they keep the wreckage from Oceanic 815 and the little plane that Yemi’s body was on:
Oh and did I mention that Jay & I found pieces of the plane that had blown outside the fence? HA! 5 years ago when I stood in the middle of the DVD section of Wal-Mart trying to decide whether or not to buy Season 1 of Lost, I definitely never would have imaged that I’d be actually holding a broken piece of that set in my hand someday…
Next up, we made a quick stop at the set where young Mr. Eko’s flashback took place - the one where the kids were playing soccer.
On the way back to dropping Beth off on set, we stopped at the tree where Kate buried the NKOTB lunchbox. I wished we could’ve gotten closer to it because I wanted to climb it lol.
We dropped Beth back off - and no, there weren’t any more sightings because the actors were all off filming - and then began the long drive back to Waikiki. Clif got us a little bit lost and of course then his phone died BUT we managed to get back based on pure awesomeness and a good sense of direction.
Well, I think I’ve lived up to this blog’s name and rambled on long enough. Next up: Friday evening (well, what I can remember from it…).
P.S. Beth has a children’s book coming out in the spring. You can find it on Amazon.com by clicking here.
