LOST (yes, it deserves to be in all caps, thank you very much). Wow. To think I originally missed season one due to being a senior in college and freshly 21. When ABC re-aired it over the summer of 2005, I gave the pilot a shot as recommended by LOST devotees Jamie and Terence, but I think I was distracted during it either by talking on the phone or playing on the internet. Any LOST fan knows this is NOT the way to watch the show.
As the second season premier hype was building, I went on a few dates with this guy who was a fan of the show. We watched the second episode of that new season together and I was intrigued. Then the perfect combination of me having no plans on the actual day of my birthday and wanting to “be into” something that interested that guy caused me to stop by the now defunct Tower Records on Newbury Street and pick up the first season. I had a nice little night to myself and probably steamrolled through four episodes.
I think I can safely say that my favorite episode was from season one: the Locke flashback episode where we learn that he was in a wheelchair before he came to the island. The episode ends with Locke, in a flashback, not being able to go on the walkabout in Australia because of his disability and then the scene returns to the present with him smiling at the wheelchair burning during the memorial service for the dead passengers. I remember just bawling. After falling in love with the show, I spread the gospel to many, notably Mike, Dave, and Julie (just to name a FEW), and I have many fun memories of LOST watching parties where at the end of any given episode everyone is like, “WHAT?!”
Yeah yeah, LOST is a very different show from how it started, but still amazing nonetheless. I’ve made it through the awkward second season, the painful division of the third season, and the glorious strike-jeopardized fourth season, and I cannot wait so see how it all wraps up in the next two years.
LOST isn’t a show known for showcasing outside music, but one rare instance was the inclusion of Damien Rice’s “Delicate.” It was sneaked in by having Hurley listen to it on his CD player while defiant Sun removes her towel and wears her bikini as she enters the ocean to the chagrin of her husband, Jin! Incidentally, the song would have served as a nice little break up song as I was “just friends”-ed by the guy who actually motivated me to watch the show, but I kind of saw that coming a mile away so I wasn’t really upset over it.
So yeah, if you haven’t already explored Damien Rice, go try out Volcano, Cannonball, The Blower’s Daughter, The Rat Within the Grain, 9 Crimes, and his cover of Radiohead’s Creep.
