Now, I don’t claim to be able to answer all the questions on the show LOST.  I don’t even claim to remember all the things that could raise questions on the show LOST.  Tonight Kristin and I almost finished Season Three.  We have one more episode and then apparently there is an “enhanced” version of the Season Three finale.

So far lots of people have died, some have “switched teams”, others have almost died and not many questions are answered.  However there is one question that I have that I’m not sure will ever be answered and that is this. Who’s cutting Jack’s hair all this time?   I shaved my head a few weeks ago because I was tired of dealing with having hair.  That was only a few weeks ago, and already I am finding myself in a situation where I need to decide whether to cut it again, or start the whole “growing out” process again.  Jack just seems to have that perfectly shaved head the entire time.  

Now, I know what you are saying.  ”Well Brody, what about everyone else on the island?  Their hair doesn’t look like it’s growing either.  What do you say about that?”  And to that I would say, “Well they have scissors, but they don’t have clippers, now do they?”.  There’s no possible way that Jack could get his hair like that without using clippers with a number four guard and I’m not seeing that in the bonus features.  Sure, razors for the bald fella.  I’ll give you that.  Scissors for everyone else.  But not Jack.  There’s no way.

So these are the things that keep me up late on a Sunday night.  You?

**P.S.  If you give anything away about the season finale of Season Three, I will publicly humiliate you in front everyone who reads this blog.  We haven’t seen it yet, so play nice. **

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Kristin and I are slowly moving along watching LOST.  We made it through the first season, and now are into the second.  It’s still good but the Ana Lucia character may be ruining the show for me.  Maybe not even the character so much as the actress playing the character.  There are only two actresses that I can’t stand to watch do anything.  Cameron Diaz and this one.  I don’t even know her name, but I hate every character she decides to do.  

It bothers me so much that she has completely taken over the show with her “drunken with inner rage, I’m the toughest girl ever but can’t keep my eyes completely open because I am so angry” acting ability.  Then to find out last night, that in the show, before the plane crash, she was an “angry, tough, 102 pound” cop.  Sound familiar?  I just think she is a horrid actress that can only play one role and does a pretty bad job even at that.  Maybe she should look into a romantic comedy or something.

It’s also a little odd to me that this giant muscly Mr. Echo guy, or even Jin who beat the hell out of Michael at one point can’t stand up to her and take her gun away.  It’s just plain annoying and has completely changed my mindset while watching the show.  I just cant stop thinking about how annoying the combination of this actress and the character she is playing is.  

I’m assuming she dies eventually because people are still putting up with the show and there is no way people would continue to watch with her.  Does she bug anyone else?  Or did she? 

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I’m stuck in the Atlanta airport for the next five hours. The weather in Nashville delayed us taking off and I missed my connecting flight. So here I sit for the next five hours…. What to do… What to do?

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Well, Kristin and I have been talking about it for a while, but we finally started watching Lost last night.

Neither one of us had seen even a minute of the show previous to last night. It’s not like we had something against it, it’s just that, at first, we couldn’t commit to being in the same place in front of our TV every time the show was on. We don’t have anything to record it, so if we missed one we would be stuck. Then it got to the point where we were too behind to start watching.

I have continued to hear how amazing this show is, and how it’s like a movie and not like regular TV, and how it keeps getting better and all that, but still didn’t have time to give it a chance. Now with ABC running full screen, high definition, full episodes for free, we decided to give it a shot. We started at the beginning and watched the two pilot episodes last night. I think it just might be as good as everyone has been saying. Right up front though, I am a little annoyed that Jack seems to know everything about everything, but I’m sure that something weird will happen with him.

So anyway, we are a little behind all of you, but I’m cool with that. I think it’s awesome that we are so far behind and we have so many episode to watch to be current. No waiting for the next one.

I assume most of you watch Lost, but is there anyone that doesn’t watch it? More interesting to me, is there anyone that doesn’t like it?

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I’ve never called a psychic hotline. I’ve wanted to several times. I’ve wanted to call and give a fake credit card number, then wonder if they knew I was going to do that. I’ve only seen a few different psychic type things on T.V. on those late night commercials. You know the ones…. with the Jamaican lady that says things on the commercial that relate to you sitting there in the dark at three in the morning. Somehow she knows that I am about to make a “large financial decision” and that an “old friend is coming back into my life”. She knows that “new things are on the horizon” and will tell me what it is if I call and give her my credit card number.

Fortune cookies are the same way. They are just general enough that they leave you feeling like something amazing is about to happen. Something “big is in your future”, all you have to do is “persist”. They tell you that you are about to “embark on something exciting” and get your mind reeling on what that could be. It gets you excited. Psychics know what they are doing. Fortune cookie writers know what they are doing. They are selling you nice feelings. They are telling you things that are general enough to leave you feeling good and then cashing your checks.

I grew up in a grounded Christian home. I went to church every Sunday, sometimes on Wednesdays, and even brought my Bible most times. Even now there is rarely a time where I hear a Bible verse and don’t recognize it as something I have heard before. I have heard all the stories, and even understand several of them. I know what verses to think about to be encouraged and I know what verses to think about when I am acting wrong. And then I stop and wonder if these verses have become like “fortune cookies” to me.

Now before anyone freaks out, this thought just hit me yesterday and I haven’t really thought through it all that much. The thought hit me when I was flipping through the radio stations in the truck yesterday and it landed on the local Christian radio station. Some well-know artist was reading a Bible verse to encourage the listener (me). It was a simple verse and there was no context included. It was only two sentences, and left the listener (me) inspired and ready to tackle any hardship that came my way. This well known musician must know what the listener (I) am going through and knows exactly what the listener (I) needed to hear. Am I being marketed to? Am I being handed neatly packaged good feelings that are sitting on top of the bill for my dinner? And worse of all is the Bible being used in a general enough sense that there’s no way to feel lost and hopeless?

Christian radio stations, and church marketing people know we want to feel good the same as psychics and fortune cookie writers. They know what we want to hear and to keep us coming back to the buffet. They know what’s going to keep us on the phone just five more minutes at $3.99 a minute. But what happens when we see through the fake Jamaican accent? What happens when the good feelings that come from the inspiring thought fades and we are stuck with reality that there is no exciting future prospect? And what happens when the radio is off and we are back to feeling completely abandoned? That concerned me today.

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