Archive for April, 2008

The LOST Fashion Review 4-9 The Shape of Things to Come

Hi, I’m DawnOwar, your LOST Fashion Correspondent for CrankyFanatic.com.

Fashion is obviously very important to the Losties who always look *fabulous* no matter what harrowing circumstances they may be in.

Fashion Diva Kate opened this episode in her DIY tube top. Sometimes, when you’re sitting on the beach in your jeans in the hot sun, tank top straps are just too much to bear.

Also new for her this week is the headband made of something that looks like weeds. Obviously nothing more than a fashion statement as it doesn’t actually keep her hair out of her face at all.

The boys in Otherville have access to plumbing, washing machines, hair dryers, etc. so their clothes are all looking their best these days. Hurley’s clearly using hair product, and Sawyer’s been ironing his shirts. Even Locke is wearing a nice clean shirt, and he’s always the last one to change. Ben’s been shaving, so there’s no shortage of razors…
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Posted by DawnOwar in Fashion, LOST

Cranky Fanatic Lost Podcast ~ Season 4, episode 9 “The Shape of Things to Come”

On this episode of the Cranky Fanatic Lost Podcast we have our minds blown by the INCREDIBLE episode given to us in season 4 episode 9, “The Shape of Things to Come”. We had a record breaking night, and more than 70 people joined into the live discussion! A couple of people had mixed feelings about it, but I thought it was amazing. We also had a surprise visit from Ryan Ozwa. Thanks for coming by Ryan!

I’d love to hear what all of you think about this episode, so leave a comment!

 
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Win a free trip to Comic Con through “Lostscape”

ABC has launched a contest to give a lucky Lost fan a free trip for two to the next Comic Con. Participants will play through Lostscape, an new online “game” (for lack of a better word) from ABC. I haven’t checked it out but it sounds like they’ll have you walking around a virtual version of the island looking for hidden things.

You’ll have until June 30 to enter the contest. Rules are found here, and you can enter Lostscape here.

Oh, and by the way, DarkUFO has already posted the location to all the hidden parts if you’d like to get through it quickly.

Posted by Big-O in LOST, News

Cranky Fanatic Lost Podcast ~ “Flashes Before Your Eyes” Group Commentary

On this episode of the Cranky Fanatic Lost Podcast we do a group commentary of the season three episode titled “Flashes Before Your Eyes”. It’s interesting to watch this one again after seeing “The Constant”. Leave your thoughts about it in the comments for this post, and be sure to join us live next week when Lost is back on the air.

 
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Six questions about Lost’s Danielle Rousseau

I found this article a week or so ago and I felt some of it definitely had the Cranky Fanatic spirit in it. Here’s an excerpt: 

Shouldn’t Danielle have seen the ambush coming? Rousseau didn’t land on the island yesterday; she’s fully aware of the Others’ potential for evildoing. I find it hard to believe that a woman who (supposedly) survived on the island for sixteen years would walk into an ambush without being suspicious. Even Karl questioned Ben’s motives for sending them into the jungle, for crying out loud! I understand that Danielle thought leaving the Barracks was the best way to protect Alex, but why was she so quick to trust Ben, the man who abducted her daughter? Rousseau may be crazy, but she’s not stupid. Remember how paranoid she was when Sayid first encountered her? She had traps set up all around her camp and didn’t trust anyone. How did this gun-wielding survivor turn into a sitting duck three seasons later?

You can read the rest here.

Posted by congested in LOST

Season 3 Soundtrack Delayed

The April 29th date I mentioned in the last news post for the Lost Season 3 Soundtrack has been bumped back to May 6th. This sort of pisses me off but at least it’s not a huge delay. It seems like this OST has taken forever to finally get released. You can read more about it, and see the track listing, on the record label’s site here. 

Posted by congested in LOST, News

Some Lost News

A few things revolving around Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse that I’d like to inform/remind people about. First of all, for those that don’t know, the show returns April 24th.

  • Today Cuse and Lindelof are giving a keynote presentation at the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) conference in Las Vegas. Hopefully some audio of this surfaces soon. If you were able to attend the conference and get audio feel free to send it in for Big-O to play on a podcast.
  • Friday, April 18th, the video podcast where the producers take video questions from fans is set to be released. I’ve heard from DarkUFO that this has already been recorded a week or two ago. Hopefully there are some interesting tidbits about the rest of Season 4 and the future of Lost in the podcast.
  • There is a new schedule for the rest of Season 4, which will now include an extra hour. There will be 4 consecutive 1 hour shows starting April 24th. Then Lost will break for two weeks and return on May 29th with a 2-hour conclusion. This will make Season 4 14-hours long in total.
  • April 29th the Season 3 soundtrack will be released. The soundtrack will be 2 discs. The first disc will be a selection of tracks from all of the episodes except the finale (Through The Looking Glass) with the second disc being the entire soundtrack for Through The Looking Glass.

That’s about it for now. I’ll certainly be looking forward to all of this stuff, especially the Season 3 soundtrack as I’m a big fan of Michael Giacchino.

Posted by congested in LOST

Hello World

While I wish I could introduce myself by tying you up in a shack, sticking a grenade in your mouth and lecturing to you about how I protect the island, I am unfortunately nowhere nearly as cool as John Locke. I also have no access to rope or grenades (probably for the best.)

I’m congested, and I’ve been a listener of Big-O’s show for over a year now. I’ve been blogging over on the DarkUFO Forum and Media Mentions sections, I also helped out with the Via Domus and Find 815 sections when those were going. What recently caught the attention of Big-O however, which ultimately led me on a path to write this sentence, was my own blog, Audibly Lost. There I blog less about Lost and more about the fan community that surrounds it. 

I hope to bring some interesting stuff to the Cranky Fanatic blog in the coming weeks, and I look forward to consuming your time, especially if you’re at work. 

Posted by congested in LOST, News

Cranky Fanatic Lost Podcast ~ Season 4 Hiatus, Expose Commentary

On this episode of the Cranky Fanatic LOST Podcast we do a group commentary for Lost season three, episode 14 titled “Expose“. We are also joined by special guest, Paul Cageggi, who is also known as Bare Naked Hurley. He called in all the way from Australia and we were glad to have him.

Tune in next Wednesday at 9:30pm Eastern time when we’ll be doing a group commentary for Lost season 3, episode 8, “Flashes Before Your Eyes“!

 
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Posted by Big-O in LOST

Calling All Bloggers!

Now that I have my new server, I’ve got a lot of big things planned for the web site. I’d like to build a community (for all of my podcasts) and I want all of you to have a voice in that.

The first thing I want to focus on is getting more quality content to the web site in the form of blog posts. I’ve got the audio end covered, but I’ve always wanted to have more articles on the site than just the podcast posts. I’ve tried more than once to blog myself and it just doesn’t seem to be in my blood.

So, here’s where you come in. I’m looking for people to contribute to my site in the form of blog posts. At the moment I’m focusing only on LOST, but other than that, I’ll take anything. If you’re good and finding Lost news, or even if you just have a lot of opinions, then I’ll probably like to hear what you’ve got. I also won’t have a problem linking back to your own site if you have something to promote. I’m generous with the link love :)

You don’t have to have previous experience but I will want to see a sample of what you’ve written before I sign you up. Either send me a link to something LOST related you’ve written, or just write up a new article and email it to me. If you’re interested in helping out then contact me and we’ll work out the details.

One person has come on board already, and that is the one and only Congested! He’s a regular on the live shows but usually stays only in the chat room until the recorder is off. He is a regular contributer to DarkUFO’s site, and has his own LOST blog as well which I’ll let him tell you more about when he posts. He’s also the one who sent me the exclusive coverage of the Damon and Carlton interview at the Promax conference.

Congested, welcome to the team!

Posted by Big-O in News

Previously On LOST: What?

I have to clarify upfront that I didn’t make this, but it had me ROFL’ing so I had to post it. It contains “what”s from the first three seasons of LOST. Very Funny.

Posted by Big-O in LOST

Cranky Fanatic Lost Podcast ~ Season 4 Hiatus, Lost Jeopardy!

The moment as finally arrived! On this episode of the Cranky Fanatic Lost Podcast we play LOST Jeopardy. Our contestants are Amanda from the Lost Flashbacks podcast, Curt from the Black Rock Lost Podcast, and Josh from the LostMeister’s Lost Podcast. If you want to follow along you can download the catagories with no questions here, or click here to download the full sheet with the questions and answers on it too. We were also Joined by Anne Dawson, author of Lost Mind Games, and she was kind enough to provide prizes for the winners. Be sure to stop by next week when we’ll be doing a group commentary of a Lost episode!

 
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Welcome to the New site!

The Cranky Fanatic web site has been updated! It doesn’t look very different yet, but a lot of change is coming down the pike. The first thing I have to announce is that I just moved my site over to a new server! This change will not only help to prevent the downtime that I’ve been having lately, but also will allow me to do some cool things with the site that I wasn’t able to do before.

That being said, I would love your help in making sure that everything is working properly. Please poke around the site and tell me if anything is broken!

Posted by Big-O in News