Craig Koster » Entertainment http://www.craigkoster.com/blog Design, Develop, & Deliver Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:12:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 The Tonight Show – Pearl Jam http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/the-tonight-show-pearl-jam/ http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/the-tonight-show-pearl-jam/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:13:12 +0000 admin http://www.craigkoster.com/?p=309 The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien – Musical Performance: Pearl Jam (06/01/09) – Video – NBC.com

Smart move by Conan O’Brien getting Pearl Jam on his first night as host of The Tonight Show. I’m amazed at how after 20 years Pearl Jam still puts out great material and puts on a great show.

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It looks like Hurley from Lost (actor Jorge Garcia) has a blog. Check it out!

(via kottke.org).

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Obviously his main nemesis would be Nasonex Man.

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Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion

(via kottke.org)

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We started watching one or two episodes a night in our home theatre and soon we were so intrigued we started watching three and four episodes at a time. We were hooked. When we were done watching the first two seasons on DVD we dove in to season three which by then had started on regular TV. We continued to enjoy the show but now it was a pain to have to wait a whole week before the next episode.

As you probably know, the latest season has just started and things in Lost-land are as odd as ever. While I still find it intriguing, it seems that the show is becoming more of a mental exercise than a suspenseful thriller. Sure, there are still moments of surprise and anticipation of revealing facts, but there have been so many different plot twists and new characters introduced that the viewer has to constantly think about the time/space context of any scene and the motivation behind the players in it. It is still entertaining, but not as much as when the simplicity of the story was still there.

The writers of Lost have said that they know exactly how the show will end and how everything will wrap up. I hope that they try to spin down all these different threads into one main story line as it gets towards the end. As with most things, the “keep is simple” mantra also works in entertainment.

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Update: What a great game. Back and forth and close at the end. That’s all you can ask for in any championship game. I wish Warner would’ve been able to get that last ball downfield to at least give Fitzgerald a chance at it. The Cards did well, though, for their first trip to the big game. Looking forward to next September already. No football on Sunday afternoons means I gotta actually do stuff around the house!


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