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It’s the Lost Season 5 Soundtrack CD! It won’t hit retail until this coming Tuesday, but a copy arrived here a few hours ago from somewhere among my nebuluous network of insiders and associates (or perhaps it was the strange time-shifting qualities of the Island that made it possible)…

I’m now on my second time of playing through it and once again Michael Giacchino has turned in a mesmerizing score (but those of us who watch Lost know that already šŸ™‚ There are 23 tracks on this thing. The ones I’ve most been looking forward to having are “The Swinging Bendulum”: the theme that was first introduced when we saw the Lamp Post in the episode “The Lie”. That, and “The Tangled Web”, better known as Jacob’s theme. Unfortunately “The Tangled Web” does not trail off into the score that we heard when we got our first real view of ...

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A group of United States soldiers from the 82nd Airborne based in Fort Bragg, currently stationed in Afghanistan, have produced a music video of themselves dancing to Lady Gaga’s hit song “Telephone”. Y’all have to check this out!

Well done guys! All the more praiseworthy given your present location. I just hope that this won’t become an issue when it gets to be time for your next evaluation šŸ˜›...

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A little more than a month from now on May 11th, you and me and all the other Lost fanatics will finally get to buy the soundtrack from Season 5. Click here to pre-order it from Amazon. It’ll street for $17.98 but you’re likely to find it for less depending on where you look.

Lost is the only television series that I’ve ever gone to the trouble of buying the soundtrack CDs, and I’m looking forward to putting more of Michael Giacchino’s beautiful work on my iPod. And Season 5 had some of the best music of the show’s run. What I’m eager for most: getting that theme that we first heard during the Lamppost scene in “The Lie”, and what most fans are calling “Jacob’s Theme” that was introduced in “The Incident, Part 1”.

(Incidentally Mr. Giacchino, if you ever read this: I would love to have a ...

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This one’s going out to all of y’all who are fans of the rebooted Battlestar Galactica. A dude named Katamaran78 on YouTube has created this amazing video using clips from the show and the song “Sabotage” by the Beastie Boys. The result? A spectacular shot-for-shot Galactica-style interpretation of Spike Jonez’s classic music video.

Here ’tis…

There are bunches of “Sabotage” mash-ups floating around, but this one is probably the best that I’ve seen yet (and I never even really watched Battlestar Galactica… but this video is making me want to check it out šŸ™‚...

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If all lessons about economics were this entertaining, I might not have slept through most of those classes years ago…

From creative director John Papola and creative economist Russ Roberts comes “Fear the Boom and Bust”, a rap song in which legendary economists John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek come back to life and attend a modern-day conference on the economic crisis, but first have a night of wild party.

Here ’tis! And I was laughing pretty hard at this…

Incidentally, that video was passed along this way by good friend and fellow blogger Danny de Garcia II from the Big Island of Hawaii. And he asked me to reprint an e-mail that he sent to all of his state’s legislators…

Greetings Hawaii State Legislators,

As one of the major issues facing the Legislature this session is the question of economic recovery and how to connect the dots

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I’ve given up on American Idol, and not because this is Simon Cowell’s final season (and if you ask me, Simon is among the most brilliant minds working in entertainment today). So I didn’t see “Pants on the Ground”, the original song performed on last night’s show by 62-year old civil rights activist General Larry Platt of Atlanta.

But having seen it now… I can’t get it out of my head!!

Here it is: “Pants on the Ground”!

If American Idol had allowed more stuff like this (and bumped up the age limit of contestants) a lot of people would probably still be watching it. Anyways, hat’s off to Larry Platt for a great performance!...

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