• Artz….
• I like sideways Ben. He cares.
• When did Ben and his dad leave the island? I guess his dad is not a raging drunk.
• Alex is part of history club.
• “Cheese Carrots”
• How is Richard going to “die”?
• I always thought Richard came to the island from the Black Rock. Now that point is proven.
• Richard lost hope.
• Why is Jack so eager to help Richard die?
• Jack found Richard’s hope.
• Ben has the choice to save Alex again.
• “I will have you” those are powerful words.
• Ben made the right choice and saved Alex in the sideways world.
• There is redemption for Ben….this has made this show worthwhile. I hope this continues through the show.
• This last scene is very close to when the two castaways first came together.
• Charles is back….good grief.

So far this episode has redeemed this season.  Ben dying to himself and choosing the right thing in both worlds…is just amazing. I hope Charles coming back to the island does not throw this new Ben into a tailspin.

This episode was a great episode that showcased faith, hope and redemption.

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• Uncle Sayid? Nadia married his brother.
• Good and evil telling machine. I think the world needs one of those.
• What is significant about the baseball?
• How did Sayid know what time it was out of a dead sleep? Come on….
• Funny way to prove you are good is to kill someone.
• Kind of going full circle to first season with the random intersections of cast members.
• John/ Smoke Monster must have too many followers now.
• Do the people in the temple count as people to get him off the island? Or are the all dead regardless of what they do?
• I don’t like creepy Claire.
• Oh mafia guys…don’t mess with Sayid.
• Oh I hate Keamy (sp?) I wish him death.
• Oh that was quick…death on him.
• How did Jin get in there?
• Oh that is the deal with baseball. His son died.
• Don’t kill people in the healing pool…I can’t see that being good.
• Dogan was keeping the smoke monster out…how?
• Don’t follow them Kate…go back..Mayday!

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A couple of weeks ago I posted that watching Doctor Who made me want to travel more and see London. I have only been there during a layover to Germany. I have always had a deep love affair with Paris, in fact my kitchen and dining room are full of French prints and signs. Ireland has always interested me because of folklore and the beautiful countryside. So I sat down with pen and paper and figured out a way to go. It looks like I will be taking the trip later this year.

I am looking to possibly September of this year to take my trip to the UK and France. Once I get these countries done I will have traveled to the large majority of this part of the world. So far the sites I am planning on hitting look like this:

France (mostly Paris): Notre Dame (mass at 8 & 9 am and noon), Bastile, Pantheon, Louvre, opera house, moulin rouge, Les Tuileries, Eiffel tower, Pantheon, Arch De Triumph and the Catacombs

England (mostly London): British Museum, forbidden planet, Buckingham palace & gardens, earls court, Trafalgar square, piccadilly circus, china town, regents park, notting hill, windsor castle, st george chapel, oxford, church college, stonehenge, Westminster Abbey, 10 downing street, parliament, big ben, St Paul’s Cathedral, westminster cathedral, Globe, Southwark Cathedral, tower of london, Canary Wharf, natural history museum, kings cross station (for platform 9 3/4), leadenhall market, lackock abbey. I am also looking at going to the Proms one night.

Wales: Cardiff

Ireland/ Dublin: Trinity College and the Book of Kells, st. patricks cathedral, christ church (services daily at 10, 12,12:45), Blarney Castle

Scotland: still looking for places.

For anyone who has been to these areas….am I missing anything important?? I would love feedback and tips.

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• I usually don’t like Jack centric episodes.
• What is the scar from?
• Are the lines blurring for Jack between the two worlds. He did not have his appendix out till he was an adult on the island. I would think he would have known he had a scar there.
• Dad? Who is Jack married too?
• Jacob keeps up regular conversation with Hurley.
• Claire seems normal.
• “I just lied to a Samurai” BEST LINE
• I love Hurley!
• Claire made a fake baby. How sad.
• Adam and eve….were they the first protectors?
• Wow….Jack is showing a bit of depth.
• How did they never see this lighthouse?
• So how is this going to go over when Claire sees Kate?
• So this explains the bearings coming in and out of the island…or not…
• There is good old hot headed jack.
• Jin is playing a dangerous game with Claire.
• So Claire can see John for what he is?

Okay this is getting confusing. Too many more new questions and not enough answers..ahh

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The first major promo shot for the upcoming season of Doctor Who has been unveiled. It seems the first trailer is also going to be on BBC One this weekend. I am hoping the kind folks over the pond will be putting it up on youtube.

Anyway here is Matt Smith is one of his first major Doctor Who unveils.

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My thoughts while watching Lost:

• Oh John is still with Helen. That is good.
• Locke’s dad?? So I guess he is in a wheelchair for another.
• Really what are the odds of him running into a spinal surgeon? really?
• So was Locke hurt in the war?
• John was a candidate?
• Black and White ash — continuing the theme of light and dark
• Sawyer is one smart cookie “who are you”
• What is the most important question in the world? “Why are you on this island”
• Hurley is Locke’s boss?
• Interesting little kid?
• You can’t kill him? Who is him? Is Jacob not really dead?
• Rose….still has cancer. So sad
• Never trust a trapped man. Nothing to lose.
• So the smoke monster is stuck as John.
• “I’m sorry I murdered him” OMG that is awesome
• Locke never went to the island so he never had faith. It is a sad thing and I am glad Helen is there to show him.
• Creepy ladder going into the ocean. Not sure I would go…Going into even creepier ladder.
• Love the black and white rocks on the scale.
• A room with their names on the wall. So were the oceanic people the last to come to the island?
• Ben is a teacher????
• This wall thing is creepy? What is a candidate?
• I love the use of shadows on the faces. It gets back to light and dark.

So what happens when they leave the island again? How does Sawyer help “Black smoke” get off the island? What gives him power that he does not have?

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This has been what today as looked like around Nashville. The view from my porch.

I am sitting here tonight and trying to focus on the week. There are so many things I need to do and I am trying not to get ahead of myself. Also I have fun stuff and thoughts of future things. So to help get these thoughts out of my head….

Doctor Who

I have to admit I am super excited. For valentines I got season 1-4 of Doctor Who as a gift and then bought the complete specials for myself. I have fallen in love with this show and can’t wait to see season 5. I will miss David Tennant but will give Matt Smith a chance to prove himself as my doctor.

Travel

Watching Doctor Who has made me want to head oversees. I have been in London for a few hours on a layover to Germany so I never got to experience it. I have always wanted to go to France (Paris in particular) but now I would love to go to England and Wales (not to mention Ireland and Scotland). My brain is trying to come up with ways that I can gather enough money to go before my passport expires again. I have a few years since I just had my passport renewed last year when I went to Jamaica and the Caymans.

Picture Taking

Winter has not been kind to be as far as picture taking is concerned. I have not been able to get out much (I don’t do cold) and I have not been going to as many shows since the good tours are largely in the spring and summer. I feel somewhat lost without taking pictures every week so I need to urge myself to become more creative in shooting indoors.

Gym

The gym has been another area I have been neglecting since winter set it. I just have not been feeling the gym love and I know it is one of those things that once I go it is awesome. How can I get myself motived to do things I don’t feel like doing.

40 days

Blood Water Mission is the one organization that I help support right now and they are getting ready to launch their 40 days campaign. Which is drinking water for 40 days and whatever money you would have spent on coffee, soda, etc goes to them. I think I could kick soda for 40 days (I don’t drink coffee) but I am having a hard time with giving up tea. I love tea. It makes me happy. So I am contemplating doing the 40 days but not cutting tea. If I could cut my Diet Dr. Pepper habit and give the money to a good cause…win win! Check out 40 days

Rocketown Branding

This week is going to be about Rocketown Branding. Rocketown is an organization that I work for part time doing their web stuff and graphics. Because Nashville is building a convention center downtown Rocketown is moving later this year to a new building…so with that move comes updated branding. Update the logo, mailing pieces, marketing materials, site, social media, etc… that is my week. My brain is pulsing around this and what it will look like.

Cindy Morgan – Hymns Album

This is a fun one but the timing with Rocketown will make this an interesting week. I have been working on the artwork for Cindy Morgan’s new hymn album (see left pic for cover) and also working on  her new site. I switched the site to a wordpress backend and have been busy customizing the theme with the new album and loading new information into the site. This week the new site is being launched with pre-orders and more madness. It is super awesome and this album is a great album. Just a fun project to work on.

These are just a few things on my mind as I gear up for the week. Hopefully your week will be as awesome as I think mine is going to be! It is funny just getting these thoughts out helps so much!

• Where is Sawyer running to?
• Why does Claire want her suitcase? That seems a strange request.
• Is the bag what ties Kate and Claire together in this world?
• Why are they electro-shocking Sayid?
• They were checking to see if Sayid was the black smoke monster?
• They lied that he passed?
• Claire and Kate together. Bitter sweet
• Sayid is infected?
• “Who do you care about Kate?” That is an important question.
• Ethan is the doctor…CREEPY
• Why on earth did Jack take that pill?
• Is the poison to kill Sayid or whatever is in him?
• So is that happened to Bed? “claimed”
• What the hell…not to Claire…nope nope
• Claire…better have a good ending.

I am not sure what I think of this episode.  It was a bit slow and did not seem like much of the story. This whole thing with Claire is a little bit strange to me…I want her to have a good ending because I like Claire. Ben’s people have never done anything to earn trust so maybe Claire took off in the jungle like Danielle did.

Thoughts?

Technorati Tags: Lost, What Kate Does, ABC, Season 6

Yesterday in church my lines got blurred. Normally I think blurring the lines is a bad thing…things are not clear, there is no perspective, everything melds into one big pot of confusion. But something clicked yesterday for me. All my clear cut lines of faith were questioned. In some ways I am very open to different aspects of faith. I see Jesus as a sort of rebel who stood up to the religious figures of the day — someone who stood with the broken — someone who comforted the ones in despair — but that is where my image of Jesus stopped. I never once thought of Jesus as ’supernatural’. I am a big sci-fi person…if it deals with ghosts, aliens, paranormal, mythical, etc…I am in! The supernatural is fictional something that makes great stories but is not real.

Sunday siting in church my perception of supernatural was changed. In Acts 23 (and a few other places but for this sake I am keeping it to Acts 23) Jesus stands next to Paul. What is so strange about this? Well besides the fact that Jesus had already been crucified, buried AND rose from the dead the man, the Son of God had ascended into heaven. So despite all this Jesus stands next to Paul…now if that is not something right out of a Stephen King novel I am not sure what it.

The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, “Take courage! As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.” Acts 23:11

In the moment that Jesus came to Paul he told him to take courage that his future is set. At this time Paul was in prison and the Jews were out to kill him. Jesus comes in and says you will go on — you have work yet to do. I wonder what Paul was thinking…something along the lines of Now I know this guy has done all kinds of crazy things but I know he flew into Heaven but here He is standing next to me…standing next to me and telling me that I am going to live. That would have been amazingly awesome. Jesus standing there in his supernatural self.

My eyes were opened to the story in Acts 23 in a new way. I read it now and see scenes from the Matrix pop in my head. It makes me excited to re-read the gospels to look at them as a sci-fi movie and see all the wonders.

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