moved.

I have moved to posterous and tumblr . later!

camera obscura

I downloaded the new Camera Obscura album from my sister Ashley today, excellent album, first album that was not a disappointment this year, although I think I am warming up to the latest Decemberists.

Tornado!

Tornado!
Originally uploaded by tylernol

FUN stuff!

giro d'italia

next year I want to go to Italy to watch this:

locke season 1

interesting to go back and look at this now.. so in season 1 did the writers know what they would be doing with Locke?

lost season 5 finale

not much of a game-changer compared to some prior season finales. I had heard rumors we would be seeing Jacob pop up in the past of the major Lost characters and we got that. It seemed a little contrived to insert him so late in the game, though. Seeing Locke roll out of that box was not a huge surprise. I suspected that the Locke we saw on the island was something else -- he was too determined. Was he the smoke monster? If not, does the smoke monster really do the bidding of Jacob? Or the dark-haired man at the Black Rock beginning? Or is it the same as the dark-haired man?

My theory had expected the box to contain see something like another nuke to reactivate the Swan or Orchid and create another time shift to sync the 1977 and 2007 timelines. So that appears to be wrong. I did expect the nuke to get set off. It is unclear whether that changed history or not, or just enabled the oceanic 6 to get back to 2007 and reinforce the "whatever happened, happened" theory. It does seem almost certain that they will be coming back to 2007 since Jacob's last words were something like "they are coming..".

I expected the guitar case to have played a role in the finale, but it appears to be deferred another season, I also expected to see the return of Walt, since I have heard rumors of Walt playing a pivotal role in the series finale -- there is supposedly a secret scene they shot in season 2 to save for season 6 because they knew the actor would age too much in 5 years..

t-minus 1 year..

my no more bike rule falls apart quickly..

so long faraday

a great character. Good story-arc, I could not see him continuing beyond this season as I think the time-travel aspect will
be done with by the end of the finale and the characters will all end up in the same time-period. The question is.. will Jack, Kate, etc actually travel in time again, or will they hide in the temple for 30 years...? I am dubious we will see a season of them in heavy make-up, so I think they will get displaced again.

escape plan

so if I were to take 6 months off from work, where would I go?

- Ecuador ?
-Scotland
- Australia
- Japan

Dead is Dead

great episode, I was suprised that the island spared Ben, I was sure he was a goner. However it was a bit annoying to see the Widmore exile reduced to a single vignette in the episode. It felt a bit rushed. And it was a surprise to see Ceasar bite it so soon but no surprise to see Illana show her colors as an agent of ... Widmore ? Dharma? hmm.

california riding

I rode this last spring I think, it looks like mulholland drive in places:


Rapha Rides the TOC - Episode 4 from RAPHA on Vimeo.

silver it is

as long as the stock market does not tank again, I am thinking fall 2010 or spring 2011, european pick-up. silver looks the best with the new model's headlamp details. Or meteor gray, but going back to silver would be a nice throwback to my '97 A4.

twitter..

LAME.

BSG: the end

well it's all over. It was quite bleak this season, it probably dragged on for a bit too long after they found the remnants of earth, but the battle to rescue Hera was spectacular, and Baltar finally stepped up to the plate and redeemed himself. My theory was that everyone is a cylon and they are playing into an eternal cycle of death and rebirth. There is an cycle and the show left it in the air as to whether it would continue that way. Are they all cylons? I would say yes. Who is to say when the cycle really started? With the 12 colonies? Before then? Where did Kara return to? hmm..

someone to watch over me

caught up to last Friday's BSG episode. It was slow going at first but really wound up as a doozy of an episode. Starbuck is visiting by the ghost of her father... Ellen Tigh is realizing she is not quite the god she thought she was. Boomer is evil and Chief finally realizes it. Starbuck and Baltar are going to have all the answers at the end. Everyone is a Cylon. I'm sticking with that theory.

BSG almost over..

BSG is almost over, and I think they have been dragging out the ending for too long. I was into the bleakness and despair of the characters as they realized they were all fucked, but how many episodes do I have to see of people drinking themselves into oblivion? The revelations have been as I expected -- the "final 5" are from Earth and they come from cylons who pretty much forgot they were cylons to begin with. I still believe that everyone is a frakkin' cylon though. Starbuck realizes this -- only she and a #2 are privy to the secret that she has been resurrected. I am disappointed with Baltar's treatment, it is almost as if they forgot about him the past half season and now they are dusting him off for a part in the finale. He is definitely special and seems to be aware of something that Ellen is not.

church

once again, have to look back 17 years for good music.

This Place is Death

So Charlotte is dead, I was expecting that, so it was not a suprise but still sad. So know we know that Danielle(and the other losties) probably stop skipping through time in the 1960s dharma initiative period since he encounters young Charlotte, and also Candle when the Orchid station was being built. We also know that the smoke monster/Cerebus is guarding the "Temple"..and it seems to also have the power of mind-control, something never exhibited before. And my theory that Ben should never has turned the wheel..correct. Locke should have.

have you seen this cat?

originality

nice quote from a fantastic director.