My “brief” comments about Lost — despite a bit of a slow pace, which is to say, too much dallying on scenes with “meaningful looks” and such, the show still has it.
In spades.
How many plot threads did we have going on? Locke (and “Walt”), Sayid & Co at the beach, the rescue crew, the underwater crew, and Jack (and Jill) going up the hill … and that doesn’t count the “Others” who play a role. Or the “flashback.”
Ooh … great mindf**k to finish the season — they got me with this one. Usually I have a clue, I can read the clues, I can see the “theme” that connects the flashback and the main plot and figure out how they inform each other. With what was happening with Charlie or going to happen with/to Charlie? Not the details but that it would happen, yeah … hell, they built that up for us last week. Great cliffhanger, that one … but once Charlie pulls the equivalent of “what could happen now?” you know where it’s going.
And Roger Workman, or at least his van, got a cameo — no complaints there.
And I had to love Sawyer after tonight. “I didn’t believe him.” Bye-bye Tom … you were one of my favorite Others, but Sawyer had a point … sure, Tom’s seemed kind of cute and cuddly this past season, but let’s not forget what a brutal, murderous bastard he could be.
Could.
Non subjunctive.
Jen tells me — during a phone call this evening — that she’s got another interview, this time with the College of William and Mary, so if she gets that, then the living-with-Christoph option might be on again … which I could afford one way or another. I also need to apply for the LSS PA-ship (that is, Bruno, Sara, and Tony) … I think I’m qualified (languages, computers/tech) … we’ll see.
There was a fatal shooting on State Street last night — not something that happens often around here, by which I mean both downtown and Madison in general. I first heard about it on the news, though, not while I was on State Street today:
A homeless man is dead and a Madison man is being charged with homicide after a fight leads to a shooting on State Street.
The suspect has been identified as Daniel Kelly, a 31 year old Madison man. Police are asking for charges of 2nd degree intentional homicide.
The shooting took place on the 600 block of State Street just before midnight Tuesday.
Jacob Hajdu is the manager at City Bar. He says one of his bouncers heard the shots. “He thought he heard four firecrackers-he wasn’t sure.”
The victim died at the hospital. He’s been identified as 23 year old Austin David Bodahl, originally from Waconia, MN. Police say he may have been homeless. “These two individuals may have known each other. The victim recently came here from Minnesota a couple weeks ago,” says Officer Mike Hanson.
Hajdu says the bouncers from the City Bar helped detain the suspect. “As the shooter was running down the street one of the bouncers apprehended him and another one was able to pick up the gun with a rag that he had on him and hold them for police.”
Alison Horn was waiting to get in a bar and saw the aftermath. “There was a guy laying on the ground and then a whole bunch of police cars came up and one of them -a police person-a police man had a gun and he was running up to the body and it was laying on the ground.”
Police say this was not a random shooting. “The suspect and victim had exchanged words, it got heated even further and it led to a full-out street fight and from that shots were fired,” says Hanson.
In my own apartment I’m close to committing murder … or rather, genocide. Insecticide or Insectocide … massacre of the bugs.
I don’t know exactly where they came from (answer: outside), but a bunch of little gnats, midges (a type of gnat) and things which are a bit larger and almost look like mosquitos (to which gnats/midges are related evidently). Ah, related insects … on Carl Linneaus’s birthday of all days. They swarm around lights and so to get them from my desk I turned off that light and turned on the main light and the halogen across the room. They were even in the apartment last night, when the living room windows were shut. I’m thinking of trying to vacuum them up and then wash out/off the vacuum filter.
I haven’t had much time for music today. Last night I started “T” and got as far as two thirds through fake-lesbian duo t.A.T.u. There were two Russian versions of their first album as well as an English release, which means that — staying true to my project of listening to all my mp3 and ogg files — I have to listen to a bunch of songs three times in a row.
After t.A.T.u.? Tears for Fears.
Oh yeah.
