Still mourning the sacrifice of noble, adorable Charlie on "Lost"? Actor Dominic Monaghan is carrying on with his film career with, among other things, a role in the upcoming "Wolverine" spin-off movie, but he's also looking back at his "Lost" times with a new photography exhibit in LA.
Monaghan allegedly is also an occasional back-up singer and co-wrote three tracks on Viggo Mortensen's album. [Ed note: Who has this album? We want it!]
Fame chasers might rather spot J.J. Abrams and other cast mates in his photos than try to listen for the dulcet tones showcased in "We All Everybody." The exhibit opens tomorrow at the Hamilton-Selway Gallery in Hollywood.
So, yeah, have you heard? The new season of Lost starts tonight. Expect more dumbfounded-yet-angry stares from Jack, more running in tank tops from Kate, more philosophy-ish chatter from Locke and lighthearted (but heavyset) jokes from Hurley.
We sometimes find it hard to write about the show 'cause the only traveling they ever do is from rainforest to hill to beach to ridgeline back to rainforest. Seems like a waste of a perfectly good vacation in the South Pacific!
Fortunately--for us anyway--ABC has put together a parallel web show called Find 815, featuring the exploits of fictional IT technician Sam Thomas, who's searching for his girlfriend Sonya, an Oceanic Air flight attendant. Among his stops are Jakarta, Indonesia and Darwin, Australia. Now that's more like it.
The reviews are trickling out for Cassis, Chef George Mavrothalassitis' second restaurant in the islands. He located it in a cavernous downtown space that was decorate in a vulgar glitzy manner by a corporate restaurant company. Mavro has to turn tables to make this space work -- it's that big. He also, apparently, has to charge top dollar for what two reviewers for local publications found to sporadic culinary offerings.
Not to worry. Mavro is a tenacious restaurateur and he knows how to tweak things relentlessly until they work. All of that said, it will be hard to get the locals hyped up about lunch with entrees priced at $25 and above. NYC, SF, LA -- sure. Hawaii? Ugh. We hope he can pull it off and make this work, as we love his smaller, ritzier flagship and we love his cooking. Besides, the Lost cast has been feasting here, and they will need good food on the islands for at least three more years.
The Lost season premiere was a total bummer, wasn't it? Seriously, this show is so close to going X-Files. We are not-so-anxiously awaiting JJ Abrams announcement of a feature length Lost movie. Despite our disappointment, we are going to give the show another shot tonight, we just have too much invested in it to give up on season three so soon, but a couple more weeks of Days of our Lives style episodes and we are done.
In the meantime, thankfully, Dominic Monaghan and Evangeline Lilly's real life Hawaiian beach adventures look much more interesting than their lives on the show. The duo hangs out at Mokuleia Beach Park, a twelve-acre beach park complete with restrooms, showers, camping sites, parking, and plenty of surfing. Thing is the surf here can be down right dangerous.
High surf generates dangerous water conditions, including powerful shorebreaks, longshore currents, rip currents, and backwashes sweeping across the foreshore. The high surf season normally occurs during the winter and spring months, beginning in October and ending in May. There are no lifeguards anywhere along the beach.
Seriously, these two should mix in a visit to the North Shore Surf Museum or something to ratchet down the danger factor. Then again, maybe the danger excites them. Ah, who are we kidding these photos are all posed right? JJ Abrams probably set up these shots himself to deflect from his obvious case of writers block.
Last night's season premier of Lost has us thinking about the north shore of Oahu, where the waves start crashing in earnest right about now. All the beaches in Hawaii are public, so the only turf wars happen out on the waves. If you're aching to chase them, here are some suggestions:
· Lodging: If you've got a budget more like a Lost cast member's, and like being pampered, consider the big, lush Turtle Bay Resort, where you can snag a standard room for as little as $199 or a suite well into the thousands.
If you're heading out with friends, try and split Santa's By the Sea at $200/night. Did we mention it's right on the Pipeline?
· Surfing Lessons: If you're not quite up to Laird Hamilton's level, get a setup from Surf N Sea in Haleiwa. They've got you covered with anything from surf lessons to rentals to sex wax (for your board, not your night on the town--unless you're Kate and Sawyer).
If you're more into spectator sports than surfing yourself, remember the Pipeline Masters takes place every December, and your DVR can always keep its eye on the show while you're away.
Mokuleia's Army Beach @ 21.581945, -158.206387 on Yahoo Maps
Tonight Lost kicks off the season that will ultimately determine whether the television drama is solvable, or becomes a convoluted parody of itself (um, X-Files?).
While we prepare to put on our thinking caps for tonight's episode, we figured we would deal in the much more tangible world of satellite photography.
By now everyone knows lost is filmed on and around Mokuleia Beach, and the main beach site is between Army Beach and Tiger Point, which we found on Yahoo Maps (above). However, Lost Virtual Tour takes it a step further, providing locations and accompanying show photos for almost every Lost location known to Dharma.
If you are a Lost-watcher, last week's episode might have you believing that Lost has gone all X-Files on us (read: will never make any sense, release a ho-hum big screen movie, and then fade away to Bolivia). However, you glass-is-half-full types may still believe that some of the show is grounded in reality. If you are a Lost optimist, you may be interested in this newest Google Hack, which claims to show the geographically correct flight path of Oceanic flight 815.
Of course if you live in the real world, you know that Lost takes place on a Hawaiian beach. A beach in a state that is apparently hated by Evangeline Lilly. Tough life you got there Kate. We all feel for ya...really.
For your downloading pleasure, here is the Google Earth Hack of the Lost flight. Remember to right click on it, save to desktop, and view with Google Earth.
By now we all know that Lost is filmed in the somewhere in Oahu's Kaaawa Valley region, mostly on and around Mokuleia Beach. So it is not surprising to see Evangeline Lilly doing some down-time (doesn't it seem like the show is always in reruns?) February beach frolicking, with her fiancee Dominic Monaghan. But who exactly is the pink-shirted beach walker? Is she taking Ana-Lucia's place?
