Getting Lost

Have any of you been watching the new "hot" show [Lost]? I'm not a big TV person but this show really is captivating. Not least because it doesn't treat its audience like a 14 year old with the attention span of a goldfish. It actually has subtitles!!! That might seem meaningless to us over here on this side of the Atlantic but for a prime-time show coming from the US that is a major risk.

Sad I know.

BUT the fact remains, the show is a big success so the people sitting out there behind the idiot boxes must be a bit smarter than the TV execs give them credit for (now aint that a surprise.) And just imagine that the major theme of the show is the place of religion and science in relation to one another. Shocking I'm telling you. I'm really enjoying it but I have a feeling of foreboding hanging over me every time I watch a new episode that they are going to trip and fall flat on their faces. Fingers crossed then.

Anyway I was reading a little piece about how Lost [could be the Twin Peaks of our time] and they had a link to this little advert for Lost in the UK:

[David LaChapelle takes on Lost]

Now I normally can't stand David LaChappelle (not to be confused with comedy genius [David Chappelle].) His new Romeo & Juliet H&M ad campaign sums him up perfectly for me. Everything just feels so fake and forced; a plea to be accepted by the above mentioned 14 year old MTV goldfish.

BUT, I have to say I thought that ad was great. Maybe it's just Portishead!

If you haven't seen the show you might not get all the little references but any chance to listen to Beth 'The Voice' Gibbons should be worth a click!