MacBook Pro Drive Makes Hatch Timer Noises

Listen closely, this person's MacBook drive is making hatch timer beeps.



Clearly there's a hard drive manufacturer out there that's a fan of Lost.

via TUAW

Giacchino Interview In Los Angeles Times

Check it out.

On "Star Trek" -- the biggest minefield of his three summer films, because of the baggage and fan expectations -- Giacchino started composing a year ago and quickly ran into a creative wall trying to write "space adventure music" to match the classic themes of five TV series and 10 movies.

Only when "Star Trek" co-producer (and "Lost" show-runner) Damon Lindelof suggested that Giacchino reset his thinking to the idea that it was "a story about two guys who become best friends" was the composer freed to come up with themes. For Kirk he offered "a sense of building, and of inevitability," says Abrams, and for Spock "something sad," says Giacchino, "with a voice that felt alien, not of our place," that led to the choice of the Chinese stringed erhu as lead instrument.

Via Los Angeles Times

Master Chief Gets A Giacchino Soundtrack

Keep in mind this is 2 parts. Totaling in over 15 minutes. They seem to be heavily inspired by the Season 4 finale of Lost.





First person who can tell me what the hell is going on in these videos gets a prize.

Via UltraHyperShadow on YouTube.

Michael Giacchino To Attend Music Festival In Spain - "Star Trek" Soundtrack To Be Performed Live

This summer Michael Giacchino will be in Spain attending the V International Music Festival in Úbeda, Spain. The festival runs from July 16th to 19th. While his level of participation is still not totally clear he will at least be holding a workshop on composition, as well as a CD signing. The event will also include a live performance of the Star Trek soundtrack Giacchino composed, and it is possible Giacchino may step in to conduct it himself.

The festival put together a video trailer for the planned concert:

Previously On Lost Performing Live On NPR

They recorded this live on WNYC on Wednesday prior to their finale performance. The track is titled "Lost In 2 Minutes!" and can be found on their MySpace page.

"The Incident" Greek Text Translated, BOOYAA!

That's right folks, I've managed not to blog almost all season because I was saving my effort for now (even though I actually did little to no work on translating this myself)... it was some nice people (who don't even watch Lost) on a Debian Linux chat room (specifically user gvaiou) through which I was able to get the Ancient Greek text from last night's episode translated. It's from The Odyssey book 6, when Odysseus washes up on the shore of Skheria and speaks with Nausicaa, who aids him. The line, translated as "May heaven grant you in all things your heart's desire," is part of what Odysseus says to Nausicaa as he is thanking her for clothing and food.

"And now, O queen, have pity upon me, for you are the first person I have met, and I know no one else in this country. Show me the way to your town, and let me have anything that you may have brought here to wrap your clothes in. May heaven grant you in all things your heart's desire - husband, house, and a happy, peaceful home; for there is nothing better in this world than that man and wife should be of one mind in a house. It discomfits their enemies, makes the hearts of their friends glad, and they themselves know more about it than any one."

I reached out the Debian guys while searching for translations last night and by morning I had an answer waiting for me. Special shout out to Joshmeister from The Lostmeister blog and podcast who was recording his podcast when I began looking, I joined him for the podcast and we discussed this quite a bit, though didn't have the final translation.

Obviously a lot more work can be done interpreting this and perhaps going through that portion of the Odyssey in detail (which I have not done by any means) so it will be cool to see what people make of this.

EDIT: So apparently some Lostpedia users beat us to the punch by several hours.... LOSTPEEEDIAAA!!!! *waves fist at faceless mob of Lostpedia users* - check out the page on the tapestry there.

Here it is:

Bryan Burk Interview

I stumbled across a nice interview with Bryan Burk, who seems to usually lurk in the shadows, discussing Lost and Star Trek. It's spoiler free and there's a decent amount of Lost talk, so check it out.

Full audio of interview here.

Via Collider

Where To Send Darlton Questions

For some reason I've been getting questions for Damon and Carlton this week. Please don't send them to us as this blog has no connection to the producers of the show, and is unable to forward questions to them. Instead use this post as a guide for sending questions into the show. Basically all questions for Damon and Carlton should be sent to "Ask Lost" on ABC.com.

Also keep in mind that they have already recorded the last podcast for the season, so your question probably won't be answered for a long time... still, good luck.