Valentine's

-NY Times has a feature on Oscar nominees (most of them are actors IN an Oscar-nominated film,all looking great)-pictured is the entrancing Rinko Kikuchi,who was fantastic in the mediocre Babel.It's Valentine's Day,to me its just another day but PostSecret has a bunch of interesting,slightly depressing V-day submissions.

-Lost fanaticism still very much alive and pumping.Last week's episode (Season 3,Ep 7) was satisfying,especially since the first 6 eps before that were typically elusive and vague about things.I love it best when someone discovers a small,crazy clue hidden in a humongous haystack-like how someone discovered this peculiar clue (?) found when the Brainwashing scene from last week is played backwards.

-This interview is a couple weeks old but i had just found it a while ago.Usually when the producers or directors of the show are interviewed they beat around the bush and prefer to remain in the shadows,thankfully in this particular linkworthy interview they willingly dish out some answers-and they do mention which upcoming episodes will resolve which specific mystery.

-Speaking of Lost,last week's brainwashing scene had many viewers guessing it was a reference to Stanley Kubrick's ''A Clockwork Orange'',which i had decided to rent (along with a few other films,including Might Aphrodite,which i felt was Woody Allen's weakest film).I have to say A Clockwork Orange,despite dating way back to 1971,has got to be one the craziest,most interesting and unique film i've ever seen.I didn't quite like Kubrick's Shining,but this one was one heck of an insane movie i'd immediately place in my top 3 films and recommend to anyone open enough to the movie's daring approach (it deals with taboos like rape as if it were a casual conversation about apples-earning the 2nd spot on EW's Top 25 Most Controversial Movies Ever-right behind Mel Gibson's Oscar-dissed Passion of The Christ,also its number 54 on IMDB's Top 250 List).

Life Philosohpy No. 1987:Love,or Die.