MVOTD: Wavves - "So Bored" - Home Improvement Wipes Version

So I always kind of hated Home Improvement for its insufferable "manliness" and general lack of comedic value (possibly also because I had the hots for JTT), and yet I always remember watching reruns of it because it fell in the line of Cosby Show, Simpsons, and Seinfeld reruns that would play on Fox after I got home from school. The show may not have been that funny, but it did contain a slew of interesting video wipe transitions between scenes, which have thankfully now been collected in a single music video set to the strangely appropriate Wavves song "So Bored."

So what's everybody's personal favorite wipe? Mine is playground swing that swings back and then comes straight at the camera. Unexpected, evocative of childhood, possible Ikiru reference. What's not to love?

Amazing Lost Episode Posters

There's no new episode of Lost this week for some sad and insane reason, but we've got something pretty awesome here to tide us over until next week. Via /film, the artist Gideon Slife is creating posters for each and every episode of Lost. He's in the middle of season 4 right now, and his collection so far is really spectacular. You can check them all out at his flickr page, I've posted a bunch of my favorites below, either based on the art or the episode itself (or most of the time, both). You're gonna want to click to enlarge for a lot of them; each one includes a quote from the episode that is oftentimes pretty key.

Jin Trapped in Weird Sideways "Seinfeld" Universe

This is just an excellent find. But what does it mean? Has Jin gone back in time, switched places with Jack, and moved to New York in the late '90s? Is Kramer Jacob? SO MANY QUESTIONS.

(Note that in last week's Hurley-centric episode, there was a reference to "the Human Fund." The pieces are all falling into place.)

MVOTD: Madonna - "Like a Prayer"

In honor of tonight's Madonna-themed Glee (which I will not be watching until tomorrow because as much as I love Glee, Lost is a show of historically awesome proportions). This has always been my favorite Madonna song - the religious overtones creep me out overall, but the use of the gospel choir is pretty effective, and I find Madonna to be at her hottest with that dark and curly hair.