[LOST] Preparing For ‘The End’

With our “Lost” Finale Event coming up Sunday at the Angelika Film Center at Mockingbird Station (get your free advance tickets now), we wanted to come up with a few ways to prepare yourself for a world without Oceanic jokes, frozen donkey wheels and infinite nicknames for everyone…

Make Your Own Kind Of Music

The White Rock Coffee House hosts Christine Hand and Adam Jones Saturday night, with a “‘Lost’ Acoustic Countdown.” They’ll have songs in the set list from Three Dog Night and Mama Cass to Patsy Cline and Drive Shaft. Their set starts at 8:00 pm, and should be a wonderful way to anchor a weekend of “Lost.”

Develop The Ben Linus Method Of Speech

When he wants to be, Michael Emerson is a completely creepy bastard. As Ben Linus, he’s been the morally ambiguous focal point of our empathic fears on The Island from the moment he fell out of the tree, pretending to be Henry Gale. MTV Movies had a feeling that anything Ben Linus says would make you want to crawl out of your skin… and they’re right.

Mourn The Brave Departed

Jezebel.com realized the body count for “Lost” is breathtaking, and decided to set it to the music of the late punk poet laureate Jim Carroll. Kudos for giving Ben his own verse!

Attention: we interrupt this wrap-up with more Sawyer’s nicknames:

Get Caught Up

Okay, you’re late to the party, and haven’t seen one damned episode of “Lost” – yet you want to come out to the Angelika and see what all of the fuss is about. You could either watch Sunday’s appetizer to “The End,” called “The Final Journey” (which really should be titled “Who Are We Kidding? We’re Trying To Boil Six Years Of TV Into 120 Minutes!”) at 6:00 pm CT… or, you can read Entertainment Weekly’s “Ten Essential Episodes” (co-written by premier Lostologist Doc Jensen) and hope Netflix Streaming and Amazon Unbox can get you to the church on time.