What's dangerous about watching this much Lost in a short period of time

I've been meaning to post this for a couple of weeks now, so it's not totally relevant, but I finally have a chance. Over Memorial Day weekend, my brother and I were housesitting for my dad in Staunton while he was in Nashville. That Saturday night we ordered UFC 98 (pretty much lackluster aside from the last match, go go Lyoto). So at 1am I was pretty much jacked up, not considering going to sleep, and instead watched a few episodes of Lost. I think that's when I finished up the first season. So I was in a house that was not my own, watching Lost on a TV that was not my own, in a town that was not my own. That weekend me and my brother pretty much sat in my dad's house, watching TV, eating a lot of home-made Chex Mix, and since we were not in Fredericksburg, we didn't really know where to go if we wanted to go out. That's right, feeling stranded. So combine that feeling with having had several dreams of being on The Island and I was feeling way wrapped up in that show. And a by-product of that being I was feeling way withdrawn from society, almost to the point I would go outside and expect nobody to be there. That was a long weekend, which added to it, and when I went back to work that Tuesday, I could not reconnect with normal life at all. I felt completely alien, almost wanted to look over my shoulders with shortness of breath going "Who are these people?!?" Anyway, by now I've gotten over it, even though I haven't backed off the viewing at all. If anything I think I've amped it up. I think there was a week or two between season finale week and when Conan started hosting the Tonight Show that I didn't watch anything aired on television. It was all Lost. Except for also watching the first two of the original series of Star Trek movies. Surprised by how much I liked those too. Hopefully some time soon I can find time to watch the next two.

I've been watching Conan as he's starting up. It's weird. It seems like the same show as Late Night, except the guests are more famous and more irritating, and the audience is often barely responding to anything that's going on. Do they just have one collective Tonight Show audience that they bus in every day and decided they'd use the same audience for Conan that they used for Leno? Just seems like things are falling flat with the studio audience that would have killed on Late Night. And maybe they can say he's adjusting to 11:30, but both shows tape in the afternoon don't they? Shouldn't make much of a difference with the studio audience. I'm not sure how long I'm going to try to keep up with it, Norm MacDonald and Neko Case are on this week so I have something to watch, but it seems to be going a little rough in the first few weeks. Hopefully he doesn't start to temper himself trying to get laughs from his zilch audience. Zilches.

Today I finally listened to The Hives last two albums, after basically taking a six year break from them. Not too shabby. That coming at the tail-end of a Santana phase I just went through. I think that guy basically deserves all the shit he's given for becoming a noodler between lame vocals, but those first few records are incredible, when Santana was more a band than a guitar player. I wonder if they had named the band something else and thus maybe made it a little less about him, maybe they would have been better a little longer. I've tried to listen to some of the albums after the third and I just haven't taken to them, except for the live album Lotus, which definitely burns at a lot of points. But I still haven't listened to Caravanserai, Love Devotion Surrender, or Welcome yet, so we'll see. Also have a little thing going on for the Monkees right now, which came from two fields. One: I was listening to a lot of albums from my younger days, which took me from Forever Your Girl to Gonna Make You Sweat to Ninja Turtles soundtrack to Batman soundtrack (which, ribbing about Batdance aside, that's just a really good album) to Beach Boys to Monkees. And two: since Lost has curtailed my time I was devoting to kung fu movies, I started getting the first season of the Monkees from netflix. Nice short episodes that go by really quick when I need a twenty minute break.