Rock Critic

I’ve been watching some of the episodes of Lost that I’ve downloaded over the last few weeks and I’m quite impressed with it so far. The writers manage not to telegraph a lot of the twists in the plot. Their presentation of one character’s background story was almost ingenious in its execution because of how the writers play with the assumptions of the audience. However, I have doubts about how long a show like this can stay fresh, given the premise of everyone being stranded on a remote island. It’s not like they can bring in a different guest star each week, at least not without turning it into Gilligan’s Island.
I downloaded U2’s new album off of iTunes earlier tonight. My initial reaction is that it’s pretty good, but I wish the band would return to some of the experimentalism they showed in Achtung Baby and especially Zooropa. Zooropa remains my favorite album of theirs. It had a noirish, urban tone that wasn’t necessarily cynical, but it kind of felt like something you would put on while you were reading William Gibson. Listening to it, I could almost imagine myself walking the nighttime streets of Berlin or Paris.