It’s looking like it will be a good fall for Weezer fans. Even with the Pinkerton Deluxe (no tracklist yet) retrospective, unreleased tunes compilation Odds and Ends (same here) and possibly another installment in the Alone Series (your guess is as good as mine) coming this fall, Weezer is releasing their eighth studio album on September 14.
Rolling Stone had some details about the upcoming album, entitled Hurley, hinting that its title may be inspired by one our favorite characters here at the Kingdom:
After parting ways with their longtime label Geffen/Interscope, Weezer will release Hurley — which may be named after the portly Lost character — through California-based punk label Epitaph.
Seems that like Raditude, this album will feature a few collaborations, but unlike Raditude, these collaborations will be with more rock-influenced artists, like Mac Davis, who wrote In The Ghetto for Elvis Presley (the other King).
As revealed on the Alone II album, much of Rivers’ early material was influenced by the pop sounds of the Beach Boys. In a way, Hurley could represent a return to Rivers’ roots. From RS:
Instead, Hurley will focus on the melodies and major chords of traditional ’60s pop. In addition to the planned first single “Memories,” other new tracks include “Ruling Me” and “Hang On,” another pop-rock track that “sounds like Frankie Valli but mixed with Metallica guitars.” There’s also “Smart Girls,” Cuomo’s ode to all the girls that proposition on him on Twitter. … “Smart Girls,” which Cuomo compares to the Beatles’ “Back in the U.S.S.R.” in the sense that it sounds like someone else writing a “cheesy Beach Boys type of song.”
In case you have to ask, yes, I’m looking forward to this. Speaking of things I’m looking forward to, the Lost DVD set coming out later this month will have a look at what Island life is like under the Hugo Reyes regime.
While other people have expressed despair about LOST ending, I’m not feeling it. I know I’ll miss the show once it’s not on the air every week from January through May. But this is a day that I’ve been waiting for since I watched the first episode on DVD during the summer of aught-five. Some questions will be answered, but more importantly, the story of Jack, Locke, Desmond, Sawyer, Hurley, Ben and all the rest will be over. I’m not glad that it’s over, but I’m glad that we’re at the end of the story (if that makes any sense).
I really don’t have any theories as to how it will all end. While I’m not as hostile to the Sideways universe as I was at the beginning of Season Six, I hope the story ends on the Island in the universe we’ve been watching these six years. It would be great to get some more answers to the 
If, way back during Lost Season 1, you were to go through all of the survivors of Oceanic 815 and pick one to be the protector of the Island for all eternity, the smart money would have been on John Locke. Locke believed in the power of the Island and experienced its benefits first hand. The actions he took were to explore the Island and learn about its secrets. Locke’s main rival, Jack Shepard was everything Locke was not. Rather than believing that the Island was some special place, he was focused on escaping it and getting back to his life. The protector of the Island was supposed to be John Locke. Jack Shepard was supposed to leave the Island and save those who needed to be saved off of it.
…I’ve got something else tonight.
In any Lost universe, Desmond Hume is special.
Lost’s dynamic duo of Jin and Sun have served an interesting purpose throughout the series. During the first two seasons, they were frequently at odds thanks to Jin’s overbearing nature and Sun’s propensity to lie. In seasons three and four, they were together mostly, but never really factored into one of the main Island storylines or mythology.