After putting a flying dog on the cover of ‘Raditude,’ Weezer are one-upping themselves for their upcoming eighth LP, ‘Hurley.’ This time ’round, they’re forsaking an airborne animal for a celebrity: actor Jorge Garcia, aka Hurley from Lost.’ As Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo tells Spinner, the album’s name came easily once they settled on the photo.
“We struggled super hard trying to come up with an album title, trying to find some kind of phrase that summed up the whole aesthetic behind the album: ‘Heavy Mental,’ ‘Smaller Than Life,’” Cuomo says. “I was coming up with all kinds of stuff, but ultimately, we just went with some random word that doesn’t really have anything to do with anything. I just loved this photo of Jorge Garcia — it just had this amazing vibe. We didn’t want to do a fourth self-titled record and we knew people would refer to it as ‘the Hurley record’ even if left it without that title, so we just called it ‘Hurley.’ No words are on the cover because all we wanted was his amazing face.”
Unfortunately for ‘Lost’ fanatics, the album doesn’t feature any songs inspired by the hit show. In fact, Cuomo didn’t even watch it until meeting Garcia (he’s still watching the series, so don’t spoil the finale for him). “I only made it through season two, so I was really nervous hanging out with Hurley/Jorge recently, because I didn’t want to hear something about how it all resolves, or overhear anyone else talking about it,” he says. “I really like the show though.”
The LOST Auction catalog (available at ProfilesinHistory.com) contains details about a deleted scene from the episode “Everybody Loves Hugo“. This missing scene, which might be included on the Season 6 DVDs, reveals that in the afterlife Hurley wins the lottery by playing the serial numbers of a dollar bill he finds on the street. As you can see on the pictures below, the numbers are different from THE Numbers
Michael Emerson visited his hometown in Iowa and met with his old classmates and some fans. I was able to record much of this meet-and-greet and asked a few questions, one of them being about the “New Man in Charge” featurette. This was his response.
The NY Post has revealed that the LOST Epilogue featuring Hurley and Ben in their new roles as the Island’s Number #1 and Number #2 is titled “The New Man in Charge” and runs 11 minutes long. Here’s the official description of this Epilogue, which will be available on LOST: The Complete Collection and the Season 6 DVD/Blu-ray sets:
Go deeper into the world of LOST with a much-anticipated new chapter of the island’s story from Executive Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse… and starring some very familiar faces.
“It will address some of the issues, like the food drops, and it will deal with what happened on the island after Hurley took over and how he handled things,” Garcia reveals of the DVD bonus feature he shot. “It will give you a taste of what took place after Hurley took over as the new number one. There’s a little epilogue thing going on with the DVD.”
Inside sources also told me that Walt (Malcolm David Kelley) will be shown in the bonus material. “We’ll find out what happens to Walt,” says the insider. But when asked who else he worked with, Jorge replied coyly: “There are other people in it, but I’m not going to tell you who.”
“For those people that want to pony up and buy the complete Lost series, there is a bonus feature,” Michael just told our Kevin Pereira of Attack of the Show!, which airs tonight at 7 on E!’s brother network G4. “Which is um, you could call it an epilogue. A lost scene. It’s a lot; it’s 12 or 14 minutes that opens a window onto that gap of unknown time between Hurley (Jorge Garcia) becoming number one and the end of the series.”
Michael says this extra footage is not the premise for a spinoff. “It’s self-contained. Although, it’s a rich period in the show’s mythology that ‘s never been explored, so who knows what will come of it.”
That said, as I reported earlier, we’ll find out what happens to Walt on the DVD as well. And so for the last time ever (sniff!), I think I get to say, Lost spoiler alert! Whatcha wanna bet that during Hurley and Ben’s adventures on the island, they run into Walt a few years into the future, when he’s oh, 18 and looking just as Malcolm David Kelley looks now?
I write this for everyone disappointed, angered, or confused.
You invested six years. Give it one more shot. Watch the finale again; you’ll thank yourself for the effort. Enlightenment may not require a punch in the face or renewed sense in legs once dead, but it does require careful thought. Enlightenment was not intended for the already-dead inhabitants of the sideways purgatory. It was intended for us. For the thirty millions around the world, most of whom sacrificed a Monday morning to experience the end.
Give it one more shot. If anyone should be disappointed in the ending, it’s Pearson Moore. Not one of my grand predictions proved correct. But I can tell you this, after a third viewing:
LOST is the greatest piece of fiction ever presented on television.
After putting a flying dog on the cover of ‘Raditude,’ Weezer are one-upping themselves for their upcoming eighth LP, ‘Hurley.’ This time ’round, they’re forsaking an airborne animal for a celebrity: actor Jorge Garcia, aka Hurley from Lost.’ As Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo tells Spinner, the album’s name came easily once they settled on the photo.
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