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Gracias a Lostzilla.net

Posted on: June 19th, 2010 by wmapother 9 Comments
A todos los cineastas lostzilla.net, gracias!
Con mi limitado vocabulario es difícil de expresar mi reacción, pero yo estaba muy afectada. Por supuesto sabemos que hay un público, pero al ver sus rostros y escuchar sus voces y ver su trabajo … Bueno, fue muy conmovedor. Y mi parte era tan pequeño — si después de enviar uno a Damon et Carlton, ustedes probablemente matarlos.
Para su consideración — y lo más importante — para ver Perdidos, por lo que me está dando un puesto de trabajo — gracias!
También 1:  Y you pensé que me gustaba España tanto como sea posible — hasta ahora. : )
También 2:  Gracias, Elena, por todo tu trabajo!
[Non-translation explanation:  Partly as a thank-you for the show and partly for the video I made for them for the finale [post here], some users of the Spanish ‘Lost’ fansite Lostzilla.net recorded a video for me (and all of ‘Lost’) of themselves, one by one, saying thank you.  It was very affecting.]
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Adios…Sort of

Posted on: May 25th, 2010 by wmapother 19 Comments

I’m not ready today to give thoughts on the Lost finale or to say good-bye to the show, but I will offer something else instead.

The ‘Lost’ finale was broadcast in parts of Europe live at 5 and 6a.m. (!) Monday morning, simultaneous to its showing on the U.S. west coast.  In Madrid ‘Lost’ fans arranged to watch it in a movie theatre, and Lostzilla, a Spanish fansite, asked me to record a quick video to be played before the show.

What they didn’t ask for was an unholy butchering of their sacred mother tongue.  Sadly, however, that’s just what they got.  And this from someone who even on his best day — which, mind you, was over twenty years ago — had trouble with ‘frijoles.’

Because I think we can all use a lift on a day after the show has ended, the horror of my home-recorded Spanish is here.

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