Well, tonight\’s SNL wasn\’t as funny as I thought it would be with Conan hosting and all. I guess he did the best he could with the material he had.
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Requiem for a Dream is such a good movie. I\’ve never seen anything like it before. It has a really unique visual style, with split screens, fast motion, slow motion, fisheye lens, and lighting quick montages of extreme closeups. The story is really bleak and downbeat, as it deals with drug addiction and what it can make people do. I hear the director, Darren Aronofsky, is going to direct the next Batman movie. Wonder what that\’s gonna be like.
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Conan O\’Brien is hosting Saturday Night Live tonight. Also tonight we\’re going to see Requiem for a Dream. I actually have stuff to look forward to on a Saturday, for once.
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Despite its name, Jesus Christ Superstore sells action figures for all religions. Jesus himself comes with Ninja-Messiah throwing nails and a Death Killer-Cross pump action over-under shotgun, while Buddha is armed with a Magnum66 automatic Nirvana pistol and the Invincible Holy Orange Cape of Enlightenment. Collect \’em all!
See, that\’s the problem with being an atheist: we don\’t have any cool action figures.
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\”I have no idea what these naysayers are talking about,\” said SatireWire editor Treat Warland, who, as an avid reader of The Wall Street Journal, was blown away by its free, 2-week trial offer.
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I walked into the cafeteria at work today and saw 50 pizza boxes from Pizza Hut. Man, I love free food. I feel bad for the delivery guy though, my company\’s kind of cheap so they probably tipped the guy like 2 bucks.
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One of the movies I missed in theaters is Almost Famous. I heard so much good stuff about it, that by the time I decided to see it, it wasn\’t playing in theaters anymore. Well, the DVD is coming out soon and DVD File has a review. Apparently, there\’s also a longer cut of the movie that\’ll be released later this year.
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Robber Loses Keys to Getaway Car. Sounds like something from a Guy Ritchie movie.
\”Jeffrey T. Anaya, 35, walked into a Chevron station Sunday and threatened the clerk with a screwdriver.\”
What was he planning to do, screw the clerk to death? HA HA HA! I kill me.
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DVDs can now be descrambled with just 7 lines of Perl code. In fact, it\’s short enough that I can just include the whole thing in this post.
$_=\’while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;
$c=142;$t=255;@t=map{$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(1 1,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;$t^=(72,
@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_% 64?12:0,@z)[$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx\”C*\”,$_)[20]
&48){$h=5;$_=unxb24,join\”\”,@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr( $_^$a[–$h+84])}@ARGV;s/…$/1$&/;$d=unxV,xb25,
$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d8^($f=$t& ($d12^$d4^$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e8^($t&($g= ($q=$e14&7^$e)^$q*8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^( ($h=8)+=$f+(~$g& $t))for@a[128..$#a]}print+ x\"C*\",@a}\';s/x/pack+/g;evalI dare you to try to understand that.
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Nuts, slow day for blogging. I can\’t find any news stories to make fun of. Maybe something exciting will happen tomorrow.