High Definition = Mesmerization

This week I got a new 42-inch HDTV (special sale at Costco), and on Friday, Comcast hooked up my cable, including about 15 channels in high definition. It’s like magic. I’ve watched a pre-season NFL game, a Washington Nationals game, the third round of the PGA championship, and the first half of Men In Black in HD.

Honestly, I didn’t realize my eyesight was so good.

Also, they have new NFL referee uniforms. They’re a little bit funny looking, but from what I can tell on TV, the seams look very well-constructed. :-)

Who wants to come over to watch football (on any given Sunday)? Or Lost (Oct 4)? Or Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (Sep 18)? I’m super excited.

Enough is enough! I’ve had it with these…

So begins the most famous motherf***ing line of the motherf***ing summer.

I saw Snakes on a Plane on opening night, and it was pretty crazy. A few things that happened during the movie:

• A bunch of high school kids brought dozens of rubber snakes and threw them around the theater when the movie started
• The movie started with a Jack Johnson song playing while a guy on a motorcycle rode around Hawaii doing wheelies, which made everybody look at each other to make sure we were in the right theater. Then a prosecutor got killed by a Japenese guy with a baseball bat and everything was right in the world again.
• Every time the screen turned green and blurry to show the view from the eyes of a snake, guys in front of us would yell “Snaaaake caaaam”
• Lots of hissing from the audience. I think I heard people yell something about “foreshadowing” at least 3 times.

The whole movie is a parody of itself, and proud of it. Especially the “theme song,” which played during the credits (a lot like every show on MTV). Apparently, the band won a contest to come up with the theme song for the movie. The chorus is: “Oh, I’m ready for it. Come on bring it.” Get that stuck in your head and smoke it.