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After 8 season, the Trey Parker/Matt Stone duo still manages to be quite entertaining. Subjects on current matter are taken, and put under their controversial vision. It doesn’t really matter if you agree with them or not, it’s nice to laugh your ass off and be able to think about it more deeply at the same time. Some episodes still have the message buried under the jokes, and some are just fun for the hell of it. With no decrease in quality after such a long time, it’s a sure bet we’ll be able to enjoy South Park for years to come.

Rate 1 (sucks) to 5 (cool). Only rate the latest pictures, otherwise I can’t keep track of the average.

Total: 518 out of 157 votes > Average is: 3.299

Oh my goodness, a triplet !

Another dilemma. I too found some underwear in my current Michael Jackson memorabilia collection. Except, mine are not Calvin Klein’s, they’re from United Colors of Benetton. But that’s besides the point. The real question is, should I report this to the authorities or not ?

Rate 1 (FR#^&% MESS !) to 5 (how very tidy !). Only rate the latest picture, otherwise I can’t keep track of the average.

Total: 1038 out of 303 votes > Average is: 3.426

Got the RIAA and MPAA right on my heels. But the rebel that I am, I managed to slip another MP3 through their fingers. A high quality song, musically stunning, and the voice will knock you down. This is such a great song, your hard disk will wear down much faster because you have this mp3 on continuous repeat throughout the day ! Using various techniques like subtle echo, background mixing of crystal clear sound effects, several types of bridges, supported by a great team of backing vocals, it so catchy, it’s even used in a certain commercial I will not mention (this is an ad-free blog, remember ?). Well, here is it, Volslagen Mobiel ! Have fun !

Man beaten by girl, this week’s number one is for Mean Girls with $25 million, replacing Man of Fire, on number 2 with $15 million. Jennifer Garner starrer 13 Going on 30 manage to take in another $10 million.
3 new releases end up lower than expected. Fourth place is for Laws of Attraction, starring Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore, with only $7 million. Number 5 is for Godsend, this horrory pic is good for $6.9 million. 6th place is for Envy, starring comedy grand masters Ben Stiller and Jack Black, with $6.1 million.
And that marks the end of this season. Up next week is the start of the summer blockbuster season.

Yupz, found one again. Take a look here and here. That’s Amy Smart. While having already a long list of credits, she kept it pretty low profile for now. Currently to be seen in Starsky & Hutch, she has only one more movie lined up for this year. More pictures can be found here.
Oh, and she’s my age, so back off y’all !

With 2 comedians headlining the 2 main character, you’d expect some pretty heavy laugh salvos being fired at you. Unsatisfactory not so. Of course, there’s a laugh here and there, but not the ones you can really tell other people about, and not confuse it with a scene from another movie. The story, besides being cliche, doesn’t have to much steam to make it move forward comfortably. The main characters are flimsy at most. While a relationship usually never feels that natural at the start of any movie, this one doesn’t even flourish at the end. If your brains has a variable switch, set it on low. If not, you’d better avoid it.6.

The horror. You get up on a Sunday morning. Go to the bathroom. Pick up an empty tube of toothpaste. You squeeze like hell, but nothing comes out. The smart guy that I am, I always have a spare in the kitchen drawer, so you head to the kitchen. Open the drawer. Don’t see it. Look for it harder. THEN, you start shoving things aside with force, and a few second later, you’re a complete madman. No toothpaste to be found !
Ah well, it’s a Sunday and I don’t go to church. As for tomorrow, I fished the empty tube back from the recycle-bin, and will surgically remove the few milligrams of toothpaste that’s left, as I probably wouldn’t have enough chewing gum to last a whole day. So, the essence of this story.. can you imagine the shock ?

Still authentically Quentin Tarantino, but somehow different than Volume 1. No more excessive bloodshedding in neatly choreagraphed fight spectacles. More back story. More intense drama. All that drenched with superweird humor. While still a simple story, it delivers quite a punch. Still right on the spot is the musical score, while sometimes overbearing, effectively heightens the bare emotions and transferring the drama with full force to the viewer.8.

Self-reflection is a bitch. Here I’m sitting, after a whole day of freedom (from work, mostly). Only now I realise I haven’t thought about her, she who I have this free day to thank for. In the morning hoping for a sunny warm day (which we got only half). In the afternoon, stumbling through all the mess downtown I wonder how much garbage this must be (somewhere close to a hundred ton, I think), and why people are actually spending money on it ! In the train I saw a headline flash by revealing what she was up to, otherwise I wouldn’t even know where she’d have been hanging out this day. And deep in the night, I was worried about the continuing thunder and rain. So, here’s the belated thanks to my dear Queen.

I need money. Lots of it. And all that, just to make even more money. Here are a few ideas:
– Find a bunch of free (open source) software, throw them together, make a nice setup tool, use some YA.. abbreviation (Yet Another .. ..), throw in your logo in a few login and window managers, and pray it works. If it does, in just over 10 years, you’ll be rich !! First you distribute it for free, and when it starts to get good, you sell out on your trusty followers. (SUSE Linux (created somewhere in the early nineties) became Novell’s property for just $210 million)
– Developing a mega successful sit-com. In 10 years, it will blow up so big, a 30 sec ad will take in $2 million (currently for a spot during the series finale (after 10 seasons) of Friends).
– Finding an old genius schoolfriend, suck up to him, let him build a fast minimalistic search engine, give it a flashy name, and it less than 10 years, head to Wallstreet to earn a whopping $4 billion. (Google from 1995 on till its IPO announcement last year)

or…noodles.

Yupz, some 200,000 noodle (or ramen, as it’s originally called) shops in Japan are currently good for $6.36 billion annually. And it’s rising even higher, as the current trend actually makes it chic to eat noodle (from the plain 3 standard flavored shops for construction workers and broke students, to the special flavored kind made by celebrity cooks in stylishly decorated shops, where prices start from $8 a bowl, targeting the richer audience)
So all I need is enough cash to start some noodle shops here and head for a monopoly, and then some more cash to stay ahead so I can continue the monopoly. Anyone want to invest with me ?

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Total: 507 out of 154 votes > Average is: 3.292

For all you unbelievers, here’s the invoice.

Denzel’s star power is still growing, opening nr. 1 with Man of Fire. With $23 million his best opening yet (just $0.5 million more than Training Day). Second place was for Jennifer Garner starrer 13 Going on 30, with $22 million.
A steep decline for nr. 3, Kill Bill Vol. 2 takes in another $10.4 million. An even steeper decline is The Punisher with $6.1 million on number 4.

I never quite liked her style. From the first hits on till the last few. There seemed to be some degree of improvement in the last two songs though, so I thought it might be time to try a whole album of her. A powerful voice notwithstanding, I still can’t bear to listen to a whole album of her songs, so it seems. Even the most catchy one, Left Outside Alone, has a chorus that sounds like an unfinished bridge. There are a few more up-tempo songs to be found, but it’s all too damn generic and simplistic. The slow ones don’t even register with me, sounding like a 72 rpm vinyl LP on a 33 rpm turntable. But that’s what you get with a powerful contrived voice, you’d better not go ballad. I can predict fans will like this album. But for me, I’ll let this cup of tea be, and take a coffee instead.5.