When you’re younger, everyone plays around with their parents’ cable box and its wires to try to get free pay per view. It’s called “scramble-vision.” The screen is still scrambled with static, but you can hear whatever’s playing and make out some of it through all that snow. My father used to work as a cable installer and I picked up more than a few tricks from him. Needless to say, I’ve always had free cable and pay per view, or have since I was 11 and he took the job as a cable operator. I even get TV commercials for this personal injury attorney in Arizona all the time and I live in Chicago. Yeah, I get other regions’ cable just as well as the Midwest’s. I also get Sky TV from the United Kingdom and all sorts of European, Australian, and even Asian TV. The Asian cinema I get is really interesting. It’s not all like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, though there’s a lot of pseudo-mystical martial arts historical films. There’s a lot of tightly plotted crime dramas and some really strange morality tales that feature far too much blood and violence. It’s a different culture though. You have to expect their art to be different as well.