Wednesday, April 13, 2005

 

Trolling for DVDs

Even though I'm not moving for another month and a half, I've decided to start boxing things up now so that I won't feel rushed to do it at the last minute. This has its own pros and cons. obviously it's good to get stuff out of the way but some of the things I've packed up I find that I still need ... or want anyway. This past weekend, I bought a gigantic 45 gallon Rubbermaid storage container and proceeded to fill it with the majority of my DVD collection... after taking out the ones I planned to take with me to London of course. Well, it didn't take long for me to realize that I had made a mistake. My mom calls me and asks me about a movie she had lent me. Neither of us could remember what I borrowed only that I borrowed something. Of course, whatever it was I had packed it away with my DVDs. So I had to practically empty the entire container to find the DVD ("Finding Neverland" by the way) which was at the very bottom. This left me to fill it back up again.
If you've read anything else I've written in this blog you'll know that there has been NOTHING on TV lately which is another reason for all the early packing so I've been catching up on some of the DVDs I've bought and never watched. This week I've been watching the 6th and final season of "Sex and the City" which I remembered to save from the Rubbermaid. However, what I neglected to remember was that the wise folks at HBO, wanting to squeeze as much blood from their viewing turnips as possible, decided to split the season into two halves ... each costing the same as what you would pay for an entire earlier season. I could bitch about that but I won't... especially seeing as how I gave them my money. Anyway, of course I forgot to set the 2nd half of season six aside and once again found myself diving through the Rubbermaid. I probably don't have to tell you that it, too, was at the bottom.
It's funny that this sorta reminds me of those huge bins at Wal-Mart which house the "2 for $11" DVDs which I always have to look through. This bin is like the Island of Misfit DVDs. This is where has-beens go to die. Hello there, Jean-Claude Van Damme. Nice to see you again, Pauly Shore. Lately there are a lot of Mexican movies in there. Buenos Dias, Charo. I laugh, but I have found some good movies in those bins. Well, "good" is a relative term I guess.
Anyway the point is I felt like I was diving through one of those bins to find one movie... which tells me I have entirely too many DVDs in my collection and I need to stay away from Wal-Mart.

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