the good kind of fail
I blame the whole thing on my roommate, who decided to blast happy, peppy, heavily synthesized music this morning as I was getting ready to go to lab. Now, I generally dislike any type of synthesized-sounding music, but this particular brand had crazy, black-magic, voodoo superpowers or something because I ended up barging into my roommate's room and demanding what is this? and who sings it? and where can I get a copy of my very own?!
It turns out that the music recording industry occasionally does score a (temporary) win against us petty pirates because my roommate and I were unable to transfer the album from Zune to thumbdrive in the five minutes I had before I had to run and catch the bus. (Y'see, normally I'd walk, but it's, like, a zillion degrees in Boston at the moment, so, yeah, no. It's times like these I really appreciate Mark! that we have AC in our apartment. :D)
Fortunately for me, someone had uploaded the entire album onto youtube, so I got to spend the day with the happy, peppy, heavily synthesized music of DOOM playing pretty much continuously. Much to my labmates' dismay, I'm sure. But seriously, I defy you to listen to this and not go "It's so happy! And peppy! Oh, hey look, replay button!":
Click to viewAnyway, as wondrous as youtube is for indulging in my insanity, clicking through each song in the album manually was getting kind of obnoxious. So on my way home, I decided to stop by Newbury Comics and see if, perchance, they had a used copy of the album for sale. They did not. And because I am physically incapable of ever leaving a Newbury Comics store without at least popping my head into the DVD section, I learned something very important:
30% OFF SALE ON ALL USED DVDS TODAY!!!
After an initial dumbfounded moment of how the crap did I not know about this sale before now?! I may have gone a bit DVD-buying-happy. A bit.
:D
And now, for your (and my) viewing pleasure, a list of the DVDs I bought, separated into the two categories I should probably just go ahead and use to organize my entire collection:
DVDs That I Don't Mind Putting On My DVD Shelf So That The World Knows I Own Them
- Indiana Jones, The Complete Adventure Collection. Dude, special editions of all four movies for $35? Clearly, I win. :)
- The Dark Knight. It's really been bothering me that I did not own this movie. I mean, I specifically looked for it every time I was in Newbury Comics, but I could never find it. So I figured, "Okay, fine. That movie kicked serious butt; I guess I'm not surprised that nobody's sold back their used copy and the store can't seem to keep new copies on the shelves." Turns out, no, they've been filing it under 'B' for Batman rather than 'D' for Dark Knight. D'oh.
- Serenity, Collector's Edition. Guys, guys, I basically cannot contain my glee over the fact that, after looking for a used copy of this DVD for the past two years, I finally found one on the day of a 30% off all used DVDs sale!!! The Collector's Edition of Serenity!!! At long, long last!!! :DDDD
- Little Children. I wouldn't be ashamed of having it on my DVD shelf because it got nominated for 3 Academy Awards and is therefore, presumably, a reasonably good movie. I actually bought it because it has Patrick Wilson (even if he's not singing) and Rorschach Jackie Earle Haley in it. Lest you miss the point: RORSCHACH!!!! (And Nite Owl.)
And DVDs I Should Probably Hide In A Box Of Shame...An Easily Accessible Box Of Shame Since These Are The DVDs I Seem To Watch With Distressing Regularity
- Charlie's Angels. So after months of cajoling, my roommate finally convinced me to watch Kill Bill. (I say this like I didn't spend weeks responding to every suggestion my roommate made with "...or we could watch DOOM.") What my roommate didn't tell me, the jerk, was that Kill Bill Volume II is not really the sequel to Volume I; it is, in fact, the second half of what really should have been, like, a four hour movie. So we get to the end of Volume I at, like, 12:30 last Saturday night, and I'm like, "You jerk, stick in the second one." And my roommate's like, "BWAHAHAHAHA!" Anyway, I'm not sure how I felt about the movie overall...it was kind of cool in some places, kind of grotesque in others, kind of grotesquely funny in others, and kind of weird almost throughout. Anyway, the one shining moment in the entire movie(s) for me was the part where Lucy Liu was totally badass. Seriously, guys, at the end of that movie, I was like, "OMG, I need more Lucy Liu badassery in my life!!!" The solution: Charlie's Angels. In all its campy bad-ness. And yes, I bought both. :D
- Center Stage. Shut up. It's a dance movie. I can't help that I'm a sucker for dance movies. Also: Uhura! Anamaria! Zoe Saldana. Is a ballerina. THE END.
- Boogeyman. LUCY LAWLESS!!! Also: LUCY LAWLESS!!! Too bad this is a horror movie, so I can never watch it unless I find someone who (a) loved Xena: Warrior Princess as much as I did to watch it with me, (b) will distract me from the scary movie aspects while we're watching it, and (c) will sleep on my floor for the five or so years it will take for all the scary images from the movie to fade out of my brain. (I really am that big of a wuss. I'm still occasionally freaked out by some of the ghost stories I read when I was eleven.) Oh well, the movie cost, like, a scone, so whatever. I own The Mothman Prophecies too, and I'm never watching that either.
- The Core. Because it's bad. I seriously have no other reason for having bought this movie other than it's really, really bad. :D
Um, so yeah. This weekend while my roommates are out of town doing LAME things like visiting their parents in NYC and backpacking in Acadia National Park, I'm going to be watching these movies and cackling with glee. :D