Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Let's Make A Move

April is more than halfway gone and it still feels like it's crawling. May 1st marks a monumental day in the long, sorted history of the DoNothingMan; I'm finally moving out of the campus area to a more adult residency. Gah, that already sounds boring as hell. Part of the challenge in moving, at least for me, is eliminating all the excess crap that I have accumulated over the years; trimming the fat, so to speak. Under the most scrutiny right now is my collection of DVD movies. A couple discs will be kept; there's no questions about the South Park seasons. But most can be sold; probably only for a buck or two. So, I'm dividing the my list of DVDs. The first section contains the DVDs that I am definitely selling:
  1. Appleseed
  2. Batman Begins
  3. The Covenant
  4. Escape from New York
  5. Harry Potter 1
  6. Harry Potter 2
  7. Harry Potter 3
  8. Leverage Season 1
  9. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  10. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  11. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  12. One Hour Photo
  13. Pan's Labyrinth
  14. Pathfinder Unrated
  15. Spider-Man
  16. Spider-Man 2
  17. Wanted
Previously, this list included Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park: The Lost World which I picked up in a box set. When I showed by stack to-sell DVDs to my roommate he immediately asked if he could buy the Jurassic Park pack. Knowing that he would give the movies a good home, I just let him keep them. I'm just that nice.

Now for the tough part, the next list consists of all the DVDs I intend to keep. It's still a long list and I would like to weed some more out, but I don't think I can. Maybe sharing will spark my desire to downsize.
  1. 28 Days Later
  2. 28 Weeks Later
  3. Akira
  4. Alien
  5. Aliens
  6. Alien 3
  7. The Animatrix
  8. Batman: Gotham Night
  9. Benny and Joon
  10. Black Hawk Down
  11. Brother Bear
  12. The Cell
  13. Donnie Darko
  14. Firefly - The Complete Series
  15. Friday Night Lights
  16. Fullmetal Alchemist Season 1 Box
  17. Fullmetal Alchemist Season 2 Box
  18. The Ghost and the Darkness
  19. Gremlins
  20. Gremlins 2
  21. Hard Rain
  22. Independence Day
  23. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
  24. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
  25. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  26. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  27. Jeepers Creepers
  28. Jeepers Creepers 2
  29. The Matrix
  30. The Nightmare Before Christmas
  31. Predator 2
  32. The Simpsons Movie
  33. Sleepy Hollow
  34. South Park Season 1 - 15
  35. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
  36. Spawn
  37. Stargate
  38. Starship Troopers
  39. They
  40. John Carpenter's The Thing
  41. TMNT Season 1
  42. TMNT Season 2
  43. TMNT Season 3
  44. The Venture Bros. Season 1
  45. X-Men
  46. X-Men 2: X-Men United
Holy crap, that's a long list. There are, of course, some funny stories associated with many items on this list. I picked up the Indiana Jones Quadrilogy reluctantly, asking the clerk in the movie section of Hastings if I could get it without the fourth film-astrophe. She laughed, but she wouldn't let me open it up and leave the fourth movie in the store. I guess I would have done the same, had I been in her shoes. To this day, I have not watched the fourth movie (and I know that some on this list are probably worse films) but curiosity will eventually get the best of me and I'll watch it, my eyes will bleed, and I'll melt into a puddle of special effects goo.

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