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wednes ([personal profile] wednes) wrote2005-10-19 05:16 pm
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Zombies, Baseball, and Osgood Perkins:

I'm home from Best Buy.

It turns out, the Widescreen unrated edition of Land of the Dead was actually $19.99, not $16.99 like it says online. Fuckers. The widescreen one was $2 more than the in-store full screen version, which was $1 more than it said online. Why on earth would they charge more for the widescreen version, if not to scam people with taste. How irritating!! Anyway, I argued them down by making a small scene... What? I'm poor.

I also bought The Bad Seed because it was $10.99. Good deal, no? I almost bought the orginal Salem's Lot miniseries for $10.99 as well. I just couldn't justify the expenditure though, especially since I already own 3 versions of that movie on VHS (that being the original miniseries, the VHS 112 minute edit, and the 2004 remake). It was a good deal though, that movie is fucking scary. The Bad Seed is another fave of mine. I have wanted to own it for a while now, my VHS copy of it being nearly unwatchable.

I almost bought Dead and Breakfast which has Osgood Perkins in it (the son of my movie hero Anthony Perkins). But since I hadn't seen it yet, I figured I'd better not. They also did not have the new documentary on HH Holmes. I'm dying to see that. Get it? Dying

Hahahahahahaa!!

Tonight is the last new ep of LOST for a few weeks, while we all endure the worlds series of baseball. I do enjoy baseball, at the baseball park. Something about the outside air and the funny drunks in the bleachers just says "America" to me. Plus the Tigers are not that good. There's something endearing about cheering for your home team even though you know deep down that they suck. I guess that's what all you Red Sox fans were talking about before, I just didn't know that existed outside of Detroit. Alan Trammel could be the worst coach in the history of baseball, I'll still love him because going to see him play at old Tiger Stadium with my family is one of my few happy memories of childhood. Of course back then, those Tigers were pretty good.

[identity profile] brettsyboy.livejournal.com 2005-10-19 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
i love the original salems lot, i didnt know it was a mini series, i thought it was just a really long movie

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2005-10-19 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Many people don't know that Tobe Hooper directed that movie for television. I think that's important to keep in mind, because of the bloodlessness and relative tameness of the fx. For a 1978 made-for-tv movie it is excellent and very scary.

Salem's Lot was trimmed down to 112 minutes for the VHS release. It takes out a lot of the taking over of the town (the deputy, Eva Miller, Ned etc turning vampire), and more about the relationship between Ben and Susan and that of Boom Boom Bonny and her drunk loser hubby.

[identity profile] gifgal.livejournal.com 2005-10-19 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
my mythtv guide website is always subject to change, but at the moment they still have a new lost scheduled for next week on abc, with the world series on fox.

i still have hope! hehe

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2005-10-19 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I just heard it today from someone who practically lives on the message boards. Maybe she is indeed, mistaken. We shall see.

It was still a good journal segue into baseball though.
;-\

[identity profile] spiralwitch.livejournal.com 2005-10-19 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
i loved 'the bad seed'!
what a creepy little girl ;)

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2005-10-19 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep.

[identity profile] stranger-tales.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
If you've got plenty of disposable income, I'd be glad to sell you the bulk of my collection. Which, thanks to OCD, is in basically the same condition as it was when I bought it. Like Salem's Lot for instance. Why spend $10.99 and tax when you could get mine for $5? Less probably. Seriously, you should consider Netflix. A month's subscription and a stack of DVD-Rs is a helluva lot easier on the wallet than a weekly shopping trip to Best Buy.

And before anyone lays into an anti-piracy rant, don't bother. The cast and crew get their cut up front. Anyone with a percentage is going to get plenty come distribution time one way or another. At least I'm paying the cost of rentals. Most folks with a high speed connection don't even bother with that. If the distributors really want to solve the problem, they'll stop selling those slim pieces of plastic for twenty bucks a pop. Five hundred percent profit isn't my idea of a fair markup.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
I have no issue with ripping movies, if it were my movie, I'd rather have the good word of mouth than have people saying it wasn't worth the money.

That said, do let me know what you have in your collection that you'd like to sell. I'm interested in horror, anime and serious drama.

I actually haven't bought from Best Buy since Dawn of the Dead remake. I almost never buy DVD's new, I bought one harry Potter new, and sometimes I buy $10 sale stuff or 3/$25 used at Blockbuster.

[identity profile] stranger-tales.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
I'll try to get a list together within the next week or so. I've got somewhere in the neighborhood of five to six hundred DVDs. That's a rough guesstimate at least. I'd say a good thirty to forty to fifty percent of that is Horror/Sci-Fi and the like. And I do have some limited edition, numbered stuff. Some I've never even opened.

I only wish I'd figured out how to rip a DVD before I dropped so much cash to begin with.

[identity profile] calpurnius.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Salem's Lot is way scary for made-for-tv.

[identity profile] lostsatellite.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
hmm...for some reason at first glance that Anthony Perkins icon made me think of Nate Fisher from Six Feet Under, played by Peter Krause...strange...

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
Cool man, I'll start um...preparing myself to look at your list.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
I see where you're going with that.

[identity profile] katharinakatt.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
Usually internet prices are for people who order off the internet. However you CAN print it out and show it to them and demand that price from the manager. Might work.

[identity profile] sweinberg.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, "Dead & Breakfast" and the H.H. Holmes documentary? I think you may be a ladyversion of me!

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Best Buy has a thing where you can order stuff online and pick it up in the store. Waiting in line at customer service sounded like a pain in the ass, so I paid an extra dollar for my trouble by not ordering ahead. In the end, I feel it was worth it.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe. Of course, I didn't buy either of those, I just wanted to. I'm not made of disposable cash, sadly.

[identity profile] katharinakatt.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah a buck isn't much. I doubt there are lines if you go early in the day or something.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps, but then I'd have to go out early in the day...and who needs that?

;-}

[identity profile] miss-paz.livejournal.com 2005-10-21 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
what do you charge per reading? Please email mistress_paz at yahoo dot com

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2005-10-21 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Most people pay $10-20 depending on what they can afford. I usually do the reading and let you pay what you think is fair, that seems to work well for everyone.

[identity profile] katharinakatt.livejournal.com 2005-10-21 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
lol, get slaves then? ;P

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2005-10-21 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
That's the best idea I've heard all day!