{"id":667,"date":"2006-08-21T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/why-some-days-are-better-than-others\/"},"modified":"2006-08-21T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T17:45:00","slug":"why-some-days-are-better-than-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/why-some-days-are-better-than-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Why some days are better than others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more Heh--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i37.photobucket.com\/albums\/e59\/beatzosan\/home\/new_dvds.gif\"><\/p>\n<p>So the latest bunch of DVDs I ordered off secondspin.com has arrived. Took some time to be delivered, more than a month in fact. But the package was huge, and I am assuming the customs people were a little lazy. From the bottom&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Chaplin Collection<\/b>\n<li><b>Dog Day Afternoon<\/b><\/li>\n<p><b><\/p>\n<li>All The President&#8217;s Men<\/li>\n<p><\/b>: These three were movies <a href=\"http:\/\/chandru.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">chandru<\/a> ordered off my account. I am planning to whack the Chaplin box set off him &#8211; it&#8217;s a lovely tin box, and the 5 discs quite a bit of short movies that are not too easily found around here.  <\/li>\n<p><b><\/p>\n<li>Bjork: The Inner or Deep Part of an Animal or Plant Structure<\/li>\n<li>Bjork: The Medulla Videos<\/li>\n<li>Bjork: Unplugged and Live<\/li>\n<li>Bjork: Inside Bjork<\/li>\n<p><\/b> : With these, my Bjork DVD collection is effectively done. I am not counting bootleg videos in this, only legit releases. I CAN&#8217;T wait to go back home and check out the video of the Unplugged concert. Especially the tabla-Bjork-organ duel during <i>Big Time Sensuality<\/i>. <\/p>\n<li><b>Ichi The Killer: Unrated Edition<\/b>: Ok, long story. I had a divx of this, courtesy Vasu. The problem? The rip was in English, and as any wise Miike-lover will tell you, watching a dubbed version of the goriest movie ever is no fun. (Even the screams sound so &#8230;.downbeat) Then I bought a copy from National Market, which refused to work, and got returned. Got a rip of this exact same DVD from a friend in Mumbai, and that refused to work beyond the half-way point. I just <i>had<\/i> to order this, after all that trouble. And I also have the companion anime, <i>Ichi: Episode One<\/i> to watch.<\/li>\n<li><b>Mulholland Dr<\/b>: I have waited and waited and waited for this movie to be available at National Market, and the week I order it off secondspin is the week <a href=\"http:\/\/moccacino.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">moccacino<\/a> buys it at The Market. *sigh* But then, I got it for 5$, so not really too much of a problem. Have you watched this movie yet? No? You&#8217;re nuts. Go watch.<\/li>\n<li><b>Neil Gaiman&#8217;s A Short Film About John Bolton<\/b>: Yeeeeeeeee haw! What are the chances of getting this second-hand, huh? None whatsoever, I would think, but obviously there are times when I am wrong. A chance search of secondspin got me this, and I can hardly wait to go home and check it out. Yeeeeeeeeee haw!<\/li>\n<li><b>The Godfather Collection<\/b>: All three Godfather movies, plus a bonus disc. Excellent 5-disc package. I had waited quite sometime to pick this up, not buying any of the movies off The Market just because I <i>knew<\/i> I had to get this edition. <\/li>\n<li><b>The Alien Quadrilogy<\/b> : 9 disc collector&#8217;s edition. Though a part of me is doing the tarantella out of joy, there is this half-heartedness to the proceedings because I could <i>not<\/i> get my hands on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmv.co.uk\/hmvweb\/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=285;5;-1;-1&#038;sku=363926\">the Alien Head edition of this set<\/a>. *Sigh*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,86,85],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acquisitions","tag-dvds","tag-secondspin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}