Friday, June 5, 2009

so many movies

There's a video store here called Tops n Video. Based on the name alone, I always assumed that they rented out smutty films to fifteen-year-old boys with fake IDs, and I had no need of ever going in there and thus avoided the place entirely.

Now, thank to Netflix, RedBox, and all the porn out there on the interwebs, Tops n Video is being forced to go out of business and write on their windows with chalk that 'everything must go' and 'DVDs: $5.99/3 for $15/10 for $40'.

Porn or no porn, I clearly had to go in there and see if I could find any sweet deals.

You know that 10 for $40 deal I mentioned? Yeah, I did that. Actually, I got nine movies, Hattie got the tenth one. Oh, but never fear, I went to Wal-Mart after that and bought
He's Just Not That Into You since I have no fucking self-control.

So, what did I buy at Tops n Video?

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
American Pie
American Pie 2
Ocean's 13
Pocahontas
Anchorman
(I'm not entirely sure that I don't already own this one)
Elf
Dirty Dancing
... and there's another movie. Gah, what was it? This is like trying to name all the seven dwarfs or all my grandpa's thirteen siblings; I always forget someone.

It'll come to me later, I'm sure. Like, when I get home and find the bag they're all tucked away in since I was too tuckered out spending money on buying them yesterday to put them in my DVD case properly.

I have two of those huge CD carrying cases that I have devoted just to DVDs. One holds TV series and the other movies, both are in alphabetical order and, in the case of the TV series and movie series, chronologically. I like to think that this is an intelligent, logical way to organize a collection and not a way of displaying my anal-retentive, slight-OPCD tendencies to the world. Some would beg to differ and call me ridiculous.

But it's not so ridiculous when you have no trouble finding Season 2, Disc 4 of
Friends or Walk the Line, now is it?


Dick: I guess it looks as if you're reorganizing your records. What is this though? Chronological?
Rob: No...

Dick: Not alphabetical...

Rob:
Nope...
Dick: What?

Rob: Autobiographical.

Dick: No fucking way.

- High Fidelity, one of those movies that's just as good as the book

2 comments:

Organic Meatbag said...

So I'm guessing Tops N Video ran out of their porn supply pretty quickly, huh...probably no more Harry Porker and the Sorceror's Bone or Sir Cum-a-lot...

crystal said...

I saw the '18+' door but it didn't have anything about there being movies in there for sale. I'd wager that they ran out of that stash within the first five minutes of announcing their closing.