DVDesire

If you don't own BSG season 1 on DVD yet, you'll want to check out amazon.co.uk, where you can get it for 16 Pounds. Or you could get The L Word for 13, but that would be 13 Pounds wasted.

Other ridiculously cheap DVD box sets are a couple of Stargate season for about 22 Pounds and most of the X-Files for 13 Pounds each. There is also Spooks, a series I have heard some of you talking about but couldn't get into myself, 12, various CSIs for 66% less and Xena (I didn't even know they had Xean DVDs).

Plus, they have a new (to me) shopping system, where you see 50 or so reduced box sets on one page and just need to click the ticky box (TickyBox!) and can add all of them to your basket with one easy click. This is dangerous, oh so dangerous. I am so tempted to spent a LOT of money on DVD sets right now.

But nothing I really want is reduced, so I'll show some self-restraint and save my money for later. In case you are wondering (or you want to send me gifts *g*), I am currently plannign to buy the following DVD box sets:
- NCIS Season 1 (waiting for the UK release)
- Stargate Season 8 (still too expensive, considering that I have it all on VCD, so I'm waiting for a good ebay offer)
- Doctor Who 2005 Season 1 (45 pounds? I don't think so...)
- West Wing Season 6 (got all the others for 20, and once season 7 is out this will be reduced by 65% as well)
- A-Team Season 3 (it's only a matter of time until I can get it for 20)
- Life on Mars Season 1 (will have to watch the price on this one, for a short series 32 Pounds is quite a lot)
- Miami Vice Season 2 (OMG I need season 2 so badly why isn't it released yet? I will have to watch season 1 AGAIN! and season 2 is going to me lime green! LIME GREEN! *loves*)
and of course, once they are released, BSG and SGA Season 2 and Stargate Season 9.

Okay, looking at that list even I admit that it's not a good idea to buy DVDs that I didn't plan to buy just because they are cheap. On the other hand, have a season of X-Files or two ever hurt anyone?

*wants*

Porn!

So, just for fun, I thought, let's see if anyone on lj is interested in handbags. Turns out that entering "handbags" in the search function returns 333 hits. Since 333 is a umber of the devil (I think), I quickly added handbags to my own interests and saved the world. You can thank me later.

Then I found this post, and OMG! it's HANDBAG PORN! The handbag is totally doing a striptease, and then, avert your eyes, kids, it exposes its inner most secret!

I could seriously feel myself getting a bit excited about this. Good thing I'm not a Louis Vuitton fan, who knows what might have happened otherwise.



In other porn, I finally watched the second of my Yami No Matseui DVDs, which were entirely non-porny and very sweet. I decided to download some of the more porny anime, but I don't really get it. Yami is pretty, but I don't get the attraction. For me, the attraction lies in the art, not the story, and I can watch it just like I can watch art - for a limited amount of time. I found that I had no problem turning off any of the episodes I watched, something that usually doesn't happen when I watch a tv show. Maybe the story telling is a bit too slow for me. And some of the action scenes, which are basically stills which are somehow dranwn differently than the rest of the ep, reminded me of The Sentinel, the scene in every ep where Jim runs after someone for at least five minutes. You know, the ones that you watch once and then always fastforward?

Anyway, I'm fascinated with anime art, because it is so different from classical european animation movies. I think it has something to do with the japanese art of writing which is much more drawing or even painting than our art has ever been. Consequently, japanese art has always been much closer to writing, often containing actual words, than western european art. I feel as if there is a connection there somehow, as if anime and manga are somehow the logical succession of the more traditional japanese art. Take, for example, a look at Katsushika Hokusai's pictures like The Great Wave and you'll find that some similarities to modern mangas, IMHO. And yet, as a means of storytelling, I just can't get into it. Just like when I was a child and didn't have enough patience to read Mickey Mouse comics, I get bored when I try to read manga. I have to look at the pictures, and that slows the story down for me. Something about reading and watching pictures at the same time doesn't agree with me.

I also watched Zetsuai, which hit quite a few of my kinks (pop star falls in love with nobody who doesn't want him and gets all protective). The copy I had was japanese with subtitles, and now I find myself wanting to learn japanese, simply because it is so different from any of the other languages I have learned so far. How can I understand japan if I have no idea how the language works? I can't start any courses now, but I've been planing to learn another language for a while, and I think it'll be either japanese or arabic.

Yip-Yipyipyipyip

I honestly cannot remember Sesame Street being this hilarious when I was a child. I mean, "Old MacDonald had a spaceship"? Come on, that's art. That's almost as ingenious as Malevich's "White on White".

"Put that spaceship down!"
*giggles*


Also, the one with the telephone ("Not Mars." "Nope" nopenopenope "Earth." Yipyipyipyip")? Kind of reminds me of Jack and Daniel. ;-)