mountain of media/shoppin' makes me feel good...

DVD

Batman Begins
Batman Returns
Born On The Fourth of July
The Breakfast Club
Bringing Out The Dead
A Clockwork Orange
The Dark Knight
End of Days
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters II
The Green Mile
Heathers
Heavenly Creatures
The Last House On The Left
The Last Unicorn
L.I.E.
Lost Highway
Panic
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

CD

Soundtrack - Ghostbusters
American Football - s/t
Cold - Year of The Spider
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
Counting Crows - Recovering The Satellites
The Cure - Pornography
The Fray - How To Save A Life
Peter Gabriel - Up
Genesis - s/t
Genesis - Abacab
Genesis - Duke
Genesis - Foxtrot
Genesis - Invisible Touch
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Genesis - Live/The Way We Walk Vol. 2: The Longs
Genesis - Seconds Out
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Genesis - We Can't Dance
The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
Hidden In Plain View - Resolution
Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Aimee Mann - The Forgotten Arm
Oingo Boingo - Skeletons In The Closet: The Best Of
Our Lady Peace - Gravity
The Psychedelic Furs - World Outside
R.E.M. - Murmur
Rush - Power Windows
Virginwool - Open Heart Surgery

BOOKS
Dennis Cooper - Guide
Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park
Justin Evans - A Good And Happy Child
Various - Batman: The Killing Joke
Various - Batman: Year One
Various - Saga of The Swamp Thing Vol. 1

a different day of paradise

I'm listening to Cold's YEAR OF THE SPIDER, in case anyone wants insight into why I'm writing this list...earlier today I listened to part of SOMETHING TO WRITE HOME ABOUT by The Get Up Kids and I just listened to 1 1/2 songs from WE HAVE THE FACTS AND WE'RE VOTING YES by Death Cab For Cutie. YOTS is good. the other two are either TOO SLOW (for how I feel today, which is kinda tired...in a metaphysical way...idk...) or...just maybe...INFERIOR...I remember when I moved out YOTS fit perfectly how I felt...which was...weird...very weird...very difficult to describe...kinda like the sky was metallic blue and the wind was a bleak-ish white...and I was filled with a sense of loss and mis-direction...hard to describe...like I said...'was also almost 5 years ago...which makes it even harder...

well, here it is...for better or worse...

Cold - Year of The Spider
Hidden In Plain View - Resolution

dang...can't think of anything else...rrrg...

HOW MANY TIMES...(can I say I'm sorry)

Arg. I DON'T LIKE Sunny Day Real Estate. Their live CD is okay (aren't all live CDs?). Yet I'm consistently drawn toward their CD DIARY (1994). Perhaps 'cause the early/mid 90's were such an awesome time in history that was so recent that I COULD have lived through it, yet I missed out on it, partly 'cause I'm a basket case who wouldn't have been able to really "be there" anyway, and partly 'cause if I WAS "old enough" to experience Woodstock '94 or have gone to a Nirvana concert, my mother wouldn't have let me. Around 1996, my then-therapist, at my request, recorded 6 hours of VH1. Of course, me always having one foot under a rock and another in the clouds, wasn't quite aware how SELDOM VH1 actually played music videos. Luckily, they were having a Fourth of July music video marathon in celebration of the then-upcoming film INDEPENDENCE DAY. Watching that 6 hour tape provided me with a small taste of what I'd missed out on the previous 4-5 years as well as a good portion of the 80's (which I did experience, in my own "special" way...)...and a few years later I met a guy named Brad Jennings who was mostly into roots rock like Better Than Ezra and other bands I don't really care for...(he was also a big Pearl Jam and Radiohead fan - put 6 of each of those 2 artists on a "best of" CD and you'd have a masterpiece; but 6 more songs by each band and you have an OK record...). He also was constantly listening to the radio, so he knew songs I'd never heard OF/heard period, as well as pretty much every other song. He'd see a CD at CD Warehouse (now known as Pmac) and he'd point it out and say "hey, those are the guys that sang [insert any song title by a popular rock/pop artist]".

So even though I wasn't "around" in the early 90's, I do have some idea (however false...) of what it would have been like to catch Sunny Day Real Estate back in 1994 or even 1995...and then there's the critical acclaim they get from just about everybody. And then there's the "emo" factor; they even played SDRE on RAGE 103.7 before they turned into a lame "alternative" (aka alt metal) station and I had no idea what I was listening to at that time...

so here's what I guess you could call my "wannabe cool" list of CDs I want to own, 'cause deep down inside, somewhere I can't reach to scratch, I feel like owning these CDs would make me cool. Of course, if only I could reach to scratch...I'd die of intestinal bleeding...anyway, here it is:

1. Soundtrack - Ghostbusters
2. American Football - s/t
3. Armor For Sleep - Dream To Make Believe
4. Armor For Sleep - What To Do When You Are Dead
5. The Beatles - Abbey Road
6. The Beatles - Let It Be
7. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
8. The Beatles - Revolver
9. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
10. The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
11. Blink 182 - s/t
12. Cold - Year of The Spider
13. Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
14. Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet
15. Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
16. Death Cab For Cutie - We Have The Facts and We're Voting Yes
    
17. The Fray - How To Save A Life
18. Peter Gabriel - Up
19. Genesis - Genesis Live
20. Genesis - Live/The Way We Walk Volume Two: The Longs
21. The Get Up Kids - Four Minute Mile
22. The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About
23. The Grateful Dead - American Beauty
24. The Grateful Dead - Blues For Allah
25. The Grateful Dead - Europe '72
26. The Grateful Dead - Steal Your Face
    
27. The Grateful Dead - Two From The Vault
28. Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I
29. Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II
30. Hawthorne Heights - If Only You Were Lonely
31. Hidden In Plain View - Resolution
32. Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
33. Michael Jackson - Dangerous
34. Elton John - Greatest Hits
35. Joy Division - Closer
36. KISS - Alive!
37. Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing
38. Matchbox 20 - Yourself Or Someone Like You
39. Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell
40. Metallica - Master of Puppets
41. Nirvana - s/t
42. Nirvana - Bleach
43. Nirvana - From The Muddy Banks of The Whiskaw
44. Nirvana - Incesticide
45. Nirvana - In Utero
46. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York
47. Nirvana - Nevermind
48. Nirvana - With The Lights Out
49. Number One Fan - Compromises
50. Oingo Boingo - Nothing To Fear
51. Oingo Boingo - Only A Lad
52. Oingo Boingo - Skeletons In The Closet: The Best Of
53. Our Lady Peace - Gravity
54. The Psychedelic Furs - World Outside
55. R.E.M. - Murmur
56. R.E.M. - Reckoning
57. Rush - Power Windows
    
58. Saves The Day - Stay What You Are
59. Senses Fail - Let It Enfold You
60. Silverstein - When Broken Is Easily Fixed
61. Soul Asylum - Grave Dancer's Union
62. The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It
63. Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
64. Sunny Day Real Estate - Live
65. Sunny Day Real Estate - LP2
66. Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
67. Tonic - Lemon Parade
68. Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want
69. Virginwool - Open Heart Surgery
70. The Wallflowers - Bringing Down The Horse

P.S.: this list also includes CDs I occasionally enjoy, and CDs which have artwork that makes me think think "gotta have it" when I see it...

hope escapes

Ok, my "Pandora's Box" stayed open too long...yesterday (was that it? Or maybe it was the day b4...) I was listening to Genesis "Live/The Way We Walk Vol. II: The Longs" and heavily enjoying it. I've also been listening to a mix of Genesis songs on CD-R off and on. INVISIBLE TOUCH has failed to spark any feelings in me...thinking about selling it (again). Also thinking I could/should sell GHOSTBUSTERS...the film is not perfect and my prior notions of the film being beautifully filmed and whatever were a bit exaggerated; it's a nostalgic film, and I haven't been feeling much sympathy for that concept even though it's almost winter (I would say it IS winter, but today is remarkebly hotter than normal...).

For the moment, I'd have to say A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and FORREST GUMP are 2 of the BEST films ever made. A lot of people might disagree, saying films like CASABLANCA and BRAVEHEART, and all those long drawn out, ultimately underwelming "epics" are what cinema is all about, but I guess I'm just "too" picky...to declare 2 hours wasted with half an hour or so of compelling featurism sprinkled here and there just seems absurd...

It's hard to say what THE BEST cd ever is....I'm listening to The Grateful Dead's AMERICAN BEAUTY and it's pretty boring...the 1st song "Box of Rain" was pretty cool..."Sugar Magnolia" was OK, but right now I'm listening to "Candyman"...gosh, I almost wanna go back to bed...but it's sunny outside and I gotta go to my Gramma's for Thanxgiving in about an hour...
it's hard to say that Genesis' LIVE/THE WAY WE WALK VOL. II: THE LONGS is THE BEST cd, 'cause a) it's not an "original" recording, and b) it gets boring after awhile...and a CD that sounds like that (if there is such a thing or ever COULD/would be...) could very well miss the mark.
American Football's CD was a really good one, but not an everyday treat...it's gotta be used sparingly or it gets boring...same thing w/ Virginwool's CD. Michael Jackson's DANGEROUS is indeed a pop masterpiece, but how can one say it's THE BEST b/c of that and ignore the quirky dark delight of Oingo Boingo's SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET?

pandora's box

I've been listening to Pandora radio since about 5am this morning...it's now 6:59...

IT'S SOOO GOOD! The seeded artists are Armor For Sleep and Trespassers William, both of who I've gotten a bit tired of, but I don't even think I need to own any CDs period, except that CD Chris Gipson got for my birthday last year, he'd be MAD at me if I got rid of it and I see no real reason to get rid of it...

they play some 80's dance-pop ala Depeche Mode since "Blasphemous Rumours" by them is one of the seeded songs, and they also, of course, play emo and dream pop (Armor For Sleep/Trespassers William), and also some celtic/new age/??/? since "Fallen embers" by Enya is another seeded track, and that's basically the perfect mix!

Wooooooooo!

best songs in the world!

mp3s

That's What You Get - Paramore
Island (Float Away) - The Starting Line
Dream On - Aerosmith
In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
Last Defense - Year Of The Rabbit
Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds

music videos

True Faith - New Order
Land of Confusion - Genesis
Wild Wild West - The Escape Club
Don't Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Got My Mind Set On You - George Harrison

other video worthy of preserving:

1988 California Raisins commercial
the Noid commercial for Domino's Pizza
the Coca-Cola polar bear commercial(s)
the Macintosh Super Bowl (1983) commercial
New Year's 1999/2000 on ABC
MTV 1994: Year In Rock documentary

it lists again!

DIGITAL AUDIO DISCS

1. Ghostbusters OST
2. American Football - s/t
3. Peter Gabriel - Up
4. Genesis - Invisible Touch
5. The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About
6. Hidden In Plain View - Resolution
7. Oingo Boingo - Skeletons In The Closet: The Best Of
8. Virginwool - Open Heart Surgery

DIGITAL VIDEO DISCS

1. Beetlejuice
2. Bringing Out The Dead
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Ghostbusters
5. Ghostbusters II
6. The Last Unicorn
7. nowhere
8. Short Circuit

VHS

1. An American Tail (original cover)
2. Batman/Batman Returns Set (1992?)
3. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1988)
4. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Letterbox)
5. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
6. Friday the 13th VII: The New Blood
7. Friday the 13th VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
8. Ghostbusters (1994 "PG-13" version)
9. Ghostbusters II (original cover)
10. Ghostbusters & Ghostbusters II Collector's Edition (RCA/Columbia circa 1990)
11. Ghostbusters/Ghostbusters II Gift Set (Columbia/TriStar 1995? re-issue)
12. The Godfather (original black cover)
13. Goodbye Cruel World (w/ toilet & hand flushing itself)
14. Graveyard Shift (1990)
15. Halloween II (w/ freaky pumpkin)
16. Jurassic Park (black w/ JP logo)
17. Maximum Overdrive (original cover)
18. Monkey Shines: An Experiment In Fear (1988!/original cover!!)
19. Short Circuit (original CBS/FOX)
20. Short Circuit (1996 re-issue)
21. The Terminator Collection (silver box)

another ill fated (?...) list.../..........

DIGITAL AUDIO DISCS

1. Soundtrack - Ghostbusters
2. Soundtrack - Halloween II
3. American Football - s/t
4. Armor For Sleep - Dream To Make Believe
5. Armor For Sleep - What To Do When You Are Dead
6. Crosby Stills & Nash - Daylight Again
7. Peter Gabriel - Up
8. Genesis - Invisible Touch
9. Genesis - Live/The Way We Walk Volume 2: The Longs
10. The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About
11. The Grateful Dead - American Beauty
12. The Grateful Dead - Two From The Vault
13. Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
14. Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I
15. Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II
16. Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte
17. Hidden In Plain View - Resolution
18. Michael Jackson - Dangerous
19. Michael Jackson - HIStory: Past, Present & Future Book I
20. Oingo Boingo - Skeletons In The Closet: The Best Of
21. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
    
22. Saves The Day - Stay What You Are
23. Senses Fail - Let It Enfold You
24. Silverstein - When Broken Is Easily Fixed
25. A Skylit Drive - Wires & The Concept of Breathing
26. The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It
27. Toto - Toto IV
28. Trespassers William - Different Stars
29. Trespassers William - Having
30. Virginwool - Open Heart Surgery

DIGITAL VIDEO DISCS

1. Beetlejuice
2. Bringing Out The Dead
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
5. Forrest Gump
6. Genesis: Live At Wembley Stadium
7. Ghostbusters
8. Ghostbusters II
9. The Last Unicorn
10. nowhere
11. Short Circuit
12. Terminator 2: Judgment Day

...hmm...

Well...

My CD drive isn't working. So I CAN'T listen to music via my computer. My mother FINALLY decided to tell me that computers aren't meant to be used as a CD player substitute, as it wears the computer out...well, the computer isn't worn out, but the CD drive apparently is...maybe it'll recover someday...but now I know that a computer isn't meant to be a media center...so what IS a computer meant to be? A way to access the internet and type...and burn CDs...hmm...can't believe it cost'd my sister $500+ just so I could do those things. I hardly ever type, paper is recyclable (I mainly write/type lists...nothing i ever really need to keep...), and burning CDs? Hmm...I guess there's maybe 2 or 3 occassions a person could/would save $40 buying an out of print album on iTunes for $10 vs. buying it used for $50 via the Amazon Marketplace...so if you ask me, a computer isn't worth more than $200 TOPS!

Gotta get some kind of audio system.

NEED MORE SOURCES

MEDIA PLAYER: VLC Media Player (why haven't YOU tried VLC today? HMM???)
RADIO: Launchcast
CINEMA COLLECTION (+)

1. Beetlejuice
   
2. Bringing Out The Dead
3. Candyman
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
6. Ghostbusters
7. Ghostbusters II
8. The Last Unicorn
9. Short Circuit

ALBUMS (*):

1. Aerosmith - Greatest Hits (1980)
2. American Football - s/t
3. Armor For Sleep - Dream To Make Believe
4. Armor For Sleep - What To Do When You Are Dead
5. Chicago - Greatest Hits 1982-1989
6. Cold - Year of The Spider
7. Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
8. Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
9. Peter Gabriel - Up
10. Genesis - s/t
11. Genesis - Abacab
12. Genesis - Duke
13. Genesis - Foxtrot
14. Genesis - Genesis Live
15. Genesis - Invisible Touch
16. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
17. Genesis - Live/The Way We Walk Vol. 1: The Shorts
18. Genesis - Live/The Way We Walk Vol. 2: The Longs
19. Genesis - Nursery Cryme
20. Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
21. Genesis - Trespass
22. Genesis - Wind & Wuthering
23. The Grateful Dead - American Beauty
24. Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte
25. Hidden In Plain View - Resolution
26. Whitney Houston - Whitney
27. Michael Jackson - Dangerous
28. Michael Jackson - HIStory: Past, Present & Future Book I
29. Joy Division - Closer
30. Aimee Mann - The Forgotten Arm
31. Number One Fan - Compromises
32. Oingo Boingo - Skeletons In The Closet: The Best Of
33. Saves The Day - Stay What You Are
34. Senses Fail - Let It Enfold You
35. Silverstein - When Broken Is Easily Fixed
36. A Skylit Drive - Wires & The Concept of Breathing
37. Sleepaway- - s/t
38. The Starting Line - Say It LIke You Mean It
39. Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
40. Toto - IV
41. Trespassers William - Different Stars
42. Trespassers William - Having
43. Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want
44. Virginwool- - Open Heart Surgery
45. "Weird Al" Yankovic - s/t
46. "Weird Al" Yankovic - Even Worse
47. "Weird Al" Yankovic - Off The Deep End

+ ;I do not have a DVD burner as of current, and I don't know if/when I'll ever get one. Also, if/when I get one, I may need to keep the movies/films on DVD, as video takes up a lot more memory and using computers to play video can very well result in unstable playback.

* ;"albums", to me at least, usually brings to mind images of physical objects, like a vinyl or "compact" disc, or cassette tape, as well as cover artwork and covers/cases...and the idea of MP3 technology at one time, not long ago, I scoffed at, since so many people said/say that it's an inferior technology; I don't notice any difference, but I someday hoped maybe I could if I ever got the right technology...well, I don't think I'll ever be able to afford a TRULY audiophile-quality system. True, I could get an "infantry" or "budget" audiophile CD player for $300 (which is in itself a lot of $...), but I would need to buy speakers ($200+++), an amplifier (another $?????,????????,XXXXXXXXXXXX), and the list probably goes on to an end I have no ability to say where...
Bottom line, I'll never be able to afford to tell the difference between MP3/vinyl/CD.

So, for the most part, all "albums" referred to above are/will be in MP3 format. I don't have all of the albums referenced above, although I have heard them before (owned most, if not all, of them, just didn't keep them 'cause I'm crazy and/or stupid...); there may be albums that I WILL hear that are not on this list, but I don't know of their existence. I also may have overlooked some choices...but, for the most part, with the exception of albums I haven't heard/haven't been ABLE to hear (b/c of their current non existence...), this is my IDEAL collection of albums.

Happy Birthday To Me

Wow. I'm a quarter of a century old, yet still "young" (right?)...I had a good birthday; neither my sister or my mother got me anything (although my mother did make me a satisfactory cake w/ a healthy icing substitute), but it didn't bother me any, since my Gramma gave me double what I thought I *might* be able to expect (she gave me a whoppin' $20), plus my mom DID promise to get me something on or around the 25th (she gets more $ at around that time...). I don't know what my sister plans to get me, if anything, although I wouldn't blame her for not getting me anything, since I neglected her birthday last year (2007).

My mother was very hospitable, and more tolerant than usual (I tend to get on her nerves, although I don't know the scientific basis for that...).

I also got foodtsamps yesterday, which made me kind of happy ($107 worth of any kind of food I can get my eyes on!, although I only spent about $53...).

I guess I can say it wasn't THE BEST birthday imaginable (or even the best birthday I've experienced as of yet...), but I don't think that matters and I did very much appreciate what little I got that day. Surprisngly, I awoke at 4 in the morning to a "happy birthday" email from my father AND my mother. It seems my online friend forgot my birthday though. At least I hope he forgot...hopefully he doesn't resent me for not being "available" to chat for about 2 months...he seems cool with my sometimes hostile/flaky attitude towards life, but seemingliness can be deceptive...

Nov so far

It took until the most recent Tuesday for my leisure spending $ to show up on the debit card that my sister gave me. Since then I've bought 3 CDs and a gift for my sister + ...well, that was about all I bought with the $ that my sister transferred to the debit card, but I did have money that she didn't transfer, and I used that to buy me a Pizza Hut pizza the night before yesterday + french toast ($2.99 for a plate!!) at Socials on 119 Spanish.

I had $11.00 until earlier this afternoon, when I bought 3 fat-filled Fudge Brownies (72 grams of fat + the 3 grams of fat in the oatmeal & 16 grams in the chicken I had for lunch...is that legal???!!!). So now i have $9.14 (the brownies were Little Debbie; I was gonna splurge on some Twix, but I saw how cheap gas had gone down, and figured if my MOm and/or sister were down to NOTHING, I could help them pay for as much gas they could while it's cheap).

I already got one of the CDS in the mail - Chicago 17 - and I'm listening to it now. It's OK, not like I paid a lot for it ($2.99 w/ S&H from the Amazon Marketplace!!).

I look forward to receiving Joy Division's CLOSER, although I got it from some seller with 89% positive feedback, so I'll be lucky if it shows up in good time, or at all...it's a European import, since for some reason USA manufacturers are no longer producing copies of it that don't come with a bonus CD, which is fine; I would spring for the 2 disc edition, but why? the 2nd disc is just some live performances, which are OK, but nothing to pay an extra $10 for...basically, the original album, without all this excess flash, is OOP in the USA. I'm not sure if the seller I bought from will ship the European import, but the listing page (I think) specified that it was from Europe...the seller very well may ship an Argentina import, since, for some weird reason, they tend to sell pretty cheap, at least at USA-based internet retailers.

gosh, I can't think of much else to say...

toodles