I'd Buy That DVD for...Somewhere in the Neighborhood of $5

Salvation Army thrift store today:

My So-Called Life complete series (6 disks) - $1.40
Burn To Shine, Seattle WA, 01.27.07 (some music performance series thing where people/bands play in buildings about to be torn down) - $1.40

Ronald McDonald House rummage sale:
Volumes 1-3 of Beavis and Butthead ("the Mike Judge collection"), $2 each

Salvation Army thrift store:
Get Smart season 1, $2

first scene of the get smart pilot is hilarious today

Amazon is selling the complete Resident Evil series on Blu-Ray (six movies) for $5.96.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPUPaxgIo98

xp damn, i would've bit on that for $6!

Goodwill thrift store today:
These for $1.50 each (half price on green tags).
Grave of the Fireflies
Burn After Reading
Tales From the Gimli Hospital (score!)

$3 each
Total Recall
POPaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English

And a box set for $6
Undecided (4 disks, the whole series) I loved Freaks and Geeks but don't remember watching much of this.

It's up and down, obviously not as good as F&G but has its moments

I think I did start watching it but didn't continue, either because I didn't think it was worth it or just had other things to do (pre-online/DVR era).

i've seen a few Resident Evil movies in my day. they were some fun trash!

Kung Fu Panda 3 for £4.99. It will now almost certainly be on TV at Christmas.

Satantango, all 432 minutes of it, for 5 quid in fopp yesterday.

(lots of other favourites in there as well, things i already have for much cheaper than i paid for them)

Thrift store,
Persepolis, $3
Dancer In The Dark, $3
Louis CK - Hilarious, $2
Sarah Silverman Program - season two volume 1, $2

I finally own a Blu-Ray player (Christmas gift), so now I have to fight the temptation to (insanely) start re-buying stuff I already have on DVD. Bought four new ones today for $5 each: The Social Network, Third Person, State of Play, and J. Edgar. Three of them I already own. The last one, I don't even like.

That's how I was when I got my first CD player.

God yes, I'm pretty sure I bought the first Simply Red album. Literally have not thought about that in 30 years.

The only time this temptation will kick in is when it's something cheap. I'd never buy something at full price because I think the Blu-Ray's going to be significantly better than the DVD I have--I just don't have the eye for that, and even if I did, I still wouldn't do it. When something's dirt-cheap, though, I'm suddenly "J. Edgar? Geez, I hated that--but it's only $5!"

(It's like a variation on the bad-restaurant joke Woody Allen tells in Annie Hall.)

Thrift store for a dollar.

Don't Be Afraid To Pogo - documentary on the LA punk band The Gears.

pictures
the shooting
cassavetes collection
the exterminating angel
the 39 steps (criterion)

Big Lots 20% off day;

Starship Troopers, $2.40
Martha Marcy May Marlene, $2.40
The Big Sleep, $4
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (2 disks), $4
Arrested Development season 4, $6.40 I've never seen a season 4 set before, and here's a cheap one.

On the way back home stopped at Goodwill,
The Science of Sleep, $4

WalMart, $9.97

The Midnight Special Collection (6-disc condensed set of the subscription series, appears to be missing the comedian clips and some music featured on those discs)

Goodwill today:
American Movie, $3

Other thrift store:
Factory Girl (uncut edition), $2

thrift stores: (1.99 to 2.99 a pop)
There Will Be blood (2-disc)
Hot Fuzz (3 discs for some reason)
For a Few Dollars More (2 disc)
Total Recall (sealed Blu-ray)
Mulholland Dr.
The Thin Red Line

Blu-rays, $5 each: Boyhood, Daughter, Third Person, Winter Sleep

DVDs, $5: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 8 Seconds, Ivory Tower

DVDs, $3: Peggy Sue Got Married, Virginia, The Fall of an Angel, 400 Days, Marie and Bruce, It Follows, The Lobster, The Riot Club

Also bought a couple of Boyhood DVDs for $3--cheap future gifts for two lucky people.

Half-Price Books, $2 (used):

Inherent Vice

Thrift store, $3 each

Jackie Brown (2-disk edition)
Singin' In The Rain

Picked up a new BR copy of Your Name at the local overstock liquidators for less than $10. Also Ariel Pink's Pom Pom on 2LP vinyl for $5 (snagged 2 copies of that one, tbh; one to sell & one to keep). The vinyl was mixed in with a pallet load of dog shit calendars, just the 2 APs and one lonely copy of something by Panic! at the Disco, its cover oddly reminiscent of Ogden's Nut Gone Flake.

Weird, cuz their stock is usually limited to expired snack experiments and huge loafers. They had Baby Driver too, but...

the passenger
odd man out/victim/this sporting life
dead reckoning/in a lonely place/the harder they fall
quatermass & the pit/the nanny/dracula: prince of darkness/frankenstein created woman/the devil rides out

Swap meet today, $1 each. And while I appreciate the low prices for used DVDs these days, I can't help but think this portends that new DVDs won't be released as much as before, and re-sellers will give up trying to make money selling used disks. There was a guy that had a very large catalog of disks that sold here but he's been gone for over a year. He charged $4 or $5 per disk but there was good depth in his bins.

Shopgirl
Brokedown Palace
SNL Best Of Phil Hartman

(mini Claire Danes fest)

Goodwill, $3.99 each (used):

Mr. Show Seasons 1+2
Mr. Show Season 4

$2 - used, unscratched copy of The Bourne Identity in the extended cut (big whoop)

Bigger, Longer, Bourneier

97p (plus postage) for a copy on Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August from Amazon marketplace.

About £3 (plus postage) for Kurosawa's Scandal (ditto)

The last two I need won't be as easy (Dreams has just been reissued but is expensive and The Idiot is oop)

Documentaries, $2.99 each:

Arranged, Cutie and the Boxer, Iraq in Fragments, Mr. Gaga, Watermark

It's supposed to be very good, but Cutie and the Boxer is such a terrible title.

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (PS3)
Mass Effect 3 (PS3)

both cib each for $5 at goodwill

Video games?

Best thing I got recently was a used copy of Robert Drew's Primary, his Kennedy-Humphrey film, for $3. I got it at a flea-market kiosk where I used to buy a lot of DVDs until they reconfigured their floor-space for...more vinyl.

Just ordered the Blu-Ray of Ridley Scott's The Counselor (screenplay by Cormac McCarthy) on eBay for $5. It's actually a 2 Blu-Ray set, because it includes a director's cut that's 20 minutes longer. Since it was one of the most baffling, insane movies I've ever sat through in a theater, I figured I'd check out the long version and see if it gets even weirder.

Picked up Ciao, Manhattan a couple weeks ago for $1.50.
I know it's trash, but such a low price! (thrift store half-price, because it had been on the shelves for a while).

The Spectacular Now, $3

ah, when Miles Teller was cute

I passed on The Best of Times (the Robin Williams/Kurt Russel movie) because I couldn't remember if it was supposed to be any good, and a couple of seasons of Frasier because I'm pretty sure the whole season is available for free On Demand. But mostly because I didn't want to break any large bills (also bought a book).

Was that Ciao, Manhattan the PlexiFilm edition? That was one of my first DVDs. A nice faux-Criterion edition with some great bounses, particularly the deleted scenes. You get to see Paul America throw his script away and speed off set in a sports car, a party scene that the director appeared in but doesn't remember (in the commentary, the interviewer notes the huge toke he took off a joint on-camera and says, "that's why!"), and footage from this big be-in thing with Allen Ginsberg and Uma Thurman's parents.

Got a documentary on Haskell Wexler for $3 today.

Just received a sealed copy of Six Films By Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Homo Sapiens 2016, Over the Years 2015, Abendland 2011, Our Daily Bread blu ray, Elsewhere 2001, Pripyat 1999) for $8.42 (normally, $45). Post-human non-verbal apocalypse, here I come.

How??!?

MK: surprise "used" sale on my Amz wishlist.

Was that Ciao, Manhattan the PlexiFilm edition? ...

― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain)

It is! The 30th anniversary edition, per the cover.I guess I made out better than I thought.

Half-Price Books, $1.60:

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