In December of 1997 my sister called me and asked me if I wanted to go to Best Buy with her to get a DVD player for Ed. I really had little to no idea what a dvd player was, but I left the store with a player of my own. It was a $400 Panasonic and still works great! I remember that one of the selling points to a DVD player was the fact that ALL the movies were presented in widescreen, which at the time was very rare on home video. I would buy any movie on VHS if it was in Letterbox. I even own Last of the Mohicans on VHS cause it was available in widescreen.
When I purchased the DVD player I had owned every 007 at the time with the exception of Tomorrow Never Dies. The only reason I did not own it, was because it was not available on VHS. I remember that it was the prime candidate for my first DVD. I remember looking at the back of the DVD case and seeing all the features. It had so much stuff on it that I did not think that the movie was on it. I thought that it may be some sort of promotional thing for when the movie came out. Then I found out from Dylan that not only was all of that stuff was included with the film, but it was all on one disc. I WAS SOLD.
In the last 12 years I have purchased a lot of dvds. Now that I have a Blu-ray player, i have been spending a lot of time not giving a rat's ass about DVDS. I never watch them. With the exception of a handful of tv shows, I will probably never watch a dvd ever. So I have decided to sell off some of my 700+ dvds and replace them with Blu-Ray movies.
It has been pretty rad! I am up to something like 80 Blu-ray movies. A lot of those are from birthday and christmas presents and trades. I knew when Blu-ray came out that I would want one, but i never thought that Stevi would have been the instigator of purchasing the Blu-ray player and the HD TV. Even though I knew that Blu-ray was gonna be awesome, I never thought that I would be as excited about the transition of DVD to Blu-ray as I was for VHS to DVD, but that is how I feel. Blu-Ray is sweet. you should totally get one if you don't have it.
My shelf that housed my DVDs is no longer doubled up. I have gotten rid of a lot of DVDs, but don't regret it.
I am not sure what the point of this blog entry is, but technology is awesome!
Here are my top ten favorite Arnold films of all time!
I have to tell you, that I am pretty fired up for LOST tonight, but at the same time a little sad. Much like Charlie knowing that he was going to die toward the end of season 3, it is sad knowing that we are coming to the end of the show. Although I am glad that the producers are getting to tell the story that they want to tell, I am not looking forward to all of these characters being expendable. Since day one I always said,"I hope that Hurley makes it all the way to the end". Well, with the end drawing near it means that no matter what happens, these characters are all gonna be gone. I hope that this season and the rest of the series blows me away all the way until the end!
You ever watch Diners, Drive Ins and Dives? You ever notice how on that show anytime they do a montage of people trying the different foods that they add the sound of a fork clicking the teeth? I really like that show, but that stupid click sound diner, dines and drives me up the wall!! I don't remember the first time I noticed it, but it happens all the time. They have some sound engineer that puts that in every time, for some unknown reason.
In December of 1997 my sister called me and asked me if I wanted to go to Best Buy with her to get a DVD player for Ed. I really had little to no idea what a dvd player was, but I left the store with a player of my own. It was a $400 Panasonic and still works great! I remember that one of the selling points to a DVD player was the fact that ALL the movies were presented in widescreen, which at the time was very rare on home video. I would buy any movie on VHS if it was in Letterbox. I even own Last of the Mohicans on VHS cause it was available in widescreen. 
THIS is the ringtone that is on the cell phone used by the main character in Crank, Chev Chelios. For the last three years, this has also been my ringtone! I think when Crank 2 comes out, I will play my ringtone before the movie starts a bunch of times. I won't interrupt anything, I will just do it during that stupid National Guard "Three Doors Down" propaganda commercial. I will do it enough so people get it stuck in their head. Then, once the movie starts, they will be all irritated cause they think that it is my phone going off during the movie, only to realise that someone in the crowd is a bigger Crank fan than they are!!!
