I'm tired. Really tired. Not that kind of tired where you have been working too hard or not gotten enough sleep, as neither of those can accurately label my situation. Just that tired-all-the-time kind of tired. I mentioned last time that I had a sore throat. I didn't really think much of it and thought that it'd just go away, but it's been lingering. So I have next to no energy which has caused me to keep putting off posting here.
I bought a few new DVDs this week and have an interesting story to tell. Kill Bill Vol. 1 was prime amongst the new purchases, and I don't have much to say about it since everyone knows by now that it's a great movie. Though I have to say that I'm slightly surprised with how popular it is since so much of what makes it great is derived from other movie genres that most average movie-watchers don't know and/or care about. Like the whole Shaw Bros. reference at the very beginning. One in a million people are going to get that.
I also bought the new release of classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes from 1987. You know how sometimes when you think the things in your childhood were so great, and then you got back and see them again and actually see how stupid they are? Well that.... did not happen here! Those episodes still hold up well today. I loved them. I still remember, very clearly, watching these episodes the first time back in the day, and it's just a total blast to see them again.
The final purchase was the 2 disk version of Blade II. A new, cheaper single disk edition was released recently, and the 2 disk version has been getting tougher to find, so when I found a few copies at the local Best Buy, I thought it best to finally snap one up. Here's where it gets weird. I noticed when I got home and opened it how it was wrapped in shrinkwrap, not the usual plastic film, though it still had a security sticker on the side. When I took a look inside, the first disk had Chinese writing on it. The hell? It was a bootleg. I bought a Chinese bootleg DVD inside a legitimate case from a real mass market retailer. What's even weirder is that the second disk was not a bootleg. I got it exchanged for a "real" one (also packaged in shrinkwrap, strangely), and the people I talked to there scratched their heads and had a few laughs. But still I have to wonder, what was the story behind how that bootleg got there in the first place? We'll probably never know.
And that's been about the extent of the excitement in my life.