DVD Deluge!

[thewayne]

In case you didn't know, a lot of Sam Goody's music stores are in their death throes, I believe they have about three weeks until they close for good. This includes a number of Suncoast stores, the parent company filed bankruptcy in January and was bought out in February. Well, me wife and me were at the mall in Las Cruces today and unfortunately walked by it. All DVDs, well, everything in the store, was a minimum 50% off tagged price.

They had six racks of DVDs.

They'd been pretty well picked over, but since my wife and I have such eclectic taste in flics, it wasn't difficult to spend $100. Oh, and movies were 60% off if you bought four or more.

We ended up with:
Benny Hill, Complete and Unadulterated, Set 1, '69-71 (9 hrs, 10 minutes+)
Benny Hill, The Lost Years (2.5 hrs+)
Chef! Series 1 (205 minutes)
The Fifth Element Ultimate Edition (2 hrs)
Moonlighting Seasons 1 & 2 (20 hrs)
Remington Steele Season 1 (1078 minutes)
At Last the 1948 Show (172 minutes)

That's 58 HOURS of material!

For $100!

Russet spotted Chef and Remington Steele, I was absolutely amazed to find the 1948 show. For those not in the know, that program is some of John Cleese and Graham Chapman's first work on television. It predates Monty Python and also features Marty Feldman and is produced by David Frost! And I had absolutely no idea that it existed on DVD.

This deserves a big

SQUEE!

They also had A LOT of anime, including Samurai 7 and Steam Boy, they also had the deluxe Steam Boy boxed set. I could have easily spent another C note, but what we got was a darn good collection for the price.

SO, if you have a Sam Goody near you and like DVD, GO! Do not stop, do not collect $200 (unless it's from the ATM machine), just GO! Spend time patiently going through the racks and you might find some good stuff. I'm not going to bother talking about anything else that they have as selection per store is going to vary wildly. And obviously it's possible that the Goody or Suncoast near you might not be closing, so good luck and good hunting!


Like we have time to watch all this! We just started watching SG:1 at season 1, episode 1. And we have four seasons of it!

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[vasco-pyjama.livejournal.com]

Me today:

Alias - season 3

Nip Tuck - season 1

$20.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I was hoping to get Alias S1, but we had enough stuff. We're waiting for Stargate: Atlantis S1 later this year (probably November, considering when they released season 1), I'd like to get Battlestar Gallactica S1, but that's a little pricey right now.

[vasco-pyjama.livejournal.com]

Ooooooh.... You scifi geek you. I'm waiting for Enterprise to come out here in Kabul. There seems to only be Voyager.

I have no life...

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Well, I've never watched SG:A before. I sorta liked the Stargate movie with Kurt Russel, but I'm not a real fan of the Egyptian trappings, so I never followed it hard-core.

My wife went to a fanfic/slash convention in CA back in February and got hooked on SG:A, in fact, she brought home SG:A first season, which we've watched. She already had SG:1 seasons 1-4, so we'll be working our way through those.

I've been an SF geek for probably around 30 years or so, starting with buying shopping bags of Analog magazine from a used bookstore not far from home. I even did film programming for science fiction conventions, local and one out of state.

[vasco-pyjama.livejournal.com]

You've been a scifi geek for longer than I have been out of nappies? That's just wrong!

Yeah, I'm not a fan of Stargate. LIke you, I don't really have an Egypt thing happening. But I LOVE Star Trek with its ethical dilemmas (Jean Luc Picard in ponderous pose). You know... the 'shall we violate the Prime Directive'?

With me, my scifi geekdom was hereditary... passed down from my father. My brothers got the gene too. And tis contagious. I passed it on to my ex-husband and his daughters. Heh.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Very cool! I do so love corrupting others.

Yeah, I go back pretty far, but I know others who go farther, I'm 44 and I have friends in the 50's and 60's who have been SF geeks longer than I've been alive (perhaps one of these days I'll grow up). I read Gordon Dickson's Dorsai in short story form, same with Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game.

Lots of good memories.

I've also met a few authors. Harry Harrison, spent a good hour talking with him one-on-one. Also met Fred Saberhagen. But the best people whom I was privileged to meet were L Sprague DeCamp and his wife. They were the most wonderful, gracious people whom I have met. Just fantastic people. Reminded me of my honorary grandma.

I've met a few others, I used to work with Jennifer Roberson and some guy who wrote an awful lot of Star Wars paperbacks, a couple of people involved in Holleywood (Greg Jain, modelmaker and Mike "The Wizard of Speed and Time" Jitlov), and an occasional artist like cardigirl. I think I met Jerry Pournelle once, wasn't impressed.

'Tis the benefit of working at SF conventions, you get to meet guests in the green room!

[vasco-pyjama.livejournal.com]

Waaa.... like totally the scifi community. Yeah, I have read Ender's Game. I think I have also read everything that Greg Bear ever wrote. And yeah, I'm a cyberpunk fan.

I dunno.... I think you have a lot more scifi street cred than I do. :)

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

LOL. I think my street cred is long past the expiry date. It's been probably 15 years since I worked at a convention. It used to be that there was a major con coming to Phoenix every 3-4 years, but they all went away. There were allegations that we trashed hotels which were largely unfounded, but it made it very difficult to hold conventions.

Cons went on in out of the way places. For example, a "Phoenix" convention was held in Casa Grande, which is a good hours drive away. The last major con they had was a WesterCon and it was held about 20 miles West of Phx. The problem is in trying to get multiple hotels near each other booked at the same time in order to accomodate the really major cons, i.e. attendance > 1000. Without hotel clusters, the largest manageable is in the 3-600 range.

I used to attend San Diego ComicCon, wonderful convention, lots of media presence. The full casts to programs like SG:A, Battlestar Gallactica, FarScape, etc. would show up. I met the cast to Babylon 5 there, got autographs on a Victoria's Secret bag, too. Harlan Ellison was there for that panel but split right after it ended. But that convention has gotten flat-out insane. The entire list of hotels sells out within a matter of hours after going online. Believe it or not, last year saw 104,000 people pass through the door.

But that convention has gotten just too f*ing big. I'm hoping the wife and I can go to DragonCon in Atlanta. Considerably smaller than ComicCon, but still a big convention and lots of fun. http://dailydragon.dragoncon.net/ They have a costumed parade down a city street, over 900 people last year in costume. And Atlanta is still a "foreign" city for me, I know San Diego quite well by now (and still love it and recommend it), but I've only had about two weeks in Atlanta at this point.


Anyway, this reply has gotten WAAAY too long with my maudlin memories!