The Take
This Christmas saw the addition of 53 titles to my DVD collection. Here they are:
- 9 to 5
- A View to a Kill
- Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy
- Batman
- Batman Returns
- Blade Runner
- Dial M For Murder
- Diamonds Are Forever
- Die Another Day
- Dr. No
- Family Plot
- Foreign Correspondent
- For Your Eyes Only
- Frenzy
- From Russia with Love
- Goldeneye
- Goldfinger
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- I Confess
- License to Kill
- Live and Let Die
- Marnie
- Moonraker
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941, d:Hitchcock)
- North by Northwest
- Octopussy
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- Psycho
- Ratatouille
- Rear Window
- Rope
- Saboteur
- Shadow of a Doubt
- Stage Fright
- Strangers on a Train
- Suspicion
- The Birds
- The Living Daylights
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955)
- The Man with the Golden Gun
- The Queen
- The Quick and the Dead
- The Spy Who Loved Me
- The Trouble with Harry
- The World Is Not Enough
- The Wrong Man
- Thunderball
- Tomorrow Never Dies
- Topaz
- Torn Curtain
- Vertigo
- Witness for the Prosecution
- You Only Live Twice
You will notice all the James Bond films (excluding Casino Royale (2006), which I already own, and Casino Royale (1967) and Never Say Never Again, which don’t count) and a large number of Hitchcock films. I received the James Bond Ultimate Collection and two Hitchcock collections which account for the atrociously large title count this year.
I also received several other lovelies, including a Linux-based wireless router, new 7.1 speakers and sound card for my desktop, a 250GB portable hard drive, and the PC game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I also received a positively scrumptious black wool peacoat.
Shadow of a Doubt and Rope are two of my favorite Hitchcock movies. Particularly the first one. I’m now inspired to expand our movie collection.
How do manage to watch *all* those movies and do other things that need to be done as well... like eat, work, read, write, socialize with friends, sleep, etc.! There are only 24 hours in a day, you know?
I know even Einstein had only 24 hours each day, but I really think I need more.
I sleep only 6 hours a night and have no friends.
I also live alone and have no official dining furniture. I can usually be found multitasking by eating, watching a film, reading for class, and working on the computer, all at the same time.
It will still take me several months to get through everything from this Christmas, though. I should be done watching all of them just in time for my birthday in mid-May.
Hint, hint.