I will shortly be making my gloriatial and spectaculary return to regular substantive blogging. I have much in the way of Yuletide dramatics to relate. Topics will include:

The Bhutto Assassination
My Sister’s Graduation
My Sister’s Job Interview
Families & The Holidays
Gift-Giving

I will also be cleaning up all these half-finished movie reviews.

Posted by Qwertz at 4:01pm on 30 Dec | No Comments

This Christmas saw the addition of 53 titles to my DVD collection. Here they are:

1. 9 to 5
2. A View to a Kill
3. Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy
4. Batman
5. Batman Returns
6. Blade Runner
7. Dial M For Murder
8. Diamonds Are Forever
9. Die Another Day
10. Dr. No
11. Family Plot
12. Foreign Correspondent
13. For Your Eyes Only
14. Frenzy
15. From Russia with Love
16. Goldeneye
17. Goldfinger
18. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
19. I Confess
20. License to Kill
21. Live and Let Die
22. Marnie
23. Moonraker
24. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941, d:Hitchcock)
25. North by Northwest
26. Octopussy
27. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
28. Psycho
29. Ratatouille
30. Rear Window
31. Rope
32. Saboteur
33. Shadow of a Doubt
34. Stage Fright
35. Strangers on a Train
36. Suspicion
37. The Birds
38. The Living Daylights
39. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955)
40. The Man with the Golden Gun
41. The Queen
42. The Quick and the Dead
43. The Spy Who Loved Me
44. The Trouble with Harry
45. The World Is Not Enough
46. The Wrong Man
47. Thunderball
48. Tomorrow Never Dies
49. Topaz
50. Torn Curtain
51. Vertigo
52. Witness for the Prosecution
53. 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.

Posted by Qwertz at 3:55pm on 30 Dec | 3 Comments