Welcome to this week’s DVD Diggers, now celebrating our first missed week.
That’s one of the big disadvantages about working for a website post dot-com boom, especially a web site like this. You have to do something like this for the fun of it, because it’s something you enjoy. Unfortunately that also means you have to have more in your life then just the writing - somehow you have to pay the bills. Not all of us get to live completely off our dream, doing what we enjoy for a living and huckstering people into paying for our computers (I’m looking in your direction Scott Kurtz!) I’ve been thinking more and more lately how much it stinks that jobs dictate so much of our lives. Something we do to pay the bills ends up defining how we dress, how we act, and where we are most of the time. It’s almost enough to make me want to go find some minimum wage job where I can grow my hair long and shower as infrequently as I want... Actually, I probably wouldn’t change the shower thing. Some things aren’t dictated by a job as much as by common sense.
It’s a real shame to have missed last week, when there were some great releases to talk about, including my favorite television show, “Arrested Development”. This week is pretty crummy, with most of the good releases just being Superbit versions of DVD releases that are already out. Sure, you’ve got some bigger films like Mulan, Dawn of the Dead, and White Chicks, but other then those it’s a really low week.
The First DVD Diggers Contest Winner!
As you should have read several weeks ago, DVD Diggers ran its first contest, giving away a gorgeous piece of Mulan artwork. Well, it’s time the winner was announced.
Congratulations to Adina Weinstein of Fair Lawn, New Jersey! This beautiful piece of artwork should be on its way to you shortly.
Last Day Comes... Run Runner
So if my opening schpiel isn’t waxing philosophical enough, I thought I’d get a bit personal in this week’s column. With nothing really big to talk about release wise, I thought I’d face the inevitable - I’m turning thirty.
That’s right, before the week is done, I’ll be writing my age with a new number in the first column. As much as I’ve tried to avoid being depressed by that, it’s grabbed hold of me, especially as I’m reminded how much younger then me the rest of the world seems to be at times. It doesn’t help when people refer to “Part of Your World” as Classic Disney, and remind me they were 4 when a movie came out in 1990. (Ouch!) It means I’m turning into the creepy old guy in the action figure aisle in Toys ‘R’ Us, instead of the hip collector, and as was pointed out on the CB Forums lately, eighteen year old girls are right out once you’re thirty.
To help me deal with my trauma is one of my favorite movies, a film that’s not coming out in a new release, but I want to point out to everybody anyway. Free Enterprise is the essential geeks guide to turning thirty. Mark Altman and Robert Meyer Burnett weave a great semi-autobiographical tale with realistic dialogue and some great character moments. I mean, the film has everything - Star Trek references, Logan’s Run references, comic books, and The Artist Formerly Known As Bill aka William Shatner, who does a great rap version of Julius Caesar. If you’re under thirty and a sci-fi geek, I highly recommend it. If you’re over thirty, I still recommend it, but it might be more of a reminder of your youth then a poignant guide to the new crisis of your life.
That does it for me this week. I’ll see you when I’m thirty... if I’ve managed out outrun the Sandmen.
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