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I went to Best Buy tonight to pick up the Monk season 1 DVD set...I didn't see it anywhere, so I got the Joe Schmo show set instead. I liked that show a lot, and I wanted the set as it is, so I picked it up. I also got Reno 911, season 1 DVD set and that 12 disc set of 50 classic horror movies (listing of the movies on it here.)

I spent $91 on these 3 sets, and I still want to get Monk season 1 sometime. Just to share, a few other sets I want to get:

Quantum Leap season 1
Party Of Five season 1
Profiler seasons 1 and 2
The Young Ones (entire series)
The Dead Zone seasons 1 and 2
Dilbert (entire series)
Father Ted vols 1, 2, and 3 (entire series)
Law and Order (the first year)
Family Guy and Futurama DVD sets
Kingdom Hospital (which I think comes out this fall)
Homicide: Life on the Streets (whatever seasons they have available right now)

There are some other sets I want, but there are a few I can remember off the top of my head right now. I also want to get the movie Dead Man on Campus on DVD, because I love that movie, and I could watch it everyday. That movie, and the film- PCU, because it's hilarious and I could watch it all the time as well.

Anyhow...I went with my mom and aunts and uncles tonight to this sock hop thing that I guess is part of the Freedom/Thunder Festival in the city. It's been around forever, and it culminates with the 4th of July fireworks- well, I guess it first culminates with the Thunder on the Ohio hydroplane races and then there's the 4th of July fireworks stuff going on the next week or whatever. They have food booths set up all down Riverside Drive, pretty good- what I had...tho the steak and cheese was impossible to eat, the paper they put it in melted with the heat of the sandwich and started pouring out into the street and onto my hands (HOT!!!), and then my hands were totally greasy until I got back to the casino (the thing was right outside of it) into the bathrooms to wash my hands- only to run into some crazy guy who was mumbling nonsense and singing...with his pants down at the sink- that was rather frightening. Anyhow, it was Mike Harvey from Super Gold, the nationally syndicated oldies radio show, who hosted it. It wasn't all that boring- tho, of course, I just sat there and watched mostly old and some young people dancing like they were high on drugs...and Mike up there on stage, standing at this podium thing, giving tid bits of info. between songs, telling the history of various rock and roll music- and during the songs, sorta dancing and mouthing the words- since he has clearly heard all of these songs a million times more than anyone else on earth. Anyhow- he comes every year and does the same sock hop thing, and I have been a few times before...so it wasn't all too boring or anything. Plus, unlike most years, it was cool tonight and there was a nice breeze.

So, we came home, and I put in the Joe Schmo DVD, and watched the series finale with the audio commentary- not too interesting the points they made, no big revelations or insights really, but who couldn't love Matt Kennedy Gould, so it was pretty cool. I was going thru some of the horror dvd's to see some of the movies on there- most of them are in black and white, which is fine...I like horror movies, and I'm always willing to expand my horizons and watch some old classic stuf.

I just put in Reno 911 before I sat down here, but I will be taping some of the stuff on the DVR onto VHS, so I can get more room on the thing- after I get a few series I love on tape, I won't be recording so much stuff, and I can catch up with it all. Only so much space on the box, and I don't want to lose any of the shows I have recorded. So, it'll probably be a couple more episodes of Pelswick added to the Pelswick tape and maybe an episode of Trust or maybe tonight's episode of Monk that is on there...we'll see how tired I am. I'll probably fall asleep to Dr. Katz set to repeat the 6 hour tape like I did this morning (I didn't sleep until about 9 AM since I was off work and wasn't tired last night at all.)

Work tomorrow...starting a new book, and finishing Kenneth Timmerman's book on anti-semitism around the world (Preachers of Hate)...which is interesting, and I'm nearly finished with it, so...I was thinking maybe I would check out some classic novels from the library and read a couple of them- if I can manage to do so without getting bored by it or whatever. We'll see about that...

Posted by Josh at June 26, 2004 12:47 AM | TrackBack