About Chocolate Parfaits

Of course I am not entirely going to hold to this; if I happen to see some really nice DVD that I find interesting and want to buy, I would go ahead and get it. But I bought so much lately that I know I am going to stop until I get out of the country.

At Zweitausendeins, I got:
The General: 3 euro

At Saturn, I got:
Punch-Drunk Love: 3,50 euro
Atonement: 5 euro
Le petit soldat: 4 euro

I am actually not super-interested in Punch-Drunk Love, but it still got me interested. And *tadamm* I just put a huge order on Amazon, namely:
Cactus Flower: 6,66 euro
Blow Up: 5 euro
Bug: 5 euro
Wait Until Dark: 5 euro
Time to Live and Time to Die: 8 euro
Jim Jarmusch Collection: 48 euro
I don’t usually spend 77,50 euro easily on things, and I perfectly know that this is a slightly irrational attitude. After all, I am sure that I have spent way more than this amount on DVDs until now, and with an average of just 5,5 euro per DVD I have no reason to complain. Nevertheless, I have accumulated over 40 DVDs to watch now

Killing your backlog is a psychologically difficult thing to do, but some postings are so simple that they are downright fun: Here’s the next bunch of DVDs I got!
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days: 7 euro
- Cruel Intentions: 7 euro
- Good Will Hunting: 5 euro
- Kontroll: 7 euro
I have spent a bit more money on these DVDs compared to my previous lot of purchases, but except “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” (which was brilliant!) they are films from my childhood that I used to absolutely love. And hey, 7 euro is not all that bad either, methinks.

While I was randomly browsing Amazon.de, I realized that the Jim Jarmusch box has become less expensive again. God knows why, and I am wondering (as always!) whether I should wait a little longer until the box becomes even less expensive, considering that I won’t be watching any of those movies anytime soon… If this is not exciting, I wonder what is!

It’s been ages since I bought DVDs, but now that the Saturn at Berlin Alexanderplatz has re-opened, it feels like my DVD collection has doubled in size. Here we are:
- Good Bye Lenin!: 3 euro
- Forrest Gump: 5 euro
- The Science of Sleep: 5 euro
- Blade Runner: 5 euro
- La Haine: 5 euro

Furthermore, Pixelmatsch has also bought a few movies, namely:
- Scoop: 6 euros
- Full Metal Jacket: 5 euros
- A Clockwork Orange: 5 euros

Later on, I went back to the shop to get myself:
- Closer: 6 euro
- L.A. Confidential (2-disc version): 3 euro
- Goodfellas: 3 euro

Since the prices were so low, I actually have not seen quite a few of these movies (while I usually tend to buy DVDs of movies that I really like). And so I still have to watch “L.A. Confidential”, “Goodfellas”, “A Clockwork Orange”, “Blade Runner” and “La Haine”.

Furthermore, right before going to sleep, I went to Amazon and got a few more DVDs which I will post about when they arrive… ahhh.

Well, I am particularily am thinking of the one particular film I have watched in my adolescence, ahahaha! When Shii and I were collecting things we want for this “Get 4 pay 3″ and “Get 5 pay 4″ special, I just had to get these. I actually also found a CD… I also got myself the Absolution Tour, why am I such a Muse fangirl?

As usual, here’s the run-down:
- Black Holes and Revelations: 6 euro
- Clueless: 4 euro
- Frida: 6 euro
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding: 6 euro

I actually completely forgot to blog about “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”! It was very funny and I liked it a lot for the little hilarious details. My favourite scene was the one in which the protagonist’s mother and aunt try to get her father to let her take over their travel agency. “We have to make him believe that it was his idea.” Hohohoho! I love this film.
“Frida” was an old favourite as well. I have never known anything about Frida Kahlo before, and when I watched it in the movie theaters back then I thought it was a good portrait of her life.

So, speaking of new things, I have also re-arranged the posters in my room and added two “posters” from the Babylon exhibition in Berlin. I have liked the floor plan that they gave out for the visitors so much that I decided to put them onto my walls :3 Actually this makes me want a floor plan of the Louvre now.
The blue rectangle is a poster of Yves Klein’s monochrome. I had it vertically in my room until I decided to re-interpret it: Now, it’s a blue screen. *hrr hrr* (Actually the idea of calling it a “blue screen” came after I had the poster over my door XD)

So, here are the covers of my next little rush of DVDs. Honestly I think that with films, the cover says nothing. I think the cover of Amelie is okayish and the one of Before Sunrise plain horrible. I also kind of dislike the cover of “Life as a House”, but that’s not a particularily great movie anyways, I admit that I only bought that one out of nostalgy.
All in all, I’m very glad to have purchased these though, especially for the price :3 Here’s the rundown:
- Before Sunrise: 6 euro
- Before Sunset: 6 euro
- A Fish Called Wanda: 4 euro
- Life as a House: 6 euro
- Amélie: 5 euro

Because of the horrible light conditions, it took me an eternity to take a decent picture of my DVDs as a whole. As you can easily see, I barely have any! I wouldn’t even call it a collection – I have way more favourite movies than DVDs XD More than that, all these DVDs are german, we also have whole bunch of chinese DVDs which I will not put on display here. What is missing on this picture are a video of “Magnolia”, my DVD of “Night on Earth” and all the copied DVDs. (And I have 16 of them O.o)
What really bugs me about this ‘collection’ is the same as with books. Sometimes you have to tilt your head towards the left and sometimes to the right to read the titles. I have a tilting-my-head-complex, like other people have a symmetry complex XXXD

I wonder if I actually ever have bought more than one DVD at a time. I’m probably a horribly economic person who feels guilty when spending more than 20 euro at a time. On the other hand, I spend quite a lot of the rare occasions I go out with friends, eek. In that respect, the 23 euros I ended up spending on this is absolutely nothing. After all, I think I got some gems here.

So, there is:
- The Dreamers: 8 euro
- Ninotchka: 3 euro
- Lost in Translation: 6 euro
- The Butterfly Effect (premium limited edition, eek XD): 6 euro

Also notice my sweet pink bed sheet and a leg of a Tachikoma :3

Of course, the purchase of “The Dreamers” initiated this shopping spree – I really wanted to see the movie again (and I did), and actually this just makes me want to hunt down more stores for cheap DVDs, tehe.
“Ninotchka” was so incredibly cheap and I actually enjoyed the film. Also, I somewhat want to see it in german, haha. “Lost in Translation” is just a must-buy one day and 6 euro is the limit for what I would buy it – then again, there were nice extras. “The Butterfly” has a great price for an edition that includes the Director’s Cut which I was quite interested in. And finally, “The Dreamers” also has some sweet extras and actually is a film that I most definitely will watch another time in my life. Maybe the day when I feel that “The Dreamers” is too immature for me and I am too old for it.

On a side note, I actually also bought some more DVDs on Amazon… which will come in another posting over the weekend. Oh gosh. XD