TV on DVD

Semi-random decision for this week: I think I'm going to stop buying TV shows on DVD. Because it's becoming painfully obvious that the only real reason I do that anymore is for the purpose of collection, which seems pretty silly. When I bought the first couple seasons of House and the first four of One Tree Hill it was with purpose. I had gotten into those shows way late and needed to catch up. But every time I go into Best Buy I look at that last season of House and wonder if I should pay for it. I saw every episode when it was on, it's really really unlikely I ever break them out to watch again, so if I bought it I'd really be buying it just to have it. Sort of the same with the last season of One Tree Hill. Definitely had to buy it if for no other reason than to have the cameos from me and the Kissicks. But I bought it in September, and I didn't even open it until December when I had some time and decided to browse the special features. I think my money would be better spent buying shows that I've never seen but there's a good chance I'd like, rather than buying episodes I've already watched. Like The Shield. Had never seen a minute of it, but I'd heard it spoken of and decided to take a chance on it. And now it's a month later and I'm almost into the sixth season. (But, I didn't buy those either. Got the first season for Christmas and after that has been ddownloads. Moral dilemma.)

Other updates: I am horrible at predicting MMA fights. I actually ordered the UFC 94 pay-per-view because the card was so good and it really felt worth supporting. And it really was a good show. No buyer's remorse. But only one of my picks panned out. Machida, who dominated, and who is getting a lot more love now, which is for the good. But I never expected GSP to destroy Penn like that, and really didn't expect Guida to lay it on Diaz. And I had no idea who Jon Jones was, but I do now. Too bad for Stephan Bonnar. Last weekend I also got Lethal Weapon 2 and half of Lethal Weapon 3 watched with my breakfast viewings. Is it just me or do the sequels get zanier and zanier? Probably going to get through the rest of 3 and watch 4 this weekend. I'm still upset with myself that I didn't finish 3 last weekend. I just ran out of time. There were like six times during the Super Bowl though that I thought I would turn it on, but I had problems turning off the game. I wasn't even paying that much attention to it until the 4th quarter. 4th quarter was a pretty nice reward though.

Oh, one thing I'm looking forward to for 2009 is paying a lot of attention to whoever Soulbounce tells me to pay attention to. The last few weeks I've bought (on cd unfortunately) the Jazzanova, Reel People, and Foreign Exchange albums from last year. And I went through all of last year pretty much thinking nothing good was coming out of music, and there's three records that are really great. I also got the new Platinum Pied Pipers (LP!) which is fantastic. I like this whole modern-producers-making-throwback-soul trend that's going on. I can buy into it. Also got the new AC Newman LP. Didn't exactly blow my skirt up, but it's good. Don't think the new one has anywhere near as much energy as The Slow Wonder did or as most of his New Pornos stuff does, but neither did the last New Pornos. I guess it's just what he's doing now. I have to hand it to him, he's nailed his own set of characteristics that make his songs distinctively his. I guess other people can sing them, but there's really no mistaking an song that he's written. On the horizon, just bought an LP by The Points, mostly because a buddy of mine from work recorded it in his home studio. It's pretty good, something I would have been a lot more into back in college. He played me the demos when he was making them and I enjoyed it, so it's worth the buy. Next week I should be getting the live Astral Weeks in the mail, which I'm really curious to hear. And also looking forward to this tribute to Q-Tip mixtape thing Soulbounce reported on yesterday. The De La version of "Excursions" they posted was unreal, so I'm looking forward to checking that out. Mixtapes are something I have to explore more. I don't really even understand what they're all about, but I've listened to a few in the past couple months that have been fine listens.