Netflix - Not bad! Qwikster - uh, never mind...

Victim
Pale Flower
The Yakuza Papers
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Rockers
Blackmail Is My Life
Sanjuro
Street Mobster
The Tenant
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

My friend Ben is obsessed with Rockers. I have seen it maybe 4 or 5 times, all at his apartment, always high and at about 2 o'clock in the morning.

If you haven't seen the other eight movies on there I recommend renting them in this order:

(Tied) The Yakuza Papers
(Tied) The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Blackmail Is My Life
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Street Mobster
Sanjuro
Victim
Pale Flower

I can't tell you how much I regret saying this now.

And fuck knows what's on there right now as we usually go online to update it when drunk. Let's see shall we:

1 Grass
2 The West Wing-Complete Season 4 (Box Set)(Six Discs)(Disc 2)
3 Sliders - Season 1 And Season 2
5 Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey
6 The West Wing-Complete Season 4 (Box Set)(Six Discs)(Disc 3)
7 Bill Hicks - One Night Stand
8 The West Wing-Complete Season 4 (Box Set)(Six Discs)(Disc 4)
9 Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter And Spring
10 The West Wing-Complete Season 4 (Box Set)(Six Discs)(Disc 5)
11 The West Wing-Complete Season 4 (Box Set)(Six Discs)(Disc 6)
12 Star Trek - The Next Generation Season 3 (Disc 2)
13 Star Trek - The Next Generation Season 3 (Disc 4)
14 Shaolin And Wu Tang
15 Wu-Tang Clan - Disciples Of The 36th Chambers
16 The Sicilian
17 Wu Tang - Shaolin Drunkard
18 Wu-Tang Clan Presents Old Skool Kung Fu
19 The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes
20 Rumpole Of The Bailey - The Specials (Disc 2)
21 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
22 Chris Rock - Bigger And Blacker
23 Hoop Dreams
24 Stones Throw 101
25 Seven Samurai
26 Hidden Fortress
27 Curtis Mayfield - Montreux 1987
28 Sizzla - Blazing The Fire
29 Wild Style
30 Hip Hop Time Capsule
31 The Mills Brothers Story
32 Festen (The Celebration)
33 Anne Of Green Gables
34 Anne Of Green Gables - The Sequel
35 Big Trouble
36 Mumford
37 Innerspace
38 The Three Amigos
39 Le Nozze Di Figaro - Glyndebourne
40 Gang Law
41 Old School
42 The Water Margin - Vol. 1
43 The Way Of The Dragon
44 Wife Swap (Disc 1)
45 Ever Decreasing Circles
46 The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin - The Complete First Series
47 Mush Tour - Spring 2002
48 A Touch Of Zen
52 Eddie Murphy - The Best Of Saturday Night Live
53 Hildegard Von Bingen In Portrait (Disc 2)
54 Spike Lee - Clockers/Jungle Fever/Do The Right Thing (Disc 3)
55 Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Collector's Edition)
56 Dog Eat Dog
57 Osmosis Jones
58 Kal Ho Naa Ho
59 Seinfeld - Season 3 (Disc 1)
60 Broken Blossoms (Silent)
61 Quantum Leap - Season 1 (Disc 2)
62 Quantum Leap - Season 1 (Disc 3)
63 Repo Man
65 Airheads
66 Cool And Crazy
69 8 Masters / Blazing Temple
70 Goodfellas (Disc 2)
71 Alice In Wonderland
72 The Best Of Cook And Moore
73 Derek And Clive Get The Horn
74 The Hound Of The Baskervilles
75 Spaced (Definitive Collector's Edition) (Disc 1)
76 Spaced (Definitive Collector's Edition) (Disc 2)
77 Spaced (Definitive Collector\'s Edition) (Disc 3)
78 Big Train (Disc 1)
79 Big Train (Disc 2)
80 A Tribe Called Quest - Anthology
81 Frank Zappa - Does Humour Belong In Music ?
82 Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes
83 Kill Bill - Vol. 1

Crap, that's long. Sorry.

1 Along Came Polly
2 About Schmidt
3 Manhattan
4 Audition
5 The Magnificent Butcher
6 Actor's Revenge, An
7 A Better Tomorrow (Disc 1)
8 The Tin Drum
9 The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
10 Game Over: Kasparov And The Machine Buy now
11 Jean Renoir Box Set (Disc 2)
12 Aguirre Wrath of God
13 Fitzcarraldo
14 Storytelling
15 Das Experiment
16 The Fog Of War
17 Monsters Inc
18 Shrek 2
19 Tetsuo - The Iron Man
20 Fahrenheit 451
21 Jules Et Jim
22 The Cabinat Of Dr. Caligari (Silent)
23 Three Colours Blue
24 Once Upon A Time In The Midlands
25 A Room for Romeo Brass
26 Gosford Park
27 Some Like It Hot
28 The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes
29 Zatoichi
30 Kiki's Delivery Service
31 The Motorcycle Diaries
32 Hidden Fortress

Divine Trash
The Long Good Friday
The Apple

Can't Stop the Music is next!

Yay!!!!!

anybody want to be my netflix friend? send me and invite to jeff@gerousia.com

So I'm starting to consider Netflix. In the past, my problem was that I don't watch enough DVDs to justify a $17.99 per month fee (lately, it's been only a couple a month). But then I realized that if I was getting movies delivered to my doorstep all the time then I'd totally make time to watch 'em. The selection is pretty exciting, too. Should I take the plunge?

Done.

Also, word of warning - do NOT rent Wong Kar-Wai's Ashes of Time unless you want to either gouge your eyes out or gather a bunch of peeps & mock it mercilessly. It's like the DVD manufacturer burned a VHS copy straight to disc, and then used some shit-ass program to create the shape-shifting subtitle bar that sometimes fails to block the subtitles of the version they taped! And don't even get me started on the grammar, the spelling mistakes, the lack of synchronicity between the text & what's happeningm THE "(7)" THAT POPS UP HALF-WAY THROUGH. Holy fucking fuck.

(Also: if you've been wanting to see Visitor Q or The Believer or Frida & haven't gotten your copy yet, I apologize.) (BTW, don't hold your breath for Visitor Q - this is my 2nd attempt @ renting it; #1 was so scratched, the movie died 20 minutes before the end, & #2 was CRACKED.) Despite the problems detailed above, I love Netflix like a dirty hippie. Whether I'm the hippie or Netflix is, I'll let you decide.

Bryan G! Watch out for the ending of Clerks! & if Forgotten Silver is the Peter Jackson "documentary", enjoy!

Currently have:
Twentynine Palms
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
I Am Cuba
My Life to Live
The Brood

Next handful in queue:
Fallen Angels
Branded to Kill
Tokyo Drifter
Fela in Concert
Il Grido
Salvatore Giuliano
Ikiru  
The Shop on Main Street
Soldier of Orange
Early Summer 
The Brother From Another Planet 
Frenzy
Shadow of a Doubt  
Horror Hospital 
Mystery Train
Before Sunrise
Chloe in the Afternoon
Fear of Fear

All About Eve (1950)
Making the Misfits (2001)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
Marilyn Monroe: Memories & Mysteries / Hometown Story (1951)
Love Nest (1951)
Born Yesterday (1950)
Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess (2002)
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Niagara (1953)
Speedway (1968)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
From the Terrace (1960)
Serial Mom (1995)
The Men (1950)
Imitation of Life: Double Feature (1934, 1959) (1934)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
JFK: Special Edition (1991)
The Misfits (1961)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
The Wild One (1955)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
U.K. Subs: Punk Can Take It (1979)
Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)
Grand Illusion (1938)
Now, Voyager (1942)
The Iceman Cometh: Disc 2 (1973)
Jubilee (1977)
Music Hall Days (2004)
Classic Albums: Elvis Presley (1956)
Depeche Mode: The Videos '86-'98: Disc 2 (1998)
The Iceman Cometh: Disc 1 (1973)
King Creole (1958)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Fabulous '50s (2002)
Absolute Beginners (1986)
Elvis '56 (1987)
Gerry (2002)
Pet Shop Boys: Somewhere (2000)
The Filth and the Fury: A Sex Pistols Film (2000)
Depeche Mode: The Videos '86-'98: Disc 1 (1998)
Intimacy (2001)
Bartleby (2002)
Sweet Sixteen (2002)
New Order: 316 (1981)
The Cure: Trilogy: Disc 2 (2002)
The Cure: Trilogy: Disc 1 (2002)
Death in Venice (1971)
The Cramps: Live at Napa State Metal Hospital (1981)
Night Flight from Moscow (1972)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Bullitt (1968)
King and Country (1964)
Romper Stomper (1992)
Alice Adams (1935)
Modesty Blaise (1966)
I Could Go On Singing (1963)
Giant (1956)
Night Porter (1974)
The Collector (1965)
The Damned (1969)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

here's what i've returned so far:

Irma Vep, 1996
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, 2004
My Best Fiend: Klaus Kinski, 1999
Beau Travail, 1999
Schizopolis, 1996
Underground, 1995
Days of Being Wild, 1991
The Iron Giant: Special Edition, 1999
Election, 1999
Arrested Development: Season 1: Discs 1-3

American Splendor (M)

Barton Fink (M)

Buena Vista Social Club (G)

The City Of Lost Children (Citi des enfants perdus) (M)

The Civil War (Ken Burns) - Vol 1 (G)

The Civil War (Ken Burns) - Vol 2 (G)

The Civil War (Ken Burns) - Vol 3 (G)

Delicatessen (M)

The Devil's Backbone (MA)

Dodgeball (M)

Down From The Mountain

Fahrenheit 9/11 - Disc 1 (M)

Fahrenheit 9/11 - Disc 2 (M)

Firefly - Season 1: Disc 1 (M)

Firefly - Season 1: Disc 2 (M)

Firefly - Season 1: Disc 3 (M)

Firefly - Season 1: Disc 4 (M)

Gangs of New York (MA)

Gangs of New York - Bonus Disc (MA)

Ghost Dog - Way Of The Samurai (MA)

Laputa - Castle In The Sky (G)

Miller's Crossing (M)

Princess Mononoke (M)

Queen of the Damned (M)

Shaolin Soccer (PG)

Time Bandits (PG)

Ultraviolet - Disc 1 (MA)

Ultraviolet - Disc 2 (MA)

The Untouchables (M)