Mistress Darkness

So, today I bought a couple of books for 20 Pound, probably spend about 50 Pounds on amazon for used books and another 40 Pounds for new DVDs and such. But I think it was worth it. I had hoped for a jumble sale and to get some cool books even cheaper but times are hard and rare books that are worth something cost.

So what I got myself today was (apart from birthday presents for friends) is

Invaders from Mary by Ray Garton (the novelisation of a childhood fav)
The first three books of the Mallory Towers series (to Germans better known as Dolly)
A sci-fi Novel by Steve Perry which sounded interesting
A vampire novel(I think it is a one) called the "Light at the end"
A werewolf novel called Wolf Tracks which seemed to be a classical story
A Dark Sun novel called The Verdant Passage
And three others

I also ordered several V books, not all have arrived yet, but some are shipping in from the US.
I'm keen on Pursuit of Dianna, as it is the one I have not in German.
Today the Alien Swordmater arrived which is my favourite from the series.
I got three others and three more on the way.

Otherwise one Shadowrun Novel and one of the Battlestar Galactica Series (the most expensive purchase) but I love this one.

DVDS: Blood Ties Series, Bourne Trilogy, "won't say", Once bitten, Who framed Roger Rabbit, Airplane I and II and Primeval Series 3 (which I haven't seen yet).

I guess apart from Watchmen Director's Cut I am done ordering anything this year.

... and got myself a pizza, the event was fairly expensive as I also needed grated cheese to avoid the thing becoming an oversized cracker. However, ordering one would have been even more expensive.

I cannot wait till I am back home. I just have to try and not eat everything good I missed at once. Like a real pizza, this one was barely adequate but at least it stopped my kraving for the time being.

Otherwise I am a bit behind with my assignments, mainly the paper I have to end in at the end of this month :( But it is not something complicated to write just time consuming.

Now that I have solved my not so urgent problems, I might have time to finish it. What are my not so urgent problems? Well, I need to figure out what to do about my extra weight when I travel back in December. I still want to go to the second hand book shops and see what I can find and that will amount to tons of extra weight. Especiall considering the orders I made via amazon.co.uk so far.

I bought two Games equaling 2 ordinary DVD cases with one single DVD, the Ultimate Bourne Colleciton three ordinary DVD cases with one DVD. I got the three Sidney Sheldon books from ASDA, then there are the Austen books I brought with me (those alone weigh 1,2 kgs) and I ordered more today: 2 old movies and the Bloodties DVD set. Althoughn if they still can get it another movie. It is free of charge but of course I do have to think about the extra weight. If I take 2 kgs more with me I am over the limit and I can only store it in my hand luggage to begin with. *sighs*

But then again I also leave something things behind and if necessary even the big 1 kg towel. I guess maybe I do not need to sent a package - but if I do, then I will only if I have over 2 kgs otherwise I just pay the extra fee at ryan air and have it all with me. It is not that bad here, but I guess that I think about the day I return constantly is a sign that I am not that amazed (except maybe by the no delivery charge from amazon ;)

So tomorrow around this time I expect to be on a train in England, and I still need to pack but first I want to sort out my computer stuff.

Copying all the necessary files to my notebook and external hard drive. As I am totally hooked on Criminal Minds since the last season arrived I also work a bit on icons for my newest adopted fanlisting: Aaron Hotchner fanlisting.

Movies I have already transfered to the drive are:

12 Angry Men
Berserker
Blade
Blade II
Casino Royale
Clue
Ivanhoe
Nightbreed
The Condemned
The Lost Boys
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded
The Patriot
The Scorpion King
To catch a thief
TRON
Underworld

Those TV shows:
Blade
Criminal Minds
Kindred: The Embraced
Moonlight
Neverwhere
Robin of Sherwood

A bit of comedy
Kalkofes Mattscheibe Season 3
Switch Season 4 (maybe I'll add more if I got the space)

I'll probably add the two Mummy movies next ... oh and Watchmen of course!

Today O came by and dropped a shitload of DVDs with me, like movie trilogies, single movies, the first Dr. Who episodes which seem to be in black and white, and the entire Millenium series! *wow*

I can't wait for the break to have time to watch all of this.

Just participated in a really stupid post-simulation survery ... how annoying. Really truly, they asked about three positive and negative aspects about some OPUSi thing that I never heard about before, I mean shit, I thought we used some software named moodle?

At 6 p.m. he left and I slept till 11:30 p.m. as I have to get up at 8 a.m. I will not stay up much longer, but I will sort through some of my copies and notes for the history classes.

Woooot, finally i got it, Ortwin brought it around. First of course I had to watch "Dance of the Dead" which I saw with idolizer in Berlin on the Fantasy Film Fest. The DVD arrived earlier today, but I wanted to wait till it became dark ;) Funny as ever ..

Now I checked out the episodes and finally I can see "Scarecrow" again (similiar to the concept of one Supernatural episode, just more classy) and then I go and watch "Baron's Bride" the vampire episode. I had an mpg of it (bad rip from tv) where the end was missing. So I am also looking forward to that.

And so many episodes I haven't been able to see (as it always came late and I had to be sneaky if I wanted to watch it - not to mention that my tv had a horrible picture with the good stations, you would not believe in what bad quality I watched Forever Knight, sometimes it was closer to a no-signal screen)

*squee*

woot, will watch it later as soon as darkness falls ;)

Right now I am about to take off to school to fetch a signed paper stating that I was indeed participating in several classes as well as giving a few lessons.

I wanted to be on my way but the mail arrived and thought I needed to sign something, eventually I found out the dvds had been there since yesterday. Sure, put my mail in mom's office, where I won't notice it.

I feel much, much better, flu wise which has turned more into a cold (sore throat, coughing, slightly running nose etc) because despite getting up early I feel pretty okay.

Coming home I found a package outside by the door, it was from amazon.com. Initial hope that it might be Criminal Minds Season 2 were quickly abandoned as I had it open before I was even through the door. But when I took the dog for a walk and returned, I saw a second package, stuck above the mailbox and guess what, this was Criminal Minds.

If that is not a splendid start into the weekend ... now I can't wait for dinner to be ready.

Sometimes I wonder if I ever get through building my media shelf ;) Not hat I have that much, but the scanning in takes time - I already stopped listing too many details, I leave that for later, when I write a review etc.

Tonight I did something closely connected, namely sorting through my self-made DVDs, where I recorded old tv recordings from ancient VHS. And then I tried to look them up on imdb.com, so I could get a feeling what was avaible so far and what not. Sadly some of those old classics do not seem to make it to DVD. Like a beautiful anime version of the Anderson fairtale about the sister with the brothers who have been turned into swans.

I made a new category for them on imdb.com called dubbed dvds, and put all my dubbed dvds in it (yeah who would have guessed). I also made resepctive author's to match my sorting systems, as I keep DVDs which I do not own in the original language seperate, as well as my German movies and TV Shows, from the English Originals. So there is for example, an author called DVD, East European Fairytales. This is for my collection of beautiful fairytales mostly made popular by the DEFA studios (some are in German, others in czech or russian, but of course only the DEFA dubbs have been released).
Sometimes deciding where to put what is rather difficult, for example, there is a movie called Avalon, which is a Polish/Japanese Co-Production ... I have to decide how to list them after checking out the imdb.com infos.

Of course I want to keep some of the dubbed versions. As much as I generally loathe German dubbing, the Bud Spencer / Terence Hill movies are truly brilliant gems. I doubt they have much in common with what was originally said, but the style is a genre of it's own. Bad, bad german phrases that are good for laughing. I wish I could give an example, but in an English post it seems kind of pointless ;) As mentioned above there are the fairytales and I don't mind the dubbing there as well, because a lot of it was anyway co-production between the East German DEFA and other East European Production Studios.

But I do want the Godzilla Movies with their original Japanese tracks and as I noticed that my favourite old Godzilla movie was a few minutes shortened in the German release I went right ahead and ordered it. Godzilla - Final Wars would be my current favourite though, it's so nice and trashy, a beautiful upgrade to the 21st century. Best of all is that the American character talks English all the time, even though everyone else is speaking Japanese. *lol* Oh wait the villain says something in English to him *muahaha*

In case anyone wants to take a look at the list: http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=37987017