Mistress Darkness

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

Okay, finally I got all the cds (albums and maxis) listed in my mediashelf, 291 entries! That was certainly exhausting. But it is kind of cool to see the stats, 164 albums, 2 compilations, 125 maxi cds. Sounds a lot, but I bought a lot of it second hand for a few Euros or DM ;) Not to mention that some were presents.

But still, I got about three and a half compartments left with scores, soundtracks and some samplers (Bravo Hits, Zillo Club hits). Although I suspect that over time I will get rid of the bravo hits, as I will have a lot of the hits from there which I like on maxis or albums.

Apart from two lucky bids on ebay, my biggest source of cheap cds, was a shop in Düsseldorf closing and selling the most awesome Eurodance stuff for 1 Euro per piece.

But first I want to add more Books, already added John Sinclairs up to #50, discovered that for some reason #70 is missing (I thought I had the first 100 in the paperback series complete) ... and I'm thinking about going in my bedroom and taking another line of books, maybe the first shelf compartments of Series on DVD I own to get the ball rolling.

I'm only slightly unsure about how to add DVDs to the media shelf, I thought about going by directors, but I do not want to have them listed by directors, but the names ... maybe I go by Various DVD_Movie and DVD_TVshow ...

I think I will watch "The Covenant" again, it's such a nice movie with so much eye candy. I already saw it twice, once with normal audio and then the director's comment, which was very interesting.

I "wasted" almost the entire day with stocking up my media shelf and scanning in music cds, I'm now up to f with putting up cds into the database, except for H I've scanned in everything till N and with the exception of a few older mp3's I'm also up till N with scanning.

Of course there are also compliations and soundtracks, then the dvds, books ... so a lot of work, but I'm having fun.

Tomorrow I'll probably have to go to the University, but I'm not sure, depends whether I get a reply via e-mail confirming the date for the test, I'm not driving up there to wait hours to do the experiment. I can't leave Shiva alone for that long ...