{"id":202,"date":"2008-07-27T12:35:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T03:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/?p=202"},"modified":"2008-12-31T08:10:21","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T16:10:21","slug":"sorting-through-my-dvds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/2008\/07\/27\/sorting-through-my-dvds\/","title":{"rendered":"sorting through my dvds"},"content":{"rendered":"

I currently have the pleasure of sorting through my dvd collection…. in an attempt to get rid of as many dvds as possible (need more space!). There are a lot of dvds that I can’t easily part with–The Lord of the Rings box set, for example. There are the dvds that you would think I could get rid of easily, but I pause: Johnny To’s “Running on Karma”, which features Andy Lau in a Big man suit? But, actually, a great, entertaining movie.<\/p>\n

Then there are the indefensibles, the dvds that are still shrink wrapped, that I purchased but never watched.<\/p>\n

For example, the DVD pictured below, a look at the cover and you already know what the movie is–a Bollywood rich playboy meets family obligations, I mean, girl, and then slapstick rollercoaster to the wedding at the end. Except that it probably isn’t–I don’t know, I haven’t watched it yet.<\/p>\n

But after closer inspection, the purchase isn’t entirely indefensible. I am guessing that I was moved to buy this after reading the copy on the back:<\/p>\n

“The story opens with Vijay returning from the USA, to join his family business. The only son of a widower industrialist, Vijay carries home with him the attitude of the western world, some good, like equality of man and woman in a relaxtionship [sic], and some bad, like failure to recognise marriage as an institution.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I currently have the pleasure of sorting through my dvd collection…. in an attempt to get rid of as many dvds as possible (need more space!). There are a lot of dvds that I can’t easily part with–The Lord of the Rings box set, for example. There are the dvds that you would think I … Continue reading “sorting through my dvds”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"0","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quieter.noisier.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}