11 03 2002
Saturday I made the trip to Pacific Mall with Syl and Carmina. Neither Syl nor I bought any Hong Kong VCDs or DVDs - although I was very tempted by a Shaolin Soccer DVD for only $17.99. My belief is that we were able to prove our restraint… so next time we go we can buy as many movies as we want with the firm knowledge that it’s not an addiction - just a love of HK films. If you haven’t seen Shaolin Soccer yet, I highly recommend it. Ask me and I’ll lend you my VCD copy.
Today, I had to buy birthday gifts for my neice, Erin and her cousin, Caitlin. Walking in to Walmart I knew of my weakness for movies. It was clear that a stroll through the video/DVD aisle would cost me $20-30 more than I had expected for this trip… and I was right.
On my way out of the store I absentmindedly wound up at the video displays. The only video that stood out was the John Candy/Eugine Levy “Armed and Dangerous”. Recently I’ve found myself attracted to the old 80’s comedies, and this is one I’ve been rolling around in my head for a while to rent. When I saw that it was only $4.88, then it was easy to justify the pocket-change to buy a movie I was expecting to rent in the near future for nearly the same price.
Unfortunatly for my Visa bill, the buying didn’t stop there. In anticipation of my brother’s vacation return to Canada starting tomorrow, I bought the “Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back” 2-disc DVD. Expensive, but costing less than most other places, there are aparently a lot of cool extra features on the discs. If nothing else, it looks to make an entertaining evening.
Tomorrow night I’m meeting John, Seiko, nephew’s Dean and Robert, and Seiko’s parents at the Airport. I haven’t seen any of them since last year’s trip, and it will be the first time I have ever seen Robert. While I can’t get any time off work this week due to some very important and short-timeline projects, I plan to go up to Barrie to hang out with the folks as much as I can, as well as AMC’ing with John, Wrestlemania on the 17th, and introducing Simone to the extended family.
