I should have arriving today Warlords and An Empress and the Warriors on dvd. It's been a while since I bought any decent Eastern martial arts epics and they both look pretty great.

I also ordered Saviour of the Soul which I've had on VHS for ages but wanted to have on dvd as the video is wearing out rather.

I recently got Punch Drunk Love and In Bruges, few cheap DVDs to brighten the day. Tell me how those two martial arts films are, I haven't seen any recent ones recently either but don't have the disposable income to buy them to find out >_>

Three DVDs:
- Panic In the Streets
- Treasure Planet
- Zorba the Greek

2 Blurays: Wonder Woman and Quantum of Solace

Ew, Quantum of Solace...but I bet it looks pretty on Blu Ray. Casino Royale is THE Blu Ray I show use to show off my TV.

2 dvd's, "Das Boot" and "Dr Strangelove, or How I learned to stop worrying..."

Picked up The World is Not Enough Bluray at Target for under $10 using a $5 off coupon MGM/Fox title store coupon.

Guitar Hero: Metallica

The Matrix on Bluray

I like Quantum of Solace. Other than that horrendous Jack White song. I like The White Stripes but that was horrid. Something about adding his voice with Alicia Keys voice makes my ears hurt. Casino Royale's uncompressed PCM track is AWESOME!

Picked up "Die Another Day" Bluray at Target for 14.99. Good deal. Yes I know the movie isn't that good but still good deal.

I've found amazon.com is still the best place for blu rays price-wise. Got A Clockwork Orange and 300 for under $20

CDs got stolen from my car, so with the insurance money I have just been re-buying a shitload of CDs. Also a couple of new CDs I have been meaning to buy.

Just running these off the top of my head:
Beaches - Beaches
Kes - The Grey Goose Wing
Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips - Zaireeka (Finally got around to buying this, haven't listened to it "properly" yet!)
The Drones - Gala Mill
The Drones - Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By
Tame Impala - Antares Mira Sun EP
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Atlas Sound -Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
No Age - Nouns
No Age - Weirdo Rippers
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Ed Kuepper - Jean Lee And The Yellow Dog
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
Lady Of The Sunshine - Smoking Gun
Dirty Three - Ocean Songs
Dirty Three - Whatever You Love, You Are
Dirty Three - Dirty Three
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
The Kills - No Wow
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
Mogwai - Mogwai Young Team
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
Liars - Liars
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Battles - Mirrored
Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
Boris - Pink
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther
Plants And Animals - Parc Avenue
You Am I - Sound As Ever
You Am I - Hi Fi Way

Just a small update:
Just picked up X-men Trilogy Bluray @BB for about $45 using the Papa John's $10 off the bluray trilogy. Picked it up Saturday evening 4/25/09. Wasn't going to get it yet but good deal for all three movies...

On Xbox Live, I picked up Outrun Online Arcade.

From a Best Buy sale I've aquired 007 Quantum of Solace and Universe At War.

I also pre-ordered BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger and Klonoa, which should be arriving in a week, Blaz won't be coming out till the end of June.

Finally, the major purchase likely of this year: I got a 32" Toshiba HDTV, which arrived today.

--edit--
Forgot to mention, I also got an HDMI cable for the 360, which lucky me, arrived today too.
Let me tell you, it really does improve the image quality.

Just picked up X-Men Comic Book Collection Volumes 1 & 2 from Target at 17.99 each. This is the best X-Men series ever made. It is the original Fox series from the 90's. Worth every dollar for this collection. Now I wish they release the second half of the series sometime... :-D

This is basically a cross-post from my latest journal entry, but I bought a whole shit ton of stuff while I was away on holidays recently. This list amounts to around $250 in total ($190 USD, $60 CDN):

Vacation Purchases 2009


That, along with a few other CDs I had bought online:



It's a great year to be a James Horner fan; Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Journey of Natty Gann, and now recently Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. All in 2009 alone, with possibly more to come.

Will be posting an update soon. It's been almost two months since I last posted. Have to check off my wish list and then I'll post.

By the way Basil what store did you buy all of that stuff? They are good prices for the items....

Like I said, I was on holidays so I went to a whole bunch of places in the northwestern US and in western Canada. Half Price Books and Hastings are the two major stores in the US that I buy from, and I also stop by a lot of thrift stores, ie Value Village, Salvation Army and the like. I always buy secondhand as it's cheaper than buying new and the CDs are usually in great condition (I always check them first for damage).

As for the DVDs, I got all of those at Wal-Mart, except Memories of Me. CD Plus in Canada carries a lot of MGM DVD titles that are 2 for $10.

I believe the last thing I ordered was the Watchmen Director's Cut Blu-Ray, from Amazon for about $21. :)


Also, Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 on XBL.

Haven't bought many DVDs recently, but I did get Destroy All Monsters at the World's Biggest Bookstore a few weeks ago. I went there to get a book but found nothing I wanted, so on a whim I went to the DVD section and saw that. It was a lucky find. It's the first time I've seen it in a local store. The movie itself isn't bad, but the alien theme has been done to death in the Godzilla series.

I haven't bought it yet, but I'm going to get the Wolf's Rain Perfect Collection for my birthday. I don't get any presents so I buy my own >_> It has all 30 episodes in one set for a very low price. I've been meaning to get it for a while but never did. I was deciding upon this or Beast Wars season 3 but then it went out of stock while I was still thinking about it so that clinched my decision.

Picked up Silent Hill 2 and then got 2046 and 12 Monkeys on DVD, I'm satisfied with my purchases =D

Here is My Recent purchase

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I really recommend it. You can listen to it for free on http://www.imeem.com/artists/the_dea...d-death-album/ or Myspace at The Dear Hunter on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads.

I listened to this a million times before I bought it. It was one of those albums that they let you listen to for free, and if you want to pay and contribute you can buy the CD.

Needless to say, I did.

I could write a review for this someday. Right now however, I'm using these forums as a distraction to what I'm really supposed to be doing.

Give it a listen, if youl'd like (I also recommened listening to all three albums in order Act I, II, and III

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I own all these albums (Act III also has some really cool artwork that comes with it...)