But maybe some of y'all are interested; the Sony Store/Gallery on Michigan Avenue (scroll down) is, as they say, Going Out of Bidness. All (in-stock, on a rack) Playstation 2 games are 50% off.
Remember seeing an Eye Toy or two in the rack as well.
Mind you, I'm confident they don't do mail, phone or web ordering, so unless you live in the Greater Chicagoland Area, this info probably does you no good whatsoever either.
But, there ya go.
Tempted to get Parappa 2, despite not having a PS2 to play it on. So very, very tempted. . .
Update: Not all PS2 games 50% off, all PS2 games $15, which is why your truly is now the slightly bemused owner of Parappa 2, Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly and DDR MAX.
I expect that eventually, I'll buy something to play them on. Eventually.
Oh, and all DVDs are marked down to $15, too. This includes multiple disc sets. I picked up the Super Extra Special edition of the second fucking Hobbit movie.
I picked it up, looked at it, and put that shit back.
Fuck Hobbits.
You're gonna make me call my brother and beg him to go downtown...[g] (as if he would brave the traffic!)
Eh, probably walking that way over lunch or after work -- it ain't that far from where I'm temping -- so I can grab something and mail it to you if you want. Need to make a post office run anyway; Laura, that Astaire-Rogers advert is going out Saturday at the latest, or you have my permission to yell at me.
Not that you need my permission to do that, seeing as I've been meaning to send it since before Christmas. . .
This Hobbit hatred of yours is unhealthy.
That is all.
What!? Go back and get that shit. The second fucking Hobbit movie is the best of the three!
Children, I tried reading one of the books. Couldn't get into it at all, decided it wasn't for me, and moved on.
I might, possibly, sit through one of the films with someone I know who's actually interested in the thing, but there's no fucking reason for me to own any of the damn things.
Is that clear, or shall I explain it again? With more cussing?
I enjoy the hobbits a lot (and missed both of the Matrix sequels, because I suck), but I think I come at them a little differently from where you do.
Enjoying Tolkien for me is in part about immersing oneself in a medieval mindset. If you can't get into those premises, you can't get into it. I have no problem accepting those premises for the sake of artistic argument, as it were, and thus the internal logic of Tolkien makes sense to me in context. Also, I'm a medieval geek at heart, so I love the headspace even though I know it's not workable in a modern context.
Garrity could probably elaborate on this in ways that make a lot more sense.
This is why the Brin anti-Tolkien rants piss me off so fucking much, by the way. He wants to insist that Tolkien is bad art because he doesn't like its politics. I don't care whether he likes it or not, but saying art is objectively bad because you don't like its politics is a little Stalinist for my taste. Also, he's an asshole about it, which doesn't help.
Ginger, my own, personal take -- which is my own, and personal, and lord knows I don't consider it to be the One Truth -- is that I've had European art, history, culture, etc. forced down my throat for as long as I can remember, and in the meantime don't know -- and may not even be able to find out -- where my ancestors were from, or what language they spoke, or even what their names were.
Why I'm taking this out on films based on Tolkein novels is. . . entirely irrational, true, but it does have the added benefit of pissing off the right-wingers.
I expect I'll see the films eventually. But I'm in no hurry to do so.
As for art and politics. . . I dunno, part of the reason I'm just not as fond of Frank Miller's work as other comics fans is because his politics/view of human nature is woven so tightly into his work, as presuppositions underlying the actions of the characters, that. . . that I really need either more or less Red Bull.
Oh, one other thing, about Avalon (the film I rented a week or so ago).
You've seen enough anime to know what it means when someone describes a film as "visually stunning" with no reference to the plot, characters, etc., right?
Avalon is visually stunning.
Me,
I just love hairy toes.