but i just had to express my excitement that tomorrow i will be going to california for a week! i was unlucky and unfortunate in that i could not find a place to stay in the LA area, so i won't be able to visit my friends down there because i can't afford a hotel room on top of a car rental! it sucks terribly because i really want to see a few people in LA, but i'm stuck in the San Jose area..
still, i'll be staying with a very good friend in San Jose and that's definitely rock'n'roll worthy!
if anybody wants to buy some dvds, here's my list: Iain's dvd list.
i won't sell anything with the words Criterion Collection in the 4th column. i also won't separate sets, as determined by the 4th column (i.e. Oliver Stone Collection). the 4th column also tells you if the dvd is Special Edition or whatever. the 5th column is special info (i.e. Out of print). the 6th is the number of dvds in the set.
yay blah.
for the record, the following DVDs have been sold:
Being There, Best in Show, Chocolat, Elizabeth, Gone with the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python and the Meaning of Life, South Park Seasons 1 & 2.
updated sell list (09/12): An American Werewolf in London, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Blade Runner, Clue, Enemy at the Gates, Heartbreakers, L.A. Confidential, Princess Bride, Rat Race, Rush Hour, The Shawshank Redemption, There's Something About Mary
i have a strange sort of feeling of accomplishment today. i've been progressing slowly down a path towards starting this business with Leos, and today i registered quite a few website addresses. i'll post 'em when we have something worthwhile to see there. right now it just says that they've been parked for free by godaddy.
whatever, i also started writing an informal business plan yesterday.
it's gonna happen. and i'm excited about that.
everything seems to be smooth, so far.
so far, so good, i should say.
on this side of the atlantic, i've been busy talking to folks critical to our business. i just spent the past hour and a half talking to people in CA about copyright permission. my partner and i really need to get together now and talk, but that will be difficult since i'm stateside and he's czechside.
but it seems like the pieces are moving into place.
anyway, i'm very excited at the moment because everybody i've talked to today has been remarkably friendly.
on a different note, i'm still very lost about what to do with my computer - which does relate to the business, in a way that i cannot clarify at this moment.
the problem right now is that the cd-burner/dvd-rom internal doesn't work. it can play dvds but burning is another issue and it has some trouble reading some discs.
i need to take the computer in for some work, but i don't know how or when. and before i do that, i need to back up my harddrive.
i have an external dvd-burner for that reason (to back up my harddrive) but the program that runs the burner (Toast 6.0) won't work without the program disc in the internal drive. but i can't get the internal fixed until i back up the harddrive. so it's a perverted catch-22, because i'll be able to make it out of the circle as soon as i get an external harddrive to store my music on. ideally, that will be within a week but there are no apple stores around here, so it probably won't be for awhile.
but then i've considered trading in my computer for a more modern one (complete with internal bluetooth and USB2).
anywho, very happy about the business. very confused about the computer.
today was the first day in my life where i felt like i should have a child by now.
i sat in temporarily for my mom as she worked at the unitarian church's annual holiday bazaar. the more people that walked in the door, the older i felt. the weird part, most of the people walking in were of my parents' generation or older. so why should i feel so old?
i don't know.
i just did.
a few families came in with young children. the parents seemed to be my age or a few years older. that didn't really contribute to my ruminations on mortality.
i started thinking about the transience of my time here on earth. damn deep thinking. and i lost focus. i was trying to read. i somehow managed to finish a book.
but i'm still caught in this whole mortality thought tangent and i want out. it's not that i'm scared of death. i think i feel it's just WAY too early to start thinking about it. and i'm not even thinking of my own death either. it seems to me that everybody should be forever young. my 90-year-old grandmother is more active than many people half her age.
i suppose i've only been affected by limited experiences of death.
my friend told me that his best friend from university is about to be shipped off to iraq for the first time. i don't know anybody who's in iraq or who has gone to iraq or who will be going to iraq. i feel so disconnected from it. but i also feel the weight it adds to my shoulders.
i wish i didn't have to think about these things. i wish life was without problems. flawless execution. then again, life would be so boring without problems.
sorry, i'm thinking out loud.