So Brendan started his rampage of buying DVD's. Since he cannot have a spanking new G5 he decided to further himself away from getting enough money from buying the G5. So here I am. I'm glad I did get rid of some of the DVD wants from my list. Since I have nothing in my life worth blogging I am going to go ahead and give a quick review of these for shits and or giggles. Derek you can skip right on through this one if you'd like.

My Fair Lady
Obiously everyone knows that I like Audrey Hepburn now. She brings a certain thing to the screen besides charm and I always have to watch her movies all the way through when I see them on the AMC channel. My Fair Lady is a film that I could not fucking find for the life of me. I wondered how someone as big as Best Buy not have a film that received critical acclaim as well as Oscars up the ass. Anyway I then realized that it's a musical and sure enough there it was. So realizing that the running time of 172 minutes would make anyone who liked Bad Boys II nut...I decided to watch it anyway. This has a very Mary Poppins feel. Not that it is a bad thing. I really enjoyed this one and being an Audrey fan, it was really interesting seeing her act as a common street bum. The music is a little outdated but I didn't mind it in the least. On a side note Steve asked, "why the hell you buying all these Audrey Hepburn films?". My answer would be this. I love what she brings to the screen...seems to just radiate right on out. I still can't believe how positive she was and how she saw the best in the world. Besides it's kind of like how you can't appreciate films today without seeing where they came from. Basically I got tired of all the shit the films are providing today so I decided to go back in time. What better way to start off your classic collection with classiness itself.

To Catch a Thief
I liked Cary Grant in Charade and so I figured I can kill two birds with one stone. The second bird is none other than Princess Grace Kelly herself. Now if anyone can run toe to toe with Audrey for elegance (yes Jon, Halle is up there too of course) it is Grace Kelly. I love the way she treats this film. It was also directed by Hitchcock and helped him build a relationship with the studios back in the day before he had the television series. Now the weird thing about this film and another reason why I bought it was because there is a scene in the film that takes place in Monacco (sp?). Now in this scene Kelly is driving crazy down the road while Cary Grant who is often cool is starting to get a little nervous. Anyway they end up parking on this beautiful ridge that could rival Kelly's beauty (but not really). On this ridge is one of the most memorable scenes in the film. Anyway you probably know that in real life Kelly would marry the Prince of Monacco. Fairy tell story aside, Princess Grace Kelly was driving down the same exact road with her daughter, Princess Stephanie and started to have a heart attack and lost control of the car. Where the car ended up going off the cliff was the same exact spot as where that same memorable scene was shot. Grace Kelly fell into a coma and died about 36 hours later. Princess Stephanie ended up with broken bones, but of course she is still living today. It's a cool film and I'm thinking about starting my Cary Grant and Grace Kelly collection.

Casablanca
Okay. So as a film major you would have thought I would have seen what many consider a stalemate between Casablanca and Citizen Kane for best film EVER. So lucky for me the special edition came out and for the price I got it for it was definetely worth it. Humphrey Bogart is awesome and Ingrid Bergman defintely shows she is worth giving up your own happiness to fullfill hers. The story is awesome and while most of my Pooky players will see it and say it is slow and stupid (hehe) I defintely enjoyed this timeless film. I actually went in wanting to hate it. After sitting though Citizen Kane and realizing it is an aweseme film from a technical point of view...I decided for myself that it is overrated. I finally understand all the contexts of those classical lines..."Here's looking at you kid", "Play it again Sam", "Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not the next day...". It is a cool film and Bogart plays one of the coolest players on the planet. Tons of cool extras and I can't wait until I visit Casablanca again.

Well that's about it for those films. I still have about 120 dollars more to spend to meet Bryant's and my criteria. I will probably just buy all my Audrey films so I don't have to worry about finding them anymore. Remember just because it's in black and white doesn't mean it sucks...unless it's porn. I want color damnit.

Quick Pokerroom action. Had $5.50 left in my account there. Traded in player points so I upped that too $35.50. Now I'm at 60.00. As luck would have it I saw Vaehan online...I saw that 30+ pot with your boat full of fobs. Good shit.