Retail therapy

Some women buy shoes or make-up or clothes. When i need to feel better, I buy lots and lots of DVDs. They don't have to be good. They just had to have either made me

1. re-watch the ending
2. cry
3. be something that aired on 'Superchannel' from 1984 to 1992.
4. something no one has seen, Ebert-approved, that I picked up at Blockbuster on a whim and laden with such low expectations entertained.

Here are the DVD's I bought today:

5. Shakespeare in Love [2,1]. I'm surprised I hadn't bought this earlier. Gwyneth in her prime, the introduction of hotter 'other' Fiennes brother and a real-life on-set romance?

4. The Lover. [4,1] I think the voice of narrator, Jeanne could make a VCR instruction manual hot.

3. Home for the Holidays. [4] Holly Hunter is so neurotic in this movie, but there's a old lady fart joke that sets me to giggles every time.



2. Labyrinth: Anniversary Edition [3]. I could watch this and Legend over and over when I was a kid, and I did. Plus a young Jennifer Connelly and crazy puppet creatures navigating their way through time and space were spellbinding. It was my first musical....sigh, good times.



1. The Break-up [1, 2, 4]. I can hear you groaning. Definite low expectations helped make this enjoyable for me. I also liked the ending and the naked through the living room was lame and cute.


I feel much better already.