The only thing that keeps my sanity

[ToddEVF]

As of late, well with the new year and reflecting and such, I have started the decent downwards. Old feelings creeping back in, making me bitter and an isolationist. However sometimes you haver to pay for your boost out of it, quite literally. Some go with prescription drugs, others therapy, but I believe I have found what can make me feel better when the world looks its darkest.

Films. . .

Yes, thats right. While this may fit into entertainment, I will try for it to be more of a confession.

In the last 2 days, I have purchased 4 DVDs (well 6 is you count the 2 bonus discs that are included) just because I knew it would brighten up my day. Don't get me wrong, I did not have these films and do enjoy them. So adding them to my every growing collection was inevitable.
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I know I am not the only who who has their comfort thing that compulsively buy to make them self feel better.

So what helps you keep your sanity and makes everything all better?

[mdr55]

People still buy DVDs???

[ToddEVF]

yes people still do, Its a compulsion of mine, as I have said already. Just as my father did as well.

[TeeBone]

So what helps you keep your sanity and makes everything all better?

Guitar or flats fishing.

[Gvac]

Music, either listening or playing, and meditation.

If I'm really down and want to buy something, it's usually an electronic gadget of some sort. I have a serious addiction to cell phones in particular.

[DiabloSammich]

I don't have a purchase or a creature comfort, it's actually the opposite. On a clear day, I'll take a quality beverage that has been thouroghly chilled, walk myself to the edge of the woods behind my house, and while the sun sets I remind myself that this could all end tomorrow, so that leaves no time for bad feelings. As simple as this is, it has an incredible power over me.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

Sex Food and Alcohol keep me from killing yall

[ToddEVF]

i suppose if I didn't flip flop between happiness and sadness so often (and quickly) I might be able to share your same feelings. But While I do believe this "experiment" we call life can end in an instant, i need the comforts of material possessions.

[Mike Teacher]

In the last 2 days, I have purchased 4 DVDs (well 6 is you count the 2 bonus discs that are included) just because I knew it would brighten up my day. Don't get me wrong, I did not have these films and do enjoy them. So adding them to my every growing collection was inevitable.

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In the last two days I bought 4 DVDs, including 3:10 to Yuma. [Cue Twilight Zone music]

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And to answer if people still buy DVDs; oh yeah. If ya missed today's show they brought up how Radioheads CD hit #1 on the sales charts, even though it was previously available for download. Ron mentioned that many people still want the physical item, and I do too for my Must-Have movies. ANd many CDs.

and I freely admit, for sheer feeling shitty 'fuck it' materialism-will-make-the-pain-go-away-goodness, when you dont drink like me, you go to a good video store with obscure, absurdly priced DVDs, like Brazil Criterion for $80. And you buy em, and love em.

Bury me with Brazil.

3:10 to Yuma will cheer ya up. The Western is back.

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Most importantly, the subject; Todd, for me, the new year always sucks, but I *try* to turn a seeming disadvantage into an advantage; I see it as we made it another year, we're alive, we got computers, the rest is Gravy. Thats my pathetic rationalization. And buying DVDs.

I've seen provious threads; some of you out there have enormous collections of materialistic goods, and I thinks it all about self-therapy, not i a bad connotation, but good, a way for us to simply... deal. If a movie, CD, or action figure or comic book gets us through the day; it's all good.

[Drunky McBetidont]

get in the groove and let the good times roll... we're gonna stay here to soothe our soul; it could take all night long.

[ToddEVF]

In the last 2 days, I have purchased 4 DVDs (well 6 is you count the 2 bonus discs that are included) just because I knew it would brighten up my day. Don't get me wrong, I did not have these films and do enjoy them. So adding them to my every growing collection was inevitable.

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In the last two days I bought 4 DVDs, including 3:10 to Yuma. [Cue Twilight Zone music]

=

And to answer if people still buy DVDs; oh yeah. If ya missed today's show they brought up how Radioheads CD hit #1 on the sales charts, even though it was previously available for download. Ron mentioned that many people still want the physical item, and I do too for my Must-Have movies. ANd many CDs.

and I freely admit, for sheer feeling shitty 'fuck it' materialism-will-make-the-pain-go-away-goodness, when you dont drink like me, you go to a good video store with obscure, absurdly priced DVDs, like Brazil Criterion for $80. And you buy em, and love em.

Bury me with Brazil.

3:10 to Yuma will cheer ya up. The Western is back.

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Most importantly, the subject; Todd, for me, the new year always sucks, but I *try* to turn a seeming disadvantage into an advantage; I see it as we made it another year, we're alive, we got computers, the rest is Gravy. Thats my pathetic rationalization. And buying DVDs.

I've seen provious threads; some of you out there have enormous collections of materialistic goods, and I thinks it all about self-therapy, not i a bad connotation, but good, a way for us to simply... deal. If a movie, CD, or action figure or comic book gets us through the day; it's all good.

Damn i wish i had a prize closet for posts like this.

You, sir, have definitely understood why initial rant. And to avoid falling worse than I have, when I feel this way I rather not have any "spirits" or booze or whatever the kids call it these days. Booze only makes it worse in the long run.

As for Criterion, thats why I still have my laser disc player. For the Criterion Laser Discs I still own. Slowly I am working on bringing more of those editions into my collection. Maybe by the end of the month I will have the post war Akira Kurosawa Criterion Collection

[GonzoStyle]

yea buying dvds is my own personal coping mechanism as well, i'm closing in on a thousand. I havent purhcased any dvds in months now, mainly cause of money and with work and school I have no time to watch anything. I try to mainly purchase films I know will have multiple viewings from me. Love the classics, bogart, cagney, cary grant, anything hitchcock, bette davis, chaplin, keaton, etc etc. Only have a few of the criterions, M, Several kurosawa and bergman films.

[Chip196]

I defintiely buy stuff to make me feel better, but it's never specific to one thing like DVD's. I LOVE ordering stuff from Cabellas, or something for my house. Wine may be the biggest indulgence, I will go in to my favorite shop, but something I shouldn't, and let it sit in the cellar. The logical side of my brain certainly doesn't get that one ... I didn't get immediate gratification out of the wine, it's just sitting in the there. But it makes me feel better.

[GonzoStyle]

I like movies mainly cause they just give me an escape, plus its not as destructive as alcohol. I mainly like the classic films because the stories are so much more sweeping and they relied more on characters and plot than special effects or product placement and test audiences. Sure there was garbage back then just as there is now but there were so many great films.

I also enjoy buying tv shows on dvd and just getting into a whole world outside my own, though im running out cause theres very few shows I enjoy. Currently im rewatching all the episodes of House, in prep for watching all of season 4. I cant stand to watch shows from week to week, it annoys the fuck out of me. I just wait till the season is over and then watch the whole thing. Only show I can watch from week to week is The Wire.

[ToddEVF]

alright make the total 6 DVD and one Video Game. God I'm horrible. And I have found a way to justify each and every purchase. As the 2 new ones to the list I am rebuying due to them disappearing on me. Super Troopers and The Blues Brothers.

As for the game, Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles for the PSP. I loves me some Castlevania.

But being that I know that I am waiting on 3 of the 6 DVDs to be delivered has sort of tied me over now and I am starting to feel a little better. Surprisingly enough, I haven't had any alcohol during this self destructive and depressing time of mine. One a side note, I did have Taco Bell for the first time in well over 10 months. So yeah, I am still a little self destructive.

But that doesn't make me a bad person

[cougarjake13]

Sex Food and Alcohol keep me from killing yall

i thought it was the zoloft