Resisting temptation

[ffutures]

I think I may have foolishly said that I was going to lay off buying DVDs for a while, since I seem to have rather a lot I've never watched.

So of course today's walk took me into various charity shops, and rather a lot of temptation. To wit:

Miyazaki's The Castle of Cagliostro on DVD for £2

The two-disk extended laserdisc of Dances With Wolves for £3

And a boxed set of Xena: Warrior Princess - all of Xena: Warrior Princess, six boxed sets with lots of extras in an outer box... for £19.99 - I think this works out at about 40p per DVD since some of the sets run to ten disks. I have no idea when I will get around to watching this, but I think it was pretty good value for money.

Back to resisting temptation. Until the next time, of course...

Later Xena volume 1 part 1 (the only episodes I had) now listed on ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131020899969

Comments

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Was it Bernard Shaw or Oscar Wilde who gave the famous advice about resisting temptation?

[nelc.livejournal.com]

Oscar Wilde, surely? Doesn't sound like Shaw.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I've just found it as


The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Oscar Wilde

That the one?

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking of, yes.

[nelc.livejournal.com]

I picked up a copy of Lynch's Dune today for 20p from a charity shop. Don't know when I'm going to watch it, I may just skip to the good bits.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I've got it somewhere, but it's a letterboxed "standard" format NTSC DVD so looks crap on my big screen - I really need to get a widescreen PAL copy.

[murphys-lawyer.livejournal.com]

I don't think you can have too much Miyazaki / Studio Ghibli on your shelves. I've got two copies of "Cagliostro" myself...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I don't know this film, but it looks a lot of fun.