Tuesday, 17 Nov 2009

since i’ve been clearing the shelves of local thrift stores of movies on VHS (4 or 5/$1) and have accumulated a stockpile of a couple hundred or more movies i haven’t actually been _watching_ many movies at all. wonder if that’s why i stopped reading?

anyways, so no new netflix rentals in a couple of months yet i still get new categories of movies to choose from that their complex movie picking robot brain thinks i will like. here are the most recent.

Tuesday, 17 Nov 2009

I was away. Now I am back. I turned the blog off to avoid stalkery aholios. Then I forgot how I turned it off. Then today I remembered. I am back.

Tuesday, 14 Apr 2009

Ok. I haven’t done the graphics logo editing or page redesign yet, but I wanted to make this announcement before someone else scarfs up the best site name ever.

So…. with no further ado, I hereby christen this site/blog “Cthulu’s Underpants”.

Tuesday, 14 Apr 2009

For the previous bland netflix movie category personality post, I thought it would be amusing to think of the most ridiculous personality test I could imagine. Or at least the most ridiculous one that no one would have done yet because it would be too absurd.  What I came up with was “Which flavor pudding are YOU?”

So, then of course I started making my own mock personality test called - wait for it….”Which flavor pudding are YOU”?

The internet is great for this kind of thing. This wasn’t on my agenda at all.  I logged onto my site to see what would be involved in changing the name of this blog in wordpress, and saw the post I made the other day and remembered I was going to make a fake test, so then I surfed around looking for online personality test sites or programs, found a free php script, downloaded it, moved it to my site, configured it, started entering info for the quiz when another search revealed that someone had a lready made this quiz. Not the same questions of course, mine were non-sequitors, but someone actually made a personality test about what flavor pudding a person is?! So of course I had to finish it. Cut/paste rinse repeat. Download and upload images. Test. Find images. Etc.

I remember back in the day, people used to think I had an absurd sense of humor, now I find the world has grown in absurdity to the point that my humor is irrelevant and little more than a slightly ‘off’ reflection of reality.

The one I found:

The one I made:

Tuesday, 7 Apr 2009

So, I’ve been a netflix customer for a year and a half or so - I forget.  When I could drive a mile or two and rent a movie for 1.50 netflix seemed both pricey and inconvenient (I don’t plan ahead well, I need everything on demand), but the death of local bargain rate video stores finally made netflix both economical and easier than driving 10+ miles each way to the closest rental store that had a decent collection of foreign and non-typical hollywood films, so after a gift subscription expired I continued on.   (Those redboxes are economical and good for last minute picking, but with their limited selections I think long-term while they won’t effect my movie watching habits much, they might be the final stake in the heart of the top 40 blockbuster style of video rental stores).

Anyways, Netflix lists movies it thinks you will like based on your previous likes and dislikes, and it presents these in helpful categories.

Here’s the list of categories that greeted me recently when I logged on. Feel free to analyze my personality based on this alone, I am sure it is more insightful than the myriad “Which flavor pudding are YOU?” personality tests.

• Quirky Comedies

• Mind-bending Foreign Sci-Fi & Fantasy (Is this really even a category?  I think they made this one up because they couldn’t find  a good slot for these films.  Seriously, I’ve been a netflix customer for almost 2 years and I’ve never even heard of this category before.  And while we are at it, why mind-bending FOREIGN sci-fi and fantasy, are there really no mind-bending American Sci-Fi & Fantasy films being made anymore?)

• PBS TV Shows (that’s what I get for renting all 4+ seasons of Rowan Atkinson’s BBC series “BlackAdder”)

• Suspenseful Movies

• Violent Independant Films (Apparently I prefer my violence done by foreigners)