A pedaling we will go...

Ang and I had the chance to go see the new Harry Potter flick Wednesday night which meant leaving from my office. The Elantra gets better mileage than the Santa Fe, so it got the honors of driving through the inter-city Colorado rush hour. Getting home late, meant that the Santa Fe got left at the office, demanding a fresh return to the bike. So, I'm now back to riding. It always seems that the second day is easier than the first. Although yesterday, I had the benefit of a tailwind. Today, of course, I got the headwind. Anyway, I'm buried under a pile of things to do at work, so I need to be brief.

The new Harry Potter flick? Pretty good stuff. I haven't seen the first two Harry Potter movies, but I like what Alfonso Cuaron did with what I had seen. Everything seems a bit more grown up. Now if only the audience had grown up as much as the movie. I'm a big fan of quiet theaters, too much noise of any kind, candy wrappers, laughing, nonstop talking? They're all at the top of my theatre pet peeves, and everyone one of them was on full display Wed. night. The worst part of the evening was when the two college girls behind us who had been talking the ENTIRE movie, SCREAMED at one of the names in the credits, making me recoil in pain. Thankfully they apologized, but I wanted to inflict righteous vengeance on them, whatever that might have been. Coming up next? Free Napoleon Dynamite screenings!

We live in a deflationary world, and I am a deflationary girl...

or something like that. Driving past the local Blockbuster today to pick up a sandwich at Subway, I noticed that in an effort to counterprogram Hollywood Video, they've also switched to 3 for $25. This, on the face of it is a boon to the consumer. I know that it will probably alter my buying pattern. I was done shopping at Blockbuster when it was two for twenty dollars, but I'm more likely to shop there now that it's a comparable 3 for $25. But how much more needs to happen before the used DVD market would become deflationary? At some point, in a war between two companies over the aforementioned DVD prices could cause used DVD prices to spiral, ruining the market. Why would I pay 3 for $25 for something when I know that it's only REALLY worth X? Do I hold off on buying until it reaches price point X? Do I see it at price point X and knowing the history of the market decide that I should wait until it reaches price point Y?

Obviously, this is a rather simplistic model, but one wonders if CD price fixing was fixed for anti-deflationary reasons. It just seems as though there's more volatibility in the used DVD market than their is in the used CD market... but then again, you couldn't ever really buy used CDs at a national chain that's as highly visible as the equivalent Blockbuster or Hollywood video. Thoughts?

Yawn

NP: Over The Rhine's Show Me off of Ohio

Man, what a great song. The Ohio album was hit or miss for me, but Show Me is just one of those songs that fires on all cylinders. Over the Rhine has always been one of those bands that I enjoy shooting... camera NOT gun. Working as a staff photographer for the website at Cornerstone Festival the past few years has meant that at some point every year, I end up hanging off the side of the stage shooting photos of Linferd and Karen.

The song just ended and now something off the GlassByrd album is playing now. When I first heard Common Children back in 1995, I'd have never thought that they'd turn into a band I was actually really into. But Marc Byrd turned into a pretty great songwriter. If you've heard anything by him, you've probably heard "God of Wonders", but the rest of his body of work is as good or better.

I can't seem to get the sleep out of my eyes this morning. I suppose that's not completely abnormal, but normalyl I'm more awake than this, especially when I get 8 hours or so. Anyway, I'm working on labels for a little mini-series we're putting out around my bosses new book Lucifer's Flood It's out now through our website, but it'll be officially released this summer through Creation House Press. Enough blathering from me. Sometime today I'll post a picture of my cleaned up office space.

Not that there's anyone reading this...

but if you haven't RSVPed for the Rocky Mountain Blogger Bash, DO IT! It's good for you! (or something like that)

I'm going to bed. The bosses come back tomorrow and I have to be my freshest and mintiest. Blah. But it will be good to see them... and since they're back, it'll be an excuse to cook the 6lb brisket on Saturday and roast some corn to act as a base for my butter with red pepper and fresh basil. MMMMMM. I shouldn't be making myself hungry before I go to bed. Oh well.

This is kinda cool...

Ang and I have been using this program called DVDpedia to catalogue our DVDs. I just found out today that you can actually export the list to a HTML file, so if you want, here's a link to our current movie connection. :-)