Now that the wife is getting involved in the ‘unboxing and putting away’ segment of moving into the new house, we are getting things done.
We’ve actually got visible floor space in several rooms (we can see the floor!) I’ve broken down and stored away a large number of cardboard boxes that I hope to recycle into building material. We are getting books on the shelves, and office supplies in the cabinets.
One nice advantage of all this is the wife has decided that she can release some things. We ended up with a whole box of DVDs that she is willing to let go. Most of them are horror films, which feed her tastes much more than mine.
She wants to watch them before she lets them go, so tonight we ended up watching World War Z, a zombpocalypse tale starring Brad Pitt. That really isn’t the type of movie I’d expect to see Brad Pitt in. Surprisingly, it turned out better than a lot of zombie flicks I’ve seen. It is based on the book by Max Brooks (Mel Brook’s son) which I have a copy of somewhere but haven’t read. I’ll have to move it up in my ‘to be read’ stack.
The movie is more tense and suspenseful than most zombie tales, rather than gross and horrifying. Brad Pitt’s character has worked for the United Nations in some very bad areas of the world so he’s used to handling himself in tough situations. When the zombpocalypse, an old friend of his tags him as the guy to find out how it all got started and find a way to end it. We end up getting a movie that is half globe hopping mystery and half zombies taking over.
She also had Taxi Driver in the stack, Robert DeNiro’s breakout hit. I’ve seen it before but the wife hasn’t. DeNiro’s character drives a taxi, commenting on how the world is going to Hell in a handbasket. He keeps sinking into deeper levels of cynicism as he gets dumped by a woman he wants to date (Cybil Shepherd), deals with a passenger telling him how he’s going to murder his wife’s lover, and other stuff that justifies his world view, until he snaps. The wife watched about the first third and thought it was moving too slowly so she turned it off. She said she might go back to it later.
I’m kicking the old eBay account into gear again. As we get through the movies I’ll be putting them up on the site and hopefully selling them. I don’t expect to make tons of money. I’m just hoping that we a get them sold and out of the house to clear out the clutter.
Everything will sell on eBay, it’s just a matter of time. They may not sell for years but they will eventually sell. I’m hoping it doesn’t take that long but we’ll see.
I hope you are getting rid of the clutter in your life, my Hordeling.
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