I stopped by the Nixa branch of the Christian County Library for its turn at the book sale (Clever’s branch was in June; the Sparta branch has one in October). As it was Friday, it was not bag day, so I didn’t dump a bunch of Louis L’Amour paperbacks into my library again. As expected, I mostly bought DVDs and audio courses.
I got two audio courses: The History of Ancient Egypt and Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement (which is timely as I’m slowly making my way through Walden again).
I got several DVDs:
- Zardoz with Sean Connery. Finally!
- Predator and Predator 2. I’ve seen the first several times but not the second. I must have seen them on cable as I don’t think I own the films on physical media.
- From Here to Eternity. I think I have just seen the book on the shelves while looking for something to read. Whether I actually read the book or watch the movie first is uncertain as my to-watch stack is getting almost out of hand these days.
- The Day After Tomorrow, the Dennis Quaid climate apocalypse film. This was playing on the television on my last trip to my brother’s house, and his new wife said it was a favorite. From what I could tell, the first half of the film is people dramatically watching television news.
- The Riddick Collection which has Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick, and a third film I didn’t know existed.
- Every Which Way But Loose, the Clint Eastwood and the orangutan movie. Well, the first of them.
- Ancient Civilizations Uncovered: Inca Civilization. Probably cable- or lower-grade material, but I can watch this because it’s not on YouTube. I recently listened to/watched Lost Worlds of South America. Presumably this will be about as timely as that twelve-year-old lecture series.
I did get a single book, Tough Guys and Gals of the Movies. Which is a movie-adjacent title.
Undoubtedly I would have been more indiscriminate in my acquisition on bag day. But I do seem to be slowing down a bunch in what I buy these days. I’m out of record storage for the nonce; I am slow in reading books these days (well, probably no slower than my average over the last decade or so, but the vast quantities of books that I have not yet read here in the stacks is beginning to daunt me); and my cabinets are full of movies and videos to watch that I have not yet watched, including numerous television series which will take some time to get through. So I am slowing down.
Which might only mean this trip. Next month is the big autumn sale up north, and who knows what my mood might be then.
