The Life of a Foolish Mortal

So, three days, three copies of Wall-E, and four DVD players later I finally get to watch my special edition DVD of Adorable Robot Adventures. We had exchanged the first and second copy and were about to write the third one off when we discovered that the reason my disk wouldn't play on any of the players in house was due to some strange form of copy protection that was only used on the three disk edition of the movie.


Upon discovering this we tried to use the digital copy, at least then we could actually WATCH the movie in some format. Unfortunately the digital copy disk needed an authorization code to work. A code that never actually made it in the packaging. One of the three copies we went through had an 800 number to receive said code stickered on the outside of the shrink wrap, the rest had no such beast.

So we paid 35 bucks for what at this point amounts to a disk of special features telling us how they made a movie that we can not watch.

( Click for an arduous tale of trying to actually watch a movie )

So long story short, had to recreate the end of Cinderella to get the DVD to work (is this the player that will do it? NO, next fit...) which is ridiculous. Out of the five DVD drives in this house only one of them can play the DVD.

This is unacceptable, if any other company did it there would be a recall and an apology. But this is Disney, these disks have been out for a month and there has been no admittance of error. An angry e-mail has been sent from here to Disney's DVD support office where I am optimistically hoping someone gives me a fix or replacement or something.

Hilariously enough just when I was in the middle of finally watching the movie and starting to calm down my dad came in showing me another Disney DVD that was purchased for Christmas that has two discs, both of which are labeled "Disk 2". This will be handled tomorrow, until then we just sigh and move on.

So my still life is getting towards the home stretch, I think I botched part of it, but they won't see what my source was anyways. Thank god. I also have to keep reminding myself that if there is a mistake in it, it's there for the reason that I'm applying to go to art college. It's there because I need to learn. I just keep telling myself that and resist the urge to erase for the 30th time. It's not working too well, I have to physically leave the room for a bit or I'll rip up the drawing and start over again, which I don't have the time for, and I don't REALLY want to do. I have things I want to do with my time besides sit there and draw the same damn set of objects.

( Click on for movie rambles and self reflection )

And since The Wall is even more cryptic as Sadako's tape in The Ring there are websites devoted entirely to explain it. Here's one for the inquiring minds out there.

I have seen the glory. I looks and sounds AMAZING. Voice casting is awesome. This is an INFINITE improvement over the previous series. I will ramble more later cause Lissa is sleepy now.

Well I finally got around to seeing the Adult Swim Friday Night webstream. So I got my dose of Venture Bros. and got some of my random trivia straightened out.

Thank you Venture Bros. your Holiday Special not only entertained me and featured Dr Orpehus (who in the the hour or so I've heard of him, love) but also informed me I had Black Peter and Krumpus mixed up.

( Because I actually enjoy being the human trivia dictionary click on for more info if you care )