The Next Six Years and Four Months

SHOCKED! read my face.

i was adding The Boondocks 3-disk first series to my netflix queue, and i was denied. was it that i wasn't cynical enough? too P.C.? nope, my impulsive "add to queue" clicking had reached its limit of 500 movies. funny thing is, i was kinda pissed off.

but 500 movies is a bit ridiculous. let's go to the chalkboard:

i've been a subscriber since february 2004, and in my diligent watching, i have received about 210 disks. over the 32 months, that calculates to be in the neighborhood of six and a half movies a month or a movie every five days (note: that is unacceptable; need to bring that ratio below four.)

so if i continue on this viewing trend, and do the impossible- add no films in the future, including new released- it would take me 76 months to get through the current queue, or roughly six years and four months.

2013!

Note: according to Passage 11 of St. Clair's Zen of Stars, 2013 is the year in which "indigo kids (born 1959-1999) are lead to a new earth." new earth? like that show Earth2? but what about my queue? and what about anyone over 54?

so i did a little house cleaning, removed some favorites that i should buy (Twin Peaks, Season 1) and a few i'd seen in theaters (V for Vendetta) and a few that i'm embarrassed were on there in the first place (Constantine. worse, it was floating around 275. i don't want to watch that tonight and i probably won't in three years' time.)

all in all i cleared out 33 choices. then promptly added four more. which will be coming to a television near me, on a new earth, in 2314 days.