It’s a dismal afternoon as Sharkboy stands on the train platform, his arms encircling his utmost love: 600 VHS videos with such titles as Monster Lake!, Pirannha II and Biker Werewolves from Arizona. Nazi guards are all around him, insisting he make a decision on which tapes he is going to keep and which must leave him.
“Schnell!” they bark.
Tears well up in his eyes. Will he let Food of the Gods go? Or will The Swarm meet it’s untimely end? He must choose! *
This weekend Sharkboy and I remodeled the office so I could fit my computer in there. Remodeling meant taking down the 600+ videos he had up along one wall and trying to cram half of them back into an Ikea cabinet and the other half would go into storage. It was sickening to see him get more and more frustrated.
Sunday night I spent an hour on the phone with Linksys trying to get XP to talk to the wireless router. Last time I did this, I spent 3 calls to support before realizing that I was on a 2.4G phone and thats why I couldn’t connect.
The office is far from done. And my monitor dominates my tiny desk but all should be righted in the next couple weeks.
* Please note, I have never actually seen Sophie’s Choice. Consider this a re-imaging of it for my blog entry purposes.
5 thoughts on “Sharkboy’s Choice”
(Andrew, I typed it correctly today). Having moved three times in one year from condo to temp apartment to new townhome…and then moved from one country to another two years later, I know what its like to part with things you really loved at one time. I had to part with my COMPLETE Stephen King hardback collection last summer as Cubbybearx and I decided it was time to quit paying 115 bucks a month for our storage locker…that was full of stuff we had not needed in almost two years. Collectors don’t want anything unless its free…so, I gave my books to good will. Sure they were able to sell them all…Such is the case with your videos…I parted with over 1000 45’s when I moved back home from California in 1988…We all need to lose the clutter in our lives, lol…that being said…we still have two closets full of stuff we do not use and therefore do not need. Something can be said for the minimalist lifestyle…although I doubt I would ever survive it. Heretofore…some clutter is good. Too much clutter is bad. LOL
I feel for ya Sharky…just get more camping stuff! wahoooooo
xoxox
HUSH YOU!
Nothing to see here, Sharkboy. Move along.
What kind of a monster makes a man choose between his VHS children?
Having just faced a similar choice moving in with my lovely wife, I chose to: in Parkdale–place all my movies on wall mounted shelves out of her 5’nothing reach;
in Calgary–stack them double-deep and begin the painful process of converting to DVD.
Sharkboy, if you’re out there, heed the words of Corey Hart, “Never Surrender!”
food of the gods was great, too. any film with giant shrews destroying trailers/mobile homes/whatever the hell they were is all right in my books.
Anyone collection monster movies would be proud to have Pirannha II in there collection… It’s James Cameron at his very worst… As as for the werewolf biker movie, it’s Werewolves on Wheels… a classic in bad taste with hot bearded bikers… and although you can find it on DVD now and probably all over eBay, it was quite the find at the time… But I did choose to get rid of Natural Born Killer… worst monster movie I owned…