Sunday, January 15, 2006

Random Movie Project

Here's an idea. In order to keep this weblog alive with interesting stuff to write about, I'm considering following:

As I've mentioned, there is a video store down the street (Audio/Video Plus) that has somewhere between 60,000 and 80,000 titles in stock. What's interesting about the store is that they have a catalog on the front counter that gets updated every few months containing the entire library. Usually, what the regular customers do is go straight to the thick catalog and search for their titles by name, write the catalog numbers on little sheets of paper with pencils they provide and give it to the clerk who goes back into the stacks to retrieve the tape. Sort of like a library.

This might be fun, it might be a miserable, horrible idea and it might be both, but what if on an occasional basis (perhaps weekly, perhaps bi weekly/semi-monthly) someone were to walk in, go to the catalog, open up to a random page, blindly point to a title, write the number down and hand it to the clerk, watch the video and review the movie/document their experience? The only rules are no peeking and no second picks. Viewer be warned, though; they carry 'adult themed' titles. Also, children's titles.

Kindly give me your thoughts.

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