I got the 30 day free trial of Amazon Prime & now you get to read every last detail of my experience
And so it begins...
This is where it begins. An Amazon account, a TV, a Roku box, and too much time on my hands.
Okay, not really too much time. I should be writing and doing other stuff. I'm already wasting time. Guh.
And so it begins...
This is where it begins. An Amazon account, a TV, a Roku box, and too much time on my hands.
Okay, not really too much time. I should be writing and doing other stuff. I'm already wasting time. Guh.
And so it begins...
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Wait a fucking second... I thought I was supposed to get the older HBO and Showtime shows for free with my Amazon Prime? It's telling me I have to have an HBO subscription. Hey, Amazon, if I had an HBO sub already, why the fuck would I go watch it on HBO?! I could just watch it on HBO GO. Stupid.
Okay, I'm overwhelmed by the choices. I choose a movie instead of a tv show.
I'm picking Mockingjay Part 1. I'm already lost. The last thing I saw of these movies was when the Mockingchick... whatshername... she gets captured by a rebel force led by that actor who tragically died not long ago but I really liked him and he was in State & Main and Capote and a lot of great shit. But the start of this movie is making me think that maybe I started back up with the wrong installment.
Oh, hey, that dude from House of Cards and also Luke Cage just came on the screen!
Update: Okay, I think I'm caught up now. Movie is, y'know, about what I expected. But it sure was a clunky start from where the last one left off.
"You went back for the stupid cat?!" Mockingjay yells at her sister.
"I had to! I couldn't leave the cat behind! I couldn't live with myself!"
I totally understand, little sister. I totally understand. As far as I'm concerned, the true hero of this movie is the little sister that went back for the cat.
Amen.
Just watched the first episode of Season 4 of Justified. Happy.
P.S. The opening credits, the way they end with that tilt-down shot of a quaint Kentucky downtown? That's pretty much my view of my Frankfort, KY downtown.
Oh, and hey, the bad guy in the movie, his last name is Snow! You know nothing Snow!
Now I can't recall two sets of their character names.
Corny but fun movie. And, actually, this was the kind of movie I used to be able to watch on Netflix, back before Netflix ditched their catalog for a bunch of lame-mediocre original programming.
Does anybody actually use Pantry? I'm a really good grocery shopper. I take advantage of sales and supplement w/digital & paper coupons. I could see it being helpful if you're a two-job family and very little time to go to the store... especially if you have to lug the rugrats with you. But I'm solo household now. Not sure I even need to wander the Pantry aisles.
Fuck, is there anything I should be looking at on Amazon now that I've got this Prime thing? I get it free for 30 days, and already I'm thinking I'll cancel before that if nothing else interesting pops up. When I first began this thread, I thought it was gonna be a strange, neat experience. Not sure why I thought that. Kind of like how as a kid you go to the mall thinking it's gonna be this new, cool experience, and then realize that it's just a bunch of fucking stores under the same roof.
But I have a terrible cold and I'm planted on this sofa until it goes away, so might as well make use of my Prime thing.
P.S. They've got a $5 off $15 deal in books. Just took advantage of that, yessir. But you don't need to be a Prime member to use it.
/furniture
Also Amazon usually has a bunch of things I've enjoyed from A24 and Drafthouse, two indie film places that have been doing a lot of interesting things lately; you can look up either and then scan am-prime for what they have. I just finished The Lobster last night which I really enjoyed
Heard good things about the Lobster from someone else. Might give that a shot.
I really dislike the Amazon interface. It keeps giving me recs for shit I have to pay for, even when I make my setting for Prime free stuff.
It looks like they have some recent James Bond movies on there. Those seem like good movies for sitting around the house with a cold. Ooh, maybe they have some of those Captain America movies... kicking nazi ass. I think I may have seen the first one. Hard to remember. I have literally fallen asleep on so many of those superhero movies, I'm not sure what I've seen anymore.
It looks like I can use my pantry credit on cat stuff. May go that route.
There's so much stuff I'm passing on now, just because reality is so much worse than the fiction these shows and movies are dabbling it. Guh.
Really excited about the purchase. It's a hardcover deluxe edition of Frank Miller's "Ronin," one of his better, but lesser-known projects. With the sale price and the $5 coupon and the free shipping, it came to like $12. Plus I got that $5 Pantry coupon by choosing the no-rush shipping.
I'm positive there are people out there that are like ninjas at the Amazon Prime shopping thing. I just don't have the cash or, more to the point, willpower to actually dedicate myself to something like that. Of course, here I am blogging about the shit, so maybe I'm underselling my ability to immerse myself in the "Amazon Experience.tm"
I saw a pretty good movie on Amazon Prime Video the other day called "The Frame," which was almost straight-up surrealism, sort of like a Jean Cocteau movie rewritten for the mass-media era and filmed by David Lynch. It got a little silly towards the end, but not unforgivably so. (I can hardly remember the last time I saw a movie with a really good ending, come to think of it.)
Definitely a shitty year... Still, like I said in 2000, it should be survivable as long as there's no hyperinflation.
And there is this cool thing I've discovered on Amazon called (and I think I'm getting this right) a Dash Button. But it's this button with a product logo on it (think: that Staples easy button commercial), and you actually attach it to a smart-tech appliance. Like you would put a Tide dash button on your washer or a Ocean Spray button on your fridge, and then when you ran low, you would just hit the button, and because it's hooked up to the smart-tech appliance, it automatically place the order for you at Amazon and ships it out. This way you never have to worry about putting some things on a list and remembering to pick them up at the store. (I probably explained that hilariously bad, like some grandpa that just got his first cell phone) But anyways, I think that's pretty cool, in a totally useless way to me, but the idea is cool.
I'll check out that movie. I'm always looking for recs. There's so much I haven't seen and so much that I read the synopsis and dismiss immediately.
But this episode "Money Trap" has had so many funny damn ass moments... smart, silly moments... has me liking this show again.
Detroit hitman on the phone to Detroit mob boss: "He says he's a constable."
(silence)
Hitman: "Yeah, I don't know what that it is either."
An anecdote that can only be appreciated by Northeners who move to Kentucky.
Update: They're making a molotov cocktail with an Ale8 bottle.
When I first signed up, for some reason I thought it was going to be some cool new adventure. Don't know why, but I did. i think all the crap they entice you with that comes with the Prime membership got to me a little. I thought maybe also I'd start really doing some shopping on Amazon, too, and get cool stuff. But when it was all said and done, their free video selection was mediocre and not better than Netflix, I have no real time or use for the free music, and I don't enjoy shopping on their site... it's fucking tedious sorting through everything.
Meh. What an anti-climactic thread. Sorry, folks.
Anyway, I think Prime only fully justifies itself for frequent Amazon shoppers, but once it does that, the other stuff is nice gravy. I don't ever stream music from them, but do use the video service occasionally in a complementary fashion (since it's effectively free).
I've heard that sometimes Amazon will offer additional free months to try to suck you in, so I wouldn't mind taking it for another spin... see some more movies and tv shows, maybe take another stab at shopping on the site. But if it doesn't happen, it won't ruin my year.