Before I found online movies I rented from Netflix. Now that
Netflix is an online plan, I rent from Netflix again.
One really neat thing
about online viewing is
that there's never a
scratched DVD.
I love Netflix. The
price is great! I love
that it keeps track of
where you left off
viewing. I love the
selection.
Not that Titanic is
offered online from
Netflix.
But, it is at Apple iTunes. iTunes has some new releases that
are worth an extra dollar.
You have to download their player which on my machine took
about an hour, maybe less, and after that you can also access
iTunes music as well.
Mamma Mia! is a lovely film that I've watched countless times
because, well, because it has some beautiful scene, Meryl
Streep is extraordinary, and it makes me feel good.
Which naturally brings me to Graboid. Graboid is extremely
good as a source of new movies to download and telly
programs as well. Graboid offers a range of subscriptions so
that there was one for me, 4,000 megabites for FREE, which I
could easily afford even in these hardest of hard times.
(Hopefully this is the dark before dawn.)
I love the beginning of the month when I can download a
selection of films. By the end of the month I never have any
download time left, which leaves me looking forward. It's well,
worth a try!
One of the other neat things about Graboid is that there is a
HUGE selection of films to choose from.
For instance they have
My Life as a Dog, a
film I love not just
because it's a dynamite
film on its own, but also
because the daughter of
my highschool friend,
Dee Drake the girl with
whom I moved from
Wisconsin to Santa Fe,
stars in it.
I love that I got to have
lunch with Dee and her
daughter, Melinda
Kinnaman, when they
were visiting Santa Fe
a few years ago.
Check out this film, it's a good one!
The only drawback with Graboid is, I found Graboid in a
Google ad, and I don't always see it, so hopefully it will show
up in the ads on this page. Otherwise, trying Googling for it.
I'm not too keen on Blockbuster. I joined sometime ago on
an offer of some amount of time free. I loved the selections
and ordered several movies, but out of the first six I received,
scratches were so bad I could not get five of them to play all
the way through.
Some wouldn't start playing, others got me involved and then
left me hanging when there was no way to get the DVD to play
through to the end. WAY disappointing!
Hulu, an online movie and tv viewing site, is good but a bit
similar to Blockbuster in that if a movie decides to stop loading
you have to start from the beginning, which is frustrating, if not
disappointing.
Hulu has plans that are supported by advertising, so when the
movies load and buffer properly it's not unlike watching a
movie on telly, complete with adverts. Hulu also has a paid
plan with more choices.
While ABC has a wonderful Full Episode library of its hit
shows it forces you to use its Player which is large and takes a
lot more electricity than some others, so I watch their shows
and others at sidereel.
I also use SurfTheChannel which has an extensive list of
shows, to include some oldies that I loved in the 70s when I
lived in England and reality shows that are fun to watch
complete season after complete season.
Their Megavideo episodes can be annoying when they stop
during the second episode you've chosen to watch and they tell
you that you either have to pay or wait 72 minutes. The key,
then, is to turn off your computer, disconnect your modem for a
moment, then start up again. You can immediately watch another
72 minutes. (Join the SurfTheChannel Community for other
useful tips.)
A word about DTV and HDTV - I've decided not to get the
converter box for $40. Watching movies on my computer is far
superior to watching them on my telly and it takes much less
electricity so it lowers my bills.
Impressively, an LCD HDTV with a
19 inch screen uses about 50 watts
of electricity. My old set uses nearly
4 times that -- easily a kilowatt a
day. Telly viewing used to account
for over ten percent of my electric
bill. Now, the savings from using
an LCD TV pays for your investment
cost in less than a year.
Leaky roof? Can't afford to drive to the beach? or into the
mountains? Don't feel down!!!
Watch a movie online at Jaman for FREE, paid for by the
advertising, and nearly as good as FREE, the visual quality
on a laptop is brilliant! (I don't know about other computer
screens.) The choices are myriad, and if you don't want to be
bothered by the buffering interruptions you can download a
rental for a nominal charge.
Personally
I'm into
Indian films
at the
moment.
I love the
sensuous
scenes, scenery
in general, good versus evil, and the philosophy. For instance
in this movie, The Fire and the Rain, the old man who
represents God is saying, "The ocean is drops of water, the
sun is rays of light. But you want the entire ocean and the
whole sun fully formed at once."
For me that's true, I want things finished, when in fact it would
be wiser to sit back and take the forming as it comes and more
than that, enjoy it.
For instance, yesterday I was so mad at the armadillo bugs for
eating one of my favorite plants after I'd planted lettuce for
them if they were hungry. I started scooping them up in a
plastic cup and moving them to the flagstone path where the
sun was beating down. They could scurry to the shade and
survive, or go the way of my flower. But two, in my shady
corner, I crushed into the dirt.
Later when I was sitting, enjoying the coolness, I noticed a
pine branch on the ground coming oddly through a hole in the
fence that I thread a hose through to water the elm next door,
but not nearly enough.
How like a snake the branch looked. I have wished for a snake
to live in my garden because they eat troublesome bugs, and
I've heard that it's good luck to see a snake. (I always pick up
pennies when I find them because that's "good luck" and I
bought a four leaf clover plant -- which I think defeats the
purpose if luck is associated with rarity.)
When the branch glided forward, tasting the air with its tongue
as it moved, I smiled in anticipation and appreciation of luck
visiting me. I also waited to see its tail emerge from the hole,
to be sure it was nice and smooth, with nothing in the way of
rattles. When it was clear that it wasn't a dangerous snake I so
wished it would decide to live in my garden.
But it left through another hole in the fence, further along,
making me wonder if when it was tasting the air it was
judging the state of the armadillo bugs which perhaps it
enjoyed to eat. Maybe it had come because it could sense me
wanting to get rid of them; or, maybe it left because I had
gotten rid of them.
How pivotal things can be.
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wrenches me from the beliefs I had, quite dear beliefs, at that.
I have begun a page showing some highlights of Zeitgeist by
way of screen prints with the text typed beneath. Each image is
a link to the site where you can watch the movie for free, except
that it takes away many cherished beliefs.
Zeitgeist, the
movie, is free
on line. It's a
pretty intense
discussion of
where our
credit system
came from and
how it enslaves
us. Yes, the
movie says we
are enslaved by
bankers, and
Zeitgeist was
created before
the mortgage
meltdown. It is
the most
powerful film I
have seen, It
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