Purchase Diary 2014 – December

Chicago P.D.: Season 1 (2014)


Dec 2nd – €13.93 ($21.06) @ Amazon.com

Collection no. 12848 – 12851

An Adventure in Space and Time (2013)


Dec 3rd – €9.99 (£6.75) @ Amazon.co.uk

Collection no. 20040

Nashville: Season 2 (2013 – 2014)


Dec 3rd – €24.45 (£17.84) @ Amazon.co.uk

Collection no. 12852 – 12856

Chicago Fire: Season 2 (2013 – 2014)


Dec 6th – €21.91 ($20.29) @ Amazon.com

Collection no. 12857 – 12861

Frozen (2013)


Dec 6th (gift)

Collection no. 1190

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Purchase Diary 2013 – November / December

Banana Joe (1982)


Nov 9th – €7.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1072

Trinity: Good Guys and Bad Guys (1985)
(I Poliziotti dell’ Strada)


Nov 9th – €7.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1073

They Call Me Trinity (1970)
(Lo chiamavano Trinità)


Nov 9th – €7.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1074

Trinity is Still My Name! was released twice in German theatres. Back in 1971 in the original release year and then in 1982, this time with a new (more funnier) dubbing and slightly cut (1:58 instead of 2:05). Both versions have their merrit and give the same movie a completely different tone.

Trinity is Still My Name! (1971)
(…continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità)


Nov 9th – €7.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1075

Trinity is Still My Name! (1971)
(…continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità)


Nov 9th – €7.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1076

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TV Junkie: A History

I watched a lot of TV shows over the years. And when I say a lot, I mean A LOT. And I watched accross the board.

Keep in mind that I’m only 35 years old.

I watched The Guiding Light for two years straight (it’s a soap opera whose German title was the Springfield Story). I watched medical shows like Trapper John M.D. and lawyer shows like L.A. Law. I watched the 80s action shows from MacGuyver to Riptide. I even watched Love Boat every weekday on one of the first private channels in Germany: Sat.1. I got up at 6am on every Saturday morning to watch Rawhide (Tausend Meilen Staub, lit. “A Thousand Miles of Dust”) with a very young and pre-Fistful Clint Eastwood. I knew who Daniel Boone was around the same time I met the Cartwrights as well as the men from the Shiloh Ranch.

And last weekend I binge-watched the first Netflix show House of Cards (Big recommendation! Kevin Spacey is a brilliant Magnificent Bastard!) and I got curious as to how many shows I watched intently over the past two and a half decades.

With the help of the list on the German site Wunschliste.de I created a list of “my” shows.

I only counted live-action fiction shows, no animated shows may they be Saturday morning cartoons like Yogi Bear or Scooby-Doo or evening shows like The Simpsons or South Park. No scripted reality (which I’m avoiding to 99% anyway with the exception of Comic Book Men). In this list are only shows which I followed for more than a year unless the show itself didn’t last that long.

And the answer was: 244 246 247. Two hundred and fourty four six seven different shows I watched with active interest since I’ve started watching television. And the worst thing is: Of most of these shows I watched 90% or more episodes at least once.

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Nashville

Nashville @ Wikipedia
Nashville @ IMDb

Rayna Jaymes (Connie Britton, American Horror Story) is an aging country star who doesn’t pull in that many concert visitor’s anymore.
Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere, Heroes) is a fast-rising pop star whose concerts are sold out for months.
The record label thinks it’s a good idea to group these two together to pull in the other’s audience.
But both also have family problems. Rayna with her father who seems to solve every problem with money and plans to have her husband running for mayor when the current one doesn’t agree to one of his business plans.
The other with her origins, i.e. her drug-using mother who’s always looking for money for her next shot.

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