For quite a number of years now I have had television and movie-themed calendars on my walls. Mostly about TV shows I enjoyed at the…
Tag: Castle
Purchase Diary 2015 – March / April
Fack ju Göhte (2013)
Mar 7th – €9.99 @ Media Markt
Collection no. 1187
Tammy (2014)
Mar 7th – €7.99 @ Drogerie Müller
Collection no. 1188
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
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Mar 19th – €9.99 @ Amazon.de
Collection no. 1189
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
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Mar 23rd – €9.74 (£5.95) @ Amazon.co.uk
Collection no. 1190
Mallrats (1995)
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Mar 23rd – €11.17 (£6.94) @ Amazon.co.uk
Collection no. 1191
Amazon (again)
In recent months Amazon has become quite a controversial topic in Germany.
It all started with an “undercover” documentation for one of our TV stations. I watched the docu online after everyone and their dog wrote about it and the first “Boycott!” outcries were made.
I don’t know if what the docu claimed was actually true because I found it to be severely lacking in the objective journalism department. If you understand German, you can read my commentary here: ARD vs. Amazon.
The general gist of the controversy is that Amazon hires seasonal workers for the Christmas time and then fires the workers around New Year’s. And they also pay according to the union labour contracts for the logistics trade and not the retail trade where the workers would get higher salaries. They can do that because the retailer Amazon EU is based in Luxembourg (mainly for tax avoidance reasons) and what is called Amazon Deutschland is just the fulfiller that operates the deployment centers.
Anyway, two recent events have once again proven to me that Amazon is a great business partner:
#1)
A few months ago I wanted to order the first season of The Newsroom at Amazon.com. Usually the shipping costs for a season are $6.48. For some reason the system charged me $29.52 for a season that only cost $17.99.
It happens, even computers have hiccups from time to time. I contacted the support, they gave me a refund, end of story.
Now it happened again, this time with the sixth season of Burn Notice ($17.11 shipping for a $11.98 product). I contacted the support again and got this reply:
Quote:
Hello,
I sorry[sic!] to hear that you’ve been charged an incorrect shipping charge.
To make this right for you, I’ve waived the total shipping cost of $17.11 for your order.
What can I say except “Thanks”?
#2)
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Purchase Diary 2013 – November / December
Banana Joe (1982)
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Nov 9th – €7.99 @ Drogerie Müller
Collection no. 1072
Trinity: Good Guys and Bad Guys (1985)
(I Poliziotti dell’ Strada)
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Nov 9th – €7.99 @ Drogerie Müller
Collection no. 1073
They Call Me Trinity (1970)
(Lo chiamavano Trinità)
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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)
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Nov 9th – €7.99 @ Drogerie Müller
Collection no. 1075
Trinity is Still My Name! (1971)
(…continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità)
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Nov 9th – €7.99 @ Drogerie Müller
Collection no. 1076
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.
Purchase Diary 2013 – June
Castle: Season 4 (2011 – 2012)
Jun 5th – €20.35 ($19.57) @ Amazon.com
Collection no. 12382 – 12386
Iron Sky (2012)
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Jun 8th – €9.99 @ Drogerie Müller
Collection no. 1043
The Last Stand (2013)
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Jun 8th – €12.99 @ Drogerie Müller
Collection no. 1044
Dredd (2012)
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Jun 11th – €9.83 (£6.94) @ Amazon.co.uk
Collection no. 1045
New Girl: Season 1 (2011 – 2012)
Jun 11th – €17.06 (£12.89) @ Amazon.co.uk
Collection no. 12387 – 12389
The Pilot Marathon Part 10
Türkisch für Anfänger
(lit. “Turkish for Beginners”)
What’s the show about?
The show revolves around a German melting pot family, consisting of Metin Öztürk, a German police detective of Turkish origins and his son Cem, a wannabe gangsta and his daughter Yağmur, who’s living by strict Islamic rules.
On the other side you have Doris Schneider, a libertine psychoanalyst and her daughter Lena, whose BFF just left for America in a student exchange program and Nils, the baby in the family.
Now they try to build one family – but in actuality a war has just begun. 😉
“Die, in der ich meine Freiheit verliere”
(lit. “The One Where I Lose My Freedom”)
Lena is happy to learn that her mother has stopped dating that “Albanian terrorist” when they announce that they are moving in together in a new home. Aside from the happy couple only Nils can see anything good in this and Lena and Cem almost instantly declare war on each other after Cem tried to bully Lena into wearing less “slutty” and more traditional clothes. For this he hires is “gangsta buddy” Costa which in itself is an odd combination since Costa is of Greek origin.
My Opinion
I love the show. Sometimes it gets a bit tiresome because Lena’s and Cem’s story is getting much more complicated and Lena’s sometimes too egoistic and egocentric but in the end they all grow up.
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
Director: Peter Winther
Noah Wyle … Flynn Carsen
Sonya Walger … Nicole Noone
Bob Newhart … Judson
Kyle MacLachlan … Edward Wilde
Kelly Hu … Lana
Synopsis: Flynn Carsen is what we call in Germany a “Dauerstudent”, a student who never leaves the comfort of the university – until he’s thrown out. He then gets a mysterious invitation to apply for a job at the library. But not any library, the Library.
The place where they keep the Ark of Covenant, Excalibur, Pandora’s Box – and one third of the Spear of Destiny. Unfortunately that piece is stolen shortly after he started working there and now he has to make sure that the other two thirds that are hidden around the world don’t fall into the hands of the bad guys.
TV Shows on DVD: An Inexpensive Hobby, Part 2
Three years ago I did a survey about what I spend on TV shows. And what that means per hour and per episode. Since then…
Purchase Diary 2012 – May
The Blues Brothers (1980)
02 May – €8.92 (£7.43) @ Amazon.co.uk
Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
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02 May – €9.48 (£7.93) @ Amazon.co.uk
Castle: Season 3 (2010 – 2011)
02 May – €22.99 @ Amazon.de
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
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02 May – €11.68 (£9.89) @ Amazon.co.uk
Friends With Benefits (2011)
02 May – €8.37 (£6.94) @ Amazon.co.uk