ratsonjulia

I've been subscribing to netflix for maybe 6 months now & think it's a great & wonderful thing for one such as me who lives in a rural area & likes the types of movies that just aren't available for rent around here (by which I mean "Just About Anything That's worth Watching", not just obscure &/or foreign movies. as an example: a couple of weeks ago I decided that I wanted to watch "Bowling for Colombine", which I'd been reading about & had been told nice nice things regarding such from friends who live in towns with actual moving picture houses. there are 2 places here to rent DVD's--at the first place the woman behind the counter said that she probably wouldn't get it because there wouldn't be much demand for it, "Plus," she added, as though she'd just discovered a decomposing rat on her tongue, "I heard it had something to do with gun control."--at the second place, a grocery store, the woman behind the counter was unfamiliar with my request: "Bowling for......Colombine? Like in where all them kids got killed?" "Um, well, yes," I said, "It's a documentary. It won the ..." "We don't carry them sorts of movies," she said, "You might check at the other place. They got 'Faces of Death'")
(I wish to god I was making that up.)
anyway, I like netflix, except that, like I said, I've subscribed for maybe 6 months now, & for four of those months I've had THE SAME 3 MOVIES.
I want to watch them, I really do--(the movies: Aguirre, The Wrath of God; Last Tango in Paris; & season 1 of Fawlty Towers)--but they've just been kinda sittin' there by the t.v.
& I figure that I could've pretty much bought all of them & had enough left over for a bottle of champagne & a hooker for what I've paid in subscription, but...
well, just but. there's no way to end that last sentence.