Embarrassing impulse purchases meme

2 March 2007 Rob Buckley TMINE 7 Comments

There are certain risks involved in going into shops like HMV or Virgin Megastore: the DVD sections. Ooh, so many tempting things.

I have to keep these impulses under control. Last time I went in, those Man From UNCLE movies looked pretty tempting: nothing quite says mid-80s BBC2 at teatime like the Man From UNCLE films. Well, except for box sets of Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes films, The Invaders or The Martian Chronicles.

If I gave in, I’d be bankrupt.

But I do have, languishing on my shelves:

  1. Clint Eastwood’s Firefox
  2. He-Man and She-Ra’s A Christmas Special
  3. Four different versions of Dune: the original David Lynch movie, the extended David Lynch movie, the special edition David Lynch movie with documentary and the SciFi Channel mini-series version.

Oh dear.

But now I’ve shared, it’s time for a meme: fess up, everyone – what are the three most embarrassing impulse-purchase DVDs sitting on your shelves. They can either be embarrassing for you or something that others consider embarrassing. I don’t care whether it’s TV, film or even Jade’s workout programme. Just name those DVDs!

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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